How to set any picture as wallpaper? when i try to set a picture as wallpaper it asks me to crop the picture. but i want to set the whole picture as wallpaper. cheers
Hey,
I think if you want to have the whole image as your home wallpaper it has to be in 640x480 format. Lockscreen wallpaper has to be 320x480 if you want it without cropping.
the prob is that i have put some 640*480 pictures in sd card. went to gallery and then set 1 of these pictures as wallpaper. but found out that the middle part of a 640*480 picture was stretched and set as wallpaper. in samsung omnia hd which is 640*360 if i set a 640*360 picture as wallpaper the full picture is set from top to bottom.
is it some sort of prob with hero?
dying4004 said:
the prob is that i have put some 640*480 pictures in sd card. went to gallery and then set 1 of these pictures as wallpaper. but found out that the middle part of a 640*480 picture was stretched and set as wallpaper. in samsung omnia hd which is 640*360 if i set a 640*360 picture as wallpaper the full picture is set from top to bottom.
is it some sort of prob with hero?
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Hero has by default (SenseUI) 7 home screens so the background is behind all of those screens. Im not totally sure what do you mean by streching?
If your image is 640x480 you can select the whole image with the green cropping box and then you will have the whole image as a background. Works for me at least.
Pume: i understand what u r saying and i found in the net that many user follow the same method but in my hero if i select whole image with the crop green box it doesnt save the whole image as wallpaper. it still sets a portion of the image as wallpaper. and all my pictures are 640*480.
This definitely isn't a problem with the Hero in general as it works fine on my phone as well. I set the picture to the background by going through the settings, personalise, home screen menus. If you're using a different method, maybe that's the problem...
works fine on mine. Obviously you know that you can NEVER see the whole of the wallpaper at once, bot if you scroll left all the way, you should see the left edge of the wallpaper, and if you scroll all the way to the right you see the right hand side of the wallpaper.
Is that not happening?
There's a good free app on the market called 'Wallpaper Set and Save' that allows you to use the full image - it also uses the full quality image so wallpapers look much better
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Is there a way to set the wallpaper on the Mini Pro, without having to crop the image? I'm having a little bit of a poor experience in getting the wallpaper the way I want. Tried 240 x 320 sized images and same thing. Any ideas or apps ? (Or free beer? )
You can drag on the corners of the box to make it bigger in the cropping screen.
I was aware of the ability to adjust the size of the crop window using the edge markers. However, the results are often stretch, blurred, pixelated or something else.
I figured out a bit of a workaround though, from looking at this article HERE
To quote them:
Select an image that is 960 x 854 pixels.
Go to the option to change the wallpaper
Select the pictures folder, where you have the images stored (In above mentioned resolution)
A cropping square will appear, drag it to one corner and then maximize it as far as it will go to cover the whole image. Then hit ‘Save’.
There is new version of crop wallpaper in market and this version can use define size of cropped picture.
Archos101 display is 1024x600
If those settings are set, I still get wrong size to wallpaper and tried many variations, but all are crappy.. HD pictures look like zoomed thumbs when set as wall.
Question: anyone knows what resolution should be set, to get best picture quality ??
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pki101 said:
There is new version of crop wallpaper in market and this version can use define size of cropped picture.
Archos101 display is 1024x600
If those settings are set, I still get wrong size to wallpaper and tried many variations, but all are crappy.. HD pictures look like zoomed thumbs when set as wall.
Question: anyone knows what resolution should be set, to get best picture quality ??
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Wallpaper size for the A101 must be 1200x1024
Tested, still picture is wrong size and placed incorrecly at desktop.
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Tested, still picture is wrong size and placed incorrecly at desktop.
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The size needs to be 1200x1024 but in landscape mode only the top 600px are shown. in portrait mode everything is shown. that is the problem with wallpapers on android.
There is no way around that unless you resize you picture to 1200x1024 and leave the bottom 424px empty.
Or else use Multipicture live wallpaper but that is a big drain on resources.
So I have a wallpaper I just want on my homescreen as an image, not chopped out.
Like I have a picture of an animal and want it as my homescreen wallpaper but it just gets all chopped up and zoomed in.
What size do I need to make the wallpaper or what is the trick?
Thanks for any help.
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Standard screen resolution is 480x854 at 240dpi, this means the native is 960x864 at 240dpi; if you take a picture with your camera and want to use the image for your screen wallpaper you'll see that, in the process, it tries to crop it down. During this process you'll have to move the crop boxes, dragging them in order to cover the whole area of the image (not just a piece).
You have to remember that those wallpapers are made to be scrolled so they are in such 3:4 aspect ratio - just see your device so to have the idea of the dimensions of the wallpaper.
Using a custom made wallpaper - an image - is fine but be careful about the dimension: the bigger, the fitter.
So check out the dimensions of the image you are using: a smaller image will be zoomed.
Thank you
You're welcome indeed =)
This always happens unless the image was taken by NASA or something, the image is ample size and very good quality, yet when I set it it becomes very blurry, lock or home screen.
Its very crispy when I pinch to zoom as well, whats going on here? How do I fix it?
Download QuickPic from the market and ignore or freeze the stock Gallery app. It downsizes the resolution of wallpapers. QuickPic is fast, cleaner, and doesn't cut corners. It's also free.
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Download QuickPic from the market and ignore or freeze the stock Gallery app. It downsizes the resolution of wallpapers. QuickPic is fast, cleaner, and doesn't cut corners. It's also free.
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Ive had quickpic for a while now, and Its giving me the same exact problem.
I use Wallbase as a wallpaper app, and when I set the wallpaper from inside Wallbase, its crispy and perfect. Its only when I set the wallpaper via Gallery or any other image viewer that it becomes blurry.
I'm pretty sure it's zooming in on the picture which in turn makes it blurry, right? As to a fix, not sure myself.
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Kadin said:
I'm pretty sure it's zooming in on the picture which in turn makes it blurry, right? As to a fix, not sure myself.
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I assume that what's happening. It happens with literally every single picture though
If you are downloading from wallbase on your phone, make sure you tap the image until it shows the tooltip for 100% before you long press to save it. I've run into the same thing. Also, make sure the image you are downloading is at at least 960x800 for full resolution as wallpaper.
I might be confusing you guys.
When I set the wallpaper via Wallbase, its fine.
When I save the wallpaper from wallbase (or anywhere for that matter), and set it as my wallpaper via Gallery or QuikPic, then it becomes blurry. Wallbase isnt the problem.
Thanks
If you have the "scrolling" background image enabled, make a new document in photoshop, or your image editor of choice, and make it 960x800 pixels, then resize your image to that and save as png then move to phone. Somehow the default resize for these phones makes it blurry... but setting it to the correct resolution fixes it.
^^ setting the image resolution to 960 x 800 solves the blurry wallpaper problem.
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my phone's screen is 320x480 so I figured I'd do a web search and find pictures that matched those dimensions to find a picture that would fit my screen perfectly as a wallpaper. but when I tried to set that picture as a wallpaper it gave me a tiny square that I was supposed to use to highlight basically the midriff portion of the picture and use that tiny cut-out, even resizing the box didn't help much. am I doing this wrong? should I be taking the width and multiplying it by two or three to appease that little box? or is there a better way to set the wallpaper?