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Dreamscenes on your hero!

Well I was fed up of not having any decent livewallpapers on my hero and stumbled across a livewallpaper called video live wallpaper.
This livewallpaper lets you play a video loop as a wallpaper, having just installed dreamscenes on my laptop, I put two and two together and thought why not.
After a few hours of trying various conversion formats I have found the settings to run dreamscape mpg's (dreamscapes must be in video format not dream.) as a livewallpaper on your hero, this looks really good and makes the hero look like its running really complex live wallpapers!
Anyway it works really well and is very stable and looks really good, so thought I would share it! If you check out the short video you can see a few running!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp3pNwQetds
If you want to do this you will need:-
video live wallpaper app (free from market)
Any video converter (free on download.com)
dreamscences in a movie format (google them) or www.dreamscenes.org
You then simply need to convert the dreamscene and run it with the live wallpaper app.
Ive found that the optimum settings for conversion that give the best look/performance balance are:-
Profile= customisied AVI movie
Codec= XVID
Frame size = 352x240
Bitrate = 12000
Frame rate = 15
You can tweak these values but be warned I found that if you go too high your poor old hero will start locking up, at these values I get no performance issues and battery consumption is on par with other live wallpapers, anyway enjoy
Oh and just to be extra nice here are the three from the video, ready converted for you to try if you can't be bothered to convert your own
View attachment Bokeh_xvid.zip
View attachment reactor_1680_xvid.zip
View attachment silky-dance_xvid.zip
(Oh yeah btw you need a custom rom to run live wallpaper on your hero, search development if you dont know how!!)
And just so you know, on my phone ADW launcher didnt seem to like this wallpaper so I swapped to launcher pro and it was fine!
If anyone finds any other cool dreamscenes, please feel free to add them to this thread to give people a selection to use.
EDIT...here's a few more I've converted
View attachment Underwater_xvid.zip
View attachment UnderseaHD_xvid.zip
View attachment 506581
View attachment Colormetry_xvid.zip
View attachment blueUV_xvid.zip

this is fantastic. will be trying this tomorrow.

nice ! I will try it soon !

Looks great, thanks!
...and BTW: I love the swing effect when changing home screens, how did you achieve this? What ROM are you using? Is it possible with CM6?

vrooden said:
Looks great, thanks!
...and BTW: I love the swing effect when changing home screens, how did you achieve this? What ROM are you using? Is it possible with CM6?
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ROM is froyo 2.2.1 special edition final with fly kernel 12a overclocked to 710mhz
Transition effects are in the latest launcherpro release
In theory any ROM should work as long as it has the live wallpaper hack included, not sure how they will perform, maybe some will run better than others, if anybody feels like posting performance results on other ROMs that would be useful

Just found a site with lots of free dreamscenes to play with
http://www.dreamscene.org

rosso22 said:
Transition effects are in the latest launcherpro release
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Damn! Been using Launcher Pro for "ages", but missed to check the new features of 0.8.3. THANKS!!!

vrooden said:
Damn! Been using Launcher Pro for "ages", but missed to check the new features of 0.8.3. THANKS!!!
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No problem my friend, theres also some cool transitions on ADW launcher now as well if you like that sort of thing
And a little update for anyone trying the dreamscene videos, there seems to be so sort of problem with the video live wallpaper app, after a few days use it starts to really affect performance on my phone, am thinking some sort of memory leak (Im no dev so not sure really) stopping app then rebooting sorts out the problem.
Anyway I've emailed dev about it but if anyones clued up and knows what there looking at, then any input would be good

Hey!
I'm the dev of the VLW. I downloaded one of the videos of the original post and I'll be testing it on my device to see it anything weird starts occuring after a while.
Though I have the Desire HD so I might not have any problems. We'll see.

pikipirs said:
Hey!
I'm the dev of the VLW. I downloaded one of the videos of the original post and I'll be testing it on my device to see it anything weird starts occuring after a while.
Though I have the Desire HD so I might not have any problems. We'll see.
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Thanks for having a look at this for us, would be nice to use this as an every day live wallpaper......and yeah I reckon the desire hd will cope slightly better than our little old heros hehe

Very nice work!
When I get home from work I might try this on my Desire HD too

Very nice!!!!!

