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In Pursuit of the Perfect Wallpaper

I have been doing a lot of testing looking for the perfect aspect ratio, resolution, format, and size for wallpaper in portrait mode on WM6. The main problem was that every image I would set as my wallpaper would significantly lose resolution and quality. Not to mention the bottom would always get cut off. So after a long time of trial and error I believe I have found a solution.
In order to make the perfect wallpaper from whatever image you crave you will need PhotoShop as this procedure requires some cutting and pasting (don't worry, no paste or glue involved ).
Open a new PhotoShop document and change the resolution to 240x320. Leave the rest of the setting as default. That's the easy part. This is your background.
Now open any image that you want. The size doesn't matter. This is what's great about this method. You can choose any old picture you want and we will resize it and shape it to fit our tiny screens.
Make sure that the Rectangular Marquee Tool is selected then make sure that the Style is set to draw a Fixed Ratio rectangle of which the size is 240x275. The reason I choose a height of 275 pixels is because the bottom bar of WM6 will hide anything under the 275 pixel mark.
Now select an area you want on your photo and drag it until you selection is complete or until the rectangle can't grow anymore. Notice that the correct aspect ratio is maintained. This is important for the next step.
Copy your selection (CTRL+C) and paste it onto your original blank document you first opened. It should create a new layer in the bottom right.
You will likely have to resize your image to fix the tiny 240 pixel width. You can do so by going to Edit - Transform - Scale. Then clicking the Maintain Aspect Ratio button on the tool bar (it looks like a little chain). Now resize at will. When you done resizing hit enter to save the resize.
Finally click File - Save As and select PNG. The reason I choose PNG is two fold: Firstly, PNG retain color and quality better than JPGs but they are bigger. Second, I found that WM6 doesn't distort the quality of the image as much in PNG as it does to JPGs.
Your done! Copy the file over to your device and enjoy!
I have also attached some examples of mine.

Nice choice of images in your examples
Your example images gets cut off by the top bar (clock,signal,start...)
and there is a white area at the bottom...
other than that... nice tutorial
well done!

NisseDILLIGAF said:
Nice choice of images in your examples
Your example images gets cut off by the top bar (clock,signal,start...)
and there is a white area at the bottom...
other than that... nice tutorial
well done!
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Actually, that is the whole point. It doesn't get cut off at the top (at least not on my device) and the bottom white area is actually under the bottom bar so you don't see it. If your image was there it would get cut off so this tut shows how to generate your image without losing anything. The "true" image space on the today screen is 240x275 pixels. But you background needs to be 240x320 to fit without distortion.
Thanks for the compliment on image choice. I agree.

for Diamond
I use this to make wallpapers for diamond.
Unpack and open the Attached file with photoshop and move a picture behind the layers.
In that way you can set your wallpaper exactly where you want...
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
And remember to move the picture to the front again before saving it.

Brunkage said:
I use this to make wallpapers for diamond.
Unpack and open the Attached file with photoshop and move a picture behind the layers.
In that way you can set your wallpaper exactly where you want...
And remember to move the picture to the front again before saving it.
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That's really usefull, thanks! =]

Camera Problems Thread - 3 second delay removal?

All,
I find the camera the only aspect of the TouchHD that is annoying!
Symptoms:
I have turned on and off the autofocus and still when I take photos of people who are moving they end up blurry!
I have ready other threads that cover this in more detail, but I wonder if there are any fixes people could post here? I used to have a Trinity and this took a photo instantly and never had any issues other than being at 2 x mega pixels!
Solution(?):
What I think is needed is to a) turn off auto focus b) a reg hack (anyone) that turns off the 3 second snap delay.
Cheers
Dave

i share your frustration. with a camera of this many megapixels you should be able to do much more. Would love for someone to expand on this

Megapixel count is meaningless on a cameraphone sensor size. What's really needed is a properly designed 3mpixel unit - anything more than that and you destroy the ability to take pics in anything except bright outdoors.

