I recently went on a search for getting some good wallpapers for my Droid X. I downloaded various 960x864 pictures, but whenever I try to set them as wallpaper it forces me to crop them into a 864x864 square it seems. Is this normal?
Excellent question I just got my droid yestyerday and I want to use some images I have as wallpaper but it tries to crop them to small and into a square how can I get my images to work as backgrounds?
Have you tried sliding the cropping box out to encompass the entire image?
It slides to the side but will not slide down to get whole image.
By slide to the side do you mean than the cropping box moves, but does not grow?
The box will grow if you "grab" it from the edge of the box.
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It slides to the side but will not slide down to get whole image.
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it seems to only grow at a fixed 1:1 ratio, I may take a video later to show it because I understand it's hard to grasp what we're saying without seeing what's happening. I can enlarge the orange square to "maximum" but from there I can't stretch it wider. Here's an image of it, kinda blurry but you can still see the issue.
Can't post it as an image but here's the link
www dot photoshop dot com/accounts/9957f134d6344f1d91f6bfe43b91f4d3/px-assets/8e8de8366a2a4c72882d1dea1ec55865
It will always grow at a 1:1 ratio. The bounding box is fixed at a ratio of 960x854. You won't be able to stretch it wider once the box hits the top and bottom of the image you are applying.
I downloaded some wallpapaers that were supposedly that resolution and they still seem overly large and I have to crop them?
You will ALWAYS have to set the crop if you want the entire image to be included. Regardless of the original size - be it the precise size (960x854) or another size - the cropping box will start out smaller than the image. You will always need to drag the edge of the box to its largest size in order to encompass the entire image.
The image I posted the link to is 960x854, but as you can see the box is maxed yet there is still some of the image that needs to be added to complete it. I understand that it will always ask to crop the image, but why won't it fit to the proper image size?
Any chance you have your dimensions reversed? Are you sure the image isn't 854x960? In your image it looks like it is off center. If the cropping box was fully expanded to the WIDTH, it wouldn't be possible to be off center.
I am guessing that it is hitting the HEIGHT restriction first, leaving a gap on the side, as indicated in the image below.
If you want to upload your background picture I can check it. Or you can email it to me if that is easier. My XDA username @ the most likely email domain for an Android user.
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I have jpeg/png image that I am trying to use as a wallpaper. I changed the resolution of the image to 920x800 and downloaded and saved to gallery on the phone.
When I go to change wallpaper and use that, it ALWAYS brings up the crop tool and doesn't let me pick the whole image. The crop tool messes up the resolution and that's not what I want. I want the whole image as I downloaded it to appear as the wallpaper.
Is it not possible to do
Needs to be 960x800
Doesn't need to be any resolution really. The stock ones are just generally 960x800. Use the crop tool to expand the window by pressing on the edge/border of it and drag out so that you can expand the window as much as possible over the image.
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Doesn't need to be any resolution really. The stock ones are just generally 960x800. Use the crop tool to expand the window by pressing on the edge/border of it and drag out so that you can expand the window as much as possible over the image.
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Is true that doesn't have to be 960x800 but it need to be a res that have the same proportions or you won't be able to use the whole image and instead will end cropping and scaling the image.
download wallpaper set and save from the market. its a cool app and it lets you use the entire image. also using a hi-resolution wallpaper or hd wallpaper helps to make it not pixelated and fuzzy looking. it doesn't have to a particular size either.
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download wallpaper set and save from the market. its a cool app and it lets you use the entire image. also using a hi-resolution wallpaper or hd wallpaper helps to make it not pixelated and fuzzy looking. it doesn't have to a particular size either.
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Nice app but it does the same it won't let you use the whole image it crops and scale and the image ends blurry.
original image 1280x800:
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re-sized to 960x800:
That app just made my day
got a low resolution pic and it did what I wanted. THANK YOU
Now if I could only figure how to set different jpegs for lock screen and wall paper
One of the things which allows humans to perceive objects in 3D is depth of field. When you focus on a close-up object, objects in the background become out of focus. This lets your mind know the object up close is up close. You also cannot focus near and far at the same time.
So, when you put a clearly focused wallpaper behind clearly focused icons, the mind perceives the surface as flat. However, if you were to soften the focus of the wallpaper, the mind would perceive that the icons are actually closer to you or seem to "float" above the background.
EASY WAY TO TRY IT:
Just download Photoshop Express (it's free) to your phone and open your favorite wallpaper in it. (Note: you must go to settings and tell it to look in areas other than just your photo folder if you keep your wallpapers stored elsewhere).
Ok, once your wallpaper is open, go to Menu > Edit Photo. You will then see some icons appear at the top. Tap on the 3rd one from the left and then click on "Soft Focus". To soften the focus, you simply drag your finger left to right over the image. The max you can do at any one time is 20. However, just click the green checkmark at the bottom right and then drag again until you reach the desired soft focus. I find that 2 x 20 works well.
Once you have the image you want, click the green arrow again, then click the button on the bottom right that has an arrow going into a hard drive. This will save your new image. Don't worry, it doesn't write over your original image but creates a brand new image.
Now go and attempt to add the wallpaper. It will be the last image in the folder since you have just created it. It will not be next to the original image.
Now look at your icons and you should notice they look more 3D than before. Enjoy!
Picsssss?
A drop of Chuck Norris's semen was placed on the IPhone. We now have the Htc Evo.
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Ok, you got me, what the hell does that mean?
Yep. I also make lots of backgrounds by taking photos or just drawing blobs of color and applying a gaussian blur to make it look more muted and subtle.
