Today Apple released an update for iTunes software – iTunes 9. Many new and really great features were added, but one thing remains the same. There is still no support for synchronizing high resolution photos from your computer to iPhone or iPod touch.

During synchronization iTunes performs image “optimization”. In reality images are resized to iPhone screen resolution of 480 by 320 pixels. This is probably sufficient for on-screen viewing (unless you want to zoom in on details), but even for sharing via email 480 x 320 is not that huge.

There is a couple of ways to workaround this limitation. They are not perfect, but lets work with what we have…

Email

If you have email account configured on your device, simply email high resolution photos to yourself. Then on iPhone

1. Start Mail application;
2. Navigate to the message with the photos:

   

3. Tap on attachment icons to download images:

   

4. Tap and hold on an image until prompted for actions:

   

5. Choose Save;

Your full resolution images will be saved to “Camera Roll” (“Saved Photos” on iPod touch).

Mobile Safari

If you have your high resolution images published on a website, you can save them to Camera Roll from Safari using the same tap and hold steps as above.