I did a little searching on the forums but havnt come accross a post that has the correct size for a wallpaper size that wont look all pixelated and terrible when applied. ive tried 1200x1024 and even 1900x1024 it all looks pretty bad. Any information would be awesome! Thanks
No offense but didn't look to hard. The VERY first page of Themes and Apps section has the thread your looking for, with all the details you want. In a nutshell there is no REAL resolution, but that thread has the solution and it works very well.
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No offense but didn't look to hard. The VERY first page of Themes and Apps section has the thread your looking for, with all the details you want. In a nutshell there is no REAL resolution, but that thread has the solution and it works very well.
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my bad i searched in General and Q&A i didnt think it would be in themes.
No worries, if you could see my face that was typed with a smile. We're all here (well most of us anyway) to make this awesome device more usable for everybody, i don;t mind helping at all. Didn't mean to come off rude if i did
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No worries, if you could see my face that was typed with a smile. We're all here (well most of us anyway) to make this awesome device more usable for everybody, i don;t mind helping at all. Didn't mean to come off rude if i did
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Nah man its all good . Although i went to look at that wallpaper thread you were talking about. No matter WHAT i do when i apply a wallpaper i get this funky blocky gradient look 0_o. Runnin CM7 btw again. i dunno what the deal is
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Nah man its all good . Although i went to look at that wallpaper thread you were talking about. No matter WHAT i do when i apply a wallpaper i get this funky blocky gradient look 0_o. Runnin CM7 btw again. i dunno what the deal is
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Give Multi Picture Live Wallpaper a try, free in the market. Has worked 100% for me.
Rodney
Install QuickPic (free) and set wallpaper with it. It'll keep the image nice and sharp.
example: http://k.min.us/ib6DuE.png
It's also a great image viewer, faster than the gallery and easy to exclude certain folders.
Agree with previous post. Greaet app.
Quickpic does a good job for Portrait wallpapers but fails badly at Landscape. Ive tried everything possible on the nook for a locked landscape setup and the best result ive had was gathering a ton of pictures, slapping them into a folder, then selecting that folder inside a app called Wall Switch from the market, and just keep switching till a razor sharp one shows up.
I know its not a proper method, but after a while, at least one of them shows up super sharp and high-res and looks amazing. Wish i could be more precise, but thats all i got.
I love what you did
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Install QuickPic (free) and set wallpaper with it. It'll keep the image nice and sharp.
example: http:[slash,slash]k.min.us[slash]ib6DuE.png
It's also a great image viewer, faster than the gallery and easy to exclude certain folders.
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Eozoon, I wish you had posted how you arranged such a nice looking layout. Does anyone know what he used? I would love to know.
*EDIT* I found out where the battery and disk widgets come from, if I find out anymore I'll update my post.
Calendar widget
CPU widget
Folder icons
Battery % widget => Mini Info
disk usage widget => Mini Info
Toggle widget
Launcher/theme
I forgot what the clock is might just be beautiful widgets. Sorry I used to know but this ins't much help.
The cpu widget is SetCPU.
Not sure about the others.
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Eozoon, I wish you had posted how you arranged such a nice looking layout. Does anyone know what he used? I would love to know.
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Calendar widget - I assume you mean the clock? That's Simi Clock, I also use Simple Calendar Widget for the actual calendar in an other homescreen.
CPU widget - SetCPU
Folder icons - Simi Folder
Battery % widget => Mini Info
disk usage widget => Mini Info
Toggle widget - Widgetsoid
Launcher/theme - ADW, default theme, I think. Wallpaper from Wallbase.
Thanks for the info. Now I can get mine looking spiffy.
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HaiKaiDo said:
Nah man its all good . Although i went to look at that wallpaper thread you were talking about. No matter WHAT i do when i apply a wallpaper i get this funky blocky gradient look 0_o. Runnin CM7 btw again. i dunno what the deal is
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Search on the market for an app called "Image 2 Wallpaper". It's given really clear images and allows for different scaling options.
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Says for only 5 days so get it now.
Have it installed on my gtab, works great.
http://twitter.com/levelupstudio/status/53831229073670144#
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Says for only 5 days so get it now.
Have it installed on my gtab, works great.
http://twitter.com/levelupstudio/status/53831229073670144#
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please upload link no longer working..
They must have changed their minds... Download link is not working.
