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What software do you use [Mi Band]

Inviato: 06 nov 2019, 11:06
da hyippiemon
What software do you use for making/preparing the graphics for your watchfaces?

I mainly use paint.net. For my last wf I also used Inkscape (for curved font).

I'm looking forward to read what you're using!

Re: What software do you use

Inviato: 06 nov 2019, 21:53
da GIK-Team
paint.net too!

Re: What software do you use

Inviato: 23 apr 2020, 10:36
da skarsmike
Figma

Very good tool for UI design and it's free for use.
Adobe XD is also a good free alternative.

You can check my examples here:
https://amazfitwatchfaces.com/ucp/108865

Re: What software do you use

Inviato: 07 mag 2020, 08:16
da Jackall Digital
One tool that I found extremely usefull is PNGgauntlet. This little tool optimizes images by reducing their size and keeps the quality but it doesn't reduce the final .bin file size, at least it made no difference on my tilted watch face.

But why is the tool useful to me? Well it made my preview images go from this:
Immagine


To this, which will now make posting the watch face previews much easier for me.
Immagine

Sadly there's nothing I can do to improve the quality of the tilted / angled elements in mi band 4 to look like it does in the preview.

Re: What software do you use

Inviato: 30 giu 2020, 18:16
da SandraMichael
You can place angled black rectangles that are 1 pixel larger than the numbers behind the numbers and make the rest of the PNG transparent. Then the numbers are sharp. When packing the .bin there is no more semi-transparency, therefore the edges fray.