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
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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’.
Ok so I've decided to stop using live wallpapers as they eat up battery and break launcher pro if I underclock my CPU to save battery.
However I'm having problems getting wallpapers the right size.
I've tried resizing them to 320x480 but when setting them it still asks me to crop them and the crop box isn't even the right shape rectangle when maximised!
So what size should my backgrounds be to fit nicely on the screen?
Try 640 x 480. It worked for me, on Zeam.
For Optimus One wallpaper must be a resolution of 640x480, and all other phones with resolution 320x480.
thanks for the replies, i'll try it out.
It's because the background moves as you swipe home screens. Basically, android wallpapers should have the same height as the screen but twice the width.
Good article on it: http://m.lifehacker.com/5657727/whats-the-deal-with-androids-weird-wallpaper-requirements
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.
Ed
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 =)
What is the exact screen size I should use while developing apps for Prime ?
Declared screen resolution isn't correct, because I used that and tested and its not showing in full size as it should, so it must be some other screen size.
Don't know, but would it work to take a screen shot and mail yourself the photo?
I had the same trouble with my hubs screens. Beautiful Photoshop stuff, but when they display at the original (advertised) size, they have a few pixels missing at either end.
I've used 1280x800px, but width of 1280 won't go to their ends and height seems to be shorter, because I see font degradation and rest of the objects, but its best visible on fonts (at least in my case.)
I'll have to explore tomorrow with different sizes... although I don't like these testing where I have to do whoknows how much of them to find exact dimensions.
The system bar take 48 pixels. So the actual resolution that's is available is 1280x752
If you going to create a app. I why don't look at android developer section for guide and info.. Just a suggestion...
http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support.html
http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support.html#DeclaringTabletLayouts
Asus Prime & Tapatalk
Both of your links don't mention 752px, there is 720.
Anyways I don't use Android SDK or any other of their info. I use Adobe Flash and do it all from there. Very easy and no need for lots of reading
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?