Removed!!
Fixing the fuzzy animated gif actually got the welcomehead.96.png to work!
thanks guys for your speedy replies
htctoucher
Not sure which program you are using for animated gifs, but I've had good results with Microsoft GIF Animator. Search Google for it. It's an old program but it works great on XP, not sure about Vista though. Worth a try.
Palette?
Check the palette size. I think GIF can have upt o 256 colors. If your original image has more than 256 then the inbetween colors will dither. Can you try a full 256 color palette and no dither?
Animated GIF will mostly always look like that since their colors only a little..if you want to make a perfect animated pics..you got to use flash
hey guys thanks for your speedy replies!
I downloaded the microsoft gif animator.. that works nicely even though it is old
That forced me to save all images as gifs before placing them in the animated gif which incidentally removed the fuzziness from the images!
I guess you cant make jpegs an animated gif without losing a lot of the data and causing fuzziness.. good to know thanks guys
htctoucher
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Why is it that today screen images show up rather poor? They seem to be locked to 16-bit color instead of 32. The original image show up fine in the album but has visible shades when used as today. I read that the Theme Generator (from Microsoft) always locks em to 16-bit. Any ideas? Thanks.
sekinoss said:
Why is it that today screen images show up rather poor? They seem to be locked to 16-bit color instead of 32. The original image show up fine in the album but has visible shades when used as today. I read that the Theme Generator (from Microsoft) always locks em to 16-bit. Any ideas? Thanks.
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The Magician can only show 16-bit colour i.e. 65536 colours. But I know what you mean about the today screen. I used theme generator and get the impression its using closer to 12 bits.
sekinoss said:
Why is it that today screen images show up rather poor? They seem to be locked to 16-bit color instead of 32. The original image show up fine in the album but has visible shades when used as today. I read that the Theme Generator (from Microsoft) always locks em to 16-bit. Any ideas? Thanks.
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try to save your wallpaper in .gif 256 clrs 294*320, rename it to Default_stwater.gif and replace the default in /windows dir. Then, reset your today and all be fine!!!
I see. Almost forgot that the screen's only 16-bit. The problem is, the image showed up great on the Album, but displayed poorly when used as today (thru theme generator, image as wallpaper, etc.). GKill, I don't understand what you're talking about, but I'll try it out anyway. Thanks!
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GKill, I don't understand what you're talking about, but I'll try it out anyway. Thanks!
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I am talking about replacing the standart windows wallpaper (blue with win. logo) that located in widows dir. This image you cant delete, but it is possible to replace it! TYou must search this .gif file (see above) and copy to your desktop, then open in photoshop. Make own wallpaper and save it with similar dimensions in .gif. Then replace, like I said and you will receive own designed wallpaper as windows default!!!
It is good because it suitable as for portrait, as for landscape modes!
Hey thanks! The pic looked better now but I just realized that today's are limited to 256 colors (GIFs)?? If so then is there any way to display 16-bit pics? Thanks!
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Hey thanks! The pic looked better now but I just realized that today's are limited to 256 colors (GIFs)?? If so then is there any way to display 16-bit pics? Thanks!
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Glad to hear this!!!!! :wink:
Do you really want 16 bit??? Heh, but try to notice any difference (withe bare eyes) between your 16 bit unconverted (jpg for examle) and converted 256 colors .gif!!! What do you see??? Yes, it is VERY hard to see ane difference! Man, dont f*ck your brain, girl is better :lol: :lol: :lol:
Could someone help me with this: the gifs have only 256 indexed colours, so if you have a nice picture, like a sunset, the smooth gradient turns into bands or ugly pixels (dithering?). So how cannot one make the difference between a jpg and this horrible gif ? The jpg files are displayed OK in the album view. If I try to set one of these jpgs as desktop image it gets whitish like through a fog. How can I set a sunset without pixels or bands as the "desktop image". It seems so complicated ...Could someone please help ?
