Question Cropping a photo for Wallpaper use?

[saflyfish]

I have a Samsung Galaxy A55.
I have a pic in my Gallery i want to set as my Wallpaper on the Lock & Home screens.

My issue is that when i set the photo to Custom in the Gallery editor,then crop it to the size i want,the editor auto resizes the image and makes it bigger which i dont want as its a wide photo and then when i set as wallpaper i dont get the whole pic and it cuts people out on the sides.

How can i crop an image to the size i want to include everyone in the photo?

 

[Js42FL]

I normally take screen shot with display set in dark then use it for wallpaper or lock screen .. !!

 

[belodion]

You don’t have the Use As Wallpaper option when you tap the three-dot menu top right?

I’m not familiar with Samsungs so I’m not sure how they do it, but there must surely be something like that.

 

[saflyfish]

No just the Set As Wallpaper option.
Is there a really good free image editor on the Play Store?

 

[Mooncatt]

It sounds like what is happening is the phone is scaling the pic up so that it covers the entire screen top to bottom. Photos typically don't match phone screen resolutions, so the only options are to scale up and cut off what doesn't fit (what Android will do), or have black bars that most people would probably find more annoying.

If you want a sure fire way to get only what you want would be to crop at the same ratio as your screen. I.e. If the screen is 9x16, then set the crop aspect ratio to 9x16. As long as the photo editor has an option to lock the crop aspect ratio, you can move and change the size of the cropping window to leave only what you want shown on the home screen. Then save/export the photo and set that newly created image as the home screen.

 

[bearone2]

can't you just open the pic/s, edit, crop??

 

[saflyfish]

It sounds like what is happening is the phone is scaling the pic up so that it covers the entire screen top to bottom. Photos typically don't match phone screen resolutions, so the only options are to scale up and cut off what doesn't fit (what Android will do), or have black bars that most people would probably find more annoying.

If you want a sure fire way to get only what you want would be to crop at the same ratio as your screen. I.e. If the screen is 9x16, then set the crop aspect ratio to 9x16. As long as the photo editor has an option to lock the crop aspect ratio, you can move and change the size of the cropping window to leave only what you want shown on the home screen. Then save/export the photo and set that newly created image as the home screen.

Thanks for the info you are correct the phone is scaling up when i crop its so frustrating
No option to lock aspect ratio...