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A tip for creating wallpapers for the 101

edit: Sorry, Seems this only works with Zeam Launcher at the moment
and you need the option checked in preferences/workspace to manage
wallpapers internally.
If you want to create a wallpaper in photoshop for your 101,
so that the whole of your image is shown in landscape mode.
(without using multipicture or similar).
All android phones etc take the width of the screen in pixels when it is in
portrait mode and double it (to allow for the paralax scrolling effect you
get when you flip through your homescreens). The height is just the screen
height in pixels.
So on the 101 this is 1200 pixels (2 x 600 pixels) by 1024 pixels.
However, as the tablets are normally viewed in landscape and not portrait
like a phone, this isnt very good.
For some reason Archos havent accounted for this, that is why, even though
you select the whole (or part) of your chosen wallpaper with the 'crop' tool
when applying a wallpaper, It never shows all of your picture.
I have been playing around with a few tests and have worked out the exact dimensions
in pixels of the portion that is actually shown on your 1200x1024 pixel homescreen.
if you follow the instructions below, you can show all the chosen image on the
homescreen:
1. open your chosen image
2. select the crop tool and set it to a fixed size of 978 x 570 pixels and 72 dpi
3. crop your image
4. choose your background colour with the eyedropper tool (it wont be seen when
applied, I used black though)
5. go to edit, canvas size, and set the reference point to the centre so that it adds
canvas all around the image
6. set the new canvas size to 1200 x 1024 pixels, click ok
7. save the image as a jpg
You will now have your wallpaper. Tranfer it to your archos via usb and apply the wallpaper.
Hope you find that useful
mine looks like this before you apply it.
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but only shows the image when applied.

Nicely done. It'll come in handy.
I assume that the image has a black border above and below when viewed in portrait?
Also, that's a nice background. I think I shall yoink it

your welcome.
yes it does unfortunately, but I hardly ever put mine in portrait when using the homescreens.

Hey, I tried your image, but it didn't work for me. It shows a black bar in landscape along the top.
I notice the the image dimensions are 1023x873. I know it's asking a lot, but would you be able to upload the image as an attachment rather than an image? I don't wanna go editing an already edited image. Photocopy of a photocopy as such. I know I won't be able to crop it perfectly. No Photoshop installed on my work computer.
Thanks!

odd, maybe its because im using zeam launcher, I havent tried it in the stock launcher yet, I'll take a look tonight.

see orkcreation on the appslib or the market

edit: Sorry, Seems this only works with Zeam Launcher at the moment
and you need the option checked in preferences/workspace to manage
wallpapers internally.
I'll work on it.

Seems as if you have found one way.... but there is another....
Im using very large images around 2500 x 1400 or so, then resizing them to around 1200 x 650 (somewhere in that area so that the image doesnt stretch).
I also sharpen the image alittle too much to give a better resolution effect.
I then use the multipicturelivewallpaper app to apply the image as the default wallpaper using the "show entire image" option.
Im using adw EX with the wallpaper scrolling OFF.
In landscape it works perfect, vertically is not too bad but obviously you cannot see the left and right farthest sides of the image. There are not black bars to be seen though.. The only time i ever turn the a101 vertical is when reading and ebook...which is never..
There is a theme thread here is your interested. I have also posted over 100 wallpapers pack that you can download. I have already resized them and listed a download link the the mplw.apk.
example....

thanks.
I was trying to find a way that meant not having to use a live wallpaper (which multipicture is) or additional app to get it working, but I really appreciate the link.
by the way, your dropbox link seems to be broken though, I cant get the wallpaper pack.
cheers

CarsnGadgets said:
thanks.
I was trying to find a way that meant not having to use a live wallpaper (which multipicture is) or additional app to get it working, but I really appreciate the link.
by the way, your dropbox link seems to be broken though, I cant get the wallpaper pack.
cheers
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thankyou very much dsimages, they are beautiful wallpapers.