If you are disabling the focussing ability then what do you expect other than blurry pictures? Or am I completely missing something here?

to shot at moving people try enabling this secret camera mode, sport should be perfect for this
New camera modes:
Burst
Mobile Device\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\Camera\P6
set "Enable" on "1"
Sports
Mobile Device\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\Camera\P8
set "Enable" on "1"
Video Share
Mobile Device\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\Camera\P9
set "Enable" on "1"
GPS Photo
Mobile Device\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\Camera\P10
set "Enable" on "1"
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
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Nighthawk2050 said:
I have turned on and off the autofocus and still when I take photos of people who are moving they end up blurry!
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How on Earth did you manage to do this????

Check for a key named CapKeyDelay (there will be a few, named similarly) under HTC\Camera in the registry. Setting them all to 0 will make the camera take the picture immediately after focusing.

does taking the 'review duration' off help?

The problem is the software for sure, as the camera, apart from not having a flash, is not bad at all. Unfortunately, I checked Advanced Configuration Tool and it says that the capture delay is disabled already, meaning the delay really originates from the camera software itself. I doubt a registry change can fix it.

NotATreoFan said:
Check for a key named CapKeyDelay (there will be a few, named similarly) under HTC\Camera in the registry. Setting them all to 0 will make the camera take the picture immediately after focusing.
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Well, there's a key named EnableCapKeyDelay, with a value of 0, so changing CapKeyDelayTime values didn't change anything here.
In addition to that, "after focusing" is not a solution - a "focus-free" mode (setting focus to infinity) would solve at least part of the camera problem.

catinthehat said:
does taking the 'review duration' off help?
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This setting is to define for how long the photo will stay on screen after capturing to be able to delete it etc., so no effect on picture taking.

nin2thevoid said:
The problem is the software for sure
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Indeed. The issue though is which part of the software - the driver, the part that's accessible to the user, or code within the camera chip or something obscure/inaccessible like that.

BTW, what does this "capture key delay" do?

Is the camera quicker if you lower the resolution? I had a Nokia where this was the case.

Bathyon said:
Is the camera quicker if you lower the resolution? I had a Nokia where this was the case.
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It will write the file quicker for sure, but won't reduce exposure time or focusing time, which create the pain and cause blurry pictures and missed moments.

Burst
Mobile Device\HKLM\Software\HTC\Camera\P6
set "Enable" on "1"
Sports
Mobile Device\HKLM\Software\HTC\Camera\P8
set "Enable" on "1"
Video Share
Mobile Device\HKLM\Software\HTC\Camera\P9
set "Enable" on "1"
GPS Photo
Mobile Device\HKLM\Software\HTC\Camera\P10
set "Enable" on "1"

Does the camera come wif zoom function?

multan said:
Does the camera come wif zoom function?
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Digital zoom, yes.

Hello,
Have you progress on this problem ? I would like remove this autofocus !

nope still sucks

Why is wallpaper ugly ?

Why is blackstone making homescreen wallpaper so ugly ? If you dont know what I´m talking about, put something as your wallpaper,then go to album, look on the same pic and swap to homescreen. And it happens ever if the picture is 800*480 . The difference is so big.
Can XDA solve this problem ?

How does the picture look like after the procedure you described?
Is it very light?
If yes, then try to take a picture to the homescreen by using the programm "Pictures&Videos" (its preinstalled on my german HD and named "Bilder&Videos")
There you can adjust the otransparency of the picture. Take it to 0% and the picture looks original on the homescreen.

atlatico said:
How does the picture look like after the procedure you described?
Is it very light?
If yes, then try to take a picture to the homescreen by using the programm "Pictures&Videos" (its preinstalled on my german HD and named "Bilder&Videos")
There you can adjust the otransparency of the picture. Take it to 0% and the picture looks original on the homescreen.
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the lightning is the same, but the quality of the background is very low.
i hope someone can make a fix for this.
I don't understand why HTC thought of something like this? why making the background so ugly if you got such a nice 800*480 screen??!!