[Q] Where can i get these shelves?

I am looking to get just the black shelves so i can add my own background.. ive seen lots of people with them and id like to get them to make my own wallpaper and add icons in photoshop.
Im looking to have 4-5 shelves on my wallpaper.
Thanks!
Id also be interested in any other shelves by themselves. Thanks!

devinatart is where they came from...he cut the shelves out and placed them on that background! with gimp or photoshop
Nevermind heres the link http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=&section=&global=1&q=iphone+shelf#/d2wx87f
Those are where the selves came from!

Haha. Truth be told i had seen em too and thought they might be an app of some description.. Creative use of backgroung images and i mean they are top quality images. With the right screen no wonder they look interactive.

I found it! Has a clear background and ready to be put on any wallpaper.

So, is there an easy method to making sure you line them up properly when creating the wallpaper, so that the icons sit nice on them once you get the wallpaper onto your phone?

Can someone instruct me on how to place the shelves. I'm so lost .
Evo 3D in full Affect with WTSB HYDRO SENSE 3.5

you make a screen capture and then place the shelves with the help of this capture (you load it in photoshop/gimp/whatever and place the shelves under the icons and then you just swap the capture to your image)

Frustrated with Backgrounds!

I have spent the last several hours downloading wallpapers from 4walled.org for my phone. The wallpapers look so nice on the computer, and I really wanted to start theming my phone with them.
So I've loaded up the 300+ wallpapers to my SD-card, and as I start browsing through them in the gallery, I have realized one immutable fact: they all look horrible. The gradients aren't really gradient, they're splotchy.
It was my understanding that this phone's LCD was capable of 24bit color? Perhaps it is not and this is where my woes are from. I have also noticed that .PNG backgrounds do seem to look better than the .jpg counterparts.
Any comments or wisdom into selecting backgrounds would be greatly appreciated.

I just looked at some of those images and they dont look that high quality to me. Maybe your monitor is older and made them look better than they are. Check here for some more. Maybe you will find some you like. http://wallbase.cc/start/

Look up "wallpaper set and save" on market, it will eliminate the color banding you get when you set a wallpaper through the gallery app.
Also make sure the resolution on any wall you get is a minimum of 960x800.
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I use fish bowl photo which will also eliminate the banding. dodol wallpaper maker works great for setting portrait wallpapers too.

smstutler said:
I just looked at some of those images and they dont look that high quality to me. Maybe your monitor is older and made them look better than they are. Check here for some more. Maybe you will find some you like. http://wallbase.cc/start/
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Thank you for that site, I always used Interfacelift.net. Nice addition.

I regularly raid DeviantArt for backgrounds and use Wallpaper Wizardrii to set the wallpapers. WW allows you to set a properly sized background without cropping.

slim6596 said:
I regularly raid DeviantArt for backgrounds and use Wallpaper Wizardrii to set the wallpapers. WW allows you to set a properly sized background without cropping.
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Do you prefer that over the Fish Bowl Gallery? And does it support high-resolution images?

nerozehl said:
Do you prefer that over the Fish Bowl Gallery? And does it support high-resolution images?
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I've never used Fish Bowl. I only just started using WW today, but I would think that the no crop feature would only work on a wallpaper that was at or below the correct size for the display.

its all about nik.bot.nu thanks for wallbase.cc tho, another site to lose large chunks of my life too lmao

I get my wallpapers from socwall.com. Thats where I found my current wallpaper.

Thanks for all the links and the info! I will surely check those out!

smstutler said:
I just looked at some of those images and they dont look that high quality to me. Maybe your monitor is older and made them look better than they are. Check here for some more. Maybe you will find some you like. http://wallbase.cc/start/
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I hate you for posting this link!!!....Just Kidding, this site is awesome!!! I have been going through it for two days now and the wallpapers just don't end!!!
They have everything from abstract too zombies and everything in between.

