TUTORIAL: C500 Photo Themes |
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 Sep 4 2004, 12:51
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 Hardcore  Group: Posters Posts: 3,685 Joined: 27th January 2003 Member No.: 2,344  |
Even though I've only had my C500 a day, you guys know me well enough to know that I'll play around with it and find something cool
So here it is.... a tutorial on how to create photo themes/templates. For this tutorial we'll be using the Bear off Bo Selecta as a template with the face removed so that you can replace with your friends (or enemies) faces. I used: Photoshop Jasc Animation Shop The Basics: This works by using an animated gif, The first frame is the actual image, the second frame is the main image mask, and each frame after that is a photo 'hole' mask. Black is transparent and white is opaque, all levels of grey between act as different transparency values (so if you have a red area and then use a 50% grey mask your photo will appear red). The Process: This is the basic picture we'll work from..... 
The first thing to do is open photoshop, load up this picture, and change the image size so that its 640 x 480 (you can also use 320 x 240 and 160 x 120 which also allow for zoom) then create a new layer and whiten out the area we want to mask using the drawing tools. The reason I chose white is that its easier to see where you are up to when creating the mask. You can use soft and hard edges as the mask is in greyscale allowing for smooth edges. So the edge around the glasses is pretty clean edged, but where the face meets the fur i've made it slightly blurry. As you can see, I've also added a shadow under the glasses frame to make it more three dimensional. This image should now look like this... 
So that the shadow works correctly, we now need to blacken out the face of the original picture. The easiest way of doing this is to duplicate the white mask layer, and then change it to black with image>adjustments>Hue/Saturation and then drag the lightness slider all the way to the left. You can now merge this layer with the main bear image and save this as 'bear1.jpg'. 
The next thing to do is to create your image mask. Go back to the white layer mask, and create a layer under this and fill it black. And merge these two layers. 
Now invert the image with image>adjustments>invert (remember, black is transparent, white is opaque). Weird bug: One thing i have noticed is that if the black is #000000 then it isnt transparent (yeh, seems a bit dumb dont it), anyhoo, a solution i found is to lighten the image slightly, so go back to Image>Adjustments>Hue/Saturation and lighten the image by about 5-10%. This should fix this problem. 
And save this as 'bear2.jpg' Because the mask for the main image and the mask for the photo 'hole' are the same we can use this image for both. We could at this point create more masks for more photo 'holes'. But for the sake of this tutorial only one is needed (if people request more info about multiple 'holes' i'll make a new tutorial, but the principals are the same, just remember to include all 'holes' in the main image mask). Next, Load up Jasc Animation Shop. And open both of the files (bear1.jpg and bear2.jpg). now drag bear2.jpg into the second frame of bear1.jpg. Then duplicate this second frame and we should now have 3 frames, the bear with face blackened out, and two black and white masks. 
Now all we have to do is save it, File>Save As, and call it something like Bear.gif. A window will now appear with a slider, make sure that its the highest quality, and now you have to turn off all the optimisations by clicking on the Customise button, and turn all the options off (this prevents it from removing duplicate frames). 
And now just agree to all the other pages so that the image is saved. Now its simply a question of copying this file to the phone by placing in either Storage/My Documents/Frames or, on the storage card... Storage Card/My Documents/Frames. In the camera app you can turn on the templates by selecting Menu>Capture Mode>Picture Theme and you can select your theme by pressing left and right on the joypad, or by pressing Menu>Select Template. If you want to change the location of the template select Menu>Options>Photo and change the Template Folder between Internal Memory and Storage Card. And thats all there is to it. I've attached this template below for those who need it 
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Sep 4 2004, 14:08
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Enthusiast  Group: Posters Posts: 291 Joined: 10th June 2003 Member No.: 7,836 |
ahahahahahhaha, wicked midnight!
cant wait to see what other modaco'ers make 
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Sep 4 2004, 21:39
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Enthusiast Group: Posters Posts: 291 Joined: 10th June 2003 Member No.: 7,836 |
BUMP^^^ - doesnt any1 appreciate this?!
Dave -------------------- |
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Sep 4 2004, 22:11
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Hardcore Group: Posters Posts: 3,685 Joined: 27th January 2003 Member No.: 2,344 |
guess not m8
oh well, i'm having fun with it
-------------------- Alien Invention - home of Eclipse: First Wave and Kumite
Midnight SP! Smartphone Registry Tweaks and Voice Themes irc.monolithix.org #smartphone (come and have a chat ) My Gadgets Gallery |
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Sep 4 2004, 23:12
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 The artist formerly known as Peekie Group: Posters Posts: 1,846 Joined: 26th October 2003 Member No.: 19,316 |
thats the whole fun bit of smartphones having fun :wink: :wink: :wink:
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Sep 5 2004, 11:22
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 Hardcore Group: Posters Posts: 3,395 Joined: 24th November 2002 From: UK Member No.: 51 Device(s): i-mate JAM/SPV C500 |
i appreciate it!
