Making a Fenix3 bitmap for watchface

Hello,

I have developed two nice watch faces for my Fenix 3, but I do not want to share these on Connect IQ, because I think I have used not the best practices.

My watch faces are drawing the background all the times when updating, so if I press a button e.g. for menu, it needs some seconds until the Fenix responds. As far as I found out a better way for a watchface background is to have it as a bitmap.

Now my question: What is the best way and a good tool to develop a background as bitmap, so that it looks the same as it will be drawing all the time by the Fenix.

Thanks in advance
Franky

HermoT over 10 years ago

I use Photoshop and then for fenix, just work inside a circle boxed in a 218 x 218 pixels.

Then use the color codes in the Connect IQ User Experience Guide to color your elements so that it will be clear and crisp on on the watch.

When done, save as png.

Hope this helps.