Anyone know the correct pixel dimensions of an image i want to use for my home screen(s) wallpaper?
I've been messing about and all the images get resized horribly. I think it has to allow for the scrolling between screens in port and landscape modes, looking at the the dialogue that comes up when you select an image...
On a image of 720x1280 px
It would be 72 dpi
Bit depth 24
Hope this helps
I cant get that to work. I uploaded 720x1280 to the phone and tried to set it as a wallpaper from the gallery. It them forces to drag a mask to select part of that image (screenshot attached). I can't select the whole image (as the mask stays the same shape and can only be scaled). What am I doing wrong?
https://www.dropbox.com/s/mwavh9zcnx3gbdo/720x120%20wallpaper.jpg
https://www.dropbox.com/s/irmd0pl3leqjxwf/Screenshot_2012-07-21-22-50-45.png
You can also use something like
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.tamanegi.wallpaper.multipicture
Which will take multiple sized images and make them fit nicely. The interface is a bit wierd, but it is free and works well once you figure it out.
Three different sized images using the app...
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Landscape of one of the same images:
I'm new to Android and I had the same difficulty.
One way to get around the resizing issue is to find an excessively large image and then set it as wallpaper. That will take you to a screen with a selection box that allows you to choose which part of the image to use. This way will not resize the image and takes very little effort, although it works best with very minimal, textured looking backgrounds where you don't need to frame anything in particular.
If you want to crop or scale the image yourself, I believe that the proper wallpaper dimensions for an N7's 800 x 1280 screen would be 1200 x 1280. That's because android wants an additional 50% of horizontal space for scrolling, or so I've read.
I didn't try it because I was experimenting with several different wallpapers and the selection box was a faster way to cycle between them than cropping them all in advance. When I settled on one that I liked I didn't care about trimming the file.
I am not new to Android and I STILL can't figure out the stupid wallpaper forcing me to resize and crop, even when it's the perfect ratio & size! Why can't it just bloody well fit? Very frustrating
chronicle said:
I am not new to Android and I STILL can't figure out the stupid wallpaper forcing me to resize and crop, even when it's the perfect ratio & size! Why can't it just bloody well fit? Very frustrating
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Are you referring to 1200 x 1280?
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Are you referring to 1200 x 1280?
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It's any and all pictures TBH! I just can't get to grips with how Android wallpapering is supposed to work. I have one image that's 1280x800 that I want to use as a static image across all tiles - it's wants me to re-crop it with that awful crop tool. When I want to put a much bigger image across all tiles and have it scroll, it just doesn't do what I feel should be instinctive and doesn't offer the kind of options that i'd expect.
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It's any and all pictures TBH! I just can't get to grips with how Android wallpapering is supposed to work. I have one image that's 1280x800 that I want to use as a static image across all tiles - it's wants me to re-crop it with that awful crop tool. When I want to put a much bigger image across all tiles and have it scroll, it just doesn't do what I feel should be instinctive and doesn't offer the kind of options that i'd expect.
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Firstly, you would need to rotate a 1280x800 image for it to be tall enough for portrait mode. And even if there is a tool to do that in the selection screen, 800 pixels isn't going to be wide enough. You're trying to use an undersized image and it's forcing you to enlarge it.
It's undersized because of horizontal scrolling, which means you'll need an image wider than the resolution of the screen. I read 50% wider, which is why I've told you 1200x1280. And I really hope that's right, because this is the third time I've said it now and I never tested it.
I've attached a 1200x1280 image for you to test. It's the wallpaper I was using, cropped.
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Firstly, you would need to rotate a 1280x800 image for it to be tall enough for portrait mode. And even if there is a tool to do that in the selection screen, 800 pixels isn't going to be wide enough. You're trying to use an undersized image and it's forcing you to enlarge it.
It's undersized because of horizontal scrolling, which means you'll need an image wider than the resolution of the screen. I read 50% wider, which is why I've told you 1200x1280. And I really hope that's right, because this is the third time I've said it now and I never tested it.
I've attached a 1200x1280 image for you to test. It's the wallpaper I was using, cropped.
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I too, hate that problem. It seems so simple to just put a background image in but they need it to be able to do landscape too and blah blah blah. I had to use a 1920x1200 image for my wallpaper. I use apex launcher and have my Wallpaper Mode set to 'Single Screen'. On my phone I used an app called QuickPic to make the wallpaper scale but it didn't work the way i wanted on my N7. Hope that helps
The native res for wallpapers appears to be 1440x1280.
