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I don't know if this is common knowledge to most of you or not, but you can a have a different image for each screen on your homescreen. To do so, let's say you have 5 screens, get your 5 images make them 320 480 and make them into 1 image. That's pretty much it.
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nice tip .. just gave me an idea
what size do you save the final image as? 640x480?
Or use sweeter home and make image layers that fill each screen. you could even have a different wallpaper on each and some layered images on top that bleed across screens.
I havnt tried it yet myself but I would presume
This would not work because the sections overlap.
I think it would look really [email protected] if you faded all screens in between them. Which gives me an idea too....
that really can't work because 5 images of 320x480 come up to 1640x480, 41:12 aspect ratio. the wallpaper selector will only allow you to take a 3:2 aspect ratio section of that image, that's why the overlap occurs, and even if it did allow you to select a different aspect ratio, it would break once you had your phone in landscape mode
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the phone's aspect ratio is 3:2, the wallpaper selector allows you to get a 4:3 section, not 3:2
jubeh said:
that really can't work because 5 images of 320x480 come up to 1640x480, 41:12 aspect ratio. the wallpaper selector will only allow you to take a 3:2 aspect ratio section of that image, that's why the overlap occurs, and even if it did allow you to select a different aspect ratio, it would break once you had your phone in landscape mode
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the phone's aspect ratio is 3:2, the wallpaper selector allows you to get a 4:3 section, not 3:2
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hmmm... wouldn't you just take the image and edit it so that the width is either twice, 3 times, or 5 times larger than the single screen resolution width?
i dunno... im not messing with images to try it, but it sound like simple math. just gotta have custom widths for number of screens. not change the resolution on the heights. and yea fading would look better than seams. if its done right....
funny - i just tried this (1640x480) the other day b4 reading this and it didn't work... in theory is was great but nope... lol
renegadedj said:
hmmm... wouldn't you just take the image and edit it so that the width is either twice, 3 times, or 5 times larger than the single screen resolution width?
i dunno... im not messing with images to try it, but it sound like simple math. just gotta have custom widths for number of screens. not change the resolution on the heights. and yea fading would look better than seams. if its done right....
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that would be the idea, and that would be lovely, but, again, when you select an image from your own range of images, the wallpaper app asks you to crop the image and the aspect ratio can't be broken from 4:3.
something that MIGHT work would be replacing the stock wallpapers with a long width wallpaper that depends on the size of home screens, since those are automagically applied and you can't crop. all that would still break under landscape mode though, since width is now 480 instead of 320
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that would be the idea, and that would be lovely, but, again, when you select an image from your own range of images, the wallpaper app asks you to crop the image and the aspect ratio can't be broken from 4:3.
something that MIGHT work would be replacing the stock wallpapers with a long width wallpaper that depends on the size of home screens, since those are automagically applied and you can't crop. all that would still break under landscape mode though, since width is now 480 instead of 320
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damn that landscape. next orientation enabled phone i get is gonna have a perfectly square screen. haha
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hahahaha wtf is that anyways hahaha
wtf is it? -.-
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hmmm... wouldn't you just take the image and edit it so that the width is either twice, 3 times, or 5 times larger than the single screen resolution width?
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Um, no. Have you even changed the wallpaper on the g1 before? That's not the way it works. The 640x480 image is split into 3 overlapping sections. (check out the Wallpaper template in my signature for examples.)
You can do this on Sweete Home, but the wallpaper stays on the same layer as the actual icons/content... so ytou don't get that cool scrolling effect over the top.
You can do this on Sweeter Home, but the wallpaper stays on the same layer as the actual icons/content... so you don't get that cool scrolling effect over the top.
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Um, no. Have you even changed the wallpaper on the g1 before? That's not the way it works. The 640x480 image is split into 3 overlapping sections. (check out the Wallpaper template in my signature for examples.)
