Trying to set a wallpaper, Android forcing me to crop it? Help!

[SweetBearCub]

I have a 315x448 (pixels, wide x high) jpg image that I'd like to set as the wallpaper on my home screen. However, Android is forcing me to resize it, and although I can expand the crop selection box somewhat, I can only expand it to cover half of the image vertically. In addition to forcing me to crop out half of the image, Android also insists on resampling the cropped image, thus greatly reducing its quality.

Also - Can anyone out there walk me through using a (preferably) freeware program to enlarge the image to the phone's native resolution of 320x480? I'd be willing to tolerate some minor distortion in the aspect ratio if it meant having the image fill the entire screen. Of course, this assumes that I can get the first part of this post answered.

 

[kinster02]

This is done with all images... no clue on your freeware program.

 

[captmeach7]

crop

What you have to do is rotate the image on a pc and save it that way. Do you know how to do this? It may cut off a tiny bit of the photo but you will be able to select almost the whole image with the crop rectangle

 

[SweetBearCub]

Why is this done with all images, even if the image is smaller than the native/current screen resolution? Seems kind of.. counter-productive.

This is done with all images... no clue on your freeware program.

 

[SweetBearCub]

I do know how to rotate images on my PC.. But that would defeat the purpose of what I'm trying to do. I want to get the image, which is almost large enough to fill the entire Optimus S screen (if it were not cropped) as a wallpaper, unmolested/unchanged (other than finding a way to slightly enlarge it so that it completely fills the screen).

Below is a quick representation of the image I'm trying to use. The lighter gray area is the area the (unresized/unstretched) photo would occupy if I could set it as a wallpaper. Note that its orientation is already correct for the Optimus S when held in portrait mode. The darker gray area in the image is the entire viewable screen area of the Optimus S, which I'd like to scale my photo to before using it full time as my wallpaper, if possible.

What you have to do is rotate the image on a pc and save it that way. Do you know how to do this? It may cut off a tiny bit of the photo but you will be able to select almost the whole image with the crop rectangle

 

[captmeach7]

ok

I replicated your problem by taking a 1600x1200 photo(what i normally use as my Optimus' wallpapers) and i re-sized it to your resolution of 315x448 (to get it to look right though you put the length size first which is why i told you to rotate the photo- should be 448x315) This is why the phone is not allowing you to crop right and why it looks crappy after it re-samples. it is trying to stretch 315 pixels to 480. If you rotate the image then it will only be trying to stretch 448 to 480.

Now if you don't want the phone to re-stretch at all you have to start with a larger image.

If you edit the photo on a pc with say paint.net, then the photo will still only stretch. (same as on the phone)

 

[Smitty_82]

Why is this done with all images, even if the image is smaller than the native/current screen resolution? Seems kind of.. counter-productive.

This is due to the fact that the "screen" extends past what is visible to the sides. You only see the full image top to bottom at any given time. So, when you are looking at one screen, the wallpaper continues to the left and right "off screen". Hope that helps. I use Launcher Pro Plus and it will allow you to keep the image centered, but you still have to deal with the sides of the image.

 

[Colonel Travis]

Also curious about this - so what's the size of the phone's stock wallpaper?