Create an animated screen saver for your cell phone

Create an animated screen saver for your cell phone.

Just attach few files which you like to keep in your screen saver and follow few steps and finally you will get your own animated screen saver for your mobile phone....

What You Need Is :
You need a phone with a colour screen , and it should allow you to set a GIF file as a wallpaper or screen saver. Now you will have to download a photo editor such as irfan view. You can download it from www.irfanview.com.
The other software you will need is one that can attach individual Gifs together to create the animation and for that you have to download it from www.idp.net/freesoft/gif_anim.asp.


Step 1:
Collect all your pictures you'd like to include in your screensaver . since most digital cameras or mobile phones take pictures in JPEG format, you will need to convert them to GIF.

Step 2:
Open IrfanView and go to File >Batch Conversion .Here in the conversion window , navigate the folder where your images are kept and select the ones you would like to use in your screen saver. Make sure that the button Batch Conversion as the job discription has been selected in the same window of IrfanView . Now select the output directory where your converted images are going to be saved and then click 'start'.

Step 3:
Now you will need to resize those converted images according to the screen of your phone. This you can find out from the phone manufacturer's website or from the manual. Most phones have a resolution of 128*128. now open your converted images one by one in IrfanView . Left click on each picture, holding and dragging the cursor to create a box, their only you will get an option of image resize, you have to square cut out from the image. Most cameras do not captures square photos, so you will have to do this yourself . Take as big a cut - out as you'd like ,as long as it's square . after getting the perfect size go to edit>crop selection and your image will get cropped to the desired size. you have to this with all the images and save them as GIFs.
If all your images are centered on the same point, and you want to create an animation , you can use IrfanView to batch - crop all the images .Go to FILE>Batch conversion/Rename.... and there.check ' use advanced options'. In the 'Set for all images' dialog that specify what you want to do.

STEP 4:
Once you have all the images cropped to the desired dimension, you need to fit the phone. Doing this pretty easy with IrfanView - simply open the Batch Conversion window as explained before, and select all the cropped images for resizing.
Check ' Use advanced options', and under 'set advanced options', check the box called' RESIZE', Select 'set both sides to', and set the sizes to whatever your screen resolution is - in our case, 128*128 pixels.
Click 'Preserve aspect ratio', and check Re sample function' if you are particular about image quality.Click OK.We can now proceed with creating the AGIF.

STEP 5:
Open Microsoft GIF Animator and click 'Open' Navigate to your images folder , and add one of them .Once you've added the first one, simply keep clicking 'Add' until you've added them all.

STEP 6:
You can give individual time intervals to the images by selecting the images and clicking the image tab on the right. If you want to apply the same effects to all images, click the button on top , so you can edit the properties just once with them getting applied to your animation throughout.
Under the 'Animations' tab , you can also set the number of times you want the animation to loop.
Once you'r satisfied , save the file Upload it to your phone using Blue tooth, Infrared or a data cable and set it your wallpaper or screen saver.Show it off to all your friends.