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Gorgeous Wallpaper
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How did you manage to extract them? Wonder if it would be easy to reverse-engineer your own version of a dynamic wallpaper or not?
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these are reduced resolution....could you apply your lightening to the full size dark wallpaper posted later in the thread?
Sure is. Take the 16 JPGs that xystudioo shared above and:
- Duplicate a few of the images in each day part (2 early morning, 2 later morning, 2 afternoon and 2 evening) so you have a total of 24 images (for 24 hours, obviously)
- Put them in a folder (presumably somewhere in your ~/Pictures folder with the rest of your custom desktop photos
- Choose the folder in your Desktop & Screensaver System Preference
- Check the "Change Picture:" box and adjust the setting to Every Hour
- Uncheck the "Random Order" box
I need to know as well cause the original file is 114.5MB the extracted folder is only 40.9MB, these images have compression artifacts.
Hey there!
I registered just to say you what I've found out:
I spent last night trying to extract the JPGs.
You can use https://github.com/strukturag/libheif or the online converter https://strukturag.github.io/libheif/
to extract the images. I tried and saw if there is any difference to the .ZIP already provided here.
The quality is 99% the same. Anyways, the sequence in the provided .ZIP is wrong. I tried to make it correctly, see this image for comparison: https://imgur.com/a/sd2gB9y (I think its right? Please add if you think its wrong
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Edit: Additional thread on reddit found: https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/8oz25c/all_16_full_resolution_macos_mojave_dynamic/
Greetings
I registered just to say you what I've found out:
I spent last night trying to extract the JPGs.
You can use https://github.com/strukturag/libheif or the online converter https://strukturag.github.io/libheif/
to extract the images. I tried and saw if there is any difference to the .ZIP already provided here.
The quality is 99% the same. Anyways, the sequence in the provided .ZIP is wrong. I tried to make it correctly, see this image for comparison: https://imgur.com/a/sd2gB9y (I think its right? Please add if you think its wrong
)Edit: Additional thread on reddit found: https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/8oz25c/all_16_full_resolution_macos_mojave_dynamic/
Greetings
Thanks goodness for reddit, always coming in the clutch but even the reddit post says the quality is degraded on extraction. welcome to MacRumorsHey there!
I registered just to say you what I've found out:
I spent last night trying to extract the JPGs.
You can use https://github.com/strukturag/libheif or the online converter https://strukturag.github.io/libheif/
to extract the images. I tried and saw if there is any difference to the .ZIP already provided here.
The quality is 99% the same. Anyways, the sequence in the provided .ZIP is wrong. I tried to make it correctly, see this image for comparison: https://imgur.com/a/sd2gB9y (I think its right? Please add if you think its wrong
Edit: Additional thread on reddit found: https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/8oz25c/all_16_full_resolution_macos_mojave_dynamic/
Greetings
Just an FYI for anyone who is wondering why the dynamic wallpaper isn't really changing when Dark Mode is enabled: had a reply from Apple via the bug reporter, apparently this is intended behaviour. Looking at it now, the image has changed slightly, but it only changes between nighttime variants when Dark Mode is on.
Thanks for that info. I can see why they tried to code it that way, but I hope beta feedback will convince them to separate the two functionalities. After all there are going to be people that want to run dark mode 24/7 as an aesthetic choice but want to see daylight "out the window" when the sun is out. And frankly, even the daylight Mojave images are pretty subdued.
Yeah, that's exactly how I had hoped it would work. Oh well, we'll see what happens. If you run it in light mode, does the wallpaper loop through the whole set of images including the same ones they use for Dark Mode, or does it just cover daytime/dusk?
I hope they take it further because this is one of the features I saw and was like, wow this is neat. But, if there is any indication they might just leave it at this one and move on. They never updated the live or dynamic wallpapers for the iPhone, except for changing the colors some for the iPhone X.
As far as I know, there was no way to get third-party live or dynamic wallpapers on to the iPhone. Perhaps if there was, it would have been more popular.
I hope on macOS, there will be third-party dynamic wallpapers.
I read dynamics wallpapers (with bubbles) on iPhone tend to consume more battery because it constantly has to update the data from sensors.
On desktop or laptop, dynamic and live wallpapers make more sense because battery is not a major concern.
On desktop or laptop, dynamic and live wallpapers make more sense because battery is not a major concern.
A combination of Dark Mode and the iMac Pro Ink Cloud wallpaper is quite awesome but macOS is not all about looks but about stability and functionality lets hope macOS Mojave lives up to expectations.
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