Design Your Own Live Wallpaper for Your Android Device

Many people love to customize their cell phones and mobile devices. Animated backgrounds can break up the monotony of a blank background and help to show your individuality. In this article we will show you how to make a nice live wallpaper from your holiday photo by adding a simple water effect.

First of all, you need to prepare your photo, since the screens of most mobile devices have much lower resolution than modern cameras.

1. Find the screen resolution of your device. The most popular options are 1080x1920, 640x960, 320x480, and 240x320.
2. Resize and crop your photo in any image editor (e.g., GIMP or even MS Paint).

Usually making realistic water

animations is quite a difficult and time consuming activity. Fortunately there is a tool that can do all the complex work for you.

1. Go to http://www.animationsoftware7.com/
2. Download and run the DP Animation Maker Installer. Then follow the instructions on your screen.
3. Launch the application and load your picture by clicking the Change background button.
4. Add the Stream Brush animation tool by clicking the Add animation button.
5. Paint over the falling water on your photo.

Now you need to convert your animation into a format that your android device can display. You have two options:

1. Save it as an animated GIF. This is the format that most cell phones understand, but it reduces the quality of the picture and creates large files.
2. Save it as an AVI. This format is free of the disadvantages of GIF files, but requires additional software to be played as Live Wallpaper. Fortunately there is a free program that helps: Video Live Wallpaper. In Google Play, it can be found here.