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The native res for wallpapers appears to be 1440x1280.
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Almost, the top and bottom are outside of the crop selection
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ANIMATED GIF Wallpapers of Jessica Alba from Sin City. Nearly all of them I was able to produce a matching portrait and landscape variations
I've spent some time ripping a 640x480 AVI from the HD video. Then converting the AVI into thousands of GIFs, putting them together, framing it for portrait and another copy for landscape and then running it thru some optimizations to try to cut down the filesizes. It took me a while to figure it out and trying all kinds of different video editing/conversion software, but I'm happy with the results. And happy to share it with my favorite PPC community
- 2 Quality Levels. 256 color depth and 32 color depth. As of initial versions no blur effect has been added.
- Accurate Movie Speed. 1/5 the original frame rate but adjusted to be as close as possible animation speed.
- Sub 10sec Duration. Some of the animations that exceeded S2U2's 10 second timeouts have been shorted and frame rate adjusted where seen fit.
Hope everyone likes them as much as I do. Feel free to share this with any other websites but please give me a shoutout for my effort in putting them together
Special thanks to A_C for the great work he's done with S2U2.
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I would love to get this one to loop smoothly. It currently goes from surprised/shock to a beautiful smile. I tried deleting the first couple frames so it'll be all smiles but her head position sinks just a little bit so its not as smooth as a transition.
Thanks for your hard work !! They look great
Yeaah boy!! damn.. can't imagine the amount of time you put into this!
Thanks!!!
Oh.. you might want to try looping some of the really nice tidbits to maintain a high fps. But great work nonetheless.
HOT HOT HOT Stuff!!!! Your hard work is looking good!!!
Great awesome work!
I like your help to know what software did you use to create this mind blowing .gif? I want to create a *.gif for my personal portairt to show up when my phone starts.
Also, where did you get the software as well to create this high class *.gif.
Keep the great work!
-Love_2_Crack.
Once you have a video source you can use Rad Video Tools (Donation-ware) to convert into a GIF.
http://www.radgametools.com/bnkdown.htm
Rad Video lets you convert from a bunch of common video formats into other video formats and even frame-by-frame still images. When I ran my video thru RadVideo it created like 2500 GIF files for the couple minute scene. I flipped thru them and deleted the ones I didn't want. Then I used Adobe Image Ready's import feature.
Image Ready CS lets you import a whole folder worth of GIFs and turns the frames into a single animation. It will put them in the correct order too because Rad Video names them sequentually. All you have to do at that point is save them using "Optimized As...". If you save normally it'll want to save it as a PSD.
Also to get the proper cropping for portrait and landscape I had to do it manually by adjusting the canvas size for each version. I couldn't figure out how to move all the frames at one time which may have been easier. But either way it worked out fairly quickly.
SeanFromSoCal said:
I couldn't figure out how to move all the frames at one time which may have been easier. But either way it worked out fairly quickly.
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Just put the layers in one group (the folder icon on the Layers Window), then use a CTRL-Drag on the whole group. Hope that helps.
can u please make jessica alba in 320x320 resolution. tnx
wow
If only her acting could be as good as her looks.
She's actually pretty good at acting. Have you seen The Eye? Well, better than Fox at least Btw since I'm on that topic. Would you mind making a Megan Fox one? Or I could just try myself.
im having some trouble opening some png images in photoshop. for instance
i want to open this file
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and it opens looking like this
using cs4 on windows 7
uh...thats how png files open. the checkerboard background means its transparent.
was that a joke?
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was that a joke?
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He's right though, the checkers are there since that is a transparent image excluding the blue dot of course. It looks like that on mines too.
no no nooo, i mean the distortion in the color and gradient
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no no nooo, i mean the distortion in the color and gradient
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Are you zoomed in?
no lol when i open the first file in pscs4 it opens looking like that, wheras if i open the same image in say, paint. it looks normal, but paint isnt very good for image manipulation
then i cant help you, its gotta be something unique to your settings/computer. i use cs4 for everything, even tried opening the png you posted and it looks perfectly normal to me.
wierd, hm im gonna try to reinstall in x86 mode
If you zoom out to original size, perhaps it will look as you expect?
Is the color mode in Index or RGB?
