Hi, I don't know what sort of images you have but take a look at xara ( xara.com/designer-pro/features)
Scroll down to the intelligent scaling video - better yet they have a trial. I think the intelligent scaling might even give you the "safe Zone" that SB mentioned Regards Lagi Lagi On Mon, 11 Jun 2018 at 14:48, Kee Nethery via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > If you use the imagery you have, don’t distort it to fill the screen. That > always looks bad. Add white space and/or crop but keep the proportions > correct. > > If you run them through a smoothing filter to up the dpi, you will want to > bit poke each image to restore sharp corners that should not have been > rounded. > > Personally, if the app worked well with the images you had, and redoing > them is your big go/no go, I’d use the images you have. If one app gains > traction, perhaps v2 has new images. > > Toss them all against the wall and see what sticks. > > My two cents. > > Kee Nethery > > > On Jun 11, 2018, at 1:54 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have three old windows program (going back to the 90th), designed for > > children, which are based on "full window" image backgrounds (douzends of > > cards, each with another background image) and lots of small detail > images. > > Up to now I have only developed LiveCode for Windows and MacOS, no > > experience yet with iOS and Android development. I try to evaluate the > work > > load to redevelop those old windows programs for mobile and one general > > question before I start is the art work. Since the old art work has a > size > > about 800x600 by 72dpi, I obviously would need to let redesign all art > work > > for the todays resolutions, which would be a pretty costly part of the > > project and probably the go or nogo for the whole project. > > > > > > > > Since there are so many different screen sizes, resolutions and aspect > > ratios on iOS and Android, I wonder how to cover all those variants > > technically in LiveCode and basically from the art work side. E.g. which > > size and ratio I would have to let create the "master" images by the > artist > > (to be also on the safe side for the next years)? > > > > Since I can't let design for each ratio a different master image for each > > card, I probably would have to distort the "master" image to each > different > > screen size (app only for tablets in landscape mode)? Could I let make > the > > OS the distortion of one background image per card in LiveCode, or would > I > > need to import and assign different images (which I have distored in > > photoshop before) for each screen size in each card? Additionally I would > > need to create douzends of polygons as clickable objects, above each > image > > for small parts of it, where I am not sure, if they would keep their > exact > > target area, when the background image will be distort - probably not. > > > > > > > > Up to now it looks to me as a never ending story, but perhaps I don't > see a > > good approach > > > > Any experience or pointers to a how to are very welcome. > > > > > > > > Tiemo > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > use-livecode mailing list > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
