What size of wallpapers should we use for Sony Tablet S?
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Original (stock) wallpapers are sized 2048x1504, and I've seen that size recommended for tablets elsewhere also.
So I guess when your image has these dimensions and you set the wallpaper crop box to maximum size you get non-stretched (or very little stretched) image.
Just keep in mind, that it crops out good chunks from top and bottom in portrait mode and even bigger chunks in landscape mode.
I have made a Sony S1 Tablet wallpaper template in Photoshop.
It has a size of 1920x1408px and its different areas are colour-coded (and it also has guidelines in PS-file):
- Red: invisible area (some of it is briefly shown while the tablet is turned and the wallpaper flips)
- Darker green: middle home screen in landscape mode
- Lighter green: whole scrollable area in landscape mode
- Darker blue: middle home screen in portrait mode
- Lighter blue: scrollable area in landscape mode
It's been tested and is pixel-perfect if you set the crop correctly- when setting as wallpaper, first move the blue crop box to the upper-left corner and then stretch the lower corner to the most lower-right point and click "Ok".
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Files attached are:
- photoshop template file (psd) zipped
- same template in jpeg format
1920 x 1408
Looks like raundown is right, image sized 1920x1408px seems a bit crisper than the image with the size I previously suggested.
I have corrected the wallpaper image template in my previous post, it's now 1920x1408px.
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The size.
:roll: Background size is 240 x 287. Enjoy the creations. :twisted:
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well, Having a few problems with my lockscreen on RR, is there some-way to use a full screenshot as the lock screen, tried every way but it wants to crop it, and yeah I don't want it cropped :') any help would be amazing
In stock ICS, GS2 captures screenshots natively by pressing Vol.Down+Power button. It works anywhere, even on lockscreen; and the photos are full - not cropped.
it isn't the screen shot I'm having trouble with its that image for the lockscreen I'm having problems with
Resize your image to 480x800, or the same aspect ratio 0.6, it will still show the crop screen but the image will be full size.
Or perhaps add some blank spaces on the size to fit into the same aspect ratio.
Hi everyone!
I have an Xperia Tablet S and want to make a wallpaper that works both in landscape and portrait.
I have an imagine and know how to enlarge the canvas in an art programme, but what dimensions should I use?
The main image that I want to use is 960 x 854.
Thanks!
edit - found it.... 1920 x 1408..
Ofiaich
ofiaich said:
Hi everyone!
I have an Xperia Tablet S and want to make a wallpaper that works both in landscape and portrait.
I have an imagine and know how to enlarge the canvas in an art programme, but what dimensions should I use?
The main image that I want to use is 960 x 854.
Thanks!
Ofiaich
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The wallpaper dimensions for the Xperia Tablet S are the same as for the Sony Tablet S. The tablet's 1920 x 800 pixel screen displays a 1920 x 752 pixel wallpaper view in horizontal (landscape) mode and a 800 x 1232 pixel wallpaper view in vertical (portrait) mode.
The missing 48 pixels in both modes are used by the menu bar located at the bottom of the tablet's screen. Also, the translucent menu located at the top of the tablet's screen covers 56 pixels in horizontal mode and 48 pixels in vertical mode.
However, because the five different display screens are viewed by sliding them left and right, and the wallpaper view is shifted, wallpaper images need to be larger than the dimensions given above; wallpaper images need to be sized 1920 x 1280 pixels. For more information about sizing wallpaper images, read THIS post.
Thanks Cat McGowan!
That link and your information is very helpful..
I have attached my first attempt... I have the Xperia T so now my Xperia Tablet matches.
Thanks again!
Ofiaich :laugh:
Can anyone recommend a application that you can use in place of setting a wallpaper the stock way. I have tried Wallpaper Wizardrii which allows me to crop the picture the way I would like, but I still get a black bar on the bottom and the wallpaper doesn't extend behind the notification bar. Any help is appreciated as this is incredibly annoying.
The big thing is to make sure your wallpaper is the right dimensions
Slithered from my HTC One X+
This is incredibly annoying on HTC Sense. It doesn't support scrollable wallpapers, it doesn't rotate into landscape mode (without a mod) so then why does it insist that I need to crop a perfectly fine 720x1280 image that should otherwise fit the screen just fine?