Kazan22 is right - you need to switch color mode from "indexed" to "RGB" ant it will look as it should. It's been a while since i last used photoshop, but if i remember correctly there's a selection in the image->mode menu (or something like that).
GIMP also has similar problem - you have very limited editing capabilities if you don't change the colorspace to RGB. But at least it displays images correctly
changing color to rgb mode it still looks the same, but your right it was opened as index by default. i figured out a rather complicated method to get to do what i want using photoshop and ms paint together lol
Download paint.net, open said file. save. open newly saved file in photoshop.
I know what you mean, I have the same problem with some pngs from framework too. I still don't know what can it be
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Download paint.net, open said file. save. open newly saved file in photoshop.
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This.
Photoshop has horrible png support.. it can't deal with alpha or indexed images properly. If your images have been run through optipng, photoshop will mess them up like this.
goldenarmZ said:
This.
Photoshop has horrible png support.. it can't deal with alpha or indexed images properly. If your images have been run through optipng, photoshop will mess them up like this.
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Well, you can always use the GIMP, It's free and handles these png's properly (if set to rgb colorspace)
Inkscape (free/opencource as well) also imports these png's properly. It's a vector drawing program, not raster like photoshop or gimp so it takes a bit of time to get used to, but in the end it pays off since image created once can be saved at any resolution - makes porting themes to different resolutions a breeze That's what i used to create some icons for windows mobile, and i was really glad i did when i switched from a qvga to wvga device
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Well, you can always use the GIMP, It's free and handles these png's properly (if set to rgb colorspace)
Inkscape (free/opencource as well) also imports these png's properly. It's a vector drawing program, not raster like photoshop or gimp so it takes a bit of time to get used to, but in the end it pays off since image created once can be saved at any resolution - makes porting themes to different resolutions a breeze That's what i used to create some icons for windows mobile, and i was really glad i did when i switched from a qvga to wvga device
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The GIMP actually has the same PNG problems as photoshop.. images run through optipng won't render or save properly.
Personally I'm using Illustrator mainly now since I'm making themes in ldpi and hdpi.. I only use photoshop to chop things up.
goldenarmZ said:
The GIMP actually has the same PNG problems as photoshop.. images run through optipng won't render or save properly.
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Well, that's not entirely true:
The same image as in original post (pulled from ADW launcher apk), the left one is in indexed color mode (colors are fine, but there's only 1 bit alpha), the right one is exactly the same image but after changing colorspace to RGB. After modifying the file, saving it (as RGB) and applying a metamorph with it, android displays it correctly. The resulting RGB file might be a bit larger in size than indexed one, but i never really compared them.
Not trying to prove anything here, just correcting a slight misinformation - everyone uses the tools he/she is best at
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Well, that's not entirely true:
Not trying to prove anything here, just correcting a slight misinformation - everyone uses the tools he/she is best at
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Weird.. I was absolutely convinced I'd tried that in gimp. Thanks for the info.
eSENSEial v2.0 by mastawindu
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I like the sense 3.0 lockscreen but I’m tired of the accidental unlokings when the phone is my pocket so I created this simple but efficient anti-accidental unlocking lockscreen. Enjoy !
Comments and suggestions are welcome
Features :
- Time (bigger than the original, easier to read)
- Date in whole
- Missed calls notification
- SMS notification
- No accidental unlocking (removed the 4 shortcuts that open when putting the phone in the pocket)
Download :
Direct donwload
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=R05YYL9K
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http://www.zshare.net/download/9740062484c544db/
http://www.fileserve.com/file/WyT5gmD
http://www.wupload.com/file/2615413677/eSENSEial_v2.0.mtz
http://www.uploadking.com/28WM75YZ38
http://www.uploadhere.com/OACIV64VL5
Change log :
2011-12-15 v2.0
- New notification icons
Issues/bugs :
- Works only on WVGA displays (480x800)
While I don't use this particular lock screen, its a great idea and I know lots of users will be happy with it.
Thanks!
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Awesome!
But how to change a white clock numbers?
do you create white numbers?
plZ!
Thanks from Hungary
ZoCi said:
Awesome!
But how to change a white clock numbers?
do you create white numbers?
plZ!
Thanks from Hungary
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My theming skill are quite limited, I use png of numbers that are black with a withe outline and dont have the equivalent in white.
