Hi guys
I have been playing with my pc and my G1,I am trying out some wallpapers,resolutions and little by little I like what I am getting.....this is not amazing and I am sure some of you have done something similar....but I thought it would be nice if I share it with you,so that we can share our ideas and thoughts.The resolution is 480x320,I will change the resolution and try others out.
Put the wallpapers on the same folder as your pictures once you've done that you can start using the new wallpapers.
You can download them from the link:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?enwnnkjiqmi
Here are you have some more.
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?5m2tfzfiydz
nice wallpaper what I have read the wallpapers resolution is 640x480 here is some I made
Yours are really nice too
Thanks for sharing those screenshots.
by the way how did you get the screenshots?
you can do it like here http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/10/22/taking-screenshots-on-an-android-based-phone/#comments or
if all you won’t to do is screen shots all you need to do is enable usb debugging on the G1 buy going to Settings, then Applications, and then Development. Check the checkbox for “USB debugging.install the sdk and install the windows drivers from here http://www.anddev.org/debugging-installing_apps_on_the_g1_windows_driver-t3236.html this is all i did and it works for me on vista did not install eclipse or jdk just go to the tools folder in the android sdk main folder
Ok...I got it..took me a while but finally I can post some screenshots.
Once again thank you so much.
nvm noob moment
dta1974 said:
Here are you have some more.
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?5m2tfzfiydz
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Nice work, seems like the 800x600 wallpapers fit perfect! We need some more 3d wallpapers now
Thanks man....I am glad you like them.
I'll get some more and upload them.
Here you are some more wallpapers,I think I found the right resolution 640x480.As you can see below there are some different ones....download the folder and get the ones you don´t see.
Enjoy it.
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?gdujjnjnuhg
dta1974 said:
Here you are some more wallpapers,I think I found the right resolution 640x480.As you can see below there are some different ones....download the folder and get the ones you don´t see.
Enjoy it.
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?gdujjnjnuhg
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hehe, thanks...
--M
Wallpaper problem
I created this wallpaper...... When going into photo viewer, it looks fantastic. Can zoom in without any dithering.
However, the moment I apply as my wallpaper, it looks like poop.
Have tried as a JPG and PNG
Awesome wallpaper... but question do you have root? maybe you can replace the originals.
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Awesome wallpaper... but question do you have root? maybe you can replace the originals.
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I do have root and will try that. Anyone wanna put this on their phone and see if it's just me?
When you select it as the wallpaper, do you expand the box to cover the whole pic? So far, every pic I've resized to 640x480 and thrown on have been absolutely flawless. I'm using paint.net to resize and convert them to jpg, if that makes a difference.
Mi|enko said:
When you select it as the wallpaper, do you expand the box to cover the whole pic? So far, every pic I've resized to 640x480 and thrown on have been absolutely flawless. I'm using paint.net to resize and convert them to jpg, if that makes a difference.
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Yes I have.... Can you try and use it yourself and see what it looks like on your device?
When I use a 640x480 image and try and set it as a wallpaper it always asks me to crop it. Does it then strech the cropped image?
Im really confused about the wallpapers atm.
Btw, I know tmobile (in the UK) reduces image quality if you browse a image on the web via there data connection (eg save picture as, in the browser) but over wifi you loose no image quality.
[Edit] This Kinda helped slightly.... http://www.androidwallpapers.mobi/help.php
Imp
Adding wallpapers to system default options
I wanted to add some wallpapers to the SD card but have them pop up under the phone wallpaper options instead of under photos. Is there a place on the SD card I can put them so they are grouped with the default ones? I have a lot of pics so it takes a long time to scroll through them to find my wallpapers so I am hoping I can make it a bit more organized.
The defaults reside in /system/app/Launcher.apk/res/drawable/
Can I add wallpaper and apps to an update.zip?
I have created a custom theme and I am wondering if I can just throw more .apk programs into the app folder to install additional programs?
Also, I am trying to add my own wallpaper to launcher.apk with the 2 file sizes and proper naming but they arent coming up, is there something else I need to edit to have them showup as "default" wallpaper?
I'd like to have a go at making some wallpapers to share with everyone for the Touch HD. Before I do could you advise me of the following:
- What file type are wallpapers;
- What pixel size should the wallpaper be;
- What dpi is required for a high quality image for dsiplaying on the phone.