You can follow my trick.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=862811&page=2
In Zeam launcher use 1200x1024 ou 1024x1024 wallpaper with the tiny application gTabWallPaper:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=842180&page=2
Original wallpaper used.

with orkcreation
we will be create many wallpapers in a couple of day
http://www.jbmm.fr/2011/01/13/orkcreation-la-resolution-archos-gen-8-creee/
or
http://orkcreation.fr/

lolo33 said:
You can follow my trick.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=862811&page=2
In Zeam launcher use 1200x1024 ou 1024x1024 wallpaper with the tiny application gTabWallPaper:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=842180&page=2
Original wallpaper used.
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Very nice images. A silly question, but how did you modify your home screen like that, with the programmes button on top right and the widget. Looks very tidy.

Pete917 said:
Very nice images. A silly question, but how did you modify your home screen like that, with the programmes button on top right and the widget. Looks very tidy.
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With Fancy Widget and Zeam Launcher.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=664149

[Future Release] Tile Concept

So I was thinking the other day that there is no reason why some tiles couldn't be smaller. It would be cool if you could long hold a tile and have an option com up to split it into a half tile. Other hub like tiles could be further subdivided. I use IE to demonstrate this, but the music up could allow you to pin a favorite artist or two to it. Or the game hub could likewise use 1/2 tile to display game invites, and then two 1/4 tiles to link directly to your two favorite games. What are your thoughts?
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Edit: here is what it would look like in your hand:

+1!
I would love to see this

like this too...

Here's what I've been wanting MS to do, 1/4, 1/2, 3/4 and full width sizes

If only Microsoft would actually come in here and read some of this stuff...

Genius!
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I realy like it too. Eather I don't understand why there is no option to make smaller icons at the beginig of WP7.

There should be an option when pinning to the home screen which size you want. It would call for more work on the dev's part to add all of the extra icons in their apps that encompass all of the sizes, but WP7 is already easy to work with.

this will be great..... i hope MS will look at this and add this to the mango update...

hmmm, honestly dont really like the split tiles. Just doesnt look as clean and simplistic as the original. I like the interface as it is now, however adding more options or subdivisons(and not separate tiles) within a single tile would be welcome.

hey, they're almost icons, keep going!

PsychoAssasin said:
hmmm, honestly dont really like the split tiles. Just doesnt look as clean and simplistic as the original. I like the interface as it is now, however adding more options or subdivisons(and not separate tiles) within a single tile would be welcome.
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You are probably one of 1000 who don't like this opinion. So if you don't like, just use biger icons. Us who like smaller, than could use smaller.

I really like this layout. It adds diversity to the screen and also allows you to see more at the first glimpse. I would really welcome this, but I am pretty confident we'll never see this

I would love this layout as an option! Make it so that to add it you would need to go into the app settings, then people wouldnt complain about it being mandatory.
Edit- Imagine this concept with a facebook app, you could have different parts of the tile split into different functions, like one could be facebook chat with notifications, just a straight notifications one and then another with new messages. So, each would have seperate notifications and tapping it would take you directly to it.

brilliant!

The concept is nice, but I like the original tiles any smaller and it will look like icons

I would bet the OP used to have a HD2 because this reminds me of a great mod everyone was using to be able to accomodate more icons to the homescreen. While it was awesome for Winmo 6.5 I don't really like it for WP7 because the tiles are not just icons, they're supposed to display information.
I've just read the comments over this concept at WPCentral and this is what I had to say...
I think the people who see an issue with the tiles don't actually see where the real issue is. The real issue is some(most) tiles only act as counters and are the ones wasting space. However we have to keep them on the start screen because there isn't a notification center.
I said that before, Windows Phone needs to go the Meego route and have a 3rd page that's just for notifications (and maybe one more useful feature like data/wifi toggles as someone suggested).
Example: I currently have Accuweather and AlphaJax pinned to my start screen. Accuweather is an informative tile that shows useful information at a glance. AlphaJax doesn't do anything. It just shows a number that tells me it's my turn to play, it's just a counter. AlphaJax could be on my notification page and moved away from my start screen in favour of a more informative app like prime tv.
Think about it, how many of your "live" tiles are just counters?
Also I'm not too keen on the "they could still make it and make it optional". It's not like it would require a snap of the fingers, there's still lots of work to be done (including changes to the core UI) for something people might use. All these resources would be better used in creating something like a notification page.

