How to Use and Load Pictures on Digital Frame?

Different types of picture frames are used to bring a personal touch to your style of home. This includes the latest digital picture frames too that may be of traditional picture frame sizes or as big as a small TV screen, that is 20 inch digital frame. So you can very well decorate your homes with such digital frames. To do so, you must know how to use and load pictures on digital photo frames. Here we help you in knowing this as well as how to buy digital picture frames!

How to Use a Digital Picture Frame?

Your digital photo frame can display your favorite images as slideshow, sometimes even with attractive transitions between images. However, for this, you must store these images in a single folder, just as you do it on your computer. For this, you have to copy paste the pictures from your computer and save them in your digital frames' memory or you must download pictures on it through various means as described below in this article.

To use your digital frame and to see the pictures properly, you must also change the pictures' orientation before you upload them to the digital photo frame. For example, if your digital frame is set up to sit landscape, then you must set all the pictures you will load to landscape orientation. Many digital photo frames, however, automatically rotate the images so that they are displayed the right way up.

How to Load Pictures on Digital Frame?

There are many ways to load, or precisely said, download pictures on a digital frame. You can load images from your own computer, digital camera, a memory card or USB stick etc. Here we give some tips to load pictures on digital frames via these and many more means.

Memory Cards- Memory cards are the most common method to load pictures on a digital frame. Most of the frames accept the same type of card as your camera. If anyway, your card is not supported then you may use an adapter. The number of images that you will be able to display is usually limited by the number that fits the card.

Internal Memory- A digital frame generally comes with some internal memory to store a permanent collection of photos. You can generally select the photos to move into internal memory but some frames also store images that have been downloaded by e-mail, RSS and other ways.

USB- There are USB outlets on a digital frame that can be used to connect it to a computer by cable. You can then easily load pictures by copying them from your computer.

Phone Line Connection- You can even plug your digital frame into a phone jack and use a modem to dial up a Web site and download photos that you or others have placed into online albums. This lets you and your family as well as friends to share images among yourselves using digital frames!

Wireless Technique- Wi fi enabled digital picture frames allow you to put it on your home or office network and convert it into just another drive. You can download pictures directly from a WiFi-enabled digital camera that is supported by the frame.

E-mail- You can set-up a free e-mail account so that your digital frame has a separate e-mail address dedicated entirely to it. Anyone can e-mail photos to the device this way.


RSS (Really Simple Syndication)- If you maintain web album online (like Flicker or Google's Picasa Web Albums), RSS can let you download selected pictures to your frame from these Web sites. The frame here becomes the feed reader getting pictures from RSS feed service supplied by the website.

Bluetooth- The more advanced features like bluetooth lets you transfer pictures to your digital frame from any other bluetooth device including camera phone.

So, how you download pictures on digital frame depends on the features supported by the frame that you buy. However, it sometimes is not viable to buy a digital frame that has the most advanced features because of many reasons including cost, lack of capability to operate highly technical devices (you sure would not find it feasible to buy a Wi-Fi enabled digital frame for your grandparents.) So, what rules should you observe when buying digital picture frames. To know, read How to Buy Digital Photo Frames?