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[HOWTO] WallPaper Cropping guide for A101 and A70

Note: This is a work in progress.
Note: All Image manipulation is done with GIMP.
Note: This guide is mainly for the A101 but can also be applied for the A70.
I was getting sick of not be able to take a good picture and use it as a wallpaper so that it looked good. I know there is an alternative "MultiPicture Live Wallpaper" but that thing is a memory hog.
PART 1
So I came up with this picture it's a PNG of 1200x1024. The different grids are the following sizes.
Blue: 8px
Green: 16px
Red: 32px
White: 64px
When this is set as a wallpaper we can finally see what is happening to the image.
Here are the screenshots for the 5 screens of the Stock Launcher of the Archos 101.
Screen 1
Screen 2
Screen 3
Screen 4
Screen 5
Since the status bar can not be hidden on the Stock Launcher we loose 32px at the top and on the right with the soft buttons we loose 40px. When positioned on the first screen we have a good view of the top left corner (1024x600) of the reference picture.
Now lets get to work with this picture below.
Size: 1680x1050
So what do we need to do. The result must be an image with a size of 1200x1024 for the A101 and 960x800 for the A70 where only the top 600px (A101) 480px (A70) will be visible in landscape mode.
Scaling the image to a height of 600px and keeping the aspect in mind. The result is a picture of 960x600
On the bottom add a 424px black border.
On both sides add a 120px black border.
and the result is
Size: 1200x1024
And the screenshot to prove it works.
This was tested with the Stock Launcher and ADW.Launcher.
PART 2
So this worked out because the original picture has a black background. So here is the solution for other pictures.
I made a multi layer xcf file with GIMP to address the problem. You can download it here for the A101 and here for the A70.
Open WallPaper_cropping.xcf in GIMP.
Select the "Background" layer.
File -> Open as Layer -> select the picture you want to crop.
Scale the layer to 1200px width and keep the aspect correct.
Position the layer so that the visible part looks good.
Turn visibility on/off so that only the layers "Background:, "The Picture", "Black Not Visible Part" are turned on.
Save the image as PNG with option "Merge Visible Layers"
Send to archos and apply as wallpaper with the Crop Wallpaper app and use the "Overall" button.
This is all for today. Next We'll see if we can do something with extending the background instead of cropping it.

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reserved for thanks ;-)
many thanks

Worked fine for landscape But when I turn it portrait there is a black bar at the bottom - How do I get it to fill in that black space??
Using ADW Launcher if that has any effect on it...
Would put up a screenshot but the forum won't let me...

martinjh99 said:
Worked fine for landscape But when I turn it portrait there is a black bar at the bottom - How do I get it to fill in that black space??
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There is no way to do both landscape and portrait at the same time. So you have to choose.

ah ok- Thanks anyway.

Thanks wdl1908. It will be difficult for me to explain because of my poor english. But with your settings and my A70it it didn't (the image was too high). So I have set the top of my image at 183px and the bottom at 644px and now it's perfect. Maybe someone with skills could check those values cause I'm a newbie.
Thank you very much.

nikokroko said:
Thanks wdl1908. It will be difficult for me to explain because of my poor english. But with your settings and my A70it it didn't (the image was too high). So I have set the top of my image at 183px and the bottom at 644px and now it's perfect. Maybe someone with skills could check those values cause I'm a newbie.
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If you attach your original wallpaper I'll look at it to see what the best method is.

So this is my actual wallpapaper. In landscape I see everything of the middle layer and not the 2 others (normal). And in portrait I don't see the face of the guy on the first layer. But this is not important cause those layers are just there to fill the blanks in portrait mode.
The original picture was found on socwall and was 2500*1324px

nikokroko said:
So this is my actual wallpapaper. In landscape I see everything of the middle layer and not the 2 others (normal). And in portrait I don't see the face of the guy on the first layer. But this is not important cause those layers are just there to fill the blanks in portrait mode.
The original picture was found on socwall and was 2500*1324px
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Very nice wallpaper. I usually don't bother with the portrait mode as long as the landscape mode is shown correctly. I would just cut out the middle part and use that to fit into the portrait visible part of the template.

mimicry photo crop?

i dont know why but when i take photos on mimicry on my phone it seems to crop out a part of the image, it doesnt take an image that fills the whole of the desire Z screen but instead takes a picture with two black bars either side of the image.
is there a reason why this happens?

