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?
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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
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’.
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 =)
Any picture i select from my gallery to set as my wallpaper turns out to be slightly fuzzy. For example.
Stock wallpapers are perfect.
Is there an optimal resolution to utilize our display?
See attached picture that i would like to use but is fuzzy.
Sent from my EVO
maybe the resolution is too small
so the phone tries to stretch it out to make it fit on the screen
Yea try finding the file dimensions and/or resolution. The picture may be too small.
Sent from my VS920 4G using XDA
1280x720
Wallpaper selector makes me use the pinch to size orange crop box. i didn't want to crop anything. When i do, resolution gets cut.
Sent from my EVO
Wallpaper resolution for our phones is 1440x1280. Anything lower will be fuzzy.
Hey all I am trying to design a wallpaper for my 80 g9 but don't what size to make it. I am using photoshop and don't know the right pixel amount to use. Thanks in advance
Took this straight from the Tech Specs page on the Archos website.
Display characteristics • 8”: 1024 x 768
Hope it helps!
On my Cobalt it crops the image to a 768x768 cross then enlarges it to a 1024x1024 cross so it should fit both portrait and landscape but it looks awful.
So it may be an idea to enlarge the canvas in Photoshop to 1024x1024, then set it as your wallpaper on the device so it is cropped without being resized
I've done some experimenting.
The best results are to use photoshop to add a large border around the image you want, basically set the canvas size to twice the current dimensions or more, this will reduce the amount of resizing the tablet does when you crop.
Now, with the mask that the wallpaper crop tool gives you, even though the landscape section is in the middle, it is wrong, the top of the landscape section is actually the top of the outer rectangle, so the top most line of the rectangle will be the top most line of the final cropped image.
xaccers said:
I've done some experimenting.
The best results are to use photoshop to add a large border around the image you want, basically set the canvas size to twice the current dimensions or more, this will reduce the amount of resizing the tablet does when you crop.
Now, with the mask that the wallpaper crop tool gives you, even though the landscape section is in the middle, it is wrong, the top of the landscape section is actually the top of the outer rectangle, so the top most line of the rectangle will be the top most line of the final cropped image.
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just set the pixels to stock display size them go to playstore, download crop wallpaper then find photo set as overall and apply