Wallpaper on homescreen help

[Eleni 22]

I took the second one (the easy one ) and just repeated three pattern on all 4 sides. I used paint. Used copy and paste.

It might take a couple tries of moving and cropping to get it to look right.

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Second one will be harder but I'll have to work on it later.

Ok will try that thank you

 

[yosteve]

Try the second one redid it

 

[Eleni 22]

I think the problem is that ICS has 3 homescreens, so when it is asking you to crop the picture, it is asking you to show it what portion of the picture you want on the middle homescreen. The rest of the picture will be split over the other 2 homescreens (the far left and far right ones).

So it looks like there is no way to get the entire picture on the middle homescreen, which is what you want to be able to do. Ideally what I would like to be able to do is to have the same picture take up the entire middle homescreen and repeat that on each of the other 2 homescreens.

That makes sense. I would like to do that too
Thank you

 

[Eleni 22]

I took the second one (the easy one ) and just repeated three pattern on all 4 sides. I used paint. Used copy and paste.

It might take a couple tries of moving and cropping to get it to look right.

edit, I had to do it over it didn't look big enough, man our screens are big lol

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Second one will be harder but I'll have to work on it later.

 

[PetuniaCarlyle]

Actually, now that I am playing around, it seems like there are 5 homescreens?

 

[samkatz]

One thing i learned from downloading scenic wallpaper from apps r is that the single image stretches across all five home screens. So it makes sense that the bb wallpaper won't be enough resolution.

 

[Eleni 22]

I'm seeing that myself playing with these wallpapers all day

 

[Eleni 22]

I took the second one (the easy one ) and just repeated three pattern on all 4 sides. I used paint. Used copy and paste.

It might take a couple tries of moving and cropping to get it to look right.

edit, I had to do it over it didn't look big enough, man our screens are big lol

Click to view quoted image


Second one will be harder but I'll have to work on it later.

Yosteve,
Thank you so much for all this. I found the Ny giants lloyd by cyber in the wallpaper section

 

[PetuniaCarlyle]

the single image stretches across all five home screens.

Yes, now I get it. When you go to set an image as the wall paper, it asks you to crop it. It shows you both a portrait window and a landscape window superimposed on each other like a cross. See below image:

http://forums.androidcentral.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=20393&stc=1&d=1326581734


The portrait window is what will be displayed on the middle homescreen. The rest of the photo in the square outline will be dispersed over the 5 homescreens.

 

[MessedUpTeen]

Is there anyway to get passed this though ? I have high res photos taken by a Big canon camara and it still makes me crop :'(

 

[yosteve]

Is there anyway to get passed this though ? I have high res photos taken by a Big canon camara and it still makes me crop :'(

I don't understand what you're saying, you don't want to have to crop. It's actually good because you don't you can adjust the goal focal point of the picture.

Or you'll either have to do it on a pc with a picture anyway. Or I guess you might be able to set a digital camera to our size screen.

 

[Nakrohtap]

Is there anyway to get passed this though ? I have high res photos taken by a Big canon camara and it still makes me crop :'(

I don't understand what you're saying, you don't want to have to crop. It's actually good because you don't you can adjust the goal focal point of the picture.

Or you'll either have to do it on a pc with a picture anyway. Or I guess you might be able to set a digital camera to our size screen.

Basically, the wallpaper is a 4:3 ratio. If your setting on your camera is not, then you will always need to crop. My suggestion is to resize all of your photos from your Canon camera before you copy them to your phone. 1. It will reduce the size of the file and will not take up unnecessary storage space on your phone. 2. If you reduce the original image to 1440 height, you will be getting the clearest picture when you "crop" it on your phone because it will be at its native resolution. Your phone will always ask to crop the photo when using the gallery whether it's the right size or not. If it is native 1440 x 1280, you will be able to drag the cross hairs to the corner of your photo.

 

[Laineyc]

I also had pics on my Storm 2 that I wanted to use on my GN as wallpaper. They were not actual wallpapers, but pics that I downloaded and used. So on the GN the whole thing about more than one homescreen was confusing me. I downloaded Wallpaper Wizardrii and opened my photos with that. Once you "set" the picture, use "exact" or "crop exact" and you can keep the original picture. It will appear on the main homescreen in the center. Hope that helps.

 

[Comineeyeaha]

Here's something to keep in mind when setting your wallpaper. I just did a couple tests to see exactly how it's done here, which is slightly different than before. The inner boxes are just guidelines, and don't represent the actual picture area. The outer box represents the very top and very bottom of the screen, meaning that it hides behind the notification bar and soft keys. Use the outer box to make sure you have the whole image in frame, and I always maximize it. Yes, it may miss some of the left to right image, but that's if the picture is too wide. Some of the custom launchers (or home screen replacements) let you choose to lock wallpaper scrolling, which would optimize the wallpaper for a 1280x720 image. You could always try that out. Other than that, somebody else pointed out a wallpaper app they liked. There are a few out there you can try.

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[CuriousNoob]

Use quickpic to set wallpaper. Default gallery gives me blurry pictures.

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[Laineyc]

I can take a screenshot but how do you post it?

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[PetuniaCarlyle]

I can take a screenshot but how do you post it?

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Click on manage attachments below your post and then choose file. Navigate to where the file is and then upload it.