Nice
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frostman89 said:
Look up "wallpaper set and save" on market, it will eliminate the color banding you get when you set a wallpaper through the gallery app.
Also make sure the resolution on any wall you get is a minimum of 960x800.
Sent from Thunderbolt.
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This.
Wallpaper Set and Save will fix what you've described, including the gradients issues you've mentioned.
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Adobe Photoshop Touch is out

Adobe Photoshop Touch is finally out
let's see how it works PS lovers
https://market.android.com/details?id=air.com.adobe.pstouch&trackingid=JKIUG&hl=en

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It's not the most intuitive, but I like it. I'll definitely be doing my serious editing at home but this is a great first start
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ChongoDroid said:
It's not the most intuitive, but I like it. I'll definitely be doing my serious editing at home but this is a great first start
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yea, but the nice thing is they are vector based, & you shouldn't be worried about pixels anymore

mehras1991 said:
yea, but the nice thing is they are vector based, & you shouldn't be worried about pixels anymore
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?? Seems like photoshop touch uses pixels but adobe ideas is vector based.
Am I missing something with photoshop touch?

I am so excited!!!!

mehras1991 said:
yea, but the nice thing is they are vector based, & you shouldn't be worried about pixels anymore
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What? Photoshop, a bitmap application, works with vectors? Explain this to me. I am stumped.
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Photoshop Touch is bitmap = pixel based
Adobe Ideas is Vector based.

I got the Photoshop last night and was so impressed by it I bought collage this morning and proto an hour ago. The cloud integration is amazingly fluid and easy to use. The implementation of google image search built in saves a lot of time from having to first download from the web to your os and then upload to photoshop.Collage has an amazing feature whereyou can crop any image straight from the [email protected] This is a high class set of apps that can bring out the inner artist in anybody.

I watched this video a few weeks ago -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89hej8N1Me0
I was so impressed by that and the preview video on the Adobe site that the minute I got the email saying it was available, I purchased it without hesitation. The only limitation is that it can only save files to 1600px. Excellent app!

hipocrazy said:
?? Seems like photoshop touch uses pixels but adobe ideas is vector based.
Am I missing something with photoshop touch?
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as far as I get it, the photos & stuff are (of course) pixel & not vector, but while working it processes vector for selection & things, I found it really damn precise if it's not vector

I was disappointed to find out that Adobe Ideas wasn't a mobile version of Illustrator which I had thought it would be, I read "vector based" in the description and was stoked, but found out it was just another drawing application that can transfer over to Illustrator as a vector...not quite the same thing. I wanted point manipulation on the Xoom...would have been really bad ass to do my vectors on a tablet anywhere.

I was reallylooking forward to using photoshop but since it cannot open local files its pretty much a huge dealbreaker for me. Once they add the ability to edit local PSDs ill be jumping right on it..

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I was reallylooking forward to using photoshop but since it cannot open local files its pretty much a huge dealbreaker for me. Once they add the ability to edit local PSDs ill be jumping right on it..
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you can both open your .psd in tablet & opening your .psdx (new format for adobe PS touch) in your pc.
here is how
but few people reported when opening .psd formats in tablet, all the layers are flattened. (for me, it happens only for heavy .psd files)

I know you can do it from the "creative cloud" but I would like to do it from local files like SD card or flash drive.. that would be nice

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I know you can do it from the "creative cloud" but I would like to do it from local files like SD card or flash drive.. that would be nice
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+1
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omac_ranger said:
I know you can do it from the "creative cloud" but I would like to do it from local files like SD card or flash drive.. that would be nice
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now, I get what you mean.
+1
P.S an option to export to different formats directly

I'm assuming you guys have used Sketch Book Pro? That has a pretty decent PSD export tool (which works with dropbox which I prefer and where all the rest of my stuff is). I agree with the different export ability too.

I got it and it doesn't seem to be working for me
Adam

AdamsBig said:
I got it and it doesn't seem to be working for me
Adam
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What seems to be the problem?