Could someone help me with this: the gifs have only 256 indexed colours, so if you have a nice picture, like a sunset, the smooth gradient turns into bands or ugly pixels (dithering?). So how cannot one make the difference between a jpg and this horrible gif ? The jpg files are displayed OK in the album view. If I try to set one of these jpgs as desktop image it gets whitish like through a fog. How can I set a sunset without pixels or bands as the "desktop image". It seems so complicated ...Could someone please help ?
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Could someone help me with this: the gifs have only 256 indexed colours, so if you have a nice picture, like a sunset, the smooth gradient turns into bands or ugly pixels (dithering?). So how cannot one make the difference between a jpg and this horrible gif ? The jpg files are displayed OK in the album view. If I try to set one of these jpgs as desktop image it gets whitish like through a fog. How can I set a sunset without pixels or bands as the "desktop image". It seems so complicated ...Could someone please help ?
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When converting in photoshop, set dithering options to "off" (no dither). remember that display in Magician is 65K. This means maximum colour depth is 16 bit. In any case, I'm using the 256 .gif pics with beautiful landscapes and it looks great! If you want, I can post here one...
I dont expect "Great job" posts since I am a desktop developer not a graphic artist but here they are anyway
PocketCM and S2U2 are portait only for now
PocketCM 19: Based on the look of the WM7 Email screenshots
S2U2 : Just a Portrait Wallpaper.
This is alpha stuff but at least it works. I will fix up the niggles as I go along,If there are anyone willing to help it will be greatly appreciated.
Enjoy
PocketCM :
3rd screen - you could make highlihted text white...imo.
i like clean look of this one(could you make greyscale version?).
Like I said ...its a work in progress and this is a community after all, all input is greatly appreciated
Keep up the good work
Glad to know another good thing is coming from the rainbow country (SA)
if any of you have used the wisbar advance theme called "Aero Luminescence (aka WinMo 7)", it has the same exact color scheme of the actual WM7 leaked screenshots. i don't know how the developer did that, because he released it.. maybe a year ago. check the lakeridge software forums for it, btw.
sorry i'm way off topic. i just noticed that your tsk looks like it's from Aero Luminescence. i really like the pocketcm theme, thanks.
all m th images were edited in paint.net, could this be why the gradient looks crap in the S2U2 wallpaper?
Looks good man keep up the good work!
if you changed the format of the images at any point that can change the quality of them (further more bitmap gradients aren't that great if you use bitmap i use png)
the program paint.net would not effect quality, only how you use it
At 240x320 when possible...
Where can I find them? Could you post yours?
Thanks!
you`r posting **** man ! use the search funktion.
Here's a couple
http://secentral.net/forum/index.php?topic=11966.0
Tried uploading some others, but they exceed the space allowed :O/
Ooops, this site requires registration to view/download those files...
"Some" Wallpapers and Animated Gifs:
http://www.wm5.mobi/gallery/main.php
Have Fun
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Okay, try this one, everything free, choose on the top right "animated/still gif."
Its the best site with hundreds of animated gifs
http://www.mobilepark.eu/wallpapers/240x320/Abstract/?type=gif
Nice HTC (black with ripple animation) and Matrix animated gifs. Have to upload as zip to meet size restrictions.
HAHAHA!!! Right? There is already a thread created for S2U2 Animated Wallpaper, I think it's called......................S2U2 Animated Wallpaper!!!
some nice stuff posted here
Yeah! Thanks to everybody! Keep posting!
Nice places, AlterationX10 & bluemetalaxe!
GIF Weather Wallpaper
Can somebody post GIF weather wallpapers please? I tried searching through. I need the full pack 0 to 47 weather wallpapers. Thanx in advance.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=353100
Thank you NotLutzik.
But the full set of weather wallpapers (0-47), I could not figure. I even checked the mobi gallery.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=413999
This is a Set of 47 Weather Icons in Realize-Style that fit to my newest Icon Set. Sorry that I open a new thread because i have no more Space on the first Post of my old thread to upload or show pictures..
