iPhone pictures format?

I was just wondering what format a picture had to be to be able to put it on an iPhone. I took a screen shot on my computer and I want to put it on my iPhone. I drag it into the menu bar on iTunes and it's in .png format and iTunes pops up saying my iPhone cannot play that type of file. Thanks.

Apple does not formally specify photo formats for the iPhone 4. The Safari web browser, however, supports JPG, GIF, and TIFF images, and the iPod function of the iPhone 4 supports images sychronized from iTunes.

And i got this for the iPod Touch, but im not going to say THIS IS IT because of ridicule but im presuming the Iphone4 should be able to support the same or more than the iPod Touch ...

I know jpg's work, haven't tried any other formats.

Thanks for the input, but I don't really understand what TattooedMac is saying. You're telling me what images Safari will support because that's where I took the screenshot from? I also don't understand your whole second line of text. If you could elaborate, I think it would help me understand.

ImageX said:

I was just wondering what format a picture had to be to be able to put it on an iPhone. I took a screen shot on my computer and I want to put it on my iPhone. I drag it into the menu bar on iTunes and it's in .png format and iTunes pops up saying my iPhone cannot play that type of file. Thanks.

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I've bolded the problem. That is not how you put photos on the iPhone.

The correct method is to add the screenshot to iPhoto, then sync iPhoto via iTunes.

chas_m said:

I've bolded the problem. That is not how you put photos on the iPhone.

The correct method is to add the screenshot to iPhoto, then sync iPhoto via iTunes.

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You can make a file folder and drop the photos into there and have itunes sync to the folder. iPhoto is not needed.

Good point, VI.