Question Samsung Galaxy Wallpaper issues?

[saflyfish]

If i go into my Gallery to set a photo or image as wallpaper the sides of the image are usually cropped out.
Is there a way to make the image smaller without the Gallery auto resizing the image?

Is there an app that does this automatically or what is the workaround?

 

[SpookDroid]

You need to adjust your original image to fit the size/ratio of your screen. Just like movies have those black bars on TVs, if the image doesn't 'fit' your screen, you'll either get it zoomed in or cropped out (i.e. the black bars). You can re-size using the built-in Image Editor on your phone.

 

[saflyfish]

I dont want the black bars

 

[SpookDroid]

You can either zoom in while setting the Wallpaper to fill your screen or you have to re-size your image to the same aspect ratio as your phone. For instance, if you have a Galaxy S25 Ultra, the aspect ratio should be 19.5:9 (resolution 1440x3120). That's the image size (or a factor of) that you should target if you want the picture to fill your screen. Anything else will have to be filled with bars or cropped out from zooming in.

 

[VidJunky]

You can resize photos with many apps but one that you likely already have is Windows Paint.

To do this with the Paint program,
1) Look your phone specs up online and find your screen resolution. Like SpookDroid mentioned, it will read 1440x3120 or something like that. Ignore any that you find that say a ratio, for ease of use you will want the resolution numbers as they appear here.
2) Open and import your image into Paint, click on the (+ magnifying lens) icon in the Tools section and with your mouse right or left click on the image until you can comfortably see the whole image.
3) Click on the Resize and Skew tool (a box around another box that looks like picture with an arrow) in the Image block, and at the top of the pop-up select Pixels in the resize option block.
4) Input the numbers you got in step 1 into the horizontal and vertical values and this will squish your image into the aspect ratio that fits your screen and should be able to be used 1 for 1 as wallpaper. (Between the Horizontal and Vertical values there's an icon that allows the ratio be changed. If you don't click this when you change one value it will adjust the other value by the same % amount. Clicking this will allow you to input the values you want and get the values you want out.)

Be warned that changing the aspect ratio of the image to fit the screen vs cropping the edges, is going to elongate whatever aspect, horizontal or vertical, your squishing. So, if you're bringing the sides in to fit, everything is going to look tall and thin. Conversely, bring the top and bottom in, is going to make everything short and fat. This is why your images are being cropped, it preserves the look of the photo by keeping the overall aspect ratio and removing the excess.


Let us know if this works for you.