once upon a time there was a bear.... hehehe ;p --------------------  |
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Sep 5 2004, 19:05
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Regular  Group: Posters Posts: 63 Joined: 21st April 2003 Member No.: 4,905 |
nice one, cheers. i hadn't even noticed that option on the phone
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Sep 5 2004, 21:32
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 Its not my real name ya know !!! Group: Posters Posts: 1,065 Joined: 7th February 2003 From: Long Eaton,Notts Member No.: 2,696 Device(s): M600 |
Nice work Midnight. Not getting a C500 for a while if at all (waiting for the Feeler 8-[ )but its fun to have a dabble :wink:
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Sep 7 2004, 01:00
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Newbie  Group: Posters Posts: 45 Joined: 5th September 2004 Member No.: 55,375 |
I've been trying to get something simple to work, but I just can't figure it out. I've been trying for hours now and I just don't seem to get the bug :S Problem is my supposed-to-be-solid background is transparent... and I can't figure out why :/
Can someone explain to me why this doesn't work and what I need to do to fix it? I've tried about everything, it's driving me nuts :S
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Sep 7 2004, 09:49
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 Enthusiast Group: Posters Posts: 206 Joined: 12th May 2003 Member No.: 6,031 |
I think your problem may be that thew white mask is actually #FEFEFE and not #FFFFFF. Try changing the colour to true white and see if it works.
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Sep 8 2004, 10:57
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 11 Joined: 4th September 2004 Member No.: 55,337 |
Of course, animated GIFS!! I wondered how it worked. Great stuff...only problem for me is, although I have Photoshop, I'm poo at it and could do with a real 'for divvies' guide!
Anybody know of a place where you can get more of these photo themes? |
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Sep 8 2004, 18:22
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 Retired Group: Members Posts: 1,709 Joined: 7th December 2002 From: Milton Keynes, England. Member No.: 857 Device(s): c600 |
see the examples thread for some basic one
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SPV-C600 - MoDaCo Special Edition SPV-M5000 - Prize! SPV M-2000 - Ebook Reader 3g: Orange MOC |
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Nov 21 2004, 18:17
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 Regular Group: Posters Posts: 57 Joined: 18th March 2003 From: London Member No.: 3,572 Device(s): SPV M3100 |
Will, could you post a link to where I can find these examples please?
Thanks -------------------- Phonography:
Nokia 2140 >Startac 501 >Startac 701 >Nokia 3210 >Nokia Nk702 >Nokia 6150e >Nokia 7110 >Nokia 6210 >Ericsson T68i >SPV >SPV E200 >SPV C500 >SPV MPx200 >SPV C550 >SPV MPx220 >vk2000 >SPV M3100 |
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Nov 21 2004, 18:53
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 31 Joined: 23rd October 2004 Member No.: 61,759 |
I found these's ,Hope they help :wink:
http://smartphone.modaco.com/viewtopic.php...t=gifs+examples ........alfa 155....... |
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Nov 21 2004, 20:43
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Regular Group: Posters Posts: 57 Joined: 18th March 2003 From: London Member No.: 3,572 Device(s): SPV M3100 |
Thanks Alfa.
-------------------- Phonography:
Nokia 2140 >Startac 501 >Startac 701 >Nokia 3210 >Nokia Nk702 >Nokia 6150e >Nokia 7110 >Nokia 6210 >Ericsson T68i >SPV >SPV E200 >SPV C500 >SPV MPx200 >SPV C550 >SPV MPx220 >vk2000 >SPV M3100 |
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Nov 23 2004, 12:17
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 7 Joined: 23rd November 2004 Member No.: 66,160 |
Sorry, but im new to this forum and I dont get where the templates are??
How do you download the gif's for example? It goes for all attached files in this forum?? Thanks |
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Nov 23 2004, 12:40
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 Staff Team Leader Group: Admin Team Posts: 16,538 Joined: 24th November 2002 From: Southampton Member No.: 53 Device(s): C550 and JasJar |
The templates are in the previous posts, you have to be logged in to view them but there have been a
few reports of a site glitch that means you have to refresh the page a few times before the image appears. -------------------- Smartphone and PocketPC History
SPV, E100, E200, C500, C550, C600 (MoDaCo Edition), MPX200, MPX220, MIO8380, Voq Pro, Lobster 700, JasJar, Vario  New and updated Smartphone History Life's too fast can I get off and walk for a bit? I used to be top poster....... |
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Nov 23 2004, 12:45
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 7 Joined: 23rd November 2004 Member No.: 66,160 |
ok thanks. I ws logged in, but I can report another bug. I havent thorougly investigated it, but it seems that the site isnt firefox friendly (I use firefox) and when I switched to IE it worked nice.
Dont know if it a security setting I have that wont allow true login. maybe its a cookie thing. Thanks for the quick reply |
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Nov 28 2004, 16:15
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 1 Joined: 27th November 2004 Member No.: 66,778 |
this is great!
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Nov 28 2004, 22:56
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 Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 40 Joined: 11th June 2004 Member No.: 46,297 |
is there an area (site or thread) where I can find photo themes? It seems there is a thread here but it doesn't include anything. Thanks
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