I might have a workaround to obtain a white clock of the same size... I'll try to propose a white version in my next update.
Thank you and thank you to all the people that visited this thread, it is my first public realization.
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Is it difficult to make it work on the Droid Bionic? (qHD 960x540 screen)
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if you want to make if work on qhd too its not that difficult
basically the one thing you need to use: relative coordinates.
if you use absolute (eg. x="13" y="88") for all the coordinates, then the ls will be rendered from the top left corner based upon the absolute numbers (the same is if you create an ls for qhd with absoulte numbers then you won't be able to see all of it on smaller screens)
that's where you should use relative numbers, too. they depend on #screen_width and #screen_height.
here let's see the sketch i made about it. it shows areas for 3 different sizes. i usually want my lockscreens to be in the middle of the screen so i usually use coordinates based upon the middle point for the x axis.
i have a 800x480 screen so if i want a point to be x="30" on it i take x="(#screen_width/2)-210. it will be 30 on 800x480 and 854x480 but will be 60 on qhd. but if i use for all things the x based on the middle point then my lockscreen will be horizontally in the middle of the screen no matter how big it is (of course if i say for example (#screen_width/2)-260 then i will see it only on qhd, because for the others it's negative)
for the y axis you can still mix the absolute and relative components. if you want something to be always 40px below the top line then you can still use y="40". but if you want something to be always 40 above the bottom line then you should use #screen_height-40, as it is 760 for 800x480, 814 for 854x480 and 920 for 960x540
basically that's the point of it. if you do so your ls'es will look more or less the same on all resolutions
(of yourse you can use screen_width and height with the width of images or whatever else, too, you can use it as a number and make functions with it, so you can strech or shrink an image based upon resolution. for that you can even use .9.png's)
hope it was clear
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if you want to make if work on qhd too its not that difficult
basically the one thing you need to use: relative coordinates.
if you use absolute (eg. x="13" y="88") for all the coordinates, then the ls will be rendered from the top left corner based upon the absolute numbers (the same is if you create an ls for qhd with absoulte numbers then you won't be able to see all of it on smaller screens)
that's where you should use relative numbers, too. they depend on #screen_width and #screen_height.
here let's see the sketch i made about it. it shows areas for 3 different sizes. i usually want my lockscreens to be in the middle of the screen so i usually use coordinates based upon the middle point for the x axis.
i have a 800x480 screen so if i want a point to be x="30" on it i take x="(#screen_width/2)-210. it will be 30 on 800x480 and 854x480 but will be 60 on qhd. but if i use for all things the x based on the middle point then my lockscreen will be horizontally in the middle of the screen no matter how big it is (of course if i say for example (#screen_width/2)-260 then i will see it only on qhd, because for the others it's negative)
for the y axis you can still mix the absolute and relative components. if you want something to be always 40px below the top line then you can still use y="40". but if you want something to be always 40 above the bottom line then you should use #screen_height-40, as it is 760 for 800x480, 814 for 854x480 and 920 for 960x540
basically that's the point of it. if you do so your ls'es will look more or less the same on all resolutions
(of yourse you can use screen_width and height with the width of images or whatever else, too, you can use it as a number and make functions with it, so you can strech or shrink an image based upon resolution. for that you can even use .9.png's)
hope it was clear
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Thank you for that tutorial. I might use that technique in my next release.
I have one question : can I use "#screen_height/x" with any value as "x",even decimals ?
for example : a point that is located y=200 on a 480x800 screen is "screen_height/0,25". Would "screen_height/0,25" work on a 960x540 screen ?
y=200 is screen_height/4 on 800x480 not /0.25 and it will be y=240 on qhd
For decimals you must use points otherwise its possible to use with any values on any resolution (thats the point of it)
Of course the size of images will limit your screen to hdpi but its not that hard to calculate it to mdpi or ldpi if you want
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y=200 is screen_height/4 on 800x480 not /0.25 and it will be y=240 on qhd
For decimals you must use points otherwise its possible to use with any values on any resolution (thats the point of it)
Of course the size of images will limit your screen to hdpi but its not that hard to calculate it to mdpi or ldpi if you want
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erratum : I meant y=200 is screen_height*0.25 (multiply not divide)
Thanks for the explanation
The application I want to talk about is PicSpeed Wallpapers.
