Design Watch face degrades image

[Baseballtechguy]

Hi All,

New here but created a 176x176 image to create a new watch face. After I run the process through the on-line tools and create a json record i then drag the json record onto watchface.exe it creates the .bin file. I then drag the .bin file onto watchface.exe to uncompress the file and it makes the directory with all the files in it. I noticed the png file I created get really pixelated and looks bad. It looked A LOT CLEARER before running it through the watchface.exe. Ideas for me to keep the quality of the original?

[PeaZzz]

Wild guess: The Bip's color palette is smaller. It'll convert your 16.7M color image to 16 collors?

[cloud12077]

I ran into that issue when I started making faces too. As PeaZzz said, it's due to the limited 16 bit color limit.

[Mike76]

I ran into that issue when I started making faces too. As PeaZzz said, it's due to the limited 16 bit color limit.

The Amazfit Bip supports only 8 colors. Before editing watchfaces it is worth to take a look at Watchface Reference on AmazfitCentral:

http://amazfitcentral.com/2018/02/05/am ... son-docs/

[cloud12077]

I ran into that issue when I started making faces too. As PeaZzz said, it's due to the limited 16 bit color limit.

The Amazfit Bip supports only 8 colors. Before editing watchfaces it is worth to take a look at Watchface Reference on AmazfitCentral:

http://amazfitcentral.com/2018/02/05/am ... son-docs/

I stand corrected. Thank you Mike76, btw love your work.

[asadulhuq]

I am a new watch face designer. I use Windows paint application to color watch face objects. However, color warnings appear when a watch face is being compiled. I am not sure whether 8 or 16 bit color should be used. For example how to apply 8 bit red color with windows paint? Any suggestion is appreciated. Thanks.

[TXK]

I am a new watch face designer. I use Windows paint application to color watch face objects. However, color warnings appear when a watch face is being compiled. I am not sure whether 8 or 16 bit color should be used. For example how to apply 8 bit red color with windows paint? Any suggestion is appreciated. Thanks.

The position and style of the tool icon in the 【Windows paint application】 are the same.

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[asadulhuq]

Thanks for hints. But Chinese characters in the application is a problem for me.

[TXK]

Thanks for hints. But Chinese characters in the application is a problem for me.

The position and style of the tool icon in the 【Windows paint application】 are the same.

[asadulhuq]

Thanks.

[asadulhuq]

I get following error/warning and hence compilation of the watch face cannot be completed. You may please notice the watch face image below which I am trying to compile.
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Debug|Reading config...
Debug|Reading referenced images from 'C:\Users\Asadul Huq\Desktop\MyBIPFace\NEWFace\1528565345112'
Trace|Loading images for 2 'Background'
Trace|Loading images for 2.1 'Image'
Trace|Loading image 0...
Trace|Image was loaded from file C:\Users\Asadul Huq\Desktop\MyBIPFace\NEWFace\1528565345112\0000.png
Warn|Dithering applied for an image. Resource in watch face will u
se only supported colors. You can't get back original image by unpacking watch face.
Trace|Loading images for 3 'Time'
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I cannot figure out exactly how to choose an acceptable color. I am using windows Paint application.
Any information regarding this problem is appreciated.