I have tried downloading apps and getting pictures off the internet that are at 2560x1600 but they are all blurry. The only good ones are the default ones built-in. Is there any place to go to get wallpapers that are not blurry?
http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper/downloads/date/widescreen/2560x1600/
Try 'Pattrn'. The quality on the 10's screen is fantastic.
Wallpaperswide.com and use the simple image wallpaper app to set them as wallpaper.
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Best place i have found is Wallbase.cc
Try this:
http://wallbase.cc/toplist/0/213/eqeq/2560x1600/0/100/32/3d
Dont listen to the above, you'll always have cropping issues and it'll look horrible if you use 2560x1600 because Android wallpapers scroll and are meant to look good in both landscape and portrait. Ideally, you should use images that are exactly 3966x2560. There aren't a lot of those out there, however. What I've been doing until more become available is Google's image search, using the Search Tools option to limit the results to images exactly or larger than 12MP (4096x3072). Scaling an image down will look much better than scaling up, and using anything below 3966x2560 will do just that.
Edit: Sorry, I skimmed the other replies before writing this. technician42's suggestion for the Pattrn app is actually a really good one. The others though... as I said, anything less than 3966x2560 will give you a bad time.
Jotokun said:
Dont listen to the above, you'll always have cropping issues and it'll look horrible if you use 2560x1600 because Android wallpapers scroll and are meant to look good in both landscape and portrait. Ideally, you should use images that are exactly 3966x2560. There aren't a lot of those out there, however. What I've been doing until more become available is Google's image search, using the Search Tools option to limit the results to images exactly or larger than 12MP (4096x3072). Scaling an image down will look much better than scaling up, and using anything below 3966x2560 will do just that.
Edit: Sorry, I skimmed the other replies before writing this. technician42's suggestion for the Pattrn app is actually a really good one. The others though... as I said, anything less than 3966x2560 will give you a bad time.
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Not 100% true.
So don't disregard the links above as they're perfectly useful and I have many wallpapers that are 2560x1600 that aren't cropped on my N10. Use an app called Simple Image Wallpaper Free in conjunction with wallpapers from the above links, or with any other 2560x1600 images you find. The app is actually a "live wallpaper" but there is nothing live about it. From within the settings check "fill screen" and the app will make sure there is no cropping of the image. If you are so inclined you may also choose different images for landscape and portrait. One thing to note, your wallpaper will not scroll if you use this. Enjoy.
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Not 100% true.
So don't disregard the links above as they're perfectly useful and I have many wallpapers that are 2560x1600 that aren't cropped on my N10. Use an app called Simple Image Wallpaper Free in conjunction with wallpapers from the above links, or with any other 2560x1600 images you find. The app is actually a "live wallpaper" but there is nothing live about it. From within the settings check "fill screen" and the app will make sure there is no cropping of the image. If you are so inclined you may also choose different images for landscape and portrait. One thing to note, your wallpaper will not scroll if you use this. Enjoy.
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The problem with this approach is, unless the wallpaper doesn't rotate with the tablet, it would look horrible in portrait mode (or Landscape if you used a 1600x2560 image). You cant fill 2560 of height with 1600 without ugly stretching.
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The problem with this approach is, unless the wallpaper doesn't rotate with the tablet, it would look horrible in portrait mode (or Landscape if you used a 1600x2560 image). You cant fill 2560 of height with 1600 without ugly stretching.
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I see what you're saying, but the wallpaper doesn't rotate with the screen, so it doesn't stretch. One downside is that some of what you see in landscape mode won't be seen in portrait, but I rarely use my tablet in portrait anyway.
Simple image wallpaper pro lets you choose a different wallpaper for portrait. I can't stand the scrolling wallpaper. First thing i turn off, and its MUCH easier finding good wallpapers. 2560 x 1600 is the right resolution for a non scrolling, one screen wallpaper. Looks great. Oh, just discovered yesterday that recent nova launcher update will let you crop and set non scrolling wallpapers. Woot!
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KestrelX said:
Simple image wallpaper pro lets you choose a different wallpaper for portrait. I can't stand the scrolling wallpaper. First thing i turn off, and its MUCH easier finding good wallpapers. 2560 x 1600 is the right resolution for a non scrolling, one screen wallpaper. Looks great. Oh, just discovered yesterday that recent nova launcher update will let you crop and set non scrolling wallpapers. Woot!
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^ This.. Even the free version you can set portrait and landscape wallpaper.. It's the best app out there for wallpaper period..
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Recommended SSlauncher
also remember to use "Hide Bottom bar"
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=be.ppareit.hidebar
now you have your 2560x1600 images in fullscreen
Patrik G said:
also remember to use "Hide Bottom bar"
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=be.ppareit.hidebar
now you have your 2560x1600 images in fullscreen
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The official AOKP from Steve Spear has this feature built into his ROM.
