Does anyone know of a decent freeware WM6.1-compatible picture editor? One that could be used to alter the contrast, brightness and colour of a photo?
I've found that very very few photos can be effectively used as a Home screen background unless they are very dark. The white & grey text become unreadable otherwise.
So ideally I want to darken some pics I have and see if they work better. It'd be nice to be able to do this actually on the phone.
Cheers!
personally i use photoshop..not a freeware..anyway what i wanted to say is that it doesnt need to be "made" for WM6.1...you just need it to be able to resize or crop the image..
TP resolution: width:480 x height:640
Giannis86 said:
personally i use photoshop..not a freeware..anyway what i wanted to say is that it doesnt need to be "made" for WM6.1...you just need it to be able to resize or crop the image..
TP resolution: width:480 x height:640
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Photoshop isn't freeware. Nor does it run on WM6.1. It's not cropping the image that's the problem - the picture viewer on the TP allows resizing and cropping already.
The problem is altering the brightness, contrast and colours of a photo.
I'm looking to be able to do this on the phone itself, preferably using freeware. I already have Photoshop on my PC.
Hope that makes it a little clearer...
hi,
you can do very simple image changes using:
http://www.xnviewpocket.org/
Hope it helps,
D.
dav3ywrx said:
hi,
you can do very simple image changes using:
http://www.xnviewpocket.org/
Hope it helps,
D.
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That looks like the baby, thanks, I'll give it a go!
Hmmm, just tried it out. It looks like it has the features I want, but for some reason, whenever I edit a picture, it doesn't save the changes, which is a bit frustrating!
For instance, if I highlight a picture, select Tools > Adjust, I get the screen where I can, for instance, reduce the brightness. Then when I hit the "Adjust" button, it just goes back to the file viewer, and the picture is unaltered.
Most odd!
Jim Coleman said:
Photoshop isn't freeware. Nor does it run on WM6.1. It's not cropping the image that's the problem - the picture viewer on the TP allows resizing and cropping already.
The problem is altering the brightness, contrast and colours of a photo.
I'm looking to be able to do this on the phone itself, preferably using freeware. I already have Photoshop on my PC.
Hope that makes it a little clearer...
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i know its not freeware that what i said too
i thought you wanted a program that will allow you to make wallpapers, not that it would run on the mobile itself
Have you checked the Diamond section by the way?
Hi Jim,
I've just tried increasing the brightness of an image on my TP with XnView Pocket 1.40 and it seems to work fine. I can adjust the brightness etc and then when I hit the 'Adjust' button a message pops up saying:
The Image xxxxx has been adjusted and and has been saved into xxxxx_m.jpg.
It doesn't alter the original image, it saves the image to an altered file and adds the '_m' to the file name.
I've attached a screen shot of what happens on my TP, are you saying you don't see this screen after you hit the 'Adjust' button?
Cheers,
D.
Hmmm. It wasn't working with a particular picture which was about 8 Megapixels. I cropped it down to about 6 Megapixels in "Pictures & Videos" and then tried again in Xnview and all of a sudden it started working.
Perhaps there is a bug which causes it to fail if the picture is too big?
Actually I think I've sussed the problem - the original file was set to read-only!!! D'oh!
(Would've been nice if the app had reported that though...)
Ah, could be connected to the size of the image. I was using a file that was about 600Kb I must admit. I don't use this often to manipulate images but it is useful to have.
If you're manipulating large images then it may be a task only for your PC.
Cheers & good luck.
D.
I can also use commercial Resco Photo Viewer,but very good freeware editor is UltraG. It is an old-school software with many functions,but a bit complicated,so be patient to use it.
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I've been messing with Wizard TNT5.0 TouchFlo and I realized that my contact pictures in the Cube were looking a bit... blocky. Except for the ones that I took pictures of using the "Contact Picture" mode in camera. Obviously that's the resolution I should be using, right?
Wrong.
I tried converting these pictures (the ones that seem blocky) to the same resolution as pictures taken under "contact picture", which is 320x240 96dpi. When I did just that, I got the same results.