Looks too cluttered, smaller icons will be harder to hit on smaller screens, more frustration which will be blamed on "Windows Mobile".

I definitely like this idea of adjusting the live tile size, more options and choice is always good. That coupled with adding extra pages to help categorize your apps would make the UI that much better for notifications and wifi/bt/etc toggles or even just a page with live tiles dedicated to news or games or whatever. I would have thought that MS who prioritize efficiency would give us the option of additional pages so we don't have to endlessly and skillfully scroll down our home screen to find what we want 'quickly'

Love it. Ability to fit a few more things on the home screen without scrolling would be awesome.

Interesting Idea for Metro UI Revamp

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Must say that i like this, adds some flash while remaining simple in design. Found from here;
my x news

Not sure I like the tiles, but the app list is great. I do also like the background - when WP first came out I wanted custom backgrounds, but I've mellowed a bit in that sense and don't think a photo would work too well, but something like what's shown would.

looks very very nice! especially the rss feed and the app list

I dont like the unneccesary blue border chrome around the tiles. Metro embraces minimalism. I like the app list option but I use the search feature 90% of the time. Otherise I like the looks of it. I think semi transparent tiles with custom backgrounds would be nice.

sayonical said:
I dont like the unneccesary blue border chrome around the tiles. Metro embraces minimalism. I like the app list option but I use the search feature 90% of the time. Otherise I like the looks of it. I think semi transparent tiles with custom backgrounds would be nice.
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I think he is saying more of, this is what should be possible. Different themes that change the colors and background to add some personality. I would love to see these kinds of features added. In my opinion, the biggest drawback on wp7 is the lack of personality. My phone should be exactly that. My phone. How i want it to look and feel. Some day i am sure there will be themes like this.

I like it. Dont know why, but it reminds me of a classy, expensive watch. Nice.

Original is better IMO, don't turn this into Android lol.

Dj21o said:
Original is better IMO, don't turn this into Android lol.
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exactly my thoughts

The 1.5x2 tile with interactive elements is pretty sweet.
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I like the ideas. Very thoughtful.
I would also add that limiting the screen Real-estate used by the arrow to get to the programs list would be a great addition. There must be a better way. This would allow for larger tiles (width wise).

I'd like GREK's layouts and graphics, looks cool. I hope MS will implement (at least!) a custom background for the home screen!

Not sure in live tile,
but i like the app category concept.

I've seen this concept a couple months back, I like things better the way they're headed now.

I have a feeling that MS is going for a certain aesthetic with the home screen, and expecting them to get rid of the arrow and blank space on the right is wishful thinking.
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Personally, I would like the ability to have some "favorites" pinned to the top of the App List screen. My most commonly used items are pinned to the Start screen, of course, and then my next most-used items are pinned to the top of the App List screen. The rest just fall under the App List itself. Does that make sense?
This is actually how I use Windows 7: most used stuff is pinned to the Taskbar, the next most used is pinned to my Start Menu, and the rest falls under the All Programs menus.
Just my $.02
Also, I like the collapsible App List groups. Clever.

yipcanjo said:
Personally, I would like the ability to have some "favorites" pinned to the top of the App List screen. My most commonly used items are pinned to the Start screen, of course, and then my next most-used items are pinned to the top of the App List screen. The rest just fall under the App List itself. Does that make sense?
This is actually how I use Windows 7: most used stuff is pinned to the Taskbar, the next most used is pinned to my Start Menu, and the rest falls under the All Programs menus.
Just my $.02
Also, I like the collapsible App List groups. Clever.
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Totally agree, I do exactly the same. All the apps i use on a regular basis on taskbar, those I use maybe a few times a month are on the start menu, the rest are under all programs.

I do it as well. Its productive. Keeps me from having to look.

vetvito said:
I do it as well. Its productive. Keeps me from having to look.
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It'd make even more sense in WP7. Your Live Tiles on your start screen. Your favorite apps under a favorites menu & the rest under the app list. It would clean up the start screen a lot. I have a lot of apps there right now just for easy access, but don't have live tile support.