[Screensavers] Show off your Nook Touch ScreenSavers

I haven't seen a lot of good Screensaver sets out there for the nook touch, most don't even properly fit the screen, and I don't care for the two that come with it. I'd like to have this thread be a place where people can post theirs and get lots of awesome ones. The only rule I can think of is all pictures should be .jpg and have to be at 600x800 res.
Installing screensavers is as easy as follows:
Plug nook into computer via usb.
In the internal flash storage go into a folder call screensavers.
Make a new folder in here. Note: the name of the folder will also be the name of the screensaver/set.
Whatever pictures you put in the new folder will be added to that screensaver/set.
I'll start off with a clean version from one of my favorite mangas Elfen Lied! If you would like the non-clean (just 5 extra pictures) pm me.

I gathered a bunch on high resolution personal photos (family, pets, vacations), opened them in gimp, cropped them so that they were the correct ratio than scaled them down to 800x600. Lastly i converted them to grayscale. Some were landscape, some were portrait. If they were landscape i had to rotate them clockwise. The hardest part was trying to get the right ratio without cutting too much out.
They fill the whole screen and look great!
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Well, don't forget about these sites for your NST Screensaver pleasure:
The Nook Wallpapers Pool
The Kindle Backgrounds Pool (these work just fine as they are all in exactly the same res as the NST backgrounds)
...and, of course, the ever-popular Nook-Look.com (with screensavers for both color Nooks and e-ink versions)
Lots to choose from.

This sounds stupid, but I'm still looking for other "dead author" pics of famous people... even living authors. I know that the B&N brick and mortar store has one of Stephen King that looks pretty cool. I think that style of portrait is pretty neat. Maybe someone can come up with a Photoshop filter or something to do that...

TJay99 said:
Well, don't forget about these sites for your NST Screensaver pleasure:
The Nook Wallpapers Pool
The Kindle Backgrounds Pool (these work just fine as they are all in exactly the same res as the NST backgrounds)
...and, of course, the ever-popular Nook-Look.com (with screensavers for both color Nooks and e-ink versions)
Lots to choose from.
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Anyone want to pack the kindle ones up into screensaver sets(as their already black and white)? And I know someones got to have made their own that they want to show off! Like ones' of their favorite authors or the covers of their favorite books? Drizzit anyone?

I throw some of them together myself
All credit goes to The Kindle Backgrounds Pool for the following files!

These were taken around the net, I can't remeber exactly where .
EDIT: Probably some where taken from nook-look.com...

Pair of Nook Simple Touch Screensavers
Bought my Mom a Simple Touch for Xmas; she likes flowers so I put together a 5-picture flower screensaver for her that includes the "press Nook button" graphic on the bottom. Also, made a light & dark version of the B&N Nook logos for screensavers. Hope somebody can use them.

I'm not really into all that screensavers, cause i dont let my nook rest xD
i like ukiyo-e pictures cause they tend to have high contrast
also check my current desktop, unfortunately my screenshot app takes screens in color ;D

Few of mine screensavers.

This one is awesome... to prank a nook owner.
Also my compilation of Eschers graphics. They look really cool on my nook

That's pretty sweet
Dagon.Alex said:
This one is awesome... to prank a nook owner.
Also my compilation of Eschers graphics. They look really cool on my nook
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I like the cracked one . Any chance you can share it?

He did. Just click on the image..twice.

For the German-speaking Heinrich Heine fanboy crowd.

Brodsky and Utkin
One of my favorite artists - and the prints are almost perfect for Nook/Kindle: B&W and same dimension as a regular piece of paper.
This person scanned them in: http://thenonist.com/index.php/weblog/permalink/the_paper_architecture_of_brodsky_utkin
Attached are just the 10 JPGs grabbed from that site.

Scary Stories to tell in the dark

I quickly threw something together in FW, the floaty vectorthing was a royalty free IIRC (or at least I hope so...)

AcoQ said:
I quickly threw something together in FW, the floaty vectorthing was a royalty free IIRC (or at least I hope so...)
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love it, but how do i change the "power off" screen?

Soea said:
love it, but how do i change the "power off" screen?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20069276&postcount=8
From the manual tutos on my sig.