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how to: 1440x800 images

what is the easiest way to make wallpaper images 1440x800 using any image i find online or have already? i would like to make my own. thank you.

Using free GIMP.
If You will download picture smaller then 1440x800 :
- Open it with GIMP
- You need to stretch it to bigger (then 800pix) size (Picture/Resize)
- Copy the one [Ctrl+C]
- Create new blank file [File/New/1440x800]
- Paste previously copied (and stretched) picture [Ctrl+P]
- Cut Frames to targeted size [Layer/Set layer size to picture]
- Save as [xxx.jpg]
I'm only using 960x800 (Wide) & 480x800 (Home,CHTlock,Tabs) and it's OK.

Another free program that makes re-sizing images much simpler is: Irfanview

hi i'm using gimp aswell, but You can use PAINT which You have in Your system (vista or win7) not sure that the older version (XP) have crop or resize tool. Cheers

I hear you can also use photobucket but cant confirm that.
then again photoshop is a lovely tool.

thanks guys, i thought i could do it with paint. but gimp is free anyway so maybe i'll get it. could i just google search for pics in the size i want also?

An image editing program for my needs...

There are several image editing programs - and some free good ones - but need an app that can do some specific tasks on the Asus Transformer TF
Besides basic tweaks (crop, sharpening, brightness), need the ability to add arrows and arrowheads (in different colors) pointing to specific areas, and adding text to the corresponding colors.
Being able to organize several photos in frames (such as the program PicFrame) would be a bonus.
Know any paid programs that can do this? Help greatly appreciated!

Skitch from Evernote will do it - free and basic. I use snapseed for editing and skitch for placing annotations like arrows/markers

Before I got photoshop touch (which is excellent, btw), I used Picsart. I recommend checking it out, it's free.

I use pixlr express. Super easy to use and highly affective. Plus you can save as any file size.

Jbb3393 said:
I use pixlr express. Super easy to use and highly affective. Plus you can save as any file size.
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In pixlr express when I import an image its resolution get decreased and image quality gets bad... Any idea why it's happening
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godofgeeks said:
In pixlr express when I import an image its resolution get decreased and image quality gets bad... Any idea why it's happening
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Are you editing high resolution photos from a camera like a dslr? I tested it on a shot from the tablet camera and the actual size of the photo (in Mb) was actually almost doubled. And I didn't notice any decrease in quality. It does ask you what size to save it as, right?

Jbb3393 said:
Are you editing high resolution photos from a camera like a dslr? I tested it on a shot from the tablet camera and the actual size of the photo (in Mb) was actually almost doubled. And I didn't notice any decrease in quality. It does ask you what size to save it as, right?
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Nope I am talking about 8mp images from my camera or any other normal wallpaper image.... As soon as i import it..... Resolution of that image gets low... Pixels gets distort.
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godofgeeks said:
Nope I am talking about 8mp images from my camera or any other normal wallpaper image.... As soon as i import it..... Resolution of that image gets low... Pixels gets distort.
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If we are talking about this app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pixlr.express
Then I'm not sure really... Let me know if us find anything better

[Q] profile picture issues

i uploading a profile picture and it is not showing. i chose the picture file, and clicked save changes. it wont show. does it take time to take effect, or is it just an issue with the actual file i uploaded?

Profile pic is different from Avatar. You should upload it to the avatar!

[Q] What size HD wallpaper should you use for one screen?

Just wondering what size wallpaper I should use if going with a 1 screen homepage.

It has to be 2160 wide by 1920 tall even if you have a single page on your Home screen. The content you want to actually see (if you intend to keep just a single page) needs to be left justified meaning it's on the left-most 1080 pixels (half of the 2180 total). Kinda weird but apparently Kit Kat works that way...

br0adband said:
It has to be 2160 wide by 1920 tall even if you have a single page on your Home screen. The content you want to actually see (if you intend to keep just a single page) needs to be left justified meaning it's on the left-most 1080 pixels (half of the 2180 total). Kinda weird but apparently Kit Kat works that way...
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Or you could just go somewhere like interfacelift.com, find a wallpaper you like, select the resolution as 1080x1920, save it to your phone, open it in the Gallery, and set it as your wallpaper from there, which allows you to pan/zoom the photo and pick exactly what part of the picture you want to use as the background.

elementaldragon said:
Or you could just go somewhere like interfacelift.com, find a wallpaper you like, select the resolution as 1080x1920, save it to your phone, open it in the Gallery, and set it as your wallpaper from there, which allows you to pan/zoom the photo and pick exactly what part of the picture you want to use as the background.
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Just to confirm this is correct. I cropped the stock Wallpaper to 1080x1920 and did as explained above. The crop tool lets you select the whole image so you get what you want on the homescreen,

I am downloading 1080x1920 pics and then cropping them in portrait mode (for 1 homescreen) like you guys said but many of the pics are losing there sharpness in the process and no longer look hd cause I am basically zooming so much.
Can someone just tell me what size one homescreen page is?