I tend to keep my start screen tiles to a minimal few. By minimal I mean less than 40. This includes my marketplace and settings tiles as well as the dialer, people hub, picture hub, Zune, calendar, and messaging hub. All three of my email tiles are on the start screen (this may change with Mango/Linked inboxes).
Most of, if not all of, my other tiles are live tiles except IMDB. That being said, I wouldn't be opposed to a collapsible favorites area. But, I'm also good with things just as they are having the ability to search or use the jump list.
I suppose, however, that the start screen could get a little longer with the increase to 30 live tiles. I guess time will tell.

The concept looks nice. It's nice to watch and work with opposed to current dreadful WP7 look & feel.

[Mango] Making Transparent Lockscreens

As i am sure many of you know you can force Windows Phone 7 to use transparent lock screens.
How you do it is you send the image to yourself in a email, open the image and tap "use as Wallpaper". You can not send it over Zune because Zune does not currently see .png files.
But since Mango people have been having trouble with transparent lock screens, it glitches, it loops.
The main thing is that these glitches are predictable and with a bit of thought you can still make some pretty decent transparent lock screens. Now im sure more creative people then i will make better use of this but there are two main set ups i have found to make good Mango transparent lock screens.
Note: All images shown are mock ups, it is faster for me this way then it is to load them and take pictures off the phone or emulator. Your results may very, and your final result maybe different for i did not test this with Zune cover art, or anything that used the top of the lock screen like media players.
One is the vertical loop, best used with logos or vertical repeating text or whatever you don't mind repeating vertically. Since the Rangers are going to the World Series(and will win) and i am a big Texas guy i will show you using the Texas Rangers logo, what you do is generally block off and fade out the top third of the screen and the bottom 8th or so.
Here you see the transparent image, the white is the transparency to save space:
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You do not make it white, you use png transparency, it is white for illustration purposes.
Left is when locked :: Right is when tapped
Keep in mind this of course is not the only way to do it. By covering all the way across the top forces the loop to repeat down. By covering the top 1/3 helps keep it from looping the date and time, and if i remember the bottom section keeps it from looping the notifications and battery at the top.
Now that's all fine and good but logos and repeating it like that can be boring, so what else can you do? Well with a bit of thought and creativity (or lack of) there are more designs you can do.
Basically you take this looping idea and view it as the back ground and take a focus image to the left side. You use the left side to cover the time and data messages. I have done some where it creates the mirror look as above, also where i tried to make it create an illusion, or where i separated the side to make it loop like it was snowing.
These follow this outline where you still take block out the top and bottom but now the left as well:
This is a outline so your sizes will change.
Here are a bunch of them, these are ideas so nothing is finished. So in other words dont email me if these specific ones don't work for you, use them as ideas, make them your self and make them your own. Though if you make any cool ones let me know.
Sorry, but not really, that all but like two of these are anime based.
Rangers:
Windows Phone:
Asuka:
Rei:
Portal 2:
Portal:
This one i tried to make like a sword has cut it when tapped:
This one i tried to use her arm to look like its her other arm, even though i know its kind of backwards:
This one i lined it up to where the snow would loop:
Perfect Blue:
Evangelion Logo:
Nerv logo:
Laughing Man:
Rena:
See transparency is not so hard, and i am sure with more creativity then i have some one will come up with some awesome designs.
Oh if you want to get the images i listed here you can find them here: http://www.rklenka.com/software/winphone7/transparent/
Or i can post individual links, or zip them all up, the point is to get your creative juices going

thanks, works great. Using your Portal example now.

testing it now..
UPDATE : works , video below

Actualy does not work properly.

mrdaco said:
Actualy does not work properly.
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you have to send the png to yourself

If you Download one of the photos mentioned above and follow his instruction you will find it works brilliantly.
You send the image to yourself in a email, open the image and tap "use as Wallpaper". You can not send it over Zune because Zune does not currently see .png files.

I am glad you guys like it, i have lurked around here for years so its nice to be able to contribute. In fact i had to go around and make 8 random posts just so i could make this one with images.
I know with my lock screens i made above are not %100 perfect, especially when you start using the Zune player with the lock screen or with notifications. But im sure the more creative ones here will take the idea and run with it.
Thanks for the feature on your blog theOne

Nice, good job

Sweet, think you could make one with the wp logo?

