[TUTORIAL] how to make a panoramic background & HOW TO CFC UNCOMPRESS FILES

Moguledyouth

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All I get is a crappy white background and messed up icons. I see no where on the first page on how to correct. Also, could it be because I am running 6.5 with 2.1 TouchFlo? It installs fine, but I have no idea... I have tried 5 times to get it to take and it just wont...? Also is there a skin thread for these?
 

henk2484

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Would it be possible for you to create the manila files with the attached png's? I followed the video tutorial and got the white background. Followed the steps in post #2 next, but still get the white background.

Thanx in advance.

EDIT: Never mind. Finally got it to work. Using cfcgui now, works like a charm
 
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daniel.bigred

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hey i saw this for my brother's Xperia & wanted to know if there is anyway you could assist in converting or showing me how to do this for yozgtag's VGA port of manila 2.1, the files are named differently...
 

Overloaded

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Hey,

Great program, it looks really cool..

But, i followed the tutorial and i've got it working after some cfc compressing but now the quality of the background is really bad and ugly :eek::eek:

And the orignal wallpaper looked really cool :D (and it has a resolution of 1920X1200)

Is this because the compression?? or is it maybe some bug??

Here are my PNG files, maybe someone can make a good .cab of it?

And, how to remove the widgets?? The clock and the icons?
I installed the .cab without widgets, just the simple panoramic .cab
But i still got witchets, and i don't like them :p
So how to remove them?

EDIT: I see what the problem is.. When i replace the manila files with my own image the quality just sucks... :p
Why? Anybody an answer??
 

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JohnBecker

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I must not have all the script files needed to convert these files to manila format. After about 10 hours of screwing with it, I'm giving up. I've found with lighter backgrounds, I can't see the text message. I think this one will work much better.

Can anyone convert these to manila for the panoramic wallpaper?

They were all PNG files, but they were too large in size, so it appears the website converted two of them to JPG.

Thanks.
 

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tichyb

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Hey people,

I decided to make a video tutorial on how to make a panoramic background for my mod as many people wanted to knoW!


The video TUTORIAL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XqTppkkDN4

The manila files
View attachment 186692

Image editing tool

http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/

Its Free

Manila Editor:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=414861
--all credits to sushilange


if you get a messy white background see the next post
Cheers,
Rotastrain
Hi rotastrain

thanks for the step by step guide to panoramic background
but i'm bit stucki have managed to follow all the way till the bit about copying
the manila.png file to my phone. I put them in sd card then used total commander to copy/move to window dir/ .
but i still have the same image there and it doesn't move pliz help

many thanks for your time
 
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