Many thanks
Never mind guys. I ended up making a few wallpapers with the following spec (I hope that is correct):
- file type: .png
- size: 480x800 pixels
- dpi: 200
Pete917 said:
Never mind guys. I ended up making a few wallpapers with the following spec (I hope that is correct):
- file type: .png
- size: 480x800 pixels
- dpi: 200
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Yes your info is corect but how do you plan to make some wallpaper with PS?
the files for the Wallpaper can also be .JPG and GIF and Bitmap and whatever kind of Image you want
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Yes your info is corect but how do you plan to make some wallpaper with PS?
the files for the Wallpaper can also be .JPG and GIF and Bitmap and whatever kind of Image you want
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Thank you for confirming that.
Yes, I'll use photoshop. I'm still learning photoshop but I'll give it a go anyway.
I have now made a few, here; http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=846092
I have a few more ideas so will make them as I get time....
Is it possible to have a clear home screen without a clock or any icons so the wallpaper can be seen?
I think in the home >settings>today you can switch things on and off. To be honest though you can see quite alot. You can minimise the clock which shows more.
Have a go at installing some of my wallpapers and see how they come out (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=846092). It only takes a few seconds and you can revert back to OEM easily.
I have a 1600x1200 JPG that I want to use as my T989 wallpaper, and I want to size it so that a specific section of the center of the image is my background on my middle desktop (4). My problem is that if I use the image as is, resize it up to 1920x1440, or down to 1280x960, setting it to my wallpaper on the T989 always resizes it so that the part I want centered is too big and bleeds over onto desktops 3 and 5.
Any tips on how best to resize and/or stretch/crop, my JPG so that I can center it correctly on desktop 4, would be appreciated. Also if this can be best accomplished with an app, please feel free to suggest one.
Thanks..
I would recommend using Photoshop or Illustrator to change the size of the image with out changing the pixel resolution on of the image. It would be best to increase the pixel resolution and then re size it. If you don't have access to Photoshop you could always using Microsoft Office Picture Manager which is stock on Win 7. I am sure most of us here would be more than happy to help you re size it if you post the picture and put specific details of what you want to see.
Thanks..
I will play around with it on my end using your suggestions, and if I continue to run into difficulty, I will definitely post back the image and ask help of the forum.
Thanks again..
Jason
P.S. Is it forum etiquette to post solved on forum questions that are solved? And if so, what's the correct Subject line notation for marking a thread solved?
You want 960x800 , this should get you what you want ....
There's also a very useful little app on the market called crop wallpaper. Editing the image in photoshop will always be the best option, but sometimes the app is enough. (Pretty useful I use it all the time.)
misaClean Theme - Tutorial
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To start things off, this is going to be my first tutorial on making a theme. This is actually my first theme I've really made. To be honest, I was actually quite surprised at how many people were interested in my theme and how I created it. Since I had quite a bit of response to it, and people wanting to create theirs, I decided to create a tutorial so that anyone could either copy what I did, or use my idea as a base to create their own unique theme. Before I get started, I would like to thank Deusex74 for creating the theme that inspired me to create my own. So without much further ado, let's begin the tutorial! =)
Apps needed:
Weather: Eye In The Sky
Home Calendar: Jorte
Church Calendar: Simple Calendar
Clocks: Zooper
Launcher: Apex Launcher or Nova Launcher, or any other launcher that will allow you to resize the grid, and have shortcuts that will allow you to go to certain pages.
Icons: Desktop VisualizeR
Wallpaper: MultiPicture Live Wallpaper
Programs:
Photoshop, or something similar would be great. I guess you could also make this in paint, but the editing program is up to you.
First thing I did was decide on how many spaces would be in my grid to fit everything I wanted and not look too crowded. I created an empty screen, removed the dock, and took an icon and placed it on the screen. After holding it, a grid with crosshairs pop up, once that popped up, I took a screen shot.
Next step is to take that screenshot and open it in Photoshop. You then have the correct resolution for the screen, and the grid for the layout. Open the rulers (Cmd+R or Ctrl+R), and drag out guideline from the ruler to each of the cross hairs. Once it's completed, it should look like this.
You now have the basic grid on how icons will fit on your screen.
From here, you can choose how big you want the picture to be to fit on the screen. After determining that, and placing it on your screen, it should look like this:.
Determine how many tabs you want, and how big you want them to be. For me, I wanted only 3 tabs to have 3 pages. If you want more, you might need to tweak the amount of your grid size so that the icons you will use to direct to each page, will fit. Remember, we still need to have icons that will direct you to the right page.
