Digital Photographer Alert: Storing Full-Quality Photos on the iPod
When iTunes optimizes your photos for iPoddification, it streamlines the images a bit for faster travel instead of copying the big, full-resolution files. But if you want, you can copy the full-size photo files to transfer them to another computer—good news if you’re a photographer and you want to haul around a big, print-ready photo collection.
Just follow these steps: O’Reilly — Six Fresh Tips from iPod: the Missing Manual