BW works great already. The full screen home and weather widget is beautiful. Makes me confident this could be even better.
Looks like their site or twitter is having server issues. I will be trying again soon.
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BW works great already. The full screen home and weather widget is beautiful. Makes me confident this could be even better.
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it doesnt work that great.. on stock it stretches across the whole screen and clock looks like #$#$#
on vegan.. you can resize and it is somewhat better but still not great.
Hmm. I guess Im not as picky. I really thought it did an excellent job and looks good. The whether animations even look great.
link working again.. think it was just heavily hit
It works great in landscape, but in portrait, resizing looks weird.
Works great for me. It always has. I saved the apk from HTC Evo and have been using it for a while now. Does what i want it to do so im satisfied
scott
installed this, I don't really see much of a difference between this tablet optimized version and the one from market,
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Works great for me. It always has. I saved the apk from HTC Evo and have been using it for a while now. Does what i want it to do so im satisfied
scott
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Hey Scott,
Did you save the actual HTC sense clock/weather widget? If so, could I get a copy of that?
Didn't work for me. If you enable weather animations it fcs when going to. Weather screen
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Hmm. I guess Im not as picky. I really thought it did an excellent job and looks good. The whether animations even look great.
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Same here. Resized it in Launcher Pro and I think it looks great, I was pleasantly surprised (see attached screenshot).
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Same here. Resized it in Launcher Pro and I think it looks great, I was pleasantly surprised (see attached screenshot).
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That looks awesome. Just got my gTab in Woot deal and am starting to play around with it. I'm gonna give Launcher Pro a try.
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Same here. Resized it in Launcher Pro and I think it looks great, I was pleasantly surprised (see attached screenshot).
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Wow...how did you get the big weather icons. For some reason all the weather widgets show real small weather icons. How do I fix it so it shows up bigger? Thx
I use the Beautiful Home Weather widget (not the one with Smaller). It will initially stretch wider, but with LP, you press and hold the widget and a resizing outline will appear. I sized it to fit in that corner. I'm using the standard skin with Hide Background checked.
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I use the Beautiful Home Weather widget (not the one with Smaller). It will initially stretch wider, but with LP, you press and hold the widget and a resizing outline will appear. I sized it to fit in that corner. I'm using the standard skin with Hide Background checked.
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Got it!! Thanks.
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Same here. Resized it in Launcher Pro and I think it looks great, I was pleasantly surprised (see attached screenshot).
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I'm new to Widgets. Are you adding the Clock, Date and Weather widgets separately?
No, if you purchase Beautiful Widgets, there is a single widget (though there are several widgets included with your purchase) called Beautiful Home Weather that contains all 3 of those things in your list of widgets. There are some free alternatives people can point you to, but I prefer BW.
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No, if you purchase Beautiful Widgets, there is a single widget (though there are several widgets included with your purchase) called Beautiful Home Weather that contains all 3 of those things in your list of widgets. There are some free alternatives people can point you to, but I prefer BW.
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I'm guessing that's not included with this free beta version. When I try to choose the Beautiful Home Weather Widget, it just goes to the settings.
http://www.androidcentral.com/andro...mpaign=Feed:+androidcentral+(Android+Central)
I found this on AndroidCentral. Its a really nice launcher and its free!
Share your thoughts here
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It does have a lot of animations and stuff, but it's not for me.
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Very interesting. Runs smooth on the Epic. One thing I really like about this one is that the pages/workspaces aren't compartmentalized. In other words you can put a button or a widget literally anywhere on the page rather than within the confines of the 4 x 5 grid (or whatever yours is set up as). There are hidden workspaces that are brought up by tapping out a code in the corners of the screens. The hidden workspace is a secondary collection of three additional workspaces...all ready for you to customize and hide.
Every time I try to change the wallpaper to something from my gallery the Media Scanner starts...that's annoying, but may not be a "Regina" thing as my phone is heavily modded. Once I finally did get to my gallery to change the wallpaper...guess what! Each workspace can have it OWN wallpaper! No kidding! Nice little surprise there.
Transitions are sweet, widgets are ok. I think the weather widget may be useless to many as the cities available appear limited, and you have to install add-ons to get it to work properly.
If you are intrigued by the SPB 3D launcher, you'll really like this one. It's a pretty giant step above SPB, and free. I can't wait to see how far they take this one.
