How To Make A DIY GIF Live Wallpaper [ColdFustion]

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[Music] live wallpapers there's just so many of them out there it's hard to know which one to choose is there such a thing as a DIY live wallpaper something that you can do yourself today I'm going to show you how to make your own live wallpaper using gifts and an application called anim GIF 2 it's actually much easier than it sounds let's take a look right so step one the first thing we need to do is find our gifts if you want to give our phone some style we should choose some gifts that have some flare I'm going to use Mr gifts Tumblr there's an amazing selection here it's got some amazing work and I think you should check them out the link will be in the description so once we find a gift that we like we can just simply right click and click save as and then save it to a file location that we know well so I'm just going to label this my color screen gifts and this folder has all the gifts that we like to use on our phone [Music] later so we simply just connect our phone via USB storage if your phone has an SD card it's better to put it inside the root of the SD card storage so we just simply drag this entire folder copy it into the root of the SD card and it shouldn't take that long because gifts are usually uh a few kilobytes to a couple of megabytes in size so once this is done we can just simply download anim live wallpaper 2 from the marketplace all you have to do is just type in that name and download it and it should be free all there is is just a little watermark on the bottom right hand corner and we can just select uh this application from the live wallpaper menu and then go into settings and the first thing you want to do is go and select our gift files now we have to browse for our file location which is going to be in the root of the SD card as we described earlier so by default it's actually called external SD card on the Galaxy Note 2 your phone may defer but uh it should be similar and there's our folder so we can either select one by one but if you just want to select all of them there's an option to do so on the bottom of the screen and we just click use selected to enter our preference so we can uh choose the cycle interval which means how often the gifts change we can go anywhere from instantly to 24 hours which is uh a welcome selection of choice and you can play by alphabetical order or Shuffle we're going to just choose Shuffle and uh we can choose our speed we want the gift to play it anywhere from uh 0.1 times all the way to 10 times it's recommended that you use quality resize but don't worry about quality drag resize and for the fit we just want to use best fit which is the default and this just gives your Fuller picture no matter what orientation your phone is rotated in so all we have to do is set the wallpaper and uh that's pretty much it so now you'll be able to see that we have our gifts playing in the background and it takes a second just to buffer up but once it has then uh the gifts will play automatically so it's pretty cool like you can see that uh there's uh no slow down when moving in between menus so it doesn't actually take too much processing to uh get all this done but you can see that it looks uh great and uh hopefully uh it changes the look of your phone and you can put any gifts you want there if you want some stylish ones or just some funny gifts or something that you just uh saw online it's easy and you can just put it inside your folder and have it randomly play so hopefully you learned something interesting from that and that's how to make a customized wallpaper for your needs and personalized to your tastes so don't forget to rate comment and subscribe and hopefully I'll see you again for another video thanks for watching m [Music]