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stop photos set as wallpaper from stretching across all home screens

Ok so I have ADWLauncher and I've disabled wallpaper scrolling (I HATE WPS) and I can not find a simple method of using a photo as my desktop wallpaper that does not end up with the photo stretched across my home screens (I even killed all the extra home screens).
I've read all about the appropriate size for wallpapers (ex: 960x800) and re-sizing my image then expanding the canvas size, etc... but nothing seems to work. Anyone out there have any suggestions?

the only method i have gotten to work is resizing the picture and then expanding canvas. it can be a little tricky depending on how many screens youhave set. I personally only use 2 so i had the picture at (960x400) and then put it on a canvas of 960x800 this way when it stretched it was exactly right for 1 screen. doing this and turning off scrolling wall paper and it worked

Even when I remove all screens except the primary one it still "acts" as if there are more. What size should I use (for canvas) if I use 3 screens?

It should always be 960x800 regardless of the number of desktops. More desktops just scroll to the side less each swipe (under normal circumstances).

Download the app "wallpaper set and save "
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+1 on wallpaper set and save, it lets you set wallpapers at full res without cropping. must have for any rom

Success100 said:
+1 on wallpaper set and save, it lets you set wallpapers at full res without cropping. must have for any rom
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Weird I downloaded this and it still does not show me the entire pic. Gonna reflash a fresh ROM to see.

[HOWTO] WallPaper Cropping guide for A101 and A70

Note: This is a work in progress.
Note: All Image manipulation is done with GIMP.
Note: This guide is mainly for the A101 but can also be applied for the A70.
I was getting sick of not be able to take a good picture and use it as a wallpaper so that it looked good. I know there is an alternative "MultiPicture Live Wallpaper" but that thing is a memory hog.
PART 1
So I came up with this picture it's a PNG of 1200x1024. The different grids are the following sizes.
Blue: 8px
Green: 16px
Red: 32px
White: 64px
When this is set as a wallpaper we can finally see what is happening to the image.
Here are the screenshots for the 5 screens of the Stock Launcher of the Archos 101.
Screen 1
Screen 2
Screen 3
Screen 4
Screen 5
Since the status bar can not be hidden on the Stock Launcher we loose 32px at the top and on the right with the soft buttons we loose 40px. When positioned on the first screen we have a good view of the top left corner (1024x600) of the reference picture.
Now lets get to work with this picture below.
Size: 1680x1050
So what do we need to do. The result must be an image with a size of 1200x1024 for the A101 and 960x800 for the A70 where only the top 600px (A101) 480px (A70) will be visible in landscape mode.
Scaling the image to a height of 600px and keeping the aspect in mind. The result is a picture of 960x600
On the bottom add a 424px black border.
On both sides add a 120px black border.
and the result is
Size: 1200x1024
And the screenshot to prove it works.
This was tested with the Stock Launcher and ADW.Launcher.
PART 2
So this worked out because the original picture has a black background. So here is the solution for other pictures.
I made a multi layer xcf file with GIMP to address the problem. You can download it here for the A101 and here for the A70.
Open WallPaper_cropping.xcf in GIMP.
Select the "Background" layer.
File -> Open as Layer -> select the picture you want to crop.
Scale the layer to 1200px width and keep the aspect correct.
Position the layer so that the visible part looks good.
Turn visibility on/off so that only the layers "Background:, "The Picture", "Black Not Visible Part" are turned on.
Save the image as PNG with option "Merge Visible Layers"
Send to archos and apply as wallpaper with the Crop Wallpaper app and use the "Overall" button.
This is all for today. Next We'll see if we can do something with extending the background instead of cropping it.

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Worked fine for landscape But when I turn it portrait there is a black bar at the bottom - How do I get it to fill in that black space??
Using ADW Launcher if that has any effect on it...
Would put up a screenshot but the forum won't let me...

martinjh99 said:
Worked fine for landscape But when I turn it portrait there is a black bar at the bottom - How do I get it to fill in that black space??
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There is no way to do both landscape and portrait at the same time. So you have to choose.

ah ok- Thanks anyway.