This is made especially (but not only) for ifonz, because Sid-Shrunk found a way with mortscript to show the actual Weather with a Icon and temperature and by pressing on the weather icon a forecast on the next four icons appears (!) See more here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=439875
1. First ZIP: 96x96 original tranparent PNGs, and 52x52 PNG (optimized for a dark or black ifonz background)
2. NEW: Another Zip with 48 Pixel Icons for Ifonz, because ifonz itself doesn`t render/resize Icons very good
Anyone can use this for any application, even for s2u2 weather. If you want to use this or my other icon sets for ROMS or Apps you don`t need to ask, just give me credits.
The Icons have four different backgrounds (Day, day-snow,night, night snow). I used also the manila/rumball or whatever graphics, so if anyone here or Rumball is the designer of the original weather graphics, please tell it to me. Thank you
I just can say whau,
perfect smooth look. I'm thinkig about changing my iconset to realize look. Hope we'll get a lot of weatherchanges in next days
oh wow they look awesome...... be even more awesome for VGA marsware ... hint hint...... but yeah i really think it's awesome
thank you, glad you like it, united bavarian tech power with Sid-Shrunk
Icons can be used for other weather apps because they are big enough and i made also transparent pngs, but i don´t know how to create a weatherpanel skin.
EDIT: I updated 48x48 Icons for Ifonz, because ifonz itself doesn`t resize Icons very good.
Very nice icons blue, thanks
Great looking icons, I'll definitely be using these
I somehow missed this release, great job blue..
S2U2 and SPB weather
Blue,
Just really took a close look at your realize icons, and I LOVE THEM!!
I would like to use your weather icons for S2U2. I get my weather from SPB weather, and it has all its icons in one png file. I have attached the original, do you have your realize icons in a single strip like this?
Thanks
Your friend Wolf
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Blue,
Just really took a close look at your realize icons, and I LOVE THEM!!
I would like to use your weather icons for S2U2. I get my weather from SPB weather, and it has all its icons in one png file. I have attached the original, do you have your realize icons in a single strip like this?
Thanks
Your friend Wolf
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okay, will take a look tonight in s2u2 and how it handels this weather stripe. but i'm sure doing this won't be a funny job for me hehe
wolf can you post my the original weather stripe, i deleted it for some reason from my device
Blue,
I attached the original strip in my post on page 1 of this thread. If that doesn't work, let me know, I can PM it to you.
thanky you i´ve seen that, but i get only this new preview and its jpg, please zip it and post it here or send my a PM, i must see the original size and if its bmp and so on.
weather strip
here is the file right out of my gfx/weather directory it is a .png file that I zipped up.
I haven't heard from you in a while, guessing you are very busy on other projects. I attempted to make my own weather stripe. here it is.
My psd file is included in the zip file, incase anyone wants to improve upon it.
oh, thanks Wolf, to say the truth: i simply forgot your request, Sorry. Thanks again for your work!
Does anybody knows if exists a program that can actually make my diamond wallpaper or the s2u2 wallpaper to be in flash extension? There are thousands of beautiful clocks and animations I would like to have on my diamond screen.
i would suggest searching for Animated GIF's to use with S2u2. You will find a bunch of VGA animated gifs that work perfectly with s2u2. as far as your today screen, i personally think it would be way too much going on. i might reference you to the Panoramic TF3D2.1 options that are available. Good Luck
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No. is not the same at all. In flash, you can have clocks, dates, even meteo. In gif... Thanks for you answer anyway.
Also wondering
I also would like something animated on my today screen with tf3d, is there a way to use animated gif's . I can use a gif now but the animations are missing. I been looking for a solution for this for years now. I own the alltel touch pro but previously had the ppc 6700. Never could get it to work. I did however install s2u2 , which is nice kinda like a screen saver which does show animated gif's (http://www.1800pocketpc.com/2008/04/02/s2u2-v100-screen-lock-application-for-pocketpc.html) ( wallpaper pack http://www.1800pocketpc.com/2008/04/29/s2u2-animated-wallpaper-pack-2.html) but so much would love to have a animated gif on today/home sccreen
animated gifs have BIG filesizes, and these will need to be stored in ram
not a good idea imho
for flash you would also need the flash player in ram
also big
also not good idea
your phone will run SOOOOOO slowly