(https://market.android.com/details?...1bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5zcnNkZXYud2FsbHBhcGVycyJd)
A promising application which offers pretty good wallpapers, in my opinion. However it is more than a simple wallpaper application... Not special in a sense where it gives you super exam cheating skills (which I so desperately need right now)... but it gives you MUCH better cropping for your wallpapers in the Gallery app .
So how do you use it and how much better is it? Well to use it start by getting a Wallpaper (one with irregular dimensions. The NS handles 480 x 800, so you use an iPhone Wallpaper that is 320 x 480 for examples sake). So once you got that on your phone go ahead and open up the Gallery. Find and tap on the image. Now hit the menu button and select "Set picture as" (on ICS) or whatever you need to click to set a wallpaper. You will notice a pop-up comes up. The normal options would be contact photo and wallpaper (and maybe whatever else you have), but now we are introduced with the option of "Set as Wallpaper" - with the PicSpeed icon beside it. So tap it (of coarse). Underneath the image will be three images. The first (left) crops the image to use just the middle (based on dimensions) and is not a scrollable Wallpaper. The second (middle) gives you the traditional full-use of the wallpaper in a scrollable state. The one that is most interesting is the last (right) option. This one offers a custom crop. Which means you can make the wallpaper scrollable or not and perfectly set the crop to whatever you want. So once you use the right custom option go ahead and hit the set option underneath it to the far right.
I think that is amazing finally a way to break the terrible cropping options the Gallery gave us. At first when PicSpeed released an earlier version the wallpaper would auto resize and mess up the image. They have updated the app since then and I no longer have to re-set the wallpaper on boot. Another bug I noticed is I cannot set a Wallpaper 'properly' with the traditional set wallpaper function my phone offers me, after I use PicSpeed to set a "custom" crop. This is easily fixable. Go into Gallery and the set the wallpaper with PicSpeed (again) with the Wallpaper with the traditional (middle) option. Or you can just reboot your phone, either way works.
Well yeah I just wanted to share this new amazing application with you all . You're welcome all! No more terrible cropping options YAAAAY!
Works great and have some nice wallpapers and see what you mean about cropping the images,kewl feature.
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Yeah it is cool not need crop. press menu picture > set as picture (pispeed picture) Set as wallpaper > go 3rd (custom mode) > set
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Yeah it is cool not need crop. press menu picture > set as picture (pispeed picture) Set as wallpaper > go 3rd (custom mode) > set
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Wow. I have been dealing with crappy crops a long time, until now! Thanks for helping me figure out the way to use Picspeed and have the image as I intended! :good:
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309041291a said:
The application I want to talk about is PicSpeed Wallpapers.
A promising application which offers pretty good wallpapers, in my opinion. However it is more than a simple wallpaper application... Not special in a sense where it gives you super exam cheating skills (which I so desperately need right now)... but it gives you MUCH better cropping for your wallpapers in the Gallery app .
So how do you use it and how much better is it? Well to use it start by getting a Wallpaper (one with irregular dimensions. The NS handles 480 x 800, so you use an iPhone Wallpaper that is 320 x 480 for examples sake). So once you got that on your phone go ahead and open up the Gallery. Find and tap on the image. Now hit the menu button and select "Set picture as" (on ICS) or whatever you need to click to set a wallpaper. You will notice a pop-up comes up. The normal options would be contact photo and wallpaper (and maybe whatever else you have), but now we are introduced with the option of "Set as Wallpaper" - with the PicSpeed icon beside it. So tap it (of coarse). Underneath the image will be three images. The first (left) crops the image to use just the middle (based on dimensions) and is not a scrollable Wallpaper. The second (middle) gives you the traditional full-use of the wallpaper in a scrollable state. The one that is most interesting is the last (right) option. This one offers a custom crop. Which means you can make the wallpaper scrollable or not and perfectly set the crop to whatever you want. So once you use the right custom option go ahead and hit the set option underneath it to the far right.
I think that is amazing finally a way to break the terrible cropping options the Gallery gave us. At first when PicSpeed released an earlier version the wallpaper would auto resize and mess up the image. They have updated the app since then and I no longer have to re-set the wallpaper on boot. Another bug I noticed is I cannot set a Wallpaper 'properly' with the traditional set wallpaper function my phone offers me, after I use PicSpeed to set a "custom" crop. This is easily fixable. Go into Gallery and the set the wallpaper with PicSpeed (again) with the Wallpaper with the traditional (middle) option. Or you can just reboot your phone, either way works.