That that i am doing requests but here you go

If your open to requests ide love a Phoenix coyotes transparent wallpaper with their logo.
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Hello,don´t know wether this thread is in any actuality but i wanted to send them to me and save as wallpaper,seems that it won´t work after all,yes i´ve send it to me,and tapped save as backscreen ,the next problem i´m having is to create new ones,so how did you done them,i have paint,but i don´t know how to create a working one

[TUTORIAL] How to fit wallpaper correctly

I see wallpapers asked for a lot so I figured I'd write up a easy tutorial for people on how when they find great pictures to properly frame it out to work as you imagined it. I think among those less tech savvy and familar with image editing struggle with this so I'm going to attempt to help them here. We all know the built in wallpaper functionality of Android isn't exactly the greatest thing ever and usually does a better job of frustrating you more than it does actually getting the wallpaper you picked framed how you imagined it.. There are two great apps in the market that help makes this easier. Simple Image Wallpaper and MultiPicture Live Wallpaper...The problem with both is that they are basically cropping it for you to the correct aspect ratio using a center average. This means unless the wallpaper you picked out has the `cool part' dead center, it will still probably look terrible. For this demonstration I will be using Simple Image Wallpaper.
Secondly you're going to need a paint program that allows you to set custom aspect ratios with the selection tool/crop tool. Since this is a demonstration for the general public we're going to do this with a free program anyone can download. Paint Dot Net.
Recap.. Items needed
1. Simple Image Wallpaper
2. Paint Dot Net
3. Wallpaper
I linked an example wallpaper I will be using in this demo in recap item #3. Below is what this wallpaper looks like using Simple Image Wallpaper without any cropping.
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As you can see it cropped the center portion for you. You could go into any paint program and just cut out the glass and plop it on your screen but the problem is that it probably still won't fit how you imagined it because you cut the picture in an aspect ratio that is incorrect for the Nexus 7 (or any device) screen and the program will still have to stretch it and squeeze it onto the screen. So.. Assuming now you installed paint.net open it up and load the wallpaper I provided. Once it is opened select the rectangle tool, then change it to fixed ratio and enter in 800x1280 as shown here.
Now using your left mouse button click and drag on the image. The size you make this rectangle doesn't matter since it is always in the correct aspect ratio for your Nexus 7 screen. This will translate to your screen EXACTLY as you see it inside this rectangle. You probably tried a few times to perfectly draw out the rectangle to surround the glass perfectly but don't worry it doesn't even matter if you drew it off the glass.
Let's say this is what your screen looks like.
To `fine tune' this select the `Move Selection tool"
With this tool selected you should see dots appear around the rectangle. These are `drag points'.. Shift-Click, drag, and it will re-size the rectangle while keeping the correct aspect ratio. You only want to use the corner drag points for this to keep the aspect ratio correct. You can also click and drag inside the rectangle and position it around. Once done you should be able to perfectly frame the glass. Once you are done crop the photo, save it, copy it to your device and load it up in Simple Image Wallpaper in the Portrait selection.
Perfection
Use the same concept to now do your landscape picture (the image selection that is above Portait in Simple Image Wallpaper) except instead of cropping to 800x1280, you are now going to crop 1280x800.
Enjoy!

Revisions: -
Fixed accidental instruction typo & picture in step 1 - Fixed ratio / Not fixed sized (Sorry, used to using Photoshop :laugh
Removed instruction to disable scrolling wallpaper.. Just a habit of mine. I always forget it's a live wallpaper even though I've been using it forever.

Cool, fancy sharing your wallpaper?

Thanks for pointing me towards that app. I hate how Android handles wallpapers and it's always been one thing that bugged the hell out of me. I used Multi-wallpaper app in the past to mitigate the problem by only setting a single wallpaper but it was slow to load, especially during changing wallpaper rotates and such so I stopped using it all together with Jellybean 4.1.2. Simple Image Wallpaper solves these problems though and I love the way you can assign different wallpapers for portrait and horizontal modes with no lag in between.