Hand76 said:
I am downloading 1080x1920 pics and then cropping them in portrait mode (for 1 homescreen) like you guys said but many of the pics are losing there sharpness in the process and no longer look hd cause I am basically zooming so much.
Can someone just tell me what size one homescreen page is?
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its absolutely necessary to have 2160x1920 wallpapers when using stock way of applying wallpapers. you can use image 2 wallpaper to make it so you can use 1920x1080 vertical wallpapers though. The way android does wallpapers is ridiculous.

MotoBlack Marshmallow Stitches BootAnimation Theme by xpmule 2016

MotoBlack Stitches Boot Theme / Animation by xpmule 2016​This is the default Motorola Marshmallow "Stitches" Boot Logo + Animation converted to Black.​
What you get here ?
- Flashable ZIP for the BootLogo
- Properly packed BootAnimation.zip
- A new simple dark / wide Wallpaper 1080x960 based on the Stitches Background Texture
Why ?
I installed Marshmallow and i did not like the White background on the Boot Logo & Animation.
So i converted them all Black retaining the original colors.
What ?
Quality.. i went to intense lengths to make this as high quality as possible.
I also wanted this to be a theme set of sorts. (i already shared the BootLogo on another topic)
How ?
I dumped Lossless images for every single frame in the original video animation..
Then applied a Photoshop plugin filter effect and saved each frame.
I had to carefully edit 456 png images totaling 531 mb's
Then i examined the original video animations and copied the format / encoder settings 100% exact with FFMPEG.
SO i carefully took apart the original animation changed it then rebuilt it the same as it was.
The original animations was just under 10 mb's and my Black one is a hair smaller than that.
Which meant i had to optimize the quality and file size as much as possible.
Best way to do that i figured was to just copy what Motorola did 100% the same.
Install ?
Copy the 3 MotoBlack Files i shared to your SDCard on your phone.
- BootAnimation Setup
You need Root access then go to this folder.. "/System/Media/"
Rename the original bootanimation.zip to bootanimation.zip.bak (or similar)
You can do that with many tools but i chose to use RootExplorer.
Then replace the bootanimation.zip with the new one you got here.
I had no need to mess with permissions when i tested it so it should be working fine.
- BootLogo Setup
Either extract out the Logo.bin file from the flashable zip and use ADB to flash it.
Or just copy the flashable zip to an SDCard etc and flash it via TWRP
- Wallpaper Setup
I hope i don't have to tell you all how to put a Wallpaper on your phone
Quick Notes:
There is a lot more info + Source on the Boot logo and the custom menu text graphics on my other topic.
[BootTheme] MotoBlack v2.0 by xpmule 2016
(I intend to use this topic for Animations + Wallpapers only & the XDA Link above for the Boot Logo's)
I also got a few other wallpapers that look good with this i will share later.
I don't want to load this topic with too much info or Pictures..
So here is a quick preview below and see attachment for downloads, hope you all like it i do :good:
- Wallpaper Small Preview -
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"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"
}
- Boot Logo Small Preview -
- Boot Animation Sample -
[All 3 files were added as attachments here]
MotoBlack_Stitches_BootAnimation_by_xpmule_2016.zip - 9.17 MB (9,623,489 bytes)
MD5: 4f08e560636bdfcf2adf70d0850b503e
MotoBlack_Stitches_BootLogo_v2.4_by_xpmule_2016.zip - 895 KB (916,726 bytes)
MD5: 0cf805f52c6d9df9970cf7016be76059
MotoBlack_Stitches_Wallpaper_by_xpmule_2016.png.zip - 810 KB (830,177 bytes)
MD5: 9eedded1f07118c99bcb26775025cbfc
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I will keep this reserved for some updates but i had a question for you all..
Can someone tell me if the 2nd part of the animation shows up ?
Let me back up a bit..
All the official Moto-E 2015 "Surnia" Boot animations (i seen) are made up of 2 video files + a config text file.
The First one is always just a clip that is meant to run once.
And the 2nd one is a super short clip meant to loop for as long as it takes to boot.
Note:
The OLD Moto-E "Condor" use Images not Videos so don't use the Animations i share with the old Moto-E
I don't "think" the video format ones will work.. and the image kind tend to be a problem on the new Moto-E
Ok so here is the problem guys..
My phone Boots too fast.
So i have not actually seen the 2nd part of the animation run.
The first part of the Animation is 15 seconds long so if you boot up in less than 15 seconds..
you will never see the 2nd part of the animation.. see what i mean ?
So if someone can tell me if they seen the 2nd 1 second long *looping* video clip come up that would cool
(It's the blue Moto Logo with some stitches that circle around the logo)
EDIT:
I plan on deleting the comment above later.
I also added a Wallpaper now to match the BootLogo i made MotoBlack "Earth"
But i noticed as i am adding the attachment it's saying it's a 100 kb jpeg not a 600 kb png.
Jpeg's are garbage low quality crap.. i am trying to add a png for a reason.
If i want jpeg's i will encode them myself with MY settings using my tools.
SO i have added 2 wallpapers so far but if this is what happens to them i am deleting them
and resharing them as zipped png's or something.
Anyway lol