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i just use a 1280 x 960 so it fits three screens in portrait (i dont use and aHome or sweeter). it works fine. using wallswitch with auto crop it shows the whole image across 3 screens perfect everytime
i dont worry about landscape mode even cuz if i hold the phone in landscape its usually that im typing onscreen or with keyboard or have a fullscreen app runnin
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
I've got this wallpaper from DeviantART in a zipped file in various sizes. I've tried cropping it down to about 480x800, but the phone's selection box when setting the image as a wallpaper doesn't allow me to select the whole picture, which seems silly since that is the phone's screen resolution.
I imported the full image to my phone and set the selection box to cover her entirety, but now the phone sets the middle default screen (out of three) to look like the second image below, and going to the left screen scrolls the background to look like the first image, which is essentially perfect; setting the launcher so the background doesn't scroll causes the picture to look like the second image.
Basically, I'm trying to figure out how I am supposed to get my background to look like the first image, when set to not scroll. Any insight?
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I think HTC Vision uses 960 x 800
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joemm said:
I think HTC Vision uses 960 x 800
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While a multi-screen wallpaper will be 960x800, a single screen wallpaper should still be 480x800, AFAIK.
EfemaN said:
While a multi-screen wallpaper will be 960x800, a single screen wallpaper should still be 480x800, AFAIK.
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Have you tried creating a 960x800 wallpaper with her in the center 480x800 (i.e., 240x800 of extra space on both sides of the part you actually want)?
ianmcquinn said:
Have you tried creating a 960x800 wallpaper with her in the center 480x800 (i.e., 240x800 of extra space on both sides of the part you actually want)?
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That came to mind (and would probably work), but I have absolutely no knowledge of graphics manipulation, so I wouldn't be able to continue the background gradient off to the left.
What do you mean continue the gradient? Just take the image you have and cut it down so it's got a 3:5 (0.6) aspect ratio and then add some empty white blocks to the side
I had to crop it and stretch it (because of the bar at the bottom) but there's an example
If it's set to not move when you switch home screens, nobody will see the white bars on the side
Try that and if it works post the original image and someone can make a higher res version
LooieENG said:
What do you mean continue the gradient? Just take the image you have and cut it down so it's got a 3:5 (0.6) aspect ratio and then add some empty white blocks to the side
I had to crop it and stretch it (because of the bar at the bottom) but there's an example
If it's set to not move when you switch home screens, nobody will see the white bars on the side
Try that and if it works post the original image and someone can make a higher res version
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Oh durr... that makes a lot of sense. I was in the mindset that the background would be stretched out for whatever reason.
That actually worked really well; there's an ever-so-small sliver of white on the left side, but that'll go away with some tweaking. What's the easiest way to crop and add the white bars with specific dimensions? I have access to Photoshop CS5, but I couldn't find anything beyond resizing and simply cropping and hoping I get the dimensions correct.
I actually linked the original 1920x1200 image in the first post, hyperlinked on the second word. Here it is again: http://i.imgur.com/GvEgU.jpg
EDIT: Never mind! I figured it out. I noticed the parameters next to the crop bar. Photoshop is fantastic... thanks for your help Looie. Now, just gotta figure out how to remove the white strip.
EfemaN said:
I've got this wallpaper from DeviantART in a zipped file in various sizes. I've tried cropping it down to about 480x800, but the phone's selection box when setting the image as a wallpaper doesn't allow me to select the whole picture, which seems silly since that is the phone's screen resolution.
I imported the full image to my phone and set the selection box to cover her entirety, but now the phone sets the middle default screen (out of three) to look like the second image below, and going to the left screen scrolls the background to look like the first image, which is essentially perfect; setting the launcher so the background doesn't scroll causes the picture to look like the second image.
Basically, I'm trying to figure out how I am supposed to get my background to look like the first image, when set to not scroll. Any insight?
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There looks to be a significant amount of banding in those images. Is there any way to reduce it? Perhaps setting the image to 65k colors, I'm not sure.
mejorguille said:
There looks to be a significant amount of banding in those images. Is there any way to reduce it? Perhaps setting the image to 65k colors, I'm not sure.
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I think that was due to my saving as a jpg. I did it as a PNG and the background is a smooth gradient like it should be.