So since I only had 3 tabs, I wanted to make the home tab the largest and in the center, taking up 3 spaces, while the others only took 2 spaces.
After setting those up and creating your dividers, you can create the colored bar to span across the page just above your tabs. It should now look like this with the guide lines turned off
That's all there is to making your first page. After that, just copy that and repeat for your next pages. Your layout should look like this when completed with the layers all the same for each page.
Save your wallpapers as a png for a higher quality image.
Now, unless you want to create your own icons, you're done with Photoshop and on the computer. You can skip down below on how to make it work on your tablet.
If you want icons, it's quite simple. Since you already have the grid and guide line in place, you already know how big each icon will be. With your guide lines turned on, take your marquee tool
and draw out the square indicating how big one icon will be. You will need to create at least one of these in this size to create a blank icon.
After selecting this shape, fill it with a color on a new layer. It doesn't matter the color. After filling it, copy it (Cmd+C or Ctrl+C). Go to file and create a new file with your clipboard as your preset. Then change the resolution to 150, just so it can look cleaner on a higher res screen. Your height and width may vary depending on your grid size you set up in the beginning.
With this new file, you can create your icons. You can either find pictures, create icons with Illustrator or any other vector based program. The first thing we will make though, is your blank icon. This blank icon will go over the tabs we created on your homescreen which will act as screen shortcuts. So what you will do is simply turn off the layer(s) so that nothing is on, and you will see a checker board indicating that it is transparent.
Save as a png since jpgs aren't able to save transparencies.
After you are done with your icons, you are finished with your computer, and now we move to the tablet. Of course, make sure you transfer all your pictures to your tablet, via usb, Google Drive, or whatever you choose.
Tablet:
When saving these images onto your tablet, there's kind of a special way on how and where to save them. Create a folder named misaClean Theme in the root folder if your internal memory. In that folder, you will create several folders. First folder you will create is Wallpapers. Within the wallpapers folder, you will create several folders for each tab you want. So for example, for mine, within the Wallpapers folder, I created a folder named Church, Home, and Media. Within these folders, you will insert the corresponding wallpaper you created. Be sure that no other picture is insider there besides the wallpaper for that page.
*After saving the wallpaper, be sure to crop out the area where the Home, Back, and Multi tab are using the default gallery. When cropping, on the bottom left, you'll see a box that says Original. Press there and be sure to press on None so that there are no cropping dimensions when cropping your wallpaper. You want to make sure you crop out just the wallpaper. So if you had an area for the nav-bar buttons, and the notification panel, be sure to crop that, so that all you have left is just the wallpaper you created.*
Go to your home screen and for wallpaper, click on Live Wallpapers. Choose MultiPicture Live Wallpaper, and click settings. Here you will see Common settings and Screen 1 settings and Add individual settings. Go ahead and add more individual screen settings depending on how many tabs you created. Screen 1 will be your leftmost screen. Even if you want your main page to be something in the center or right, so keep that in mind when setting up which wallpaper will be on each screen.
Click on Screen 1 settings.
Click on Picture source, then click on Picture Folder. (I guess you could also use Single Picture, but for some reason, I had problems, so that's the reason why I'm doing it this way)
Click on Folder Path at the top
Locate where the wallpaper folder is, and press OK.
Repeat for the next screens.
After you are done setting up your wallpaper, set it up as your wallpaper. Now you can go ahead and place all your icons/widgets on your page. Over the tabs you created, I'm not sure if other launchers have this capability, long press and click "Apex Actions." Down at the bottom, you will see Screen 1, 2, etc.
Place those shortcuts over each of the tabs indicating which shortcut goes to which page. It should now look something like this:
Now, it looks a little messy. This is the reason why we created those blank icons. Long press on each of the icons, and press edit. Click on the icon, and replace it with the blank one you created. Repeat that for all the icons.
When you're done, it should look nice and clean, and when you click over each tab, it should direct you to the corresponding page. You now completed the the tutorial, and have a nice clean theme for your home screen. Hope you enjoyed that tutorial.
Thank you for your interest in this tutorial and theme. If you would like to donate, and buy me an ice cream, click the button below. Thanks again!!
Download:
If you want to download the psd I created and just swap out the words and images, feel free. Enjoy!
https://www.dropbox.com/s/zvoiwamotfqhhva/misaClean.psd
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Thanks for the guide.
