PicSpeed Wallpapers Giving Better Crops

309041291a

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The application I want to talk about is PicSpeed Wallpapers.

(https://market.android.com/details?...1bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5zcnNkZXYud2FsbHBhcGVycyJd)

A promising application which offers pretty good wallpapers, in my opinion. However it is more than a simple wallpaper application... Not special in a sense where it gives you super exam cheating skills (which I so desperately need right now)... but it gives you MUCH better cropping for your wallpapers in the Gallery app :).

So how do you use it and how much better is it? Well to use it start by getting a Wallpaper (one with irregular dimensions. The NS handles 480 x 800, so you use an iPhone Wallpaper that is 320 x 480 for examples sake). So once you got that on your phone go ahead and open up the Gallery. Find and tap on the image. Now hit the menu button and select "Set picture as" (on ICS) or whatever you need to click to set a wallpaper. You will notice a pop-up comes up. The normal options would be contact photo and wallpaper (and maybe whatever else you have), but now we are introduced with the option of "Set as Wallpaper" - with the PicSpeed icon beside it. So tap it (of coarse). Underneath the image will be three images. The first (left) crops the image to use just the middle (based on dimensions) and is not a scrollable Wallpaper. The second (middle) gives you the traditional full-use of the wallpaper in a scrollable state. The one that is most interesting is the last (right) option. This one offers a custom crop. Which means you can make the wallpaper scrollable or not and perfectly set the crop to whatever you want. So once you use the right custom option go ahead and hit the set option underneath it to the far right.

I think that is amazing finally a way to break the terrible cropping options the Gallery gave us. At first when PicSpeed released an earlier version the wallpaper would auto resize and mess up the image. They have updated the app since then and I no longer have to re-set the wallpaper on boot. Another bug I noticed is I cannot set a Wallpaper 'properly' with the traditional set wallpaper function my phone offers me, after I use PicSpeed to set a "custom" crop. This is easily fixable. Go into Gallery and the set the wallpaper with PicSpeed (again) with the Wallpaper with the traditional (middle) option. Or you can just reboot your phone, either way works.

Well yeah I just wanted to share this new amazing application with you all :). You're welcome all! No more terrible cropping options :D YAAAAY!
 

mamba720027

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Works great and have some nice wallpapers and see what you mean about cropping the images,kewl feature.

Sent from my Nexus S using XDA App
 

ndrone1

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Yeah it is cool not need crop. press menu picture > set as picture (pispeed picture) Set as wallpaper > go 3rd (custom mode) > set
Wow. I have been dealing with crappy crops a long time, until now! Thanks for helping me figure out the way to use Picspeed and have the image as I intended! :good:

---------- Post added at 06:00 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:55 PM ----------

The application I want to talk about is PicSpeed Wallpapers.

A promising application which offers pretty good wallpapers, in my opinion. However it is more than a simple wallpaper application... Not special in a sense where it gives you super exam cheating skills (which I so desperately need right now)... but it gives you MUCH better cropping for your wallpapers in the Gallery app :).

So how do you use it and how much better is it? Well to use it start by getting a Wallpaper (one with irregular dimensions. The NS handles 480 x 800, so you use an iPhone Wallpaper that is 320 x 480 for examples sake). So once you got that on your phone go ahead and open up the Gallery. Find and tap on the image. Now hit the menu button and select "Set picture as" (on ICS) or whatever you need to click to set a wallpaper. You will notice a pop-up comes up. The normal options would be contact photo and wallpaper (and maybe whatever else you have), but now we are introduced with the option of "Set as Wallpaper" - with the PicSpeed icon beside it. So tap it (of coarse). Underneath the image will be three images. The first (left) crops the image to use just the middle (based on dimensions) and is not a scrollable Wallpaper. The second (middle) gives you the traditional full-use of the wallpaper in a scrollable state. The one that is most interesting is the last (right) option. This one offers a custom crop. Which means you can make the wallpaper scrollable or not and perfectly set the crop to whatever you want. So once you use the right custom option go ahead and hit the set option underneath it to the far right.

I think that is amazing finally a way to break the terrible cropping options the Gallery gave us. At first when PicSpeed released an earlier version the wallpaper would auto resize and mess up the image. They have updated the app since then and I no longer have to re-set the wallpaper on boot. Another bug I noticed is I cannot set a Wallpaper 'properly' with the traditional set wallpaper function my phone offers me, after I use PicSpeed to set a "custom" crop. This is easily fixable. Go into Gallery and the set the wallpaper with PicSpeed (again) with the Wallpaper with the traditional (middle) option. Or you can just reboot your phone, either way works.

Well yeah I just wanted to share this new amazing application with you all :). You're welcome all! No more terrible cropping options :D YAAAAY!
Thanks for the help! Sincerely didn't ever notice the custom option or at least didn't think it would fix anything. Great to finally have correctly cropped, crystal clear images!
 

zute333

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perfect

exactly what i was looking for, tried wallpaper wizardrii and quickpic but this is the simplest, fastest and best at cropping, great for having full image wallpaper
 

explorer-10

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sorry to bumb a 5-month old thread, but since it IS wallpaper-related, how would i come across a single paged wallpaper if the original dimensions were 720x1280 and i want it to fit the screen fully? before using Nova's wp picker setting, i've already tried setting it to a dimension of 480x800 and hoping it'd fit the screen fully and there was a small black bar near the bottom
i'm attempting to mimic this look
 

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