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...

 

[Mooncatt]

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

This is the app I use when I need quick and basic edits. It has the option to create and lock custom cropping aspect ratios.

Photo Editor - Apps on Google Play

Photo Editor is a small but powerful photo editing application

play.google.com

 

[saflyfish]

This is the app I use when I need quick and basic edits. It has the option to create and lock custom cropping aspect ratios.

Photo Editor - Apps on Google Play

Photo Editor is a small but powerful photo editing application

play.google.com

Great little app...
If i open an image in this app im still unsure how to do the following:
Make the image narrower without losing resolution?
Please advise...

 

[Mooncatt]

Great little app...
If i open an image in this app im still unsure how to do the following:
Make the image narrower without losing resolution?
Please advise...

Maybe there's a misunderstanding somewhere. Making the image narrower necessarily means losing resolution. Do you mean you are trying to make it narrow without loosing what is in the picture? I.e. stretching?

 

[VidJunky]

I understand what you are looking for. This may take you a couple of tries but the easiest way is to open the picture in you gallery app, I use Google Photos, then touch the screen to hide the description/notification bar and all of that, and you should be left with an image in the ratio you want with the blank areas above and below the image. Then you can take a screenshot and use this new image for your wallpaper. If you need to crop the image some to enlarge the central focus of your image, perform the crop, then follow the same steps. I'll post images below.

The first is the original, then the original screenshoted to include blank to and bottom, and finally a pre-cropped image screenshoted with blank space above and below. Is this the method you're looking for?