“Improve the quality and definition of your photos”

There is an abundance of software for Windows that allows you to tweak and enhance your digital photos. What happens though if you want to edit photographs on the fly while you're out and about? Get hold of Photos HQ for your Palm and you won't go far wrong. The application is designed to improve the quality and definition of the pictures your take on your device's camera.

Thanks to its rather nifty system of pixel replication, the software is able to actually increase the resolution of the camera. For instance, if your terminal has an SVGA camera, Photo HQ increases the number of pixels from 640x480 to 960x720. The process is very simple and the results are surprisingly impressive.

In addition, Photo HQ includes several levels of digital zoom, options for improving the focus, a ten second self-timer function and a helpful picture-in-picture thumbnail view.

Advanced editing features and effects are thin on the ground, but if you want to quickly bump up the resolution of your camera phone's pictures, Photo HQ offers a pretty idiot-proof solution.

Languages:

English

OS requirements for Photos HQ:

OS: Palm OS 5.0

Minimum requirements:

Treo 680
Treo 650
Treo 600
Zire 71
Zire 72
Treo 755p
Treo 700p
Centro

Pros

Quickly improves image resolution
Enhances digital zoom quality
Self-timer

Cons

No special effects or filters

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From the publisher of Photos HQ

There are moments in life that we'd like to capture forever. In those moments, we may snap a photo on our mobile phone to share with friends. Unfortunately, what we often get is a small blurry picture overly compressed by a destructive JPEG algorithm.

Photos HQ is an application that lets you capture photographs of much higher quality than those created by the default camera software of your mobile phone. Photos HQ enhances the capture capabilities of devices with an SVGA (640x480) camera and increases the resolution to 960x720 pixels by combining two consecutive images.

In order to limit the loss of information, Photos HQ can record pictures as a lossless BMP file. With the optional pnoJpegLib, it can generate compressed pictures of a higher quality level than the standard JPEG algorithm.

Additionally, Photos HQ brings new features such as an improved digital zoom, a 10 seconds self-timer, and a picture-in-picture thumbnail showing the preceding photograph.