Hi everyone,

ok, here is my problem, I just cant get an obviously easy task done.
On my Galaxy S I only have 1 home screen and i want to put a picture as wallpaper but i want the picture to fit completely in the screen.
I have tried lots of resolutions and read the sticky post about this (wasn't sure about opening an empty picture though) but the picture, even after the cropping step, appears way too big for the screen. If I set more home screen than I see "more" of it but that is not what I want.

I dont see what i am doing wrong
Any help appreciated
Thank you

So, you did you make it 960*800?

yes, I did, among many other resolutions.
The thing is that no matter what resolution I use when i have to crop the picture to set it as wallpaper, the square box is always smalle than the picture itself.

I think LauncherPro has an option like this. Will check...

EDIT: I misunderstood. I guess you can encase the picture you want in an irrelevant background so that when you crop it you only have to cut out the irrelevant parts, leaving the full image in the middle.

yes, I did, among many other resolutions.
The thing is that no matter what resolution I use when i have to crop the picture to set it as wallpaper, the square box is always smalle than the picture itself.

If you drag the edge the crop box, it should allow you to expand it to cover the whole image.

i just tried a resolution of 1280x1024 and the crop box fitted on the entire picture but again when I set it as wallpaper the image was way too big for the screen.
It seems to me that it only allows pictures to be seen on multiple home screens....

Of course, only that way! That's why we need 960x800 resolution - two homescreens.

tried one more time 960*800 and still I can select the whole image at the crop stage but then as wallpaper the image is still to big for the screen!
Could it be a problem of this phone? It sounds very easy.....Or its just me!

You'll never get the full picture on one screen as the background on these phones are designed for multiple screens on portrait and landscape.

The closes you can get is to use Launcher Pro as your UI (don't know if it works on the ori UI), then can set it so the wallpaper doesn't scroll. You'll still be missing some of the picture. In portrait you'll loose some bits of the left and right and in landscape you'll loose the bottom.

There maybe a work around for portrait, Open a paint program like Gimp and start new with W:1920 H:800. The open up your picture of 960*800 and copy it to the centre of the new page, save. When you go to use it for your background make sure you use the hole picture and not just the photo on it :)

This may or may not work and mite need modifying :)

I was right in worrying about the fact that the phone might have been the reason.
How can have they left out something so basic! Even if i want to use several screen i might want my background to be visible in full all the time!!
Who would put a portrait just to see an eye, a car to see a tyre, a panorama to see a tree.....mah.

I will pass on your first suggestion as it already sounds too complicated.
I'll give it a try on the second one and lets see if i can achieve anything.

Thank you for your help, I might be back

Still working on it.
Tried a few times and its getting better but still the picture is not centered.
I am not sure about the single screen resolution, is it: horizontal 800 and vertical 960?
So I would need the empty picture to be 1600*960?

Hello Tom! This is my first post in this forum. I'm having the exact same problem and still haven't figured out how to bypass or avoid or eliminate or ignore the friggin' orange lines. Have you come upon any solution?

Hi everyone,

ok, here is my problem, I just cant get an obviously easy task done.
On my Galaxy S I only have 1 home screen and i want to put a picture as wallpaper but i want the picture to fit completely in the screen.
I have tried lots of resolutions and read the sticky post about this (wasn't sure about opening an empty picture though) but the picture, even after the cropping step, appears way too big for the screen. If I set more home screen than I see "more" of it but that is not what I want.

I dont see what i am doing wrong
Any help appreciated
Thank you

If you want one picture for each screen there is an option. When selecting the wallpaper you'll see 2 orange boxes at the bottom of the screen. The first one is for 960x800 and the other one is for 480x800 (see pic below, orange square with green fill. press it to select locked wallpaper)

http://db.tt/2dUsWDY

Still working on it.
Tried a few times and its getting better but still the picture is not centered.
I am not sure about the single screen resolution, is it: horizontal 800 and vertical 960?
So I would need the empty picture to be 1600*960?
The locked homescreen background needs to be 800 pixels high and 480 wide which is the physical screen measure.

You can also use the same size when you set the locked screen background to be different from the one on the active homescreen. :)

Hello Tom! This is my first post in this forum. I'm having the exact same problem and still haven't figured out how to bypass or avoid or eliminate or ignore the friggin' orange lines. Have you come upon any solution?

What do you mean by 'eliminate'? The lines are just guides so you can drag the visible edges of the picture. If you touch the orange line, you'll see the handles. ;)