Thanks wdl1908. It will be difficult for me to explain because of my poor english. But with your settings and my A70it it didn't (the image was too high). So I have set the top of my image at 183px and the bottom at 644px and now it's perfect. Maybe someone with skills could check those values cause I'm a newbie.
Thank you very much.

nikokroko said:
Thanks wdl1908. It will be difficult for me to explain because of my poor english. But with your settings and my A70it it didn't (the image was too high). So I have set the top of my image at 183px and the bottom at 644px and now it's perfect. Maybe someone with skills could check those values cause I'm a newbie.
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If you attach your original wallpaper I'll look at it to see what the best method is.

So this is my actual wallpapaper. In landscape I see everything of the middle layer and not the 2 others (normal). And in portrait I don't see the face of the guy on the first layer. But this is not important cause those layers are just there to fill the blanks in portrait mode.
The original picture was found on socwall and was 2500*1324px

nikokroko said:
So this is my actual wallpapaper. In landscape I see everything of the middle layer and not the 2 others (normal). And in portrait I don't see the face of the guy on the first layer. But this is not important cause those layers are just there to fill the blanks in portrait mode.
The original picture was found on socwall and was 2500*1324px
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Very nice wallpaper. I usually don't bother with the portrait mode as long as the landscape mode is shown correctly. I would just cut out the middle part and use that to fit into the portrait visible part of the template.

[Q] Setting Wallpapers

Is there a way to, turning off wallpaper scrolling, set a wallpaper using portrait-oriention without having to use the cropping tool? The image I want isn't exactly setup for landscape...nor do I get the entire thing. It's kind of annoying. Any other device would just set it on it's own without having to crop it to a completely different size...

If you're using launcher pro, under appearance settings. As for no landscape, I'm not sure, other than to turn the whole feature off.
This epic reply brought to you by none other than my roxx'd out Evo.

The only ways I've found to do so is to use Multi-Picture Live Wallpaper or edit the image and turn off wallpaper scrolling if you're using a home replacement app.
For Multi-Picture LWP, go to common settings and select the image you want to use - for best results have the image sized at 480*800. If it's smaller it will look bad, and if it's larger it may also look pixelated and the app may only show a portion of the photo depending on what your settings are. Don't set any individual settings.
If you're using a home replacement that allows for turning wallpaper scrolling off, you can use Photoshop, Gimp, or another editing software to center the image. First crop/resize the image so it's 480*800. Then you will need to add 240 pixels to each side (left and right). In Photoshop, I do this by adjusting the canvas size (it's under "image", I think).
If you want to do it the second way, but don't have the software/knowledge to do so, you can send me the image & I'll do it for you. If you want to do it yourself, Gimp is a great free photo-editing software.
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[Q] Wallpaper optimization?

Ugh...another Android device and more confusion about setting full screen wallpapers.
When I try to set a wallpaper - even with the correct resolution - it forces me to crop it. I used "wallpaper wizardri" for it in the past but it doesn't seem to work on the Note. So, what do I have to do to set the wallpaper I want to take up the whole device?
Thanks

olly666 said:
Ugh...another Android device and more confusion about setting full screen wallpapers.
When I try to set a wallpaper - even with the correct resolution - it forces me to crop it. I used "wallpaper wizardri" for it in the past but it doesn't seem to work on the Note. So, what do I have to do to set the wallpaper I want to take up the whole device?
Thanks
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Pictures sized at 1280x1280 do not require cropping/adjusting, the cropping windows that appears is optional, in case user wanted to choose oat of the image.
PS. The thread should probably be in Q&A
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p107r0 said:
Pictures sized at 1280x1280 do not require cropping/adjusting, the cropping windows that appears is optional, in case user wanted to choose oat of the image.
PS. The thread should probably be in Q&A
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Not seeing it... Whether I try from the browser or the gallery, when I select set as wallpaper it takes me to the crop screen - if I hit cancel, it cancels the operation.

olly666 said:
Not seeing it... Whether I try from the browser or the gallery, when I select set as wallpaper it takes me to the crop screen - if I hit cancel, it cancels the operation.
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Could be that i misunderstood the question, but when setting wallpaper you choose picture first, then the cropping window appears (check attached screenshot) and when you press"Done" your choice is accepted and wallpaper is set
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p107r0 said:
Could be that i misunderstood the question, but when setting wallpaper you choose picture first, then the cropping window appears (check attached screenshot) and when you press"Done" your choice is accepted and wallpaper is set
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But isn't that image cropping off the corners? I think my issue might be that I have scrolling disabled. What would the resolution be for that?