The difference looks like the original is 50kb and on homescreen its like 20kb resized jpg sh*t . Nothing about light, its just low quality.

maybe u save it wrong.. i think it must be 72 dpi for everything on the phone. same problem occures if u look at the polaroid style contact facorites.. they are blurred as! 256x256 @ 72 dpi (like described in another thread) works brilliant.
dont know if thats what u meant my ur problem...

Now I dont understand you a word.
Save it wrong ? What DPI ? what 256x256 ? Do you want me to have 256x256 wallpaper or what ????

Wolfenzi said:
Now I dont understand you a word.
Save it wrong ? What DPI ? what 256x256 ? Do you want me to have 256x256 wallpaper or what ????
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And you want someone to help you

Yes I want... But I dont know how to check my DPI at pictures... And how to change it...
edit: Hmm maybe I Know
edit2: I changed DPI to 72 (which little destroyed quality) but it doesnt help !

THIS is the picture :
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
And this is Touch HD homescreen:
Thats EXTREME different

Are you using jpg images? When I changed from jpg to png images for contacts they looked a lot better. Maybe the software engineers didn't build in an "optimisation" feature for png images so they are displayed in their native quality.

72DPI or 100DPI , jpg or png , it doesnt care. it is still ugly.

Do you know where the wallpaper is saved? maybe you can just replace the file munually . replace the low quality file with the high quality original file

I understand, you mean there is somewhere "currentwallpaper" file .
But where ?

Wolfenzi said:
THIS is the picture :
And this is Touch HD homescreen:
Thats EXTREME different
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definitely the qulity of the pic was reduced,,,i have the same problem, set a 24bit 1200x720 bmp as background, but its actually displayed just like a 8-bit image and resized to 800x480 or even samller

I just dont understand why no one does something with it. I think it is serious problem... And everyone has it. People on XDA modes and changes whole system and cant set wallpaper without quality reducing ?

What you need to do is to resize the picture to 800x480 on your pc , or use the cutter in the image program on your HD. That way you will get the right resolution.

rd2000 :
Wolfenzi said:
THIS is the picture :
http://upload.csrune.com/files/sparks_bluegreen806.jpg
And this is Touch HD homescreen:
http://www.myfield.cz/images/fotky/HDscreen05.jpg
Thats EXTREME different
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It is 800x480 ! it doesnt matter, its still fuc*ed up on homescreen !

It is discussed here yet : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=447785

Wallpapers withouth cropping in 4.2

Short version:
How to get cropping like this:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
(height box as high as the whole box), instead of what we get now.
Hi,
In 4.2, as I understand, I cant set a wallpaper without having it being cropped first - the tool selects different part of the image for landscape and portrait. I understand this, and now that it requires quite a big picture - (2560 for vertical part (in portrait mode) and even more for landscape, because the selected region will be used on, lets say ~3500 pixels (2560+scrolling). so the minimum picture to have and use to get 1to1 pixel is ~3500x2560). And thats fine, there are plenty of pictures like this.
However, when I select a picture to download, o select it as a whole, and not only the middle. So I'd like to put it the whole, as I see it.
It was allowed in older androids.
There is no problem of getting an image of 5020x2560 and higher, so I could use this, but the problem is that 4.2 doesnt allow it at the moment.
If I wanted to do this now, I would have to take the picture, add a big border around it, so the picture itself would be in the middle, and then after cropping, I would get the picture I wanted in the first place.
Hopefully you understood me, and can give advice on how to do this in 4.2.
Thank you
P.S. Just to clarify even more - If, lets say I have image 4000x3000, and I want to display all of it, not just middle, then just let me put it as a wallpaper, and when the tablet is in protrait, there will be more than 2560 pixels to take anyway, so no need of cropping.
Why is it doing cropping anyway?

No scrolling, but this may help:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ridgelineapps.simpleimagewallpaper&hl=en
I search for 1600x2560 wallpapers, and then set the image to the app linked above. The upside of no scrolling is that moving between homescreens is really smooth (it was already smooth, but no stutters at all).
As far as your question goes, I remember using some ROMs that allowed me to re-size the inner boxes (the one that has vertical and horizontal rectangles on top of one another) inside the picture cropping box, is that feature present in 4.2? If so, enlarge the size of the box, and then you'll be able to see the whole picture, not just the middle, when scrolling around.

phemark said:
Short version:
If I wanted to do this now, I would have to take the picture, add a big border around it, so the picture itself would be in the middle, and then after cropping, I would get the picture I wanted in the first place.
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That's how I do it...I add the border around the image I want to be visible.