Nice, i like it. its kindof like spb shell but its free! hah it has some good widgets and some good features. kind of slow but i think i might try it out for a day or two
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Every time I try to change the wallpaper to something from my gallery the Media Scanner starts...that's annoying, but may not be a "Regina" thing as my phone is heavily modded. Once I finally did get to my gallery to change the wallpaper...guess what! Each workspace can have it OWN wallpaper! No kidding! Nice little surprise there.
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hah my gallery was doing the same thing. i didnt know what was going on.
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Nice, i like it. its kindof like spb shell but its free! hah it has some good widgets and some good features. kind of slow but i think i might try it out for a day or two
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That's what I was thinking
I like it, but they need to fix the transition speeds, and have a feature to turn that off.
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That's what I was thinking
I like it, but they need to fix the transition speeds, and have a feature to turn that off.
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Agreed its OK
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For those talking about transition speed, have you all tried Spare Parts?
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For those talking about transition speed, have you all tried Spare Parts?
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I thought about that. But I'm not rooted as of now. Good suggestion to keep in mind though
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I tried it and didn't like it. It's better then SPB (imo) but ultimately it doesn't do anything better, smoother or easier to use then what I already have on ADW EX. Sometimes it would be difficult to swipe between screens quickly which was annoying, the weather widget is pretty much useless, no widget resizing (I use desktop visualizer a lot for pics), and I didn't care for the style of app drawer. YMMV though.
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I tried it and didn't like it. It's better then SPB (imo) but ultimately it doesn't do anything better, smoother or easier to use then what I already have on ADW EX. Sometimes it would be difficult to swipe between screens quickly which was annoying, the weather widget is pretty much useless, no widget resizing (I use desktop visualizer a lot for pics), and I didn't care for the style of app drawer. YMMV though.
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Actually, widget size can be resized on some by clicking the little "i" button. I agree the app drawer is lame; the weather widget needs work (doesn't even have Chicago!). But give it some time. It doesn't even have a v1.0 yet.
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Actually, widget size can be resized on some by clicking the little "i" button. I agree the app drawer is lame; the weather widget needs work (doesn't even have Chicago!). But give it some time. It doesn't even have a v1.0 yet.
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I had to play around with the weather, but I finally got Charleston WV in there. If I can find that, then Chicago should be there. Im really liking it so far. Used Spare Parts to change animations to fast and its awesome. Love how you can have a different wallpaper for each screen, and also four private workspaces. It takes a little bit to figure out, but I am really impressed. You can also remove the weather and clock and use your beautiful widgets or whatever clock/weather that you normally use. Now if I can figure out a way to edit the icons or they fix that, I will be really impressed.
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Guys. If you need to find your city and it's not in the list, simply go to Settings for the Clock & Weather Widget, click "Add Custom City", and type in your ZIP Code. The clock becomes a bit funky but after a bit of messing around, you should be able to get it to run nicely.
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Actually, widget size can be resized on some by clicking the little "i" button. I agree the app drawer is lame; the weather widget needs work (doesn't even have Chicago!). But give it some time. It doesn't even have a v1.0 yet.
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I was thinking the same thing as I was setting up my home screens in Spanish Class. Chi-Town represent!
No one has put yet that you can scroll through "workspaces" with the dock by dragging it left or right. Press home or pinch-to-zoom out to look at the sense style overview, then hold on a screen to go into add/delete screen mode. And there was something else that I can't remember right now lol.
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I just downloaded this, and I like it so far. I like the clean look and feel to it. I have LP+ and will try this out for a couple of days to see it I like it.
I did find Green Bay in the weather, but after I set the weather to GB, the clock time is way off.
[QUOTE=Original Android
Thanks! Got it to work!
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When you set location you need to set your time zone.
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whats YMMV?
ksmullins88 said:
whats YMMV?
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Your mileage may very
Its regina not your phone
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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!
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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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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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This.
Wallpaper Set and Save will fix what you've described, including the gradients issues you've mentioned.
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I've noticed the Xoom Honeycomb wallpaper found on the interwebs is terribly low quality. You can see gradient banding and pixelization. Its quite sad really since its such a cool image.
Anyway, I've redone the wallpaper to get rid of these artifacts. I will post 2 versions, one is the original size (1920x1408) and the other is formatted for the NC (1024x600).
Enjoy!