olly666 said:
But isn't that image cropping off the corners? I think my issue might be that I have scrolling disabled. What would the resolution be for that?
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if you mean the 4 sqaure parts at the edges, then yes, those are lost, but it's anaviodable as the wallpaper gets fitted both for portarait and landscape modes (the two rectangles on my previous screenshot).
If you have 1280x800 image, then it'll fit nicely inside the vertical cropping rectangle, but in the landscape mode only the middle part of the image will be utilized.

p107r0 said:
if you mean the 4 sqaure parts at the edges, then yes, those are lost, but it's anaviodable as the wallpaper gets fitted both for portarait and landscape modes (the two rectangles on my previous screenshot).
If you have 1280x800 image, then it'll fit nicely inside the vertical cropping rectangle, but in the landscape mode only the middle part of the image will be utilized.
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That makes no sense to me. The stock wallpapers are 1280x1280 and fit just fine. I've had numerous Android devices and I've got this working on all of them (mainly through the use of third party apps). My HTC One can do it right off the bat. I hate to bring the iPad into the equation - but that's another device that does it just fine.

olly666 said:
That makes no sense to me. The stock wallpapers are 1280x1280 and fit just fine. I've had numerous Android devices and I've got this working on all of them (mainly through the use of third party apps). My HTC One can do it right off the bat. I hate to bring the iPad into the equation - but that's another device that does it just fine.
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You are right, I and messed up my previous post by being imprecise.
The situation I described applies only to lockscreen and launchers not supporting scrollable wallpapers (if such still exist).
Now the launcher wallpaper: for 1280x1280 images nothing will get cropped - the vertical rectangle just shows which part of the image will be on the home screen, remaining parts will be used for adjacent screens. If your image is smaller or not square, then you need the cropping window to adjust the image to your taste.
My apologies, can't explain it better than this.

p107r0 said:
You are right, I and messed up my previous post by being imprecise.
The situation I described applies only to lockscreen and launchers not supporting scrollable wallpapers (if such still exist).
Now the launcher wallpaper: for 1280x1280 images nothing will get cropped - the vertical rectangle just shows which part of the image will be on the home screen, remaining parts will be used for adjacent screens. If your image is smaller or not square, then you need the cropping window to adjust the image to your taste.
My apologies, can't explain it better than this.
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Not your fault - we're just getting jumbled and things are getting lots in translation... I just want this to work, ugh! Even when they crop them - and technically I'm okay with that - they morph the images!

olly666 said:
Even when they crop them - and technically I'm okay with that - they morph the images!
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Your remark on morphing made me check again. Normally i have irregular wallpapers, with no easily identifiable parts, so to be sure I just made a screenshot and then set it as home wallpaper.
Adjusting mechanics works as it should, with the rectangles, squares etc., but to my surprise after adjustments the image gets vertically cropped, my guess is to some 960 pixels height. This would explain the morphing, but the secondary cropping is surely a bug.
PS. I attached two images:
- one is screenshot of this thread in xda app - looks normal
- second is screenshot of the first image set a home wallpaper - notice vertical cropping

Thanks for all your help man. I've been playing around with a download of the stock wallpaper and getting a feel for the cropping. For now I'm just going to suck it up and stick with texture wallpaper so it's not an issue. I'll keep trying...

Adding colour to a black and white image?

Not posted for a little while but I was hoping someone could help me with suggestions of what the best app / method for converting a black and white image in to colour was. My google search results have just been desktop programme specific or about converting a colour image to black and white. I prefer to sketch in grey scale and my dad was asking a similar question for scanning and processing some of his old photos.
Thanks for any help!