This pixilish look also looks the same in Slide2Unlock's fullscreen Caller ID. It doesn't look like that with pictures taken with "contact picture".
Now my question is...
Is there some other resolution I should be looking at? Is there something I'm missing?
Or maybe there's a program that can help me convert these pixilish pictures to the right resolution for the cube and Slide2Unlock.
Thanks guys. As a digital imager myself this is irritating me.
I think i found the answer in the touch form: it is from a guy called mangakun
Picture Quality in
QuickDial Screen Method Used
100% PocketCM>Person>Set Pictures...>w320_h240.PNG/BMP
100% PocketCM>Person>Set Pictures...>w240_h320.PNG/BMP
60% PocketCM>Person>Set Pictures...>w72_h75.PNG/BMP
(low res. = not enough pixel information)
50% BuiltinWM6ContactList>Person>Edit>Change picture...>w240_h320.PNG/BMP
10% BuiltinWM6ContactList>Person>Edit>Change picture...>w72_h75.PNG/BMP
Note: w320_h240.PNG, w320_h240.BMP, w72_h75.PNG, w72_h75.BMP are copies made from a photo, and transfered into external memory.
Thanks to PocketCM for solving this annoying quality problem.
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And it works ok but i found that when you resize them 260h_240w they are even better and more on scale
for slide2unlock i don't have the answer because i am not using it anymore.
there is a mode mode of Camera application that is capturing pictures in proper aspect ratio and size.
ArrO; said:
I think i found the answer in the touch form: it is from a guy called mangakun
And it works ok but i found that when you resize them 260h_240w they are even better and more on scale
for slide2unlock i don't have the answer because i am not using it anymore.
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260x240 seems a bit odd. I'll check it out. So far 320x240 really isn't working out for me though, I don't know why...
Hello,
Whenever I set an image to my Today Screen, It is very feint, the colours are very dull and not like the original, is there any way to fix this?
I have tried theme makers to try make my own theme using the image that I want but it just does not want to install.
Is there anyway to fix the problem when i set an image to my today screen it is so feint.
I use Windows Mobile 2003.
It's been answered before and it is very easy to solve. Go to the default Pictures & Video program, select the picture you want for background and you will get a level of transparency. If you vary the transparency you will get different effects. What is making it faint is the default transparency set.
Thanks for your help.
I tried that but noticed the defualt pictures program would only load up JPEG pictures. The picture I had was a gif.
http://img48.imageshack.us/img48/1969/boot1qc6.gif
Changing this to a JPEG in Photoshop, even using the highest Quality setting resulted in discoloration. This image that I got was from here, and by the looks of it it is made using 16 bit colour, so it would look the same on the Pocket PC as it would on the computer. But once I converted it to a JPEG, It looked very bad on the pocket pc as a background.
Any Ideas?
Thanks
I can see and set a gif as background using my default Pictures&Video software. Maybe mine is a special tweaked version put in my ROM by the cooks, but if you search here I believe I've seen something about it before and you may be able to download a version that would see files other than jpegs. You may need to point to the folder where your image is. It does not search all folders automatically.
Hi there
I have added photo for contact but the resolution is v bad! please advise what actual size should I add?
Yes i also would like to know this.What resolution should the pictures be for better appearence??
you have to add the pictures from the people tab for better res
The picture quality in the TF3D "Persons"-Tab ist very low. The pictures i put on the phone for this contacs are in a very good resulution. How is it posible to change this quality?
Hope the other people had the same question an the last post is not realy an answer?!?!?
thx
wm3k
This has been answered before, I know because it helped me out no end.
1. Add the contact to the favourites tab in TF3D
2. Click the Menu softkey (right softkey) and choose the Change Picture option
3. Simply select the same picture again.
It will now be crystal clear (provided you are using clear pictures to start with)
GaZ said:
This has been answered before, I know because it helped me out no end.
1. Add the contact to the favourites tab in TF3D
2. Click the Menu softkey (right softkey) and choose the Change Picture option
3. Simply select the same picture again.
It will now be crystal clear (provided you are using clear pictures to start with)
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Thanks mate! It works now.