The easiest way to find wallpaper that you don't have to crop is Google images and use the Exact Size feature (priceless feature btw)
Search for whatever ("wallpaper" being a good start)
Search Tools
Drop down that says "Any Size"
Choose "Exactly"
Enter in the HxW you want in pixels..
I use screen captures from Minecraft. You can get some pretty cinematic effects in Minecraft using optifine. I have some nice pictures that have been featured on my homescreen. For example, a cave system or setting sun.
lock screen wallpaper
styckx said:
The easiest way to find wallpaper that you don't have to crop is Google images and use the Exact Size feature (priceless feature btw)
Search for whatever ("wallpaper" being a good start)
Search Tools
Drop down that says "Any Size"
Choose "Exactly"
Enter in the HxW you want in pixels..
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Can i set a lock screen wallpaper?
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Vibrant display is impressive EXCEPT when I zoom in on photos (taken with a Canon G10) uploaded to phone, and viewed in the stock gallery. There seems to be some degradation in the photo quality when I zoom in or try to use as wallpaper. I notice this on 5mp+ photos. Detail gets very fuzzy on Vibrant screen. Can anyone explain this to me?
It has something to do with the compression they used.. There's a thread about this in the galaxy s forums, look it up.... for wallpaper I use flikie from the market.. I don't use it to download wallpapers, just to set the ones I want from the gallery.. works great...
It's the Gallery Application that was made by Cooliris. You can search the Nexus One forums, they have plenty info on this.
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spookdogg said:
try to use as wallpaper.
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I was a little confused when trying to use a nice photograph as a wallpaper as well until I realized that when I go to set wallpaper, the box you use to select the region of the image to use for the wallpaper is actually resizable. Just drag the corner of that box to make it larger, and the image won't be blurry.
I don't think that this is a problem with the screen or any of the phone hardware, but rather Samsung's software scaling of images.
davidron said:
I was a little confused when trying to use a nice photograph as a wallpaper as well until I realized that when I go to set wallpaper, the box you use to select the region of the image to use for the wallpaper is actually resizable. Just drag the corner of that box to make it larger, and the image won't be blurry.
I don't think that this is a problem with the screen or any of the phone hardware, but rather Samsung's software scaling of images.
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I am aware that you can adjust the crop for wallpapers... so I guess my issue is more with zooming in on a photo to see more detail and it becoming very blurry.
Thanks for the insight and additional research ideas. I will try flikie as well
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Oddly, when I use flikie to set wallpaper it gives message that the wallpaper is set, but its the default twiz "grass blades", not my photo. Annoying. Also no option to choose crop size.
Hope there's better gallery included in updates.
Ok, I'm not sure if I'm the only one with this problem or if it's just something simple that I'm overlooking.
I use my Nook in landscape mode only (like a table should be used), but whenever I try applying a new wallpaper it doesn't fill the whole screen correctly. When I go to set it, you have to move that little yellow box and stretch it as far as you can, but I can never stretch it to the full picture since I'm guessing it assumes this is for portrait mode. So whenever I apply a wallpaper, it looks as it's been zoomed in and it looks like crap.
I see plenty of screenshots on here with peoples wallpaper being displayed correctly, so what am I doing wrong?
Nook Color running CM7 stable.
Thanks in advance.
Try QuickPic from the market or Wallpaper Set and Save, they allow for more adjustment and better resolution and scaling the the stock Gallery app. QuickPic also is a vast improvement over the Gallery in many ways.. Good luck.
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Try QuickPic from the market or Wallpaper Set and Save, they allow for more adjustment and better resolution and scaling the the stock Gallery app. QuickPic also is a vast improvement over the Gallery in many ways.. Good luck.
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Thanks for the quick reply. I'll give those a try when I get home.
Btw, I just checked out your photos from the link on your signature and they're amazing. What kind of camera do you use?
Use Multipicture LIVE wallpaper.
Also use 1024x600 resolution.
Wallbase.cc is a good site.
I played around with this in Photoshop for several hours the day I got my Nook Tablet. I found that the following dimensions will size your wallpaper images perfectly:
840 px wide x 1024 px tall
It's easy to test. Try sizing your wallpaper to these exact dimensions and copy them to your device. Then go to the *stock* Nook home screen. Press and hold to bring up the Change Wallpaper option. Navigate to your newly sized wallpaper image and select it. If it's like mine you won't even be given an option to size/crop. Like the stock wallpapers, it will only give you the option to Save or Discard because it's already sized correctly.
When using other dimensions I was always given the option to crop.
Hope this helps someone.