Ok so i got a PM asking me if there is *ANY* chance what i posted will brick his phone.
So first off i am not going to provide personal tech support answering common questions, no offense guys.
You should not be PM'ing people unless if you have a good reason anyway.
For some reason this younger generation of users think this is ok.
For one thing i already answered a guy asking about that on the BootLogo page.
and i once again touched on the risk issue on this Animation topic.
Not only that pretty much every topic here warns you all.
The answer ?
Of course there is a risk you will brick your phone.. there always is with all this stuff.
Either you accept that and carry on or you don't.. that is your choice.
I am not giving "guarantees" for anything.
In the PM i got the guy did not even say what phone he has or what version of Android he is running
or ANY thing at all what so ever about what phone he has.
The only info i could see what his signature where he mentions a very different brand phone.
So how could i even TRY and answer this guy with no info ?
For all i know he has a Samsung Galaxy S3 and showed up here randomly on a Motorola topic.
And sorry but i don't have the motivation to tease out info from people.
Not only that i already went through this with 100% of the people who responded with my previous logo's
All of them had poor quality questions etc then flipped out and got mad at me for asking for more info.
I had Staff here delete those topic entirely.
So here we go again LOL
I think some common sense is needed here people.
If you open the Themes section what do you see ?
LOTS of Boot Animations and Boot Logo's.
People are sharing them and using them.. so why would you think your phone is going to get bricked ?
If this does happen it's almost for sure because you did not pay attention to what is going on.
Such as when Moto-E v1 guys come to the Moto-E 2015 section..
And in this case i have repeatedly warned these guys.. just use stuff for your phone. (to be extra safe)
Which is simply common sense.
The big problem is people have a small attention span and do not read what is typed out.
Warnings, disclaimers and instructions & requirements.
MANY people here have a Signature that says do not PM me !
I had a hunch i knew why too.
The big reason is the public can benefit from us talking publicly.
Answer a question 1 time and it can be the answer for 100 other people. (instead of 100 PM's)
So will the stuff i share brick your phone?
If you put the Logo or Animation on a different phone then yes it might.
But you will all notice i am trying hard to test anything i share first on my very own phone. (before sharing)
So it works for me but i obviously can not give any guarantees.
The biggest thing to watch out for is the phone model.. is the thing you see working on you phone model# ?
I do not own every phone model of Moto-E so i can not say for sure.
Although i have looked at a variety of firmware packages and seen a lot of the same stuff.
So someone could say post a question saying will this work on my XT1506 etc
And myself or other may know the answer..
The Moto-E v1 "Condor" users should avoid Logo's and Animations i think made for Moto-E 2015 phones.
And vice versa.. they may work but don't ask me i only have the newer one
It's worth mentioning again the BootAnimations are very different between Moto versions.
The first gen version uses image-sets for Animations and the new Moto-E uses MP4 videos.
If someone has a question just post it publicly please so we can all share the knowledge
I always advise making a backup of your system too (i use TWRP) and then also copy the backups to my PC.
I also advise backing up anything you use custom.. such the Logo or Animation.
The default logo.bin file is in the Firmware packages easily found here. (restore the original with FASTBOOT if needed)
And the BootAnimation.zip is already on your phone (back up original one before using a custom one)
(If the BootAnimation fails it should simply not show up when starting)
Anyway if you have questions on the forum provide as much related info as you can..
Such as your phone model and version of Android or Custom ROM etc.
That should help myself or others provide some answers.
I would personally not do anything custom unless you know how to restore that to the default / stock.
In other words do not change it unless you know how to put back how it was when it worked.
There is no guarantees with any of this stuff people post here..