I just re-imported the favorites pictures through the TF3D interface, and all of the pictures were rescaled to 256 pixels high.
The pictures still have 24 bit color depth.
the best if you prepare pictures 256x256 pixels, 28 pixels/inch resolution, and save them as 24bit RGB .png files. Otherwise it uses internal mechanism to re-scale them, which affects picture quality.
The images that end up on a contact in Outlook using this method thru TF3D are much better quality/resolution than you can attach by using Outlook directly.
Is there a way to attach high quality images like this by using Outlook or some other tool on a PC rather than the phone? i.e. how could I get high quality images like this on my contacts if I didn't have this phone?
Thanks for the answer. Works great!
Does anyone know how i can make the favorite people pictures to look better in the little frames. The pics look good before i assign then to people, then they get all blurry. i know its something to do with the pixels, but does anyone know what software can make these photos look like good digital photos.
There are two ways to add / change the picture. One is in the contacts program (under all persons), where Windows mobile takes over and resizes your 256x256 picture to an unsharp 200x200. The other one is to use the Menu option under the Contacts tab and then "change picture". In this case the size will remain 256x256 resulting in the sharper pictures.
can you explain the steps to get the pictures sharp than blury.. step by step please.
tvos
To get higher quality pics on your TF3D favorite's tab:
1) Go to the "People" Tab of TF3D
2) Select a contact
3) Click Menu (right soft key)
3) Select "change picture" or "add picture"
4) Select the contact pic that you would like to use.
5) You now have a non blurry display pic.
The key is to add the pictures through TF3D and not through Pocket Outlook.
Here's a detailed explanation:
http://www.fuzemobility.com/?p=920
appreciate the info, how ever I might already have pre-existing pictures sync'd with my outlook. so if I add the contact it will be blurry... if I do it the way you recommend then I would have to go through 200 contacts and re-create their photos.
any better ideas or am I stuck with it being blurry?
tvos
never mind, i am reading about the 480 x 640 resolution.. sounds like a lot of un-necessary work just to have clairity.
tvos
tvos said:
appreciate the info, how ever I might already have pre-existing pictures sync'd with my outlook. so if I add the contact it will be blurry... if I do it the way you recommend then I would have to go through 200 contacts and re-create their photos.
any better ideas or am I stuck with it being blurry?
tvos
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You'll have to do them individually as far as i know, or leave them blurry. I have been doing a few at a time. If it's any consolation I've sync'd my contacts several times using my mail2web server, and the higher res pics have remained. I just used TF3D people tab, i didn't resize anything. Added a few people and changed the pics each time i've flashed. Didn't take me too long to get through my 325 contacts at the rate i flash
Thanks for the thread. . I only have a few, but they now look loads nicer.
Can I delete the images now or do they have to remain? I don't want a folder full of TF3D images if I don't have to.
I suppose I could . . DO it and report back.
Okay they seem to remain. . dunno if it'll survive a reboot, but I don't wanna screw with it right now.
i wish somebody could develop an app for this, that could be ran on the computer
If you don't use TF3D, another way to do it is to use the HTC Album. I put all pictures of my friends in a folder and then just went through each image one by one using the 'save to contact' from the menu. It's relatively quick and easy to do.
Side note: One thing I noticed is when I had an image which was exactly 640x480 in size, it didn't sync to Outlook via ActiveSync. It came up with an error message that "The following contacts failed to synchronize from the device". After some fiddling around, it appears that it didn't like the image being 640x480. I reduced the dimensions slightly (e.g. 600x...) and then it worked perfectly. Might come in handy if you get this error...
xzibitB
I am new to the HTC Fuze, about weeks. I have resized the pix to 256 x 256, 640 x 480, 480 x 640 and after the contacts resets the picture is poor quality again. How in gods name do you stabilize this issue. I love the phone but this is pissing me off.
I am no stranger to resizing. I resize in Photoshop...
Thanks in advance...
Viper
Hi guys,
Sense UI won't let me add a brightness control to the main screen. Can anyone suggest a decent and simple app to manually control screen brightness please?
I would have loved to have used the LUMOS auto back light app but that needs HTC drivers I believe :-( D'oh.
