Famous voices and their pictures

happyhero · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 15, 2006 Posts: 12

Hi

Can anybody help me. I have put the famous voices on my TomTom Go Classic and I found when I updated my software version all the pictures of the famous people ( so I know who it is I am selecting) turned to black silohettes. Some are not so easy to tell apart until you have used them a bit so it is annoying.

They seemed to be bmp files so why do they not work?

I tried deleting all the people and then reinstalling them but it did not help.

Any ideas?

lbendlin · Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 1:12 am Post subject:

change the color depth of the BMPs to 256 colors, that should show them again.
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happyhero · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 15, 2006 Posts: 12

thanks for the help but sorry how do you do that

Darren · Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 8:24 am Post subject:

With a graphics editor application such as Paint Shop or Photoshop.
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happyhero · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 15, 2006 Posts: 12

Ok I figured out how to do it, I have MGI image software and it has a facility to change the colours to 256, but I tried that, and even with keeping the file name the same and replacing the original file, but still it did not change.

I also then tried a lower setting making it 16 colours which is not a fantastic picture but good enough to see who it is, but that does not help.

Any idea what is the cause of the problem or anything else I should do?

It is really frustrating the way it is because you cannot tell who it is very easily on a few of them and it is even giving female silohettes to male voices.

Any help appreciated.

Mullet · Frequent Visitor Joined: Dec 12, 2005 Posts: 1051

Check also the image size. The ones I've just varified are 160x160 Pixels.

happyhero · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 15, 2006 Posts: 12

Ok guys thanks for all the help. Got there in the end. I experimented but found I had to do three things for them to display.

1. copy all files into a new folder called voices as advised on the actual TomTom site and you have to make sure you have a software version of 5 or higher for it all to work properly. They were doing odd things some of them with my old 4 version.

2. change all pictures to 256 colours as they come not all the same.

3. the last thing which I find odd is you had to save them with bmp extentions because if I saved them as bmp's but didn't bother to type the extention in they still stayed as silohettes, don't know why.

Also it offered me the chance to store them as 8 bits per pixel or 24, but this made no difference to picture quality, it only trippled the file size. Anyone know what goes on with these bits per pixel and can explain to me?

Hope this helps others. Cheers guys.

PatC · Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 12:48 pm Post subject:

happyhero · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 15, 2006 Posts: 12

Ok cheers PatC so I just waste drive space then for no benefit from what you say, but where do the extra kb go then. You'd think they would do something if you get bigger files?

Andy_P · Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 1:30 pm Post subject:

lbendlin · Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 1:38 pm Post subject:

PatC · Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 1:43 pm Post subject:

happyhero · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 15, 2006 Posts: 12

PatC · Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 1:50 pm Post subject:

PatC · Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 1:54 pm Post subject:

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