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Ok, you got me, what the hell does that mean?
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Probably wants a Screenshot.
Also dropping a shadow on your icons would produce this depth perception
And how do you add a drop shadow to your icon??
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Picsssss?
A drop of Chuck Norris's semen was placed on the IPhone. We now have the Htc Evo.
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Sort of works .... kinda not really but you get the idea .... I guess ...
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This G Tablet is just out of the box, but appears to have some type of "burn in" that shows up one certain colored backgrounds. I noticed it first in the background of the application Tweetdeck, but the attached image is with the plain background using the free application called "Dead Pixel Test". It was a little tricky to capture with the camera, but there is an outline about 1/2 an inch all the way around the screen with rounded corners and on the left side it it juts out to a point sort of like a "speech bubble" from a comic. This is the third display color of Dead Pixel Test, "light grey". I didn't see it with any other colors in that program, but depending on what colors are in the background in other applications, this outline may appear.
Could anyone else confirm if their display has this issue? This unit is new, so I'm not sure how it would have any burn in like this, so maybe all displays have this, or maybe it's just a display defect on my unit.
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I ran the dead pixel test and it didn't have any issues like your pic. If you bought in a store bring it back and show them the test and have them run the same test on an in store display model.
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Definitley bring it back. Better to have peace of mind than to worry about it.
Scott
Thanks for the confirmation. It didn't look right and now it does sound like it's just a problem with this particular unit I have. I am going to take it into the store as you suggested.
LCD panels can experience retained images, but it's far less likely to be permanent than the phosphor damage seen on CRT tubes and plasma displays. The new OLED panels will probably be bad for this as well. Set a pure white background for a few hours at low brightness to keep the temperature down (with no icons) then see if your pixel test shows any difference. If the image is really permanently retained out of the box my guess would be that it was probably a test result screen from the factory.
Good reminder for the rest of us that screen savers/timeouts are important!
I have this wallpaper that I found somewhere:
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I want it to be my wallpaper just like it looks, but when I set it the phone forces me to crop it and I wind up with this:
How can I get the full image as a background so that its not zoomed in or cropped?
I was wondering the same thing ... I seems that you can't unless you put your wallpaper in the same destination the default ones are located which will make it like a stock one ....
Waiting for more experienced opinion ...
Hey man. I know what you mean it can be annoying. The reason why it asks you to crop is because of your phone's resolution or whatever, it can only show so much. What you could try is "PicSPEED Wallpapers" from the market. Download it. Then when you set a wallpaper (from your gallery) a new option to custom crop the iage will appear and you can freely manipulate what is shown as the wallapaper
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Hey man. I know what you mean it can be annoying. The reason why it asks you to crop is because of your phone's resolution or whatever, it can only show so much.
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no that's not correct....
I have the stock GB wallpapers and stil have to crop them when set as wallpapers...
Most wallpapers apps are crap low quality stuff...Plus tons of crap adds...
It asks you to crop because it slides the image over a little while changing home screens (for a static wallpaper). I don't believe there is a setting in the stock launcher to change that. What you generally want is a square, 800px tall and 800px wide, with the image you want in the middle. Then you enlarge the crop to the entire image, and voila.
I use "wallpaper set and save"
On market sets wallpaper without quality lose
Edit nvrmind stretches image
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To save me explaining it all again, have a read of this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1446145
Whoops! i guess i was wrong haha. They can explain it better, check the link above
Use wallpaper wizadrii from the market. I use it all the time.
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Hey XDA'ers,
I was just wondering if any of you know how to create wallpapers specifically designed for the Desire S. The current resolution I have (googled and found out I should use this, i think) is 980x856 or 980x850. Anyway, I want to design a wallpaper like PieUI, as follows :
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See how the widgets fit right underneath the colored lines? I want to make a wallpaper like that for my Desire S. I'm not sure how to figure out Android grid sizes in Photoshop, so any help on doing so would be amazing. Might be nice to mention I want to do it for 3 Homescreens, if that makes any difference.
Thanks people, hope I was clear in my question. (I searched for threads on how to do this, but I couldn't find anything that explained it properly)
Peace!
Why don't you take a screenshot on the central home screen with some stuff on it and then use it as an under-layer for your design in photoshop, then remove it before saving your final version?
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Why don't you take a screenshot on the central home screen with some stuff on it and then use it as an under-layer for your design in photoshop, then remove it before saving your final version?
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You know, I never actually thought of doing that. Now I feel like a complete idiot lol. Ill give that a go and see if I can do something with it
Thanks
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Hey XDA'ers,
I was just wondering if any of you know how to create wallpapers specifically designed for the Desire S. The current resolution I have (googled and found out I should use this, i think) is 980x856 or 980x850.!
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From what I remember, and I'm sure someone else will pipe up if I'm wrong, the screen of the DS is 480 wide by 800 high. When I used wallpapers compatible for scrolling they needed to be 960 wide by 800 high - 480 pixels in the centre for the main screen and 240 each side for the scrolling.
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From what I remember, and I'm sure someone else will pipe up if I'm wrong, the screen of the DS is 480 wide by 800 high. When I used wallpapers compatible for scrolling they needed to be 960 wide by 800 high - 480 pixels in the centre for the main screen and 240 each side for the scrolling.
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I thought about the pixel size when it went to landscape, i wasn't sure what the scrolling sizes needed to be (i just doubled the width, hoping it was right lol) I'm still messing about with wallpapers, trying to get a wallpaper/UCCW theme going on here. Proving to be a hassle, but ill get it Thanks for confirming the sizes man.