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Variation of a existing Feature (or treat as request)
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I have a variation of suggestion for "scale pictures to fit screen" where the outer area is painted with single color.
Most available wallpapers are of 1024x768 picture, trying to fit to 1280x800 [most laptop screens]Is it possible to do as in the pics below:
Instead of the solid color, it is a mirror of that width faded 50% to black
http://img189.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0901wallpaper131280blac.jpgHere, Instead of the solid color, it is a mirror of that width faded 50% to blur
http://img62.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0901wallpaper131280blur.jpgThe original , scaled to match height
http://img43.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0901wallpaper131280actu.jpg========================================================
I also had asked the below few months ago, and left you pondering.A feature request:
Wallpaper of nature/ landscape are cropped differently than wallpapers of celebritiesWhen it comes to nature/landscapes cropping top and bottom equally would make the pic look good
When it comes to people/celebrities , 1/4 top (or 0 top) and 3/4 bottom (or full bottom )crop would be better
example :
The original file 700x800px
http://img684.imageshack.us/my.php?image=aliciasilverorig.jpgJBS scale and crop Full screen
http://img10.imageshack.us/my.php?image=aliciasilvescalecrop.jpgSuggested Crop
http://img251.imageshack.us/my.php?image=aliciasilvesuggested.jpg================================
PS: your software with this makes a killer lifelong wallpaper changing combo. Checkout (If you have not already bought this)
http://www.neowise.com/neodownloader/ -
Ok, basically you're asking for a vignette - which is on my list already you'll be glad to know! Inicdentally, the automatic colour selection of JBS does tend to look better than using black all the time.
As for your other request, the same problem remains - how is JBS supposed to know there's a picture of a person or a celebrity in a given photo to crop it that way? It's a very tricky one to say the least!
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Glad to know that. I do like the automatic color selection. I am fan of fade out rather than a sharp change of color. If you could do the existing automatic color selection + fade with a reflection (like itunes coverflow), that I think would be golden.
As for the 2nd request
I have used the neo-downloader to acquire a good quality pics.
The pictures most often are in their respective folders hence this would be a folder-wise setting. Just like the website.
2. The other hint is lot of people pics are vertical oriented => have a Height > Width by a large factor. (The 2MP+ images of celebs)
Yeah the second request implies the picture mode is
A per folder setting for folders on PC
Or for dedicated website URLS
or a particular keyword search. (nature VS cars / bikes/ celebrities)Nonetheless, your WP changer is still is the best one.
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Hmmm, I'm not sure a reflection effect like coverflow would work very well for most pictures. I've tried something similar before and while it looks OK on the odd picture I could show you loads of examples where it looks terrible! I've also tried stretching the edges and blurring them with the same bad results.
While your examples at the top of the bird look OK I can't help but feel they'd look better for a higher percentage of pictures if the edges were faded rather than mirrored and faded. To blend the effect with your examples I'd have to fade some of the edge before the mirrored section to not make it look so abrupt so am not convinced you're any better off mirroring - especially if there's a large amount of the image that needs to be reflected.
Anyway, I'll do some experimentation and see what I can come up with.
jssshashi
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