Well yeah I just wanted to share this new amazing application with you all . You're welcome all! No more terrible cropping options YAAAAY!
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Thanks for the help! Sincerely didn't ever notice the custom option or at least didn't think it would fix anything. Great to finally have correctly cropped, crystal clear images!
perfect
exactly what i was looking for, tried wallpaper wizardrii and quickpic but this is the simplest, fastest and best at cropping, great for having full image wallpaper
zute333 said:
exactly what i was looking for, tried wallpaper wizardrii and quickpic but this is the simplest, fastest and best at cropping, great for having full image wallpaper
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Glad it helped you
sorry to bumb a 5-month old thread, but since it IS wallpaper-related, how would i come across a single paged wallpaper if the original dimensions were 720x1280 and i want it to fit the screen fully? before using Nova's wp picker setting, i've already tried setting it to a dimension of 480x800 and hoping it'd fit the screen fully and there was a small black bar near the bottom
i'm attempting to mimic this look
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Has anyone else noticed that the contrast of their homescreen has decreased since the 8.1 update? Also that the icon text size increased so that it no longer fits and displays the full name of apps. It looks worse and is annoying me. It would be interesting to know if anyone else has noticed this too.
change the font size in the display settings.
MrBelter said:
change the font size in the display settings.
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No you're missing my point. If I change the font size it is too small everywhere else. Also that doesn't address the issue of lower contrast/saturation for the home wallpaper. I tried to attach photos but it didn't work.
Dunno then, mine is just as it was on 7.1.1, 8.0, 8.1 Beta and 8.1 and no one else seems to be having this problem.
Presumably you have also altered the display size as well as the font size to see if that helps with the sizing issue.
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Dunno then, mine is just as it was on 7.1.1, 8.0, 8.1 Beta and 8.1 and no one else seems to be having this problem.
Presumably you have also altered the display size as well as the font size to see if that helps with the sizing issue.
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Yeah, interestingly it was normal on 8.1 beta, then only occurred on 8.1. No, altering any of those sizes doesn't help. Is there a way I can attach pictures?
I think it is because you have not made enough posts yet mate, daft rule on a site that sets out to help people.
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I think it is because you have not made enough posts yet mate, daft rule on a site that sets out to help people.
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Alright, well I'll post some pics so you can see what I'm talking about when I've posted enough then...
Baz_B said:
Has anyone else noticed that the contrast of their homescreen has decreased since the 8.1 update? Also that the icon text size increased so that it no longer fits and displays the full name of apps. It looks worse and is annoying me. It would be interesting to know if anyone else has noticed this too.
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I can confirm that the something changed on the screen with 8.1. It is very minor, but I think it is not the Text Size, it is the actual screen size what changed very minor.
Reason why I know it is that I have 3x Worldclock widgets side by side. And in the same line there is the Google Search App.
In 8.1 Beta (as well as 8.0), it fitted perfectly. After upgrading to 8.1 final, the City Name did not fit under the 3x Worldclock widgets. Luckily this widget has the option to change the size of the text, and I had to reduce the Font Size from 16 to 14 on order to get it aligned as it was.
My guess is that somehow the screen size changed slightly.
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I can confirm that the something changed on the screen with 8.1. It is very minor, but I think it is not the Text Size, it is the actual screen size what changed very minor.
Reason why I know it is that I have 3x Worldclock widgets side by side. And in the same line there is the Google Search App.
In 8.1 Beta (as well as 8.0), it fitted perfectly. After upgrading to 8.1 final, the City Name did not fit under the 3x Worldclock widgets. Luckily this widget has the option to change the size of the text, and I had to reduce the Font Size from 16 to 14 on order to get it aligned as it was.
My guess is that somehow the screen size changed slightly.
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Hmmm yes that sounds like that could be the case then. When I'm able to post screenshots, they do show that the icons shift a bit.
In fact, some of you may not have noticed the contrast change. If you have the same lock screen wallpaper as your home screen, try unlocking your phone to see if you notice any difference in the colour between the lock and home screen wallpaper. (For me my lock screen wallpaper is the normal colour it should be, then there is a noticeable colour change when I unlock my phone.)
Update: I've just installed the latest security patch update and now all is fixed! The app titles now display correctly and my home screen wallpaper is now normal coloured! Some weird bug then...