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I played around with this in Photoshop for several hours the day I got my Nook Tablet. I found that the following dimensions will size your wallpaper images perfectly:
840 px wide x 1024 px tall
It's easy to test. Try sizing your wallpaper to these exact dimensions and copy them to your device. Then go to the *stock* Nook home screen. Press and hold to bring up the Change Wallpaper option. Navigate to your newly sized wallpaper image and select it. If it's like mine you won't even be given an option to size/crop. Like the stock wallpapers, it will only give you the option to Save or Discard because it's already sized correctly.
When using other dimensions I was always given the option to crop.
Hope this helps someone.
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Google Image search has a nice feature that can limit results to a specific size, I find this useful for finding odd sized wallpapers.
Like so: http://goo.gl/yBPo1
I've found that using Zedge from the market and applying the wallpaper from Zedge itself sizes them perfectly as well.
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I think the dimensions are probably more useful to people resizing their own photos to use as wallpaper. You can crop them to the exact size in Photoshop before sending them to your tablet.
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If you prefer to use the Nook in landscape what would be the suggested wallpaper size?
1264 x 600?
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If you prefer to use the Nook in landscape what would be the suggested wallpaper size?
1264 x 600?
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I haven't played with landscape much. The dimensions I listed above take into account the default Nook Tablet home screen with the thick "daily bar" on the bottom, "currently reading" status on the top, and wallpaper scrolling between 3 home screens.
Since the device doesn't support a landscape home screen by default the wallpaper size will likely depend on the launcher you use, whether or not you have the status bar displayed and how many home screens you have if you set the behavior to scroll the wallpaper with the home screens.
Let us know what you find out.
I made several wallpapers at this resolution but, even after selecting the whole image with the crop tool, it still zoomed in on it. Has any one else experienced this?
Oh, and I'm currently using GoLauncher. I don't know if the wallpaper displays properly under the Nook Stock screen
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I've found that using Zedge from the market and applying the wallpaper from Zedge itself sizes them perfectly as well.
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I've got Zedge downloaded but I can't seem to select my own pics to use as wallpaper. How were you able to do it?
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I made several wallpapers at this resolution but, even after selecting the whole image with the crop tool, it still zoomed in on it. Has any one else experienced this?
Oh, and I'm currently using GoLauncher. I don't know if the wallpaper displays properly under the Nook Stock screen
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I'm having this exact issue. Picture shows up perfectly on my lock screen, and if I go into the nook home screen from there it shows fine, but when I go into Go Launcher it zooms in again and stays that way until I reset it in the nook home.
Very annoying as it screws up the definition of my wallpaper...
I have been able to get mostly non-blurry wallpapers since I started using QuickPic to apply them. It's a great app, much better than the stock gallery app, so I'd recommend getting it in any case. And it shows up in the market without having to sideload.
For images I have just been getting ones from InterfaceLIFT in 1280x1024 resolution to make sure I have enough pixels in all directions and it works fine.
I think the difference I'm seeing (not sure if others are too) is between an image being set as Fixed (sorry, I can't remember the app I used to do this, but I did it via the main nook launcher rather than through Go Launcher) and having it switch to scrollable.
If I could figure out how to keep it as Fixed it wouldn't be an issue. It works just fine for an app I downloaded from B&N's market, but not for my own images.
sonicdh said:
I made several wallpapers at this resolution but, even after selecting the whole image with the crop tool, it still zoomed in on it. Has any one else experienced this?
Oh, and I'm currently using GoLauncher. I don't know if the wallpaper displays properly under the Nook Stock screen
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liquidzoo said:
I'm having this exact issue. Picture shows up perfectly on my lock screen, and if I go into the nook home screen from there it shows fine, but when I go into Go Launcher it zooms in again and stays that way until I reset it in the nook home.
Very annoying as it screws up the definition of my wallpaper...
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I had this issue and it even crashed my Go Launcher after switching from the stock Nook home screen to my Go Laucher home screen with the 840.1024 size wallpaper. It turns out that Spare Parts compatibility mode was screwing things up. I had compatibility mode unchecked to make some of my apps run at full screen and it was affecting Go Launcher. After checking compatibility mode, I selected the 840x1024 wallpaper on my stock Nook home screen and when I switched over to Go Launcher it was fine.
Do you guys have Spare Parts installed and compatibility mode unchecked as well?
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Do you guys have Spare Parts installed and compatibility mode unchecked as well?
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I do. I'll have to check and see if this fixes things for me as well. I'll post back this evening.
That was not the issue, however I did figure it out:
Go Launcher has a wallpaper setting for Stretch or Fixed, defaulting to Stretch. Once I adjusted that (found in Screen Options under Soft Menu Key > Preferences), my wallpaper went back the way it should be and all is well again!
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That was not the issue, however I did figure it out:
Go Launcher has a wallpaper setting for Stretch or Fixed, defaulting to Stretch. Once I adjusted that (found in Screen Options under Soft Menu Key > Preferences), my wallpaper went back the way it should be and all is well again!
