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09-19-2008
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| | General improvement to the themes section of WLM9 I am a big fan of being able to change the background of the main bar of the contact list. I often browse for some pictures of my own to put on there but the thing is that the picture then gets stretched onto the main bar making it look stretched and almost unrecognisable. A suggested improvement would be to select the photo or picture you want and then go into a wizard where it lets you drag a clear box (almost like on windows photo gallery beta when using the crop tool) on the picture to select which bit you want to be viewed on the main bar and maybe a renderer to make the pictures look clearer and not so pixellated. This is a great feature which needs to be improved abit, Keep up the good work and i hope this gets added to the themes to make it easier to customise messenger. |
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09-19-2008
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| | Re: General improvement to the themes section of WLM9 Greetings, I've had similar problems trying to make images work. The default size (and what files are saved to when you select them) is 96x48. However, some sort of stretching thing and the algorithm is a bit odd. Took a bit of trial and error (and manual editing) to get something decent of my own. -- Jonathan Kay Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com (c) 2008 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation -- "j_white15" <jwhite15@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:C2264236-D791-4E9E-973E-866907E013A9@xxxxxx Quote: > I am a big fan of being able to change the background of the main bar of the > contact list. I often browse for some pictures of my own to put on there but > the thing is that the picture then gets stretched onto the main bar making it > look stretched and almost unrecognisable. A suggested improvement would be to > select the photo or picture you want and then go into a wizard where it lets > you drag a clear box (almost like on windows photo gallery beta when using > the crop tool) on the picture to select which bit you want to be viewed on > the main bar and maybe a renderer to make the pictures look clearer and not > so pixellated. This is a great feature which needs to be improved abit, Keep > up the good work and i hope this gets added to the themes to make it easier > to customise messenger. |
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09-19-2008
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| | Re: General improvement to the themes section of WLM9 Hi, Woops, I meant 640x320, was thinking one thing and typed another. The 96x48 is the saved thumbnail you get in the dialog. -- Jonathan Kay Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com (c) 2008 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation -- "Jonathan Kay [MVP]" <msnewsreplies@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:uHjr7SpGJHA.4140@xxxxxx Quote: > Greetings, > > I've had similar problems trying to make images work. The default size (and what files are > saved to when you select them) is 96x48. > > However, some sort of stretching thing and the algorithm is a bit odd. Took a bit of trial > and error (and manual editing) to get something decent of my own. > > -- > Jonathan Kay > Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger > MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger > MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com > Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com > (c) 2008 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation > -- > > > "j_white15" <jwhite15@xxxxxx> wrote in message > news:C2264236-D791-4E9E-973E-866907E013A9@xxxxxx Quote: >> I am a big fan of being able to change the background of the main bar of the >> contact list. I often browse for some pictures of my own to put on there but >> the thing is that the picture then gets stretched onto the main bar making it >> look stretched and almost unrecognisable. A suggested improvement would be to >> select the photo or picture you want and then go into a wizard where it lets >> you drag a clear box (almost like on windows photo gallery beta when using >> the crop tool) on the picture to select which bit you want to be viewed on >> the main bar and maybe a renderer to make the pictures look clearer and not >> so pixellated. This is a great feature which needs to be improved abit, Keep >> up the good work and i hope this gets added to the themes to make it easier >> to customise messenger. > |
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