hertsjoatmon said:
Not posted for a little while but I was hoping someone could help me with suggestions of what the best app / method for converting a black and white image in to colour was. My google search results have just been desktop programme specific or about converting a colour image to black and white. I prefer to sketch in grey scale and my dad was asking a similar question for scanning and processing some of his old photos.
Thanks for any help!
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Are you asking about photographs or comic art/illustrations?
For vintage style photos it's a labor of love.and hand tinting techniques. I only know photoshop and it's tools
You would usullay first get a similar looking color photograph and create a simplified color palette from it. and then start blending colors in. in accordance with the black levels in the b/w.
A Quick trick I would use is to block out regions of similar color and then use a gradient map over that block/mask to put in the gradient shades corresponding to different levels of blacks. After that it is matter of putting in subtle colors on and on.
There are a lot of other techniques, like switching color modes and using channels etc and what not for this and they all vary based on the subject/content basically what all you can get away with.
Now if you are specifically asking for an app for android then I wont know any best app as of now as all apps have some features better than the other and then so.
But my main basic requirements would be masks, layers, blending modes (multiply / color/ and overlay) at the minimum and then some fine blending tools. like a soft/fine scattered smudge brush and custom gradients.
for sketch/line art.
look comic art coloring books or videos on youtube as mostly all follow same basic methods at start and later diversify into what technique suit the artists the most.
Sketch in top layer with multiply blend mode (or which suits your content best and adjust opacity).
In the underlying layers,block in solids, then details followed by highlights and shadows (dodging/burning).
There are other techniques like vector illustrations etc but that is a whole different subject/study in itself.
I doubt you are going to find any program that is going to do this for you on it's own, but there may be programs that provide you with tool get you going.
If you don't hae photoshop,other good candidates on PC would be GNU Gimp and Paint.net especially with their plugins as we well as layer support you should be able to get somewhat decent results. However i would strongly advise using a tablet. If you don't have one on pc, you should be able to find some apps that allow you to use the note 8 as a digitizer/tablet for pc as well.

intelliriffer said:
Are you asking about photographs or comic art/illustrations?
For vintage style photos it's a labor of love.and hand tinting techniques. I only know photoshop and it's tools
You would usullay first get a similar looking color photograph and create a simplified color palette from it. and then start blending colors in. in accordance with the black levels in the b/w.
A Quick trick I would use is to block out regions of similar color and then use a gradient map over that block/mask to put in the gradient shades corresponding to different levels of blacks. After that it is matter of putting in subtle colors on and on.
There are a lot of other techniques, like switching color modes and using channels etc and what not for this and they all vary based on the subject/content basically what all you can get away with.
Now if you are specifically asking for an app for android then I wont know any best app as of now as all apps have some features better than the other and then so.
But my main basic requirements would be masks, layers, blending modes (multiply / color/ and overlay) at the minimum and then some fine blending tools. like a soft/fine scattered smudge brush and custom gradients.
for sketch/line art.
look comic art coloring books or videos on youtube as mostly all follow same basic methods at start and later diversify into what technique suit the artists the most.
Sketch in top layer with multiply blend mode (or which suits your content best and adjust opacity).
In the underlying layers,block in solids, then details followed by highlights and shadows (dodging/burning).
There are other techniques like vector illustrations etc but that is a whole different subject/study in itself.
I doubt you are going to find any program that is going to do this for you on it's own, but there may be programs that provide you with tool get you going.
If you don't hae photoshop,other good candidates on PC would be GNU Gimp and Paint.net especially with their plugins as we well as layer support you should be able to get somewhat decent results. However i would strongly advise using a tablet. If you don't have one on pc, you should be able to find some apps that allow you to use the note 8 as a digitizer/tablet for pc as well.
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Thanks for the detailed reply. I was asking for both photos (for my father) and drawings (for myself), but you have pretty much confirmed my fears that the only way to proceed with the work flow I had originally intended is to use a PC and that there was no such option on a tablet.
I have settled on CloverPaint for my artwork as it seems to have the most comprehensive set of features and functionality. I've been reading ImagineFX magazine to try and get some tips on working in the digital medium and the method that seemed to suit me the most was to first draw the entire picture in grayscale and then add a colour layer for each section of the photo in order to complete the image. That way, if i wanted to tweak the colours it would be a simple task rather than having to rework that entire part of the image. I cant seem to find the equivelant method in android only.
http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/photoshop/spiderharp/index3.html
This is the type of thing im talking about. May be the option is available and I just havent figured out the correct layer setting?..

If cloverpaint has color blend mode or similar, then it should be relatively easy to follow the workflow in the article.
Color blend mode (of a layer) only affects the Hues and Saturation of the colors in the underlying layer (with the color in itself) totally ignoring any luminousity.
If that is not available then you might have to follow some older workflow that uses screen/ multiply and overlay blend modes and different layer structures.
I'd say play around with the just the blending modes for a day or two that cloverpaint provides to get a hang and feel for them. try with same color on top and bottom layers and then different colors, different opacity, and luminosity etc.