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I don't have the stretch/fixed option, I've got "Vertical screen mode" and "Default mode" under soft menu option --> Screen Settings --> Wallpaper Mode...
That's it, sorry. I wasn't looking at the options on my NT when I wrote that.
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That's it, sorry. I wasn't looking at the options on my NT when I wrote that.
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I was able to keep scrolling and have a properly sized wallpaper by using Quickpic to set it. APKTOP was the market I used to find it. It worked for *most* of the wallpapers I had. No luck for the smaller wallpaper sizes.
ItsMeMasih, can you please explain "how" you used QuickPic to set your wallpaper. When I try to do this, and am in the QuickPic Wallpaper screen, it's giving me the option to crop it. I don't want to crop it, but it won't allow me to use the entire image. (My image is 1024 x 840.) The crop area includes the entire width of the image, but won't allow me to include the entire height. The crop area will only shrink or increase, in the same proportions. I'd like to just use the entire image, as this will fill the three home screens nicely.
UPDATE: No matter what I did in QuickPic, I could not get a 1024 x 840 wallpaper to fit the height of my NT. (And emailing the developer was completely useless... language barrier.) The wallpaper came with my DecalGirl skin, and it didn't line up with the skin because it was enlarged. So, I went back to my original wallpaper method I posted when I had my NC, which reminded me that I had to use the stock home screen to set my wallpaper. Now, it's perfect.
I have an image in my gallery that id like to set as my wallpaper. I choose the image and I resize it to include the whole image but when it sets it it only show a cropped section of the image. Has anyone seen this? Or am I missing something?
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pcdebb said:
I have an image in my gallery that id like to set as my wallpaper. I choose the image and I resize it to include the whole image but when it sets it it only show a cropped section of the image. Has anyone seen this? Or am I missing something?
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I believe it does that to allow scrolling. If you use GO Launcher it allows you to turn scrolling wallpaper off in the settings. I'm not really sure if default settings allow the option.
Or you can use Multi-picture Live WP and size it you screen size and put a different image on each screen.
Typical WP crops to more "squarish" so vertical pixels remain constant and horizontal is wide enough to scroll from 1st to last screen.
I like to have it pan across the image, it gives a good tactile feedback that other OSs don't have. I also really like the default images, especially the rays of different colors. Leave it to samsung to make such good screens and find images to make the screens look better.
Ive used the multi wp app but didn't want to use it here. I just figured the wallpaper would just "fit" the screen
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You can use another Launcher and stop it from scrolling, then you can set the wallpaper to whatever image you want.
I'm the kind of android user that always uses one home screen, I don't see any need for more. What I have found is that any wallpapers I set automatically crop their selves to fit the screen as if I would be scrolling left or right to view the full image. I'd like to find a way to make a wallpaper actually fill the entire single home screen rather than expand as if I have multiple home screens. Is their a particular resolution that it needs to be? Or any apps that would do this. Thanks.
I'm pretty sure the best walpapers app has that option if it is not in the from or launcher itself.
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Just checked, it doesn't. And no launcher to my knowledge will do this, and I've tried many.
MultiPicture Live Wallpaper might help
Thank you very much. This works perfectly!
Regina launcher has the ability to use different pictures on each home screen. Really neat option to have. You must also download regjna gallery. But i had 5 home screeja with all different pics of my daughter. It was my daily launcher until i switched to tsf shell.
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Acvice said:
Just checked, it doesn't. And no launcher to my knowledge will do this, and I've tried many.
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Try GO Launcher EX, it's among the best of the LauncherPro-alikes and it actually does this. So do most launchers, actually... but specific to GO, which is what I use and can verify right now:
Menu > Preferences > Visual > Backgrounds > Wallpaper mode. Choose Vertical Screen mode. Now when you go to set a picture as wallpaper, it will want to crop to 9:16 (16:9 vertical).
For the Photon/Electrify, the screen resolution is 540x960. Crop to this if you are using something like XnView to prepare the picture on the PC. Or larger but with a 16:9 aspect ratio (or 1.78 if it's noted like that) and it will scale down. Better to scale down (squeeze) than scale up (stretch).
Whatever you are using to pick the wallpaper (Android wallpaper picker, stock gallery, gallery replacement (e.g. QuickPic), etc.) will choose the aspect ratio. If you have it set in vertical wallpaper mode, as noted above, it will crop as such. If it's doing the horizontal thing, you'll want to double the horizontal value (540, in our case) so 1080x960. That's only if you want horizontal mode, which is what you say you're stuck with.
If you truly feel that you cannot get into vertical mode, simply create a 1080x960 canvas and drop a 540x960 right in the middle, taking care to ensure 270 pixels exactly on either side. Leave the sides black or color them however you wish, and place this as your wallpaper. If you've done it right, you will only ever see the middle.