Does anyone know if it's possible to change the settings of the image viewer so that when you edit (and crop) an image, it does not also re-scale the image size.
For instance, I take a picture at 3264x1836.
I then crop (using the default image viewer (gallery)) a section covering approx 80% of the image and the image that gets saved is 702x367.
Unscaled this should have been something like 2800x1400 (or similar).
I want (and need) to be able to control this scaling myself. The reduction in size is so severe in the default editor is pretty much useless for me.
I tried several other photo editors, and they behaved in a similar way. The closest I've got is Resize-Lite - but even that one scales down to 720p settings.
Any ideas?
Just installed MIUI and having the same issue...
never had with cyanogen or sense...
any ideas?
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I've often been a fan of browsing my device to an image that I wanted to use as the background, viewing it and selecting: Set as Today Background from the menu. This brings up a nice tool that helps you crop the photo appropriately and setting what level of transparency you would like to use. In all previous roms that I've used (1.18 -> 1.35) it has automatically created two images. One for portrait mode and the other for landscape (or perhaps it created a 320x320 image such as the boot screens - I'm not sure). Which ever the case, when you pulled out the keyboard and the device went to landscape, you would have a nicely fitted image. Since updating to WM6 - it creates the image correctly for Portait mode but when you switch to landscape, it tiles the image. This happens both with WM6 Vanilla and WMXL. Has anybody an idea for a solution for this or also had this problem? I listed it a while back in one of the threads but nobody responded so I didn't know if I was the only person with this problem (or am I the only person who sets their background this way?)
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If i try to view a high resolution image in opera the status bar takes it's time, like it'd downloading the image, then when it's finished it displays a large box the size the image should be with the word 'image' in the top left corner of the box. I've disabled the image compression that my carrier uses and it still wont display high res pics. Anyone else having this problem?
Yes. I've tried quite a few Opera builds (yes, also the 9.5 beta2 (build 158xx) floating about), and from my recollection, all have the same problem. Occasionally, though, a large image is downloaded successfully where I'm used to seeing the empty box.
Maybe it's simply a timeout which gives up if the image is not complete within, say, 15-20 seconds?
Hey
wanted to know if the WM6.5 allows you to use full res and quality wallpaper?
not like on the regular HD wallpaper that shows only 512X512...
tnx =]
WM 6.5 allows you to use full screen images and they are crystal clear.
liav12 said:
Hey
wanted to know if the WM6.5 allows you to use full res and quality wallpaper?
not like on the regular HD wallpaper that shows only 512X512...
tnx =]
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It's not WinMo that's causing the problem with Touch HD background wallpapers, it's Touch Flo 3D.
So, if you would disable TF3D you could probably get nice quality with WinMo 6.1.
I have been digging around this issue and I do have a solution to get full resolution wallpapers with TF3D. Unfortunately, this process now requires a lot of messing around with Manila files, so it might not be for everyone. But I'm thinking about publishing my custom Manila wallpaper files, which basically require simply copy+paste into Windows directory and then restarting TF3D.
Rozenthal said:
It's not WinMo that's causing the problem with Touch HD background wallpapers, it's Touch Flo 3D.
So, if you would disable TF3D you could probably get nice quality with WinMo 6.1.
I have been digging around this issue and I do have a solution to get full resolution wallpapers with TF3D. Unfortunately, this process now requires a lot of messing around with Manila files, so it might not be for everyone. But I'm thinking about publishing my custom Manila wallpaper files, which basically require simply copy+paste into Windows directory and then restarting TF3D.
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That would be great.
I hate how the quality is degraded once you set the Wallpaper.
There is so much difference in quality when viewing a picture in "albums" as opposed to the home screen wallpaper.
I wonder why TF3D lowers the resolution on the home screen.
Please publish a solution. thanks
bigjee said:
That would be great.
I hate how the quality is degraded once you set the Wallpaper.
There is so much difference in quality when viewing a picture in "albums" as opposed to the home screen wallpaper.
I wonder why TF3D lowers the resolution on the home screen.
Please publish a solution. thanks
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I actually started a thread in General > Dev and Hacking about this very issue. It didn't get a lot of attention from people with Touch HD's, but none the less, I managed to get down to the bottom of the mysterious TF3D behavior and I can see that the info from that thread got to the people working on visual enhancements for Touch HD.
Basically, it's insanely stupid solution some lazy HTC programmer implemented.
