Transparent Wallpaper Tutorial for Windows Phone 7

[daresk1]

Great tutorial! Does it work on mango?



[keyboardp7]

@daresk1 Thanks! Whilst this does work on Mango, it has a strange blurry effect until you touch the screen. Not sure why they've done this in Mango since it was working fine before it, but if you don't mind the blurry image before it becomes transparent, then it should be fine :)

[harpyarxp]

is it possible to see one image when the lockscreen is first displayed after pressing the power button on htc hd7 and another image when the lockscreen is moved up?

[keyboardp7]

@harpyarxp No, unfortunately you can't switch images. You can only set one image as your wallpaper.

[Krazed4Tech]

How do you have the little Emergency thing there?

[keyboardp7]

@Krazed4Tech Do you mean the red icon on the top right hand corner of my phone? That's an app I created called ICE Alert. I just pinned it to the home screen. You can download it for free here: jivtech.com/ICEAlert.html

[Krazed4Tech]

@keyboardp7 Ah, cool. Thank you. Do you have to sideload it?

[keyboardp7]

@Krazed4Tech Nope, it's a free app available from the Marketplace itself :)

[Krazed4Tech]

@keyboardp7 Thanks. :D

[keyboardp7]

@Krazed4Tech You're welcome. Thanks for watching the video!

[7minkeyman]

Good video man. I've tried this multiple ways both with Gimp and Paint.net and none of mine will show up as transparent. I even did the page curl and followed your video step by step and none of it is working. The image I wanted to do I put on a transparent background and erased the parts of the image and it shows up transparent in the editing software but just appears black on the phone. I've used others that work but none i have made have. Any ideas? Thanks!

[keyboardp7]

@7minkeyman Hi! Glad you liked the video. Is your image saved as a PNG? The key part is to make sure you don't save the image to your phone when you open it. Instead, you should click on 'set as wallpaper'. Send me a private message with a link to your image and I'll see if I can help :). You can upload the image to imgur or something.

[pulakification]

speak loud

[williamday247]

I followed every step in this video but I still have the image come up as non transparent when I move the lock screen up =/ wat do

[keyboardp7]

@williamday247 Make sure you save the image as a PNG and make sure when you download it on the phone, you don't save it to the phone itself. Just click on the attachment and set it as a wallpaper from there.

[williamday247]

@keyboardp7

Ive been doing it as:

Email it to my phone. Touch the attatchment and it begins downloading and then use as wallpaper but it still says opaque.

[keyboardp7]

@williamday247 If you're setting it properly on the phone, then it's probably something wrong with the image. Send me a link to the image and I'll see if it's transparent on my phone.

[williamday247]

@keyboardp7

Ah, I was using Photoshop instead of gimp, im not a gimp fan lol I got it working :D

Thanks for the tutorial, subbed and liked :)

[keyboardp7]

@williamday247 Thanks :) Glad you got it sorted!

[toolman5774]

Cool trick, thanks!

[keyboardp7]

@toolman5774 No probs! :)

[victor51192]

hi..ive been trying so hard to make my own..but i just cant doo it..can you make another tutorial using a picture from the internet please...and with better audio...please help me out..big fan!!!

[keyboardp7]

@victor51192 Hi. Sorry, I don't really have time at the moment to create another video. However, is there a picture in particular you want to make transparent? Message me the image and I'll explain certain ways of making it transparent :)

[GrandeInter10]

Already did. The colored windows logo on a black background.

[keyboardp7]

@GrandeInter10 Ah, that was you! :D Thanks, it's a cool wallpaper.

[GrandeInter10]

Merci beaciup mon ami. I made my own wallpaper using your instructions and am extremely satisfied! Thanks!

[keyboardp7]

@GrandeInter10 You're welcome GrandeInter10! Glad you found it useful. If you'd like to share your wallpaper, feel free to post a comment on my blog post (in the video description).