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Originally Posted by Symptym
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I opened them up in paint.net, clicked 'Adjustments -> Black And White' which gave me an image that looked fine. Then I had a look at the sizing, decided what was important in the image and either resized or cropped then resized so that I had something about the right size for the screen.
If the ratio wasn't right I increased the canvas size with the current image at the center and then picked a colour for the new canvas around the image.
As for the live folder; Yes please!
Extra images would always be welcome.
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Does the black and white option have a way to adjust how bright each each color would be in the final image? because for some pictures with lots of colors it makes a world of difference. When I get home I will make a gif animation of one particularly striking example I found recently.
also your cropping method sounds a bit lengthy, in photoshop I set the ratio to 3:4 and put the vertical rectangle around what I want. press enter and that's it, the ratio is always perfect. I resize at the very end right before saving. I think this will maximize output quality.
I skip many images that don't have a good 3:4 crop in them, or if I have to increase the resolution by more than 25% to get to fit 1080x1440.
When you save as a B&W PNG do you have dithering options? I think that this is the most important part.
perhaps in a few days I will try out paint.net and GIMP and try to develop a similar procedure.
Here is my folder of screensavers I made; 23 so far (some are maybe semi NSFW)
https://mega.nz/#F!UtgCiRoA!cZPkqxrDCgHXnRLkJi8Cgg
Its just paintings/photos that I really like and have the appropriate format/resolution that I am looking for. It should update automatically as I add more.
I only saw about 7 of them in my screen and they all looked nice except for the castle on the hill which was a little flat.
they are all 1080x1440. If you want to use them in a lower resolution device you need to re-dither the image after resizing or you will probably get serious banding as any interpolation technique other than nearest-neighbor will un-dither the image. and I am not sure if nearest neighbor will look very good anyway.