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whiteish overlay on custom background image?

I tried setting my background image to a custom one and it shows up with this weird white overlay that makes it look really bright (darkening the picture doesn't really help). I have the same picture set as my splash screen and it looks great there, but as a background, it (or any other non-system image I've tried) looks horrible. What's going on here?

If you mean the Today background, and setting it through Start > Settings > |Personal| > Today* - known. It's done on purpose to enhance/keep legibility of items on the Today screen.
There's two things you can do..
A. make your own Theme with the image.
B1. Open the Pictures & Videos application
B2. Open the picture of interest
B3. Menu > Set as Today Background...
B4. Adjust the Transparency Level to read 0%
B5. OK

Awesome. I tried the B option and it worked great. Thanks

Changed today screen to black, now cant read messaging text

Hey guys,
Just got my today screen all setup with a black setup (top and bottom bars as well), but for some reason the messaging window (outlook or texting) is full of a bunch of horizontal black and white bars unless the item is highlighted.
Anyone know whats up?
THANKS IN ADVANCE!!!

sounds like a setting on the theme generator you use. lines are probably the same on the notes menu also.
there seems to be two colours used on the messaging/notes menu, full of horizontal lines. you should be able to change them on your theme generator, i could when i had the same problem after creting a theme.
change both settings (usually notes/ msg colour 1/ to the same colour, this will sort it.

Have a good look through the wiki, almost all colours are detailed there, or use a better theme editor.
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Pardon my ignorance but what is the wiki?
What theme editor do you guys recommend?

Changing 36 to 37 fixed the CONTACTS background but not the Notes/Messaging

'Whitewashed' Background Pictures on the Today screen

I find that when I 'Use this picture as a background' (WM6, Dopod D810) the image appears but it's always 'whitewashed'. By that, I mean it's faded to white - I'd prefer to see the photo in it's full colour with no faded look.
I'm certain that in the early days of WM5 this used to work fine?
Any ideas would be appreciated

use picture & video viewer to find the picture you want to use as your background. tap and hold for the context menu and select "Set as Today Background..." a screen will appear where you can select transparency. set it to 0% and you should be in business!!

Thanks cortezzi, I'll give it a go.
Any idea of XnView Pocket does it? I can't seem to find a 'set as wallpaper' option.
*can't find it*
Also tried out a trial version of Resco Photo Viewer and although it allows me to Save > Use as Home Screen then set the viewable image area and transparency (which I set to 0), however the new wallpaper never appears despite receiving the message 'Picture was correctly set as Today wallpaper'.
Settings > Today shows the background picture is currently set to 'Custom Wallpaper'
Is there a registry hack I can do to stop the default Today settings from adding transparency to new background images?

I had the same problem.. In my case it was caused by the theme I had installed. Try a different theme or modify the one you use.

as helpful as ever....thanks blitzwurst
i tried using a plain colour theme with spb menu but any custom today backgrounds i choose still come out with transparency. how exactly do you suggest i do this? i'm certain that it used to work fine (no transparency) under WM5....
i'm just eager to make use of the great backgrounds another xda user suggested on the Slide2Unlock topic (I think) at http://www.zuned.be !

That Zune site is pretty nice!
In my case I had to get a theme (.tsk) editor and embed the background I wanted into the Theme as opposed to selecting an image from the device to use as a background.

no worries, i might do the same...any recc's on a good theme editor to use?
does it run on the device or on a pc?

white today screen backgrounds with custom pictures?

Whenever I try to use a custom picture for my background for my today screen, the image has a "white out" look to it, meaning its a very bright version of my image. How can i use the original image for my background?

When you set your wallpaper, it will ask about transparency.
Set it to 0% and it'll look just like it should!

ok thanks! my problem that i was using settings>>today>> then the "Use this picture as the background"

but is their anyway to change the lettering to white without adjusting the transperency of the background?

You mean the font color on the today screen? Isn't it white by default?

ok nevermind i got it, i forgot i had recently changed my theme too

UOT Kitchen question

I have just started messing around with the UOT Kitchen to add % battery, new icons etc to my current ROM (RCMix 234 v2.7).
Can anybody tell me the correct setting to change on there to change the colour of the text in the notifications and quick settings tab ?
I have changed the background to a darker colour but the text (eg Auto Rotation, Wi-fi in quick settings) is black aswell so cannot read it. Am I missing something ? Because I couldnt seem to see the option to change this text colour.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks all