The Montana comes pre-loaded with several wallpaper designs provided by Garmin, but you may find it rewarding and advantageous to create and install your own custom wallpaper designs. For example, you may wish to create and use specific wallpaper designs to help you differentiate which profile is currently active with just a quick glance at the screen.
To take full advantage of the Montana's advanced wallpaper features, a few simple guidelines must be adhered to:
Wallpaper Dimensions
The Montana display operates in two orientations:
In Portrait the screen resolution is 272x480 pixels
In Landscape the screen resolution is 480x272 pixels
Wallpaper Design
The Montana home screen is where you access applications and shortcuts enabled within an active profile. Each home screen can be configured to display four, nine, or sixteen application or shortcut icons. The number of icons you have enabled within a specific profile may influence the wallpaper design for that profile.
To assist in designing your own custom wallpaper, download the zipped archive of transparent Montana wallpaper templates. Transparent overlays are included for 4, 9, and 16 icon screens in Portrait, Landscape Left, and Landscape Right modes.
If you don't already have a favorite image editing software installed, or even if you do, I highly recommend using Paint.net
Wallpaper Designation
The Montana can automatically change wallpaper at sunset and sunrise to help prevent excessive contrast with the environment and thereby reduce eye fatigue, provided the nighttime and daytime wallpaper images are designed to do so.
Each wallpaper set will require four JPEG images to be fully functional within an active profile.
- A Daytime Portrait Image (Bright) (272x480)
- A Nighttime Portrait Image (Dark) (272x480)
- A Daytime Landscape Image (Bright) (480x272)
- A Nighttime Landscape Image (Dark) (480x272)
Each JPEG image must be properly named before the Montana will recognize it as part of a wallpaper set. A valid wallpaper name may contain only letters and numbers, without any spaces or symbols. Once you have decided on a name for the wallpaper you have created, name each JPEG (*.jpg) image as shown below, replacing {name} with your chosen designation.
- Daytime Portrait Image = {name}_portrait_day.jpg
- Nighttime Portrait Image = {name}_portrait_night.jpg
- Daytime Landscape Image = {name}_landscape_day.jpg
- Nighttime Landscape Image = {name}_landscape_night.jpg
Wallpaper Installation
This is the easy part! Simply copy your newly created wallpaper images to the \Garmin\Profiles\ directory on your Montana. These images must be stored on the Montana, and not on the uSD card. Restart the Montana, and your new wallpaper should be available in Setup | Appearance | Background.
Wallpaper Download
Select from and download these wallpaper sets for your Montana:
Autobahn (Nuvi)
Geocaching
OpenCaching
ENJOY!