The screen resolution of Desire Z is 800x480, which is the aspect ratio of 5:3. You are probably taking pictures with aspect ratio 4:3. If you want to display a (whole) image with aspect ratio 4:3 without stretching you have to display black bars on sides.
Try to change the camera resolutions to “4MP(W)”. There are two “4MP(W)” settings, one of them has the aspect ratio of 5:3.

ze550ml Super resolution mode when zoom?

Is there a way to automatically switch to super resolution mode when zooming? I mean, just like taking a high resolution photo and crop it.Digital zoom on normal photo is terrible.

@chan said:
Is there a way to automatically switch to super resolution mode when zooming? I mean, just like taking a high resolution photo and crop it.Digital zoom on normal photo is terrible.
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superesolution is just more pictures made in different zones, making zoom will change nothing

htc 10 camera issue

In dark(No light), My htc 10 shows me white points on screen during zoom in camera mode and video mode).
Fully zoomed in, and take a picture, my picture shows white points. THIS IS SO TERRIBLE. I JUST GOT 2 DAYS.

Help this company said:
In dark(No light), My htc 10 shows me white points on screen during zoom in camera mode and video mode).
Fully zoomed in, and take a picture, my picture shows white points. THIS IS SO TERRIBLE. I JUST GOT 2 DAYS.
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White points? The grid squares? You can turn those off under the camera settings. Otherwise, I don't see anything wrong in your screenshot.

Magnum_Enforcer said:
White points? The grid squares? You can turn those off under the camera settings. Otherwise, I don't see anything wrong in your screenshot.
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No... zoom that picture, you can see what I said( white dots). not square grid.

Help this company said:
No... zoom that picture, you can see what I said( white dots). not square grid.
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Looks like you're taking pictures of stars!
Stupid question, have you tried cleaning the camera? ...... Of course you did.
In that case it could be dust on the inside, but how often are you taking pictures of things in the dark with no flash? Does it effect the picture in normal light or in low light with the flash?

Is it just me that can't differentiate the stars from the white spots.
OP, upload an edited version to illustrate what you're referring to.

mellybelly_ said:
Is it just me that can't differentiate the stars from the white spots.
OP, upload an edited version to illustrate what you're referring to.
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Haha, that's the problem. I don't think the op was taking a photo of the stars. It just looks as though he is.

Question Looking for an overlay(?) app/module for the camera that shows me the 16:9 crop while on 4:3 full image settings

I'd love to take full pictures but also keep in mind how the 16:19 (centered?) crop would fit should I post it using 16:9. I mean I could take 2 pictures, but not all moments last long enough for you to switch between 4:3 full then 16:9 wide, and sometimes, taking 4:3 full photos becomes either too wide or too tall when cropping later to 16:9 to be used on a different platform/situation. The current 3x3 and 4x4 grid rulers in the app still needs some eyeballing to gauge the 16:9 crop
extra customizability could be setting it to have just the horizontal guides, vertical guides, or both guides centered on the viewfinder.
if anyone can point me to said app/module, that would be lovely

Maybe in the developer settings of gcam?
MWP: Gcam_8.4.300.v1_basic_beta1
Download Gcam_8.4.300.v1_basic_beta1 by MWP.
www.celsoazevedo.com

erktheerk said:
Maybe in the developer settings of gcam?
MWP: Gcam_8.4.300.v1_basic_beta1
Download Gcam_8.4.300.v1_basic_beta1 by MWP.
www.celsoazevedo.com
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I didn't expect the developer settings to be this long haha. I'm seeing preview frames settings, but not sure if there were ruler/grid-related ones

djo_5296 said:
I didn't expect the developer settings to be this long haha. I'm seeing preview frames settings, but not sure if there were ruler/grid-related ones
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Yeah I gave up looking last night when my vision got blurry scanning all of it. My eyes were tired before I started. It's quite a detailed mod.