Been doing some testing and i am suspicious Motorola made some mistakes.
For one thing the quality of the Video's are super high.
Also the frame rate is 24ps and the Lollipop one was 30fps.
What i shared was 99.99% the same in EVERY way as the original MM Animation.
Which is a problem..
- File size is super mega high, almost 10mb's (Lollipop's was less than 1mb)
- The Stitches time / duration is way too long.
The original is about 4,000 kbps bit-rate.. but it only needs to be about half of that.
(Lollipop's was 600 kbps)
The MM video needs to be higher though because of the new background texture used.
Putting the bit-rate too low will cause excessive flickering in the animation.
On Lollipop it had a simple solid white background which allows for getting away with far lower bit-rates.
I did a LOT of quality testing and i think the best bit-rate for Stitches is about 2,300 kbps
But i also changed the frame rate too.
Why ?
I suspect Motorola may have meant to use 30fps like on Lollipop (but used 24 instead)
Using 30 fps will make the quality a little better and also shorten the video time slightly.
It seems to be running better now at 30 FPS. (looks normal to me)
Here check out my break down of stats..
Lollipop - 10.977 + 1.735 = 12.712 seconds (864 kb) - Stock 600 kbps / 30 fps.
Stitches - 15.0 + 4.0 = 19.0 seconds (8.64 mb) - Stock 4,000 kbps / 24 fps.
Stitches - 12.13 + 3.204 = 15.334 (4.04 mb) - My new black 2,300 kbps / 30 fps TEST.
So following this guys ? LOL
One thing i am saying is the 2nd part of the animation is never shown..
It takes 15+ seconds to get to the 2nd clip in the animation.
I made a test version using only the 2nd clip and checked my boot time.
My phone *visibly* runs the part 2 loop 3.8 times = slightly under 12 seconds.
So was this the intention by Motorola ? I highly doubt that (why bother making it if no one will ever see it ?)
I will add my test version so guys can try it out.. it's actually cool just on it's own i think.
In the meantime i am thinking of what to do with the part 1 video to shorten it.
I think i would either have to cut some part out or speed it up time wise even more.
Another option is to drop the 2nd clip entirely and optimize it's quality and frame-rate and set it to loop.
Since it's too long the majority of people would never see it loop even once anyway.
(This would make the bootanimation.zip 3.29mb's instead of 9.26 mb's)
So i am adding the Hidden-Clip#2 Looping Test version as an attachment here (it's 769 kb's)

- Uploaded NEW Optimized Version -​I mentioned on my last post i think the animation should be optimized but i never uploaded it.
I sort of forgot to share it hahaha
What i will post now is simply the Marshmallow Stitches Animation "black" but fixed up as best i can..
I explained how it's improved on the previous comment.
So this is 30fps / 2300 kbps / a bit shorter time duration @ 4 mb's
What i uploaded has the Intro part then the 2nd looping forever part (like the original)
This newest version is half the size of the original but the best quality i can do i think.
It also has both parts.
In case people did not know the Stock animations from Moto are *usually* 2 video files in a zip + 1 text file.
(I was discussing earlier if it would be good to drop one etc)
I know this all is a whole lot of word salad so sorry about that people.
For those interested in the details i was hoping to just put it out there.
And of course what ever i share is fair game.. do what you want with it all people.
I repeat this is just a mod of the stock Marshmallow Boot Animation with a black background.
(i put the stock Marshmallow Boot LOGO converted to black on a separate topic AND on the 1st post here)
Lastly i added this new "best version" as an attachment and i also quickly retested installing it and viewing now.
(It looks like the animated preview on the 1st post)
The idea is so your phone boots up and it looks like the stock marshmallow stuff but with a black background now.