I tried something similar in the past, but not as detailed as you posted.
I mostly arranged my screens with the icons and widgets I wanted to use, made a screenschot of that and used this as a background layer with 30% opacity. Then tried to fit the rest together ^_^
Just out of curiosity. What transmission effect are you using?
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Thanks for the guide.
I tried something similar in the past, but not as detailed as you posted.
I mostly arranged my screens with the icons and widgets I wanted to use, made a screenschot of that and used this as a background layer with 30% opacity. Then tried to fit the rest together ^_^
Just out of curiosity. What transmission effect are you using?
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That sounds like an interesting thing. Do you have any pictures of what that looks like? I'd like to see how that was accomplished.
As for the transitions, I'm uploading a video to YouTube so you can see. For Apex, I am using the Scale effect with no infinite scrolling, and for the MultiPicture Live Wallpaper, I am using the 3D Slide.
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That sounds like an interesting thing. Do you have any pictures of what that looks like? I'd like to see how that was accomplished.
As for the transitions, I'm uploading a video to YouTube so you can see. For Apex, I am using the Scale effect with no infinite scrolling, and for the MultiPicture Live Wallpaper, I am using the 3D Slide.
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Well I don't think it's very interesting as it sounds.
I basically skipped the part with the grid and used my screenshot as pseudo grid.
Then I started to arrange the images I wanted to use. With the Background I could always crosscheck if everything was in order.
I also used the dockbar to jump to several pages.
So I was able to add more pages without altering the background.
As I said it was the lazy way to create an Background with several pages
For the labels in the dockbar I later used "Simple Text-Text Icon Creator" from the market.
Anrikus said:
Well I don't think it's very interesting as it sounds.
I basically skipped the part with the grid and used my screenshot as pseudo grid.
Then I started to arrange the images I wanted to use. With the Background I could always crosscheck if everything was in order.
I also used the dockbar to jump to several pages.
So I was able to add more pages without altering the background.
As I said it was the lazy way to create an Background with several pages
For the labels in the dockbar I later used "Simple Text-Text Icon Creator" from the market.
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Oh okay, I see what you did there. Yea, I usually get picky on how things look, haha. If one thing doesn't work, I scrap it all and change plans completely, haha.
oh goodness. THANKS FOR THIS TUTORIAL.
such a clean and simple look. LOVE IT.
Blank Icon .png
Here is a "blank" icon for your use. Or here: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/46958507/Blank.png
It's in there, trust me.
excellent howto, just one thing can you share the screenshot with the crosses on it, as I use Nova and for some reason it won't display these and let me do a screen grab as well?
I am not able to get the transitions look smooth/slow like in your video...any other trick on that?
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excellent howto, just one thing can you share the screenshot with the crosses on it, as I use Nova and for some reason it won't display these and let me do a screen grab as well?
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If you download my psd, you should be able to just turn on the guidelines under the view menu and select view guidelines. Either that or you can just save the pic I have with the guidelines on the tutorial and create the guidelines. Using my screen shot as a template.
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ExilHh said:
I am not able to get the transitions look smooth/slow like in your video...any other trick on that?
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There are several things you could check. I'm not too familiar with Nova if they have the same settings, but in Apex, if you go to the Apex settings and under home screen settings, you can mess around with the minimum scrolling time, and transition effects. I have mine set at 0 and effect is scale.
For the multi picture wallpaper app, my transition type is 3d slide. I don't see anything here for speed.
And last, if you go to your settings, and down to developer options, you can adjust the transition animation scale as well as the others. You can mess with those until you come up with the right speed you like. Mine is just set to 1x on all 3 of them (window, transition, and animator).
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There are several things you could check. I'm not too familiar with Nova if they have the same settings, but in Apex, if you go to the Apex settings and under home screen settings, you can mess around with the minimum scrolling time, and transition effects. I have mine set at 0 and effect is scale.
For the multi picture wallpaper app, my transition type is 3d slide. I don't see anything here for speed.
And last, if you go to your settings, and down to developer options, you can adjust the transition animation scale as well as the others. You can mess with those until you come up with the right speed you like. Mine is just set to 1x on all 3 of them (window, transition, and animator).
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That are the exact settings i used (running Apex) but transitions looks really ugly here...may be its because i use some more screens than only 3. So Apex has to jump from page 2 to 6 for example. Never mind, i will try harder to get a solution! ;o))
Thanx for giving me some inspiration and for your help of course!