What apps do you use to force such an image as a wallpaper, without any gratuitous cropping? I just want a static image on all the screens, no scrolling, I don't care for landscape.
What about a fancier setup with a different static image on each screen? Possible with Sense, without using a different launcher?
I've tired multiple apps but none of them seem to work long term. The "solution" I've come up in the mean is making a Photoshop file with the dimensions of the phone in landscape mode and putting the image I would like add the wall paper in the center. Then save the file as a jpeg and download it to your phone. I don't really consider this as a "solution" as it should not take this much work to apply a simple wallpaper. For now this is the best I could come up with.
Sent from my HTC One X+ using xda app-developers app
Try "Simple Image Wallpaper Free".
It works great for me.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ridgelineapps.simpleimagewallpaper&hl=de
What I use to apply images as wallpaper is an app called image 2 wallpaper. It's a free app and it's pretty good I hate how the stock wallpaper app does this weird zoom and splits the wallpaper 3 ways. Idk it's weird so I use that app and I'm pretty much happy with it
Sent from my HTC One X+ using xda premium
I played with it a bit and it seems the key here is that at least when using Sense, the required wallpaper size is 1440x1280. Yes, that's 2 x 720 (the screen width). I'm guessing that's to allow for scrolling across screens and for landscape mode for launchers that support it. I looked at the stock Jelly Bean wallpapers and they are also exactly 1440x1280. Note that other launchers may have other size requirements and they have their own options to allow scrolling the wallpaper or not. The stock Sense launcher does not scroll the wallpaper or allow landscape and it has no preference to enable it.
So if you have an image that's exactly 720x1280 (as I tried to initially use), what apps such as Image2Wallpaper do is turn it into 1440x1280 by padding it with a solid color (border). You can play with the options and set a white border color for example and then save the image from Image2Wallpaper and look at it, it will be obvious what is going on. Of course, you can do all this yourself in a photo editing application and then set the wallpaper via the stock Gallery, making sure the crop rectangle is fully expanded.
I haven't tried "Simple Image Wallpaper" yet, that may work in a different way as it's implemented as a live wallpaper. I wonder if there's any impact on CPU and battery with using such an app as opposed to a static image.
There's also MultiPicture Live Wallpaper which allows cycling through an album and has plugin for some online services such as Picasa.
Bottom line is that the native wallpaper format is 1440x1280. Here are some nice ones in this size to get you started:
http://euphoricarythmia.com/showthread.php?t=31291
Image2Wallpaper is also valuable to see what the wallpaper and true screen size a device claims to have. Hit the "Info" option in the menu. E.g.:
HOX+:
Wallpaper size: 1440x1280 (with HTC Sense launcher)
Screen: 720x1280
Nexus 7:
Wallpaper size: 1406x1280 (with stock JB 4.2.2 launcher)
Screen: 800x1205
Weird numbers for the N7, I'm guessing because of the soft buttons menu bar.
Landscape Wallpaper is decent if you want to get scrolling wallpapers with the stock Sense launcher.
Here's what I settled on after playing with wallpapers for a couple of days:
Image2Wallpaper: the best app I found for dealing with static images. It has just the right options and lets you save a correct size image that you can later on set via a different app.
Landscape Wallpaper: great if you want scrollable wallpapers with HTC Sense launcher. Not perfect because of the Sense limitations, but good enough if you must have scrollable wallpapers.
MultiPicture Live Wallpaper: great app if you have a bunch of wallpapers and want to switch between them quickly to see what they look like (all you have to do is double-tap the screen in an empty area while your device is "live"). Also nice because you can set it to automatically change your wallpapers if you like that style of random wallpapers every few hours.
Every other app I've seen mentioned and I tried was not worth keeping installed.
I hope this helps someone. Unfortunately the only way to really understand how wallpapers work is to play with them for a bit.
Hey XDA members
I have created a UCCW widget but I cant get it to absolute widget proportions on my home screen. In other words, I cant expand my widget in uccw to meet the size I want in my homescreen
SCREEN SHOT 1: The widget is perfectly fit. If I expand it, it goes out of the box and become invisible.
SCREEN SHOT 2: The widget goes perfect with Horizontal size but plays some gap in vertical size.
I cant vertically expand the image because it will simply result in invisibility, whereas downloadable skins from Playstore have absolute proportion on my homescreen. Can anyone help please? THANKS