The only thing I'm unhappy about is that, for the times that I'm at my homescreen with the keyboard open and the screen in landscape mode, the white bars are obnoxious and up-in-my-face. I don't think I really have a workaround for it unless I find someone more skilled at Photoshop that can continue the background on either side.
http://intridea.com/2010/10/27/android-wallpaper-template-photoshop
template here
So, we all love our metro UI! Okay, few of us don't but many do. All those big live tiles, adding aesthetics to functionality. Maybe, after a few days, months or years for that matter, one might find it boring to have same tile-tile monochrome layout and a bunch of theme colors. While there is not much that can be done about it, here is a cool trick which adds some refreshment to the look of WP7 home screen! Now, let's admit it, we all have grown up with the concept of wallpapers. They're everywhere - on Windows PC, Mac, Linux, Android, even on iOS! (Though I wonder, how pleasing a wallpaper looks when icons are being filled up linearly, leaving less than 25% of the wallpaper visible and your app icon falls right on the eye of the cute face in the wallpaper!) For WP7 home screen - no wallpaper. This trick allows us to convert the tiles into pieces of wallpaper so that the screen looks like beautiful picture made by solving a kind of jigsaw puzzle.
By no means, I have used any of my creativity in this. I found this trick buried in a Japanese blog here. I thought it would be cool to share it! All credit goes to the author of the article.
The catch is to make image resembling an array of live tiles like this one:
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And then use it as a webpage and pin the web link to start using IE.
Actual steps are like this:
1. Create (pick some wallpaper or crop your favorite one) an image with resolution of your screen, i.e., 358x728.
2. Then add black frame of thickness 12px as shown in the picture. Tiles are 173x173.
3. Upload this image to a web service which allows you to view image file as image right inside your browser. Dropbox public folder works fine.
4. Here comes the tricky part. Open up the image in IE on your WP7 device. IE will think of it as a webpage. Adjust the magnification and position of your webpage (Which is your picture) such that the first tile such that, it fills your screen edge to edge horizontally, and the top edge of the image is aligned to the address bar. So, now you have left edge of the tile aligned to left of screen, right to right and top to top. Ignore the bottom edge. Example:
5. Go to menu and select pin to start. Your tile will be pinned to start as a webpage shortcut live tile!
6. Repeat procedure for all the tiles.
7. Now, go to start rearrange the tiles so that overall appearance is of a complete picture.
So, that was easy, wasn't that? Just a bit tricky with alignment, right? I have a simpler solution! Why not create eight different images, one for each tile having resolution square pixels equal to the width of IE page? Just create a square image with width equal to that of IE and then zoom it to 100% by a simple double tap. This was image will be already aligned. Only catch is that the image will be scaled to fit into the tile, but the difference was not noticeable when I gave it a try.
Agreed to the fact that this thing would take up all the screen space reducing productivity of the live tiles, the trick is worth try. We can have the tiles below the wallpaper. It also acts as a little puzzle. Mix up the tiles and then rearrange them to complete the picture! Its worth a shot if you are already tired of old look and want to try something new. Share your wallpapers in the post.
P.S.: Don't forget to have a look at original post here. If you don't understand Japanese, Google translate is your friend. I don't understand it either!
this is cool. It's been around for a while though. You don't have to create and post an image to make it work. With some finesse and care, you can just zoom it just right, pin it, slide over, pin it, etc... This is a homescreen thing I did back in April.
Wow, very nice idea Thanks for the tip There's also stuff like live tile generators or creators.. but this method is much easier
munkeyphyst said:
this is cool. It's been around for a while though. You don't have to create and post an image to make it work. With some finesse and care, you can just zoom it just right, pin it, slide over, pin it, etc... This is a homescreen thing I did back in April.
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That's really awesome!
experience7 said:
Wow, very nice idea Thanks for the tip There's also stuff like live tile generators or creators.. but this method is much easier
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Yeah! Its more innovative and novel than easy!
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That's really awesome!