Try MVBklight 1.4.3
It's quite old but I've never found something better. I just use it also on my HD2 when I want to override the sensor. For the TG01 I think it's perfect.
I'll check it out. Thanks for that EDIT: Could only find 1.4.2 on XDA.. so googled it and got 1.4.3.
UPDATE: Can't get it to work. Maybe I need to edit the english config file to add in the TG01 or something?
ok, I'll give you all settings for TG01. But please hold on. I got to retrieve from my archive. My TG01 is under repair and I don't have settings close at hand. Please come back later.
Fab, really appreciate that
Here you are.
Attached you find screenshots of configuration for TG01.
As you can see minimum brightness value is 57, maximum is 255. You got to take it in account if you want also to use links to control brightness via command parameters.
I remember I had problem with links (I dont remember exactly what). So I also attached (syntactically) corrected links. But you have to localize the name of your program folder inside them.
MVBklight provides even a today plug-in. I am afraid it doesn't work. But I think it would not be so usefull, especially if you use Sense.
In the configuration you can see the use of a vga skin. Be sure to provide it (one is included in the package you downloaded). I tried to custominze the skin with other images but I didn't success, probably due to a wrong image format. I accualty spent few minutes on this, so if you get it right and achieve a nicer skin, let me know!
So, add a link to Popup.exe in your Sense UI and enjoy your brightness slider.
Please, ask if you need more.
P.S.
Ehi, remember that with MVBklight you get a torch too.
Thanks for that I'll download and try these tomorrow Odd that minimum is 57! (or is that the minimum YOU want it to ever be?)
It's not me.
On TG01 values below 57 have no effect. As for values over 255. It depends on device.
On HD2 minimum is 1 and maximum is 10. So on HD2 you can just change brightness by steps of 10% while on TG01 variation is much more smooth.
Again, it depends on hardware of device.
Fantastic. Finally got it working with those settings I will have a go at some other skins perhaps Now have brightness control on the screen.
The big mistake was me not swapping to 'manual', so it never saved my changes.
UPDATE: just playing around with the icon/images for better one's. Strangely, not every icon seems to work even if it's in the same size and format, it's really odd. Trying to change the bar's.. let's see what happens.
UPDATE2: Really struggling with these images. Even if I only edit them and save as the original type.. they won't show up. Bizarre. It's a little bit annoying actually. I'll have to keep trying as I want it to fit more into the them of black/white Sense UI.
I played right now with Resco Photo Manager.
Just doodled on left.bmp and saved.
It works.
Can't do more tests. I am at work...
Let's keep on trying. It's a long time I'd like to change the skin!
Lyrus said:
I played right now with Resco Photo Manager.
Just doodled on left.bmp and saved.
It works.
Can't do more tests. I am at work...
Let's keep on trying. It's a long time I'd like to change the skin!
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Could you share some pictures or a video? It sounds interesting! I'm using an free program called Metrix from http://www.apoxsoft.com/products/metrix/ and it works perfectly. But it's a Today plug-in, so it doesn't work on Sense.
Although it seems a little dated, it can be fully configurated. If any interested I can give you the TG01 parameters for brightness control
Best Regards
I am trying the following files. (THe 'RIGHTOLD.BMP' should be right.bmp btw) The only one that actually displays is the SLDR one :-( Annoying.
Trying to mess with them some more to see if I can make them work.
@Pere
Here you are a screenshot.
It's the easiest way to control brightness. I have the link in the bulb on the left of the screen but on TG01 also double tapping the zoom bar so the slider will pop up on whatever application is running in that moment.
Metrix is nice. But it's only a plugin for the today. I really need a popup instead.
@Scougar
Yes, your sldr.bmp works. Not the others. I tried to resave them from Resco Photo Manager but with no success.
The strange thing is that the left.bmp attached is the original with some doodling and saved from RPM. It works but the doodling results in a trasparency as you can see in attached screenshot where I changed the color of the background to make it clear.
I think that there is something to understand regarding how trasparency is handled. Could be that our images are treated for some reason as totally trasparent?