Imagine that TF3D can display images that have maximum size of 512x512. Now imagine you have screen size that's 480x696 pixels (this is how big the wallpapers are). See the problem? The maximum image you can use is 184 pixels short to cover the whole screen.
And then you get a genius idea to use two 512x512 images to cover the screen area and allow full resolution wallpapers to be used. So you take the default HTC wallpaper, split it in two parts, align them perfectly on the screen so it looks as if they're one image - and problem solved!
Right?
Well, not quite. Yes, it will work for default background image, but what about custom wallpapers? Well, they were too lazy to make an automatized script that would split the images in two and align them on the screen.
Instead, they opt for a more convenient solution in form of taking custom wallpapers, shrinking them down into a single 512x512 box and then stretching this downsampled image back to 480x696 area.
And that's whats causing all these problems.
If you want a temporary solution, create 512x512 image - I bet it will look sharper then your 480x800 image.
A true solution is to cheat TF3D and import manually FOUR separate images that together form portrait and landscape wallpapers.
This can be done, and I will explain it in a separate post here when I get some free time. At the moment I'm too busy with FingerKeyboard
Wow, Rozenthal! That would be very interesting! It´s almost a dream I have: to see a quite sharp image on my TF3D Home screen.
A lot of people would be very glad with you if you teach us how to do this.
Thanks a lot in advance
It's not a dream I have it on my screen now...
The problem is in the fact that changing skins cannot be done through Settings tab. It requires editing the appropriate Manila files by using a Manila graphic editor on your PC. Also, this is something that will require at least moderate knowledge of some good graphic editing software (read: Photoshop), because you need to manually prepare split png files for portrait and landscape.
Then you take these files, load them into Manila files, compress them into a special TF3D graphic format, copy them to Windows directory overwriting the old files, turn off TF3D and then pick "Use default wallpaper" in your Settings / Wallpaper tab.
So, it's major pain in the a$$, and it's not something you would be doing on the road, or every day. But, as I said - it CAN be done.
The way I see it, we could probably get some users here to team up, learn the procedure and then simply offer zip-ed Manila files that other people can download and copy into Windows folder. That part is easy, it can be done by anyone. Preparing the wallpapers, however, isn't that simple.
Anyway, I will try to make a tutorial on how to do all this tomorrow.
In the mean time, you can check the thread I mentioned earlier. Altough, be warned that some of the final conclusion posts from that thread were lost during last sunday hack attack on XDA.
I've noticed that in Internet Explorer on my HD7, images are shown at a lower color depth than they originally are. If you save the images, then you can browse them in your photos in (what appears to be) original quality. However, while in IE, images have severe color banding. It does not seem to be due to how much you're zoomed in. And changing the "Mobile Version" vs "Desktop Version" in the settings, as expected, only changes the layout of the site.
Has anyone else noticed this, or am I seeing things?
Nope you are not the only one. For those who want to see this effect, google lcd-test, click on the first link(lagom.nl) and select Gradient (banding). Compare between the image you see on internet explorer and the saved image, the difference is really significant.
Well I'll be damned...tried that website and sure enough the browser image was blurred and chopped up and the saved version was perfect. Hmm...I wonder what MS will do about this...
hopefully somthing! its bothering me as well!
Oddly, the gradient image looks quite good on my optimus 7. It's the black to white that you are looking at, right?
One thing I've noticed in Android is an ever so slight degradation in the quality of the wallpapers, set by the user. Comparing /data/data/com.android.settings/files/wallpaper (which is the location for the current wallpaper) and the original wallpaper file I've set, I came to the conclusion that Android uses some weird compression algorithm (the md5sums and sizes were different), which lowers the quality of the custom wallpapers.
So directly replacing the wallpaper file in /data/data/com.android.settings/files/ with your own (in jpg and preferably resized to 960x800) will get you a noticeably higher quality wallpaper. You can best see the difference here (first pic is before, second pic is after). This little workaround won't survive a reboot (Android will just revert to the default wallpaper), unless you deny the wallpaper file write permissions (with chmod), which will basically lock it and you won't be able to change it from the menu (until of course you delete the wallpaper file, or just fix the permissions). I'll probably cook up a quick script to automate all of this soon, so...yeah.
Here's the script. You may change the "$loc" variable in the script to your current wallpaper folder. The file extensions are automatically added (jpeg, jpg and png), so you just write down the name of the file.