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Anyone else seeing severe degradation of images when you set them as your wallpaper? I thought it was just the image quality, but if you look at the same image in the gallery at the same zoom (filling the screen), it's ultra sharp, but when you set it was a wallpaper you get severe artifacting and compression. I tested this with a 1440x1280 wallpaper, so it should have been exactly the resolution for the screen (including side scrolling), but once set, it looked pixelated and ugly. I did find a workaround (albeit not a convenient one), where if you happen to have root, you can use ninjamorph to switch out the "default_wallpaper.jpg" in the framework-res.apk, res/drawable/default_wallpaper.jpg with your own wallpaper retitled to the same name. Immediately, the wallpaper looks infinitely sharper and really shows off the 720p screen!
Anyone else know of a better way to set a wallpaper without any degradation? (Hopefully, without having to mess with the framework-res.apk every time, and maybe without using a live wallpaper that sets the homescreen to a particular image? Even though they're not technically animated, those live wallpapers still seem to be a battery drain and ram hog...)
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Regardless of resolution (gone as high as 3840x2160) once set as a wallpaper, Android seems to do some sort of compression that significantly drops the quality below what you see looking at that same picture in the gallery. I've also tried using 1440x1280 so that no stretching or cropping would be necessary to fill the screen, but that also didn't work. The only way to circumvent the degradation that I know of is to swap a system wallpaper with the one I want to set, and that bypasses the degradation. I've tried Wallpaper Set & Save, but that still produced the same drop in quality.
I know this is off topic, but could someone provide the stock LG Nitro wallpapers? I love that blue stock wallpaper, but I can't find it on the net.
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Regardless of resolution (gone as high as 3840x2160) once set as a wallpaper, Android seems to do some sort of compression that significantly drops the quality below what you see looking at that same picture in the gallery. I've also tried using 1440x1280 so that no stretching or cropping would be necessary to fill the screen, but that also didn't work. The only way to circumvent the degradation that I know of is to swap a system wallpaper with the one I want to set, and that bypasses the degradation. I've tried Wallpaper Set & Save, but that still produced the same drop in quality.
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The answer is simple...u must use or resize the image to exactly 1280x720. I had the same issue before with my Atrix 4G, which has a qHD screen (960x540) and everytime I use a wallpaper that is smaller or bigger than 960x540, they will come out either blurred or pixelated and looks like Cr*p! But when I resize the image to exactly 960x540, the pictures came out sharp and clear.
I think this has something to do with Android's stock system. When my phone was upgraded to CM7, I no longer have that issue.
So to rectify your issue, try using 1280x720 pictures/wallpapers, or crop them down to exactly 1280x720, and they should come out crisp. Let me know if that helps.
i use Backgrounds by OGP, u can use that app to set wallpapers from your gallery. Works perfect every time.
Quickpic is the answer
I was having the same problem, but then I found Quickpic! Not only is it a far superior gallery management app, it also sets the wallpaper at pristine resolution...
Thanks for all your help guys! The exact resolution of native wallpaper is 1440 by 1280 (with wallpaper scrolling left and right, it's always double the x-axis, so 720*2). I ripped the original wallpapers from LGhome.apk, and those are their resolutions as well. It doesn't matter what resolution you choose, if you set the wallpaper through the android gallery, it looks like crap, whether or not it is exactly the right resolution (I tried 1280x720 as well, even though that is not the native resolution of the wallpapers on 720p android, due to wallpaper scrolling). However, I found that setting the wallpaper through Wallpaper Wizardrii or Just Pictures gave sharp results! As sharp as messing with the lghome.apk and switching the bluray.jpg wallpaper to my own wallpaper of choice! So that's what I'm using. If you want to see for yourself, give it a shot! Set a highly detailed wallpaper through the android gallery, and then install Just Pictures or Wallpaper Wizardrii and set it through that. Maybe I'm just absurdly picky, but the difference is super dramatic to me. Thanks guys!
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Second one is the one through Just Wallpapers (or Wallpaper Wizardrii). Maybe I'm just anal, but the first one through android gallery is just too blurry for me, and it looks worse on the phone's screen. The crossed railing and the boats, windows, etc just don't have the crispness when set through the gallery.