I tried searching the forums but could not find how to set the transparency of a JPG or BMP on the Today screen when Touchflo3D is disabled. Currently I get a greyed out background. Previously on earlier phones there was an option to set the transparency level when selectring a today background but the Touch HD does not have this option.
I wold appreciate any help in solving this problem.
Thanks,
go to pictures and video, tap and hold the image you want to set as background and select on the popup menu "set as background..."
there you can select the transparency of the image
Knew it had to be somewhere
crashDebug said:
go to pictures and video, tap and hold the image you want to set as background and select on the popup menu "set as background..."
there you can select the transparency of the image
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Great, Thank you. Tried in Album and Explorer but not there. Working perfectly now.
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Hi all,
I suppose you all have tried the option to choose any foto as today screen background on WM5. That works fine. The trouble is Windows pales the fotos, which means it changes to contrast to a "milky" style. Does anyone now how to stop that ?
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Paddy
There is a transparency setting. When you select which photo you want to use as your background in Pictures and Videos (tap and hold and select "Set as Today Background") another screen shows up that lets you choose the Transparency Level. Set it to 0% and it will show up as it would normal when you look at the picture.
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?
In the most recent ROM I have installed it came with HTC Camera album. Now whenever I try to set an image as a wallpaper for the today screen, I don't get the option to set transparency because the image opens with HTC album. Is there a way around this and/or a way to remove HTC camera album?
Thanks for help
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In the most recent ROM I have installed it came with HTC Camera album. Now whenever I try to set an image as a wallpaper for the today screen, I don't get the option to set transparency because the image opens with HTC album. Is there a way around this and/or a way to remove HTC camera album?
Thanks for help
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I ran into this issue when I first got my Wizard
Open "Pictures & Videos", select the wallpaper you want, hit the right softkey(Menu) and click "Set As Today Wallpaper" or something to that affect.
From there it'll ask you to set the transparency, thats how it has to be done, atleast the first time.
helped me
thanx
Hi there...
I just got mine and first thing I wanted to change was the background image.
1) disabled TouchFlo3D in settings->home>elements
2) tried to set background image
my problem: The background image appears very bright almost white, so i cant really see it and because it is so white i almost cant read any words...
Is anyone else experiencing this behavior?
Any suggestions?
Thanks
AO
This is one of those things that really bugged me when I first started using Windows Mobile. If you choose your Today screen background by going to "Today" in "Settings", the transparency is set at 50% or 60% by default.
Open the "Pictures & Videos" app. Select the image you want to use. Tap menu, tap "Set as Today Background...". Here you can set the transparency to 0% and tap ok.
Btw, I wonder why there's a transparency setting in the first place. Are there items that can appear beneath the wallpaper?
Yeah I had this problem a long time ago on my MDA do what he said and you should have a nice dark background in no time.
On my new htc touch pro2 i have changed the background picture in the today screen. But I want to change the opacity. I can't find this option. It is not showing up in the settings-today selections.
I have tried to use the picture album and then the option " set as background" but there also the option to change the opacity does not appear.
I do not use the touchflo but the regular windows interface.
can anywone help ?
Open the default WinMo Pictures & Videos app. Open an image. Tap "Menu" and "Set as Today Background..."
There, you can set the transparency.