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Didn't realize that attaching them to the thread would compress/lower quality. Here are direct links
Honeycomb 1920x1408
Honeycomb 1024x600
Thanks so much for this!! It works perfectly with Honeycomb Tablet Tweaked theme.
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Thanks so much for this!! It works perfectly with Honeycomb Tablet Tweaked theme.
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No problem. I'm really amazed at how low the quality is on the version that is floating around the web. Gradient banding drives me insain. If you are going for a honeycomb look then you should check out the ripple lock app.
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No problem. I'm really amazed at how low the quality is on the version that is floating around the web. Gradient banding drives me insain. If you are going for a honeycomb look then you should check out the ripple lock app.
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looks good but at this point I have no use for a lock screen on my nook
Looks awesome. Thanks!
I can't seem to get gallery to set the whole thing as a wallpaper. Is there some sort of background changing app that ishould be using? I feel Like a noob. I must be missing something.
Give Multipicture Live Wallpaper a try.
Rodney
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Give Multipicture Live Wallpaper a try.
Rodney
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Thanks man!
OK I got sick of the live walpaper app crashing so I uploaded it here so you can just long press to set as wallpaper
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Stock Style Beautiful Widgets Super Clock Skin I made, should be able to get it through the app soon.
Unzip and place in sdcard/data/beautifulwidgets/scskins
Enjoy.
Nice work, keeping with the theme I like it.
-smc
How about a clone of htc clock? Would greatly appreciate it.
suzook said:
How about a clone of htc clock? Would greatly appreciate it.
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Not mine but, heres one.
Beautiful Widgets: HTC Sense UI Skin
Woah nice job! I would totally use this, although lately I've been running without the superclock, due to the fact that there's already a clock on the lock screen and the top right corner. But wow, you don't see alot of skins of this quality within the BW app! Nice!
One thing I've been looking for is a superclock skin with the same font as the D3 lock screen. My fave font! Modern and simple.
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One thing I've been looking for is a superclock skin with the same font as the D3 lock screen. My fave font! Modern and simple.
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Do you know the name of the font used? or where i could look in the system dump to find it? I can make one using that font.
Edit: Nevermind I Found It.
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Do you know the name of the font used? or where i could look in the system dump to find it? I can make one using that font.
Edit: Nevermind I Found It.
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Heres a new one with the same font that is used on the lockscreen. Enjoy!
Not bad, are the skins hard to make? I've been thinking about making my own BW Skins and Themes. Just don't know if I have the patience to bust out Photoshop working so much.
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Not bad, are the skins hard to make? I've been thinking about making my own BW Skins and Themes. Just don't know if I have the patience to bust out Photoshop working so much.
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It pretty much depends on what you are doing, this took me about 3 hours because of the level of detail involved, I took the system dump, extracted the apk files until i found the .9.png that was used for the widget backgrounds, and i copied every single line and gradient down the pixel, so that takes a while. But many of my others where fairly simple. It also depends on your level of skill with Photoshop and you knowledge of the tools, I've been using Photoshop for many years, so I'm very familiar with it.
Plus loading it on the phone every time you make a small change can be a little annoying at times...
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It pretty much depends on what you are doing, this took me about 3 hours because of the level of detail involved, I took the system dump, extracted the apk files until i found the .9.png that was used for the widget backgrounds, and i copied every single line and gradient down the pixel, so that takes a while. But many of my others where fairly simple. It also depends on your level of skill with Photoshop and you knowledge of the tools, I've been using Photoshop for many years, so I'm very familiar with it.
Plus loading it on the phone every time you make a small change can be a little annoying at times...
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I'll give it a try eventually, lol.. I've got 6 years experience as a freelance designer and developer. I've just gotten to the point where if it isn't making me money I don't like to open up the programs.
This is now available to download from the application! I have also created a gingerblur toggle skin to match, which is also available! Enjoy!
Thank you so much for the skin. It looks great!
1 question though. My weather skin is still in stock and doesn't look like the one you are posting.
Would you mind posting your weather skin as well?
Thanks!
travisyeung said:
Thank you so much for the skin. It looks great!
1 question though. My weather skin is still in stock and doesn't look like the one you are posting.
Would you mind posting your weather skin as well?
Thanks!
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The weather skin is downloadable through the app, its not made by me its & called tick, sorry i forget to mention it.