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Old 30-12-2012, 07:09
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I have a photo of me and my best friends little boy that I want to use as wallpaper, but for the life of me I can not get it displayed properly.

Basically what happens is this: I get the 'crop picture box' come up and I select the area (our heads) and hit OK. Then when I goto the home screen the bloody thing has zoomed in to a stupid level. I have just upgraded to Android ICS and now it has two smaller boxes inside the main box to show me what wont be there. All I'm asking is why cant I move the crop box off the screen so his head will appear on the cropped photo as well?

There must be something simple im missing but I cant work out what it is.

Oh and can all the apple heads please not appear telling me how easy it is to select wallpapers on an iphone. You arent being clever or funny.
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Old 30-12-2012, 07:14
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If its a photo you want to look at then I would use a photo frame widget. You can have any aspect ratio you like then. Wallpaper is a background to put widgets, controls and icons on; not a way of showing a picture.
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Old 30-12-2012, 08:47
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If its a photo you want to look at then I would use a photo frame widget. You can have any aspect ratio you like then. Wallpaper is a background to put widgets, controls and icons on; not a way of showing a picture.
I think you should not assume the OP is stupid. Setting a photo as wallpaper is a way of showing a picture. They just want to crop it so the wallpaper is not the whole photo.

I just tried to do what the OP wanted and had no problem. I did a long press on an empty part of my desktop, which brought up the personalise menu. Then I selected display from the bottom tool bar, then gallery for the source photo. I picked the photo I wanted, and a crop box automatically appeared. I adjusted the image to how I wanted it (aspect ratio was automatically correct for my screen).

It all 'just worked' to quote our apple friends.

I am using ICS, but with HTC Sense on top, so might be slightly different to other phones.
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Old 30-12-2012, 09:05
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I think the OP is struggling because of the way ICS presents the crop.
There are two rectangles in a cross formation which outline the portrait and landscape versions of the cropped image. It sounds to me as though the required subject in the picture is outside of area where the crop rectangles intersect.
Maybe use cut/paste to move the subject towards the centre of an image and present that to the set wallpaper/crop screen.
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Old 30-12-2012, 09:10
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Yeah sorry I should have mentioned, im using a Sony U. (what do they call their Android interface anyway?) Im assuming its do the size of the photo(480x640) and it wants me to fill the screen, I would happily have bars on the top/bottom or left/right of the screen but it doesnt give me the option, it forces a crop on me.

All other SE Xperias i had have done this with some photos, I washoping they may have changed it for ICS.

I have all the widgets I need on other homescreens by the way, I want the main one to be this photo and for it not be obscured by widgets.
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Old 30-12-2012, 09:15
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I think the OP is struggling because of the way ICS presents the crop.
There are two rectangles in a cross formation which outline the portrait and landscape versions of the cropped image. It sounds to me as though the required subject in the picture is outside of area where the crop rectangles intersect.
Maybe use cut/paste to move the subject towards the centre of an image and present that to the set wallpaper/crop screen.
You replied as I was typing the last message.
Thats it exactly, I am basically stuck with 2 options, my face and half the kids head or the kids head magnyfied to the point of bluryness.
I thought of copying the picture to the PC, playing with it there and sending it back but I can see there being hours of messing with that and was hoping there was a simpler fix or I was just being a bit dim with the cropping function!
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Old 30-12-2012, 10:46
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Try using This from the market.
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Old 30-12-2012, 11:50
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Try using This from the market.
Woo! Sorted. Thank you. I knew there would be something in the market, but was obviously using the wrong search terms!
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Old 30-12-2012, 13:22
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The reason the android device does this is because the image you have contains more pixels than the available screen display, but the canvas size (the background) is larger.

As an example my phone has a screen that is 800 by 480, but the canvas size is 960 by 800. If you want a picture to display correctly make sure any image you use will have the correct screen pixel size but then make sure the canvas is set to the correct full screen size.

I do this in Paintshop Pro but most image apps allow you to do this, that way I know my images will always display in the correct size without any need to crop images on the phone.
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