Mike
How did you create the icons on the media tab?
ExilHh said:
That are the exact settings i used (running Apex) but transitions looks really ugly here...may be its because i use some more screens than only 3. So Apex has to jump from page 2 to 6 for example. Never mind, i will try harder to get a solution! ;o))
Thanx for giving me some inspiration and for your help of course!
Mike
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Yea, having more pages might make things want to move quicker, therefore not really showing much of the animation. If you slow down the animations, you might be able to see them flow a little more. But then again, reaching to another page, might take a while, and make it seem like your tablet's running a little slow. Glad to have helped!
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How did you create the icons on the media tab?
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For those icons, it's very similar to the Windows 7 icons others have posted in the past. To do them, I used the same grid that I set up for the wallpaper, and used the marquee tool to select the amount of space I wanted my icon to take up. After selecting it, I filled it with a random color, copied it, opened up a new file using the clipboard preset, and pasted the picture I wanted to represent that app. After creating the image for the icon, and saving it to my tablet, I used Desktop VisualizeR to create the icon.
For example, if I made my image to be 1x3, I used the 1x3 template in DVR. From there you click on the "Select Icon" and locate the image you created. For "Select Action," you choose the corresponding app. If you want a label to go with your icon, you can leave it in, or rename it. Choose your colors for the text and the background, and the touch effect, and you should be good. Click "OK" and you're done.
NICE
spthacker said:
excellent howto, just one thing can you share the screenshot with the crosses on it, as I use Nova and for some reason it won't display these and let me do a screen grab as well?
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WOW....nice!!!:good:
Hello guys,
Thanks for this tutorial it's huge!!!!
I've made my own theme but i only have one problem left
I use 3 screen the default one (number 2, the one in the middle ) is OK, but when i scroll let or right (it's the same) i see my other wallpapers but they seems to be part of the screen number too because in the screen 1 and 3 i only have black wallpapers It looks like the size is not good or something like that....
I don't know where can be the problem.... The size of the wallpaper? Parameters in Apex (i've selected Multi screen with scrolling and i use a 10x7 grid) ? Parameteres in Multiple pictures (I've selected "fit to fullscreen" for every screen)?
Is there someone who can help me? Thanks in advance.
Best regards.
I've found the solution if it can help someone
Click to: WORKAROUND FOR SOME APPLICATION in multipicture live and then set it to NONE
I love this theme
NOTE: This is only instructional information for those looking to make their own 1920x1920 edited HD wallpapers and are tired of looking for 1920x1920 wallpapers. I didn't see a similar thread on here and thought I would share some tips for those who aren't familiar with making/editing their own wallpapers.
So I got tired of searching for wallpapers and just edited desktop wallpapers for myself. I just searched on Google for cool stuff, like zombies, movies, anime, digital art, robots, etc, and found a bunch of 1920x1080 wallpapers. I would also recommend adding HD or 1080p in your search criteria to ensure the best quality. Obviously they are made for desktops, so I used Gimp 2 to edit them, by doing an Image > Canvas Size, switching the width to 1080 so it's then 1080x1080. Then do an Image > Scale Image and upscale them to 1920x1920. It's difficult to do because you're essentially taking a rectangular image and making it into a square image when it's not really designed for that. But if you can find the right images, it should be pretty easy to decide how to resize them and to know what to cut off. I've attached an example below. Once you've resized the image to 1080x1080, scale it to 1920x1920, and then if it needs a Sharpen filter, go to Filter > Enhance > Sharpen. And I found out the hard way that Gimp is different from photoshop, as you can't save files that easily as .png/.jpg/.gif file types. You can't just select Save As, you have to go to File and then Export to save it that way.
You can use Photoshop to do this as well. I just particularly prefer Gimp, but to each their own And you can get Gimp for free, just search for Gimp on google.com and it should be the first or second link there that you can download and install it for free. If you want to see more of the ones I've made, as I've made a good bit, just PM me and I can email you a zip file with all the ones I've made in it. If enough people ask for them, I may just edit this post and see if I can just upload them all on here. Or some of them anyway
Image 1. Shows how to resize
Image 2. Shows how to scale image
Image 3. Shows final image
If you have any questions, let me know. (Tried to make this as detailed as possible if you aren't familiar with Gimp or photo editing)