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[Q] Wallpaper Cropping

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.
aplechaty said:
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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Can't set wallpaper from an jpeg off the web(resized)

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.

tysj said:
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.

babi_gurlx said:
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.
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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

Colour and contrast settings

This great little find works on the G2
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=54171427
Get the super amoled contrast on your g3 display
Go to setting -accessibility-color adjustment <br />
Like the pic below where the green circle at <br />
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columbus...
btw adjust it, and then look at the photos and images on your device

Just above the camera icon looks good!

i don't think you understood what i wrote

Nope, care to explain?

change your color settings
then open any picture on your phone or go and browse some web pages - see the difference...
this setting we're talking about is mostly to help color blind people...
it will not improove your screen colors (ips screens, such as on lg g2, already has better and more realistic color reproduction than any amoled screen)
only advantage of amoled screen is the brighter color/contrast in daylight - but i'd always buy a device or computer monitor with ips screen panel...

Understood that already, but moving the pointer vertically without any bias left or right will only adjust contrast and saturation.

changing contrast and saturation changes the colors too...
i.e.
i have blue background wallpaper with a red middle element
when i change contrast and saturation - blue becomes black, and red gets so warm that it hurts the eyes...

Well, for me setting the circle at the point I mentioned has no such effect.

making the settings like you described (circle over camera icon) doesn't change much overall... just messes up colors and contrast a bit...
not feeling realistic anymore.. but if that's what you like - go for it
btw you also have a neat color calibration tool by @bender_007 called Screen Calibrator, if you want to further tweak your display RGB values...

Thank you so much for this tip! I do prefer deeper contrast pictures and this has just made me like the display so much more! Thank you!

[FREE]Full size image as Wallpaper and change Live Wallpaper by time!

Download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vnsoft.fulllivewallpaper
Usually when you set a picture as wallpaper on the phone, that image will cut a part to fit the size of the screen. And the result is that you will have a background image no discretion
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Full size Live Wallpaper tools to help you have a perfect wallpaper:
-Keep the image sizes when set as wallpaper, no cropping, no loss of image resolution.
-Multiple selection mode so that you have a nice wallpaper and the most suitable..
-Option to automatically change the wallpaper by time (1 minute, 5 minutes, 30 minutes ...), double tap on the screen to switch to the other wallpapers.
-Editor wallpaper:add text, filter....
-Create wallpaper from many different pictures.
-Create color gradient wallpaper
With a simple interface, easy to use Full size Live Wallpaper will certainly be a useful tool if you want to have a beautiful and perfect wallpaper.
The application cost you very little battery power.
Download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vnsoft.fulllivewallpaper

loi_3009 said:
Download: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vnsoft.fulllivewallpaper
Usually when you set an image as wallpaper, then depending on the size of the screen on which the image will be truncated to get a most appropriate size.
But now with the application "Full size Wallpaper" image will no longer be truncated when installed as wallpaper but still get the best fit.
In addition to not change the wallpaper in a long time will cause the monotonous and boring.
"Full size Wallpaper" supply giving you the ability to automatically change the wallpaper after a preset time help you to always refresh your wallpaper
The application cost you very little battery power.
Download: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vnsoft.fulllivewallpaper
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loi_3009 said:
Download: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vnsoft.fulllivewallpaper
Usually when you set an image as wallpaper, then depending on the size of the screen on which the image will be truncated to get a most appropriate size.
But now with the application "Full size Wallpaper" image will no longer be truncated when installed as wallpaper but still get the best fit.
In addition to not change the wallpaper in a long time will cause the monotonous and boring.
"Full size Wallpaper" supply giving you the ability to automatically change the wallpaper after a preset time help you to always refresh your wallpaper
The application cost you very little battery power.
Download: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vnsoft.fulllivewallpaper
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Please!!! Fix It.
It has some lag. PLEASE!!! PLEASE!!! PLEASE!!!
Google play 5 stars.
+1 google.

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update for app!

update to version 1.2.

update to version 1.2.
-Fix error when booting.
-Create wallpaper from many different pictures.

update app

update to version 1.6.

update version 1.7.1.3
-Create color gradient wallpaper

Question P7P wallpaper colors limited on newer phone version?

I just received my replacement P7P. First one had lots of issues!
On the new phone, in Wallpaper & Style / Wallpaper Colors (not Basic Colors) there are a total of 3 screens of color selections. With the older version of my phone, there were at least 6 pages of colors.
Any ideas on how to get the rest of those color selection pages to show up. This may sound dumb, but there were some bright colors on the last page that I liked, but now it doesn't show up on this newer version of the phone.

Well, after playing around a bit I've figured out what's going on. This may seem like a commonly known thing to you guys, but this is my first Pixel so it's new to me.
I added a Wallpaper to my phone (an iPhone 14 Wallpaper) as I liked the vibrant colors. I had also added this same Wallpaper to my old P7P. Turns out, (I'm assuming here) the phone looks at the general colors of the Wallpaper, and adds those particular colors to your individual color pallettes, adding additional screens of selections. Those colors can then be used for your lock screen clock or the background color of your screens such as used in Gmail or telephone, contacts, etc ..
Whereas I had only 3 screens of color palettes with the phone stock, after installing this Wallpaper, the phone then has an additional 2 screens of new colors to choose from. The only issue now, and I think it's a glitch in the newest software update is that if I choose a color palette from this added Wallpaper, when I turn the phone off, upon restart the phone automatically goes back to the factory fresh color palette of mostly blues. The newly added colors are still available, but no longer selected. With the older, defective P7P I had, a restart did NOT reset my color palette. It left things as I had selected.
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Above, your can see I now have 5 pages (5 dots) of color selections as opposed to the original 3. That bright green will, with the latest software update, only remain selected until I restart the phone. At that point it goes back to a blue color palette from page one. With my last P7P, a restart would not unselect my choice.