Wallpaper Wizardi
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...S50d2lzdGVkYXBwcy53YWxscGFwZXJ3aXphcmRyaWkiXQ..
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xda6969 said:
That's how I do it...I add the border around the image I want to be visible.
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What is the easiest way of doing this?

EniGmA1987 said:
Wallpaper Wizardi
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...S50d2lzdGVkYXBwcy53YWxscGFwZXJ3aXphcmRyaWkiXQ..
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I just tried this app, but I got much better results by downloading a 2400x1600 wallpaper and stretching the crop box to fill it (it fits exactly).
I'm in the middle of writing a wallpaper app for the N10, depending on what access is available to the wallpaper setting APIs I'll have it automatically set pixel perfect if possible.

alias_neo said:
I just tried this app, but I got much better results by downloading a 2400x1600 wallpaper and stretching the crop box to fill it (it fits exactly).
I'm in the middle of writing a wallpaper app for the N10, depending on what access is available to the wallpaper setting APIs I'll have it automatically set pixel perfect if possible.
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Komodo Rogue said:
No scrolling, but this may help:
(Simple image wallpaper)
I search for 1600x2560 wallpapers, and then set the image to the app linked above. The upside of no scrolling is that moving between homescreens is really smooth (it was already smooth, but no stutters at all).
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Oh god, thank you for this app rec. I despise the scrolling wallpaper stuff spread out over multiple screens. It seems to do exactly what I want. Have you noticed that it affects battery life differently since it is implemented as live wallpaper?
Sent from my Nexus 10 using Tapatalk HD

[Q] Unknown symbol in stock Gallery

Hello everyone,
I've started to notice that when viewing some images in the stock Gallery app a symbol appears over the image (and also in folder view). This seems to be related to images with a specific ratio between width and height, but I wanted to ask if anyone has a more detailed explanation of it.
TL;DR: Help, my Gallery app is playing tricks on me.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}

vap_66 said:
Hello everyone,
I've started to notice that when viewing some images in the stock Gallery app a symbol appears over the image (and also in folder view). This seems to be related to images with a specific ratio between width and height, but I wanted to ask if anyone has a more detailed explanation of it.
TL;DR: Help, my Gallery app is playing tricks on me.
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Click on it?
It looks like panorama.....or maybe the movie view thing in Apple products.

I've forgot to mention: tried tapping, holding, frowning at it, but to no avail. Doesn't seem related to any motion feature/eye control, etc.

vap_66 said:
I've forgot to mention: tried tapping, holding, frowning at it, but to no avail. Doesn't seem related to any motion feature/eye control, etc.
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it simply says that the pic is a panoramic picture

That's what I was thinking, since it needs a specific ratio between width and height, but it applies to any image with that ratio (not only panoramic photos taken with the camera). Problem is, it stays there all the time, and sometimes I have to zoom in and out and move the image around in order to read the text in it.
Can it be disabled? Or what's the purpose of it, really? I can tell by myself that it's a panoramic shot, no need for it.
Thanks.

vap_66 said:
That's what I was thinking, since it needs a specific ratio between width and height, but it applies to any image with that ratio (not only panoramic photos taken with the camera). Problem is, it stays there all the time, and sometimes I have to zoom in and out and move the image around in order to read the text in it.
Can it be disabled? Or what's the purpose of it, really? I can tell by myself that it's a panoramic shot, no need for it.
Thanks.
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You're on panorama mode. Click on mode and select a different mode.
Sent from my fingers to your face using my Samsung Galaxy Note 3!

No, I was talking about the stock Gallery app, not the Camera. Still, it's not in Panorama, but Auto.
That symbol appears in the above mentioned conditions only in the Gallery, regardless of the Camera settings.
But thanks anyway.