First of all as this is my first post, Hey

I'm trying to make a dark version of the Clarity theme by Sony Ericsson for the C905 using the SE Themes Creator, I completely recreated the standby, desktop & navigation backgrounds similar to the original theme in photoshop so the images would be top quality. However, once the theme is on my phone (C905) the images loose a lot of colour, as if the phone has only a limited amount of colours.

This is the original, full quality .PNG:


And once on my phone, the colours are reduced to look similar to this, but worse, which is a .gif @ 16 or 32 colours.





Does anyone know how to resolve this?


Thanks for your time,

- Wayne.

Hi Wayne

Welcome to

Unfortunately you can't do anything because the SE screens are for 256k colors
and the one you are trying to import has millions of colors
I've made themes which I reject them because of this

I had find a way to reduce the colors to 256k but the problem is still there... I don't know why



Now I'm trying not to use to much gradients, white to black etc. because it needs a lot of colors

I also discovered another strange thing... I've made one picture for the standby which was perfect on phone's screen
and when I place it also at the desktop and navigation there were grainy, they wasn't the same as the standby

I'm really waiting for the next generation of SE phones to have millions of colors at their screens just to see if this problem remains

enjoy your staying here

Yeah i noticed gradients do not work well with phones. You could save as 256k colours but will they be the same colours that the phone can display? If not you will still get the same problem surely?

you made me wonder and here's what I found at the official SE web site about my W910 screen...

link

they say that it can display 262.144 colors thats 6.144 more colors from 256.000
then why it can't display only 256.000 colors

But if you put it on a smaller scale. Say a phone could show 3 colours red, blue and green. You save as 2 colours but these 2 colours are black and white. You may think well i'm saving with less colours so all is good but this is not the case. On the phone it will not look right- the closest matches will be displayed bit it's still not the same.

Not sure if it works like this though . I'm saying is it standardised?

256k colours is 262144 colours (k refers to 1024 not 1000 so 256 * 1024 = 262144) . It's all down to binary; base 2 not 10. It's 2^18 (2^8 = 256 | 2 ^10 = 1024); 256k is just shorthand like 1Kb is 1024 bytes not 1000 bytes

Hm... I've got your point

probably it's standardized, but I don't know for sure

I'll search for it

@Wayne56

Welcome to mobile9

If you're using Sony Ericsson's Theme Creator, there might be a way of fixing that grainy image.




Hope this helps

jefdizon


wow.great bro...........

vinnieza is right.