Has anyone created a theme that incorporates the Parallax effect? I had a go but, to be honest, I've no idea what I'm doing. I created a wallpaper with a large blurred circle and three smaller ones( These would be the shadows). Then, using UCCW, I placed solid coloured circles over them. These would eventually become the clock and icons. Then I used 3D Image LWP for the Parallax thing. It kinda worked but unfortunately I couldn't line the circles up properly because I'm a noob.
It was just an idea that I thought someone with more skill would like to try.
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I've looked around and can't find anything to help me out, but I know this can be done. I have Luncher Pro Plus and have a dock background that i would love to see fully. To do this, I need transparent dock images, but don't want the stock ones that came with Launcher Pro. I would love to create my own, but don't know what file type to save as or how exactly to go about this. I know it can be done as the stock Launcher Pro ones are transparent! I have Corel PaintShop available to use as well as drawing software (CAD). So I can draw practically anything I want and save it to any format I want. I just don't know the process of making a white image with a black background to have a transparent background.
To put it this way; I want essentially my dock background (which is nearly solid black) to have a drawn outline of the phone, person, boxes, message, world (see attached image)... no gradient filler like on Launcher Pro ones.
If anyone can point me to a tutorial I am missing somewhere, or simply let me know how to do this, It would be greatly appreciated!! I'm trying to customize my phone and what better way to do it than with completely custom images!!!!
you have to save it as png or gif file (I recommend png, it's higher quality). I use photoshop so I don't know how to do it on corel, this is what a quick google search turned up: http://www.axialis.com/tutorials/tutorial-misc002.html
PS: an image with the grey and white squares as a background while in corel means there's no background (transparent)
http://launcherpro.droidicon.com/tutorials/how-make-launcherpro-dock-style-icon-106
I also found... It took me a while playing with corel but I figured it out!! I love having icons that no one else has.... I would recommend everyone playing around with custom icons!
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GIMP works very well to edit these images. I have photoshop CS5 for everyday use at work, but when I edit anything in the framework, I use GIMP. Its free, just google it.
Okay been running tnt two taps for about a week ive noticed that when using a non live walpaper it is streched and oversized cant seam to find a fix for this did see it was happening on the nook color but nothing on gtab. anyway anyone know of a fix for this thanks t.krein
Any ideas live wallpapers work just fine
Well when you set a wallpaper the tablet usually stretches it to fit all four panes on the classic home(when you slide left and right). Try to use one that's more landscape, I forget the actual resolution, and see if it looks any better
anyone know the solution to this this have been a problem on most roms that ive tested on
yes i used both 1024x600 and 1024x1024 and even started to use high res so it would look so pixelated
transitoyspace said:
anyone know the solution to this this have been a problem on most roms that ive tested on
yes i used both 1024x600 and 1024x1024 and even started to use high res so it would look so pixelated
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Quickpics (might be quickpix, can't remember, and tablet is off right now or I'd check) has been the best app I've found for setting background images. What needs ot be remembered for all image apps is that the wallpaper is NOT centered vertically in landscape mode, which most of us use regularly. SO, when cropping an image, you must put the "center" a bit higher than center...the best way I can illustrate this is that if you are using a completely black background with a red "X" in the middle, when cropping, position the "X" in about the top 1/3rd of the crop box...it will then be "centered" when you view the desktop wallpaper. Quickpics tends to not resize it like other apps do. Similar app is Wallaby (but it's finicky sometimes, depending on the image used.
The reason our "phones" resize and crop the images it to allow for better viewing in portrait mode...simple as that.
Hi guys,
I've been reading up about Ice-Cream Sandwich and apparently it will have face tracking abilities. I saw a pretty awesome demo yesterday on how face tracking can make for an amazing glasses free 3D interface so I've been thinking, maybe someone can implement this into a launcher to give Android a little more oomph in the eye-candy department?
My idea is this. I was looking at the animations on my MIUI setup and noticed how the icons on the next homescreen soft of float up from the back when you swipe through the homescreens.
Would it be possible to create a launcher that layers all you icons on top of each other, sort of like a 3D grid, with the icons ranging all the way from the top layer fully in focus, and the lower layers fading out into perspective. When you swipe the top layer to the right, it will go all the way to the bottom while the next layer floats into perspective with all the underlying layers shifting upwards as well.
The facetracking will give you a 3D view of the icons, so moving your head will in turn cause the viewing angle on the phone to change accordingly. I'm not a graphics artist so I cant really show you a diagram, but I can try and put something together if needed.
Does anyone think they could be able to create something like this?
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Excuse me if I missed it but I'm interested in getting my wallpaper cropped, panoramic, and scrolling as they did in my Galaxy S2 and Fascinate. I know some people are using different launchers to accomplish this. Which one and are they able to crop the wallpaper properly prior to setting it? I also have one other request. I need my live wallpapers to scroll as well since I have one that slightly rotates in either direction when panning thru my home pages. Why is this feature not included on the Note? I sure do miss it. Thanks for your assistance.
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Excuse me if I missed it but I'm interested in getting my wallpaper cropped, panoramic, and scrolling as they did in my Galaxy S2 and Fascinate. I know some people are using different launchers to accomplish this. Which one and are they able to crop the wallpaper properly prior to setting it? I also have one other request. I need my live wallpapers to scroll as well since I have one that slightly rotates in either direction when panning thru my home pages. Why is this feature not included on the Note? I sure do miss it. Thanks for your assistance.
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I was wondering this myself. I was quite boggled when I went to make my wallpaper my favorite TRON: Legacy wallpaper with LauncherPro and it was completely wrong.
I can get them to scroll when using ADW and Go launchers but it doesn't change the fact that we have to crop them in a portrait shape instead of a landscape shape like we want. Also, my live wallpaper will not rotate no matter what launcher I use. I'm doubting ICS will give us this option either. Maybe a custom ROM is our only hope Great, back to the custom ROM world of bugs...
Autosize DbD wallpaper set is the app you need to pick up to crop or fit a wallpaper correctly without having it enlarged.
Scrolling wallpaper works for me on the launcher called ashell
Both these apps are free and lightweight
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Do you think this will allow live wallpapers to scroll? I have several that move when moving from page to page when used in my galaxy 2 or fascinate
If you use the skyrocket wallpaperpicker.apk (will try and post it up later)
it allows landscape selection.
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I have a really cool wallpaper that goes perfect with my Tycho / ISO50 homescreen theme, but I'd like to add some "life" to it. So I'm looking for a LWP that allows users to choose their own background. Case in point: Pixel Rain can do just that. So can a lot of the 3D effect ones. Just looking for other options. I know they're out there. Maybe a beam/ics one that allows this.
I would LOVE if this one could use a custom background image: Molecules Livewallaper. So sexy.
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