I was just wondering what the optimal resolution for wallpapers to show up as clear and crisp as the stock wallpapers. I was using an image that was 5000x4000px (obviously way higher than the screen res), but after cropping tool I could see that it wasn't as clear, something was compressing/lowering the image quality.
Anyone have an idea of how to get a correctly sized image to show up at full quality?
Nevermind, I found that 960x800 is a good resolution that wont cause resizing/recompression. Hope this helps everyone.
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If you zoom in enough on most pictures in your gallery there's an obvious decrease in quality whether in noise, artifacts, or down-scaling regardless of resolution or image quality.
I'm sure this has been addressed many times before, as there are alternatives to the stock gallery, but I was hoping there was a possibility of changing/improving the compression algorithms so that images come up clearer, or less pixelated. If anyone can offer any help please consider this request.
It's disheartening knowing how good the amoled screen is but not being able to view images to their fullest glory on the N1.
For some reason the Nexus One browser and gallery applications (as well as the home screen wallpapers) render images in 16-bit color when stationary, but render it full color while zooming or panning.
It's really just bizarre.
Perhaps it's to improve the performance of the gallery. I'm sure the N1 could handle better without having to scale down. I hate viewing pictures that I take and thinking the camera is worse than it is to realize that it is a result of extreme compression.
EDIT: I know you can set wallpapers in higher quality by downloading an app called "Wallpaper Set and Save", and there are always other browsers available.
Been searching for a while trying to find some info on the color depth on the Super AMOLED screens on the Galaxy S line.
Reason being, I have to be very wary of what wallpapers I use on my phone, because many end up looking very bad. You see distinct lines in various gradients as if the color depth of the screen is just very low.
It's a little disconcerting, and confusing, given how great these screens are supposed to be.
For example, there is a new wallpaper Android Central (posted just the other day) featuring their new logo/mascot. The wallpapers looks fine on my LCD monitor on my computer, but when I put them on my phone, I see lines in the background gradient that shouldn't be there. It doesn't seem like the screen can render those 'in-between' colors.
Anyone have any insight on this? Is it in fact the screen? Are other phones like this too?
I did read something about the fact that Android 2.1 maxes at 16bit color but 2.2 remedies this limitation, but I'm not sure if this is accurate, applicable to the situation, or even true.
Thanks in advance.
Download the Acquarium free live wallpaper in the market. The colors look amazing on my phone. There's also the Avatar movie, in the bright scenes the colors really "pop".
Let's hope froyo adds that feature, I've noticed it too on some colors, but its a minor annoyance, I'm sure if android supported larger screen resolution like gingerbread will have, samsung would have put a 1280x720 screen in there. Maybe the S2
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As a photographer I put several of my Hi Res works on my Phone. I did not even downsize them and just moved them to the phone so they would not be downsized automatically. I found the Gallery displays them perfectly, all be it with a slight over saturation. But the depth is great, really really good. I have used it as a mini portfolio, its that good.
However if I make any of them a wallpaper the phone dummies the shot way down and I loose sharpness, pixel depth, contrast, even that over saturation I spoke of. Its seems to me the shots are forced down to a "good" wallpaper size to not drain resources maybe? If a large hi res photo is not down sampled in small increments a little at a time it looses a ton of quality. But should not shots made for wallpaper from the market work well too? Maybe the Vibrant dummies all shots down for the wallpaper since all screen sizes are different?
Now if I could only get the Gallery to stop hanging on start up after the Ji6 update...ugh
It could be the stock gallery app that is ****ing up the wallpapers. I recommend using an app called "Wallpaper Set & Save" which allows you to set any size wallpaper without ****ing up the quality. Zedge is another great app with tons of dope wallpapers and doesn't destroy the resolutions of your wallpapers.
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It could be the stock gallery app that is ****ing up the wallpapers. I recommend using an app called "Wallpaper Set & Save" which allows you to set any size wallpaper without ****ing up the quality. Zedge is another great app with tons of dope wallpapers and doesn't destroy the resolutions of your wallpapers.
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Cool! apps like that I was not even aware of. thanks.
I just tried Photoshop Express app for Android to set a Hi Res pic to wallpaper. Fail. It down graded it substantially, It must use the crappy internal phone method also. Gonna check out the recommended apps thanks.
hello,
i love my tab but one issue has been bothering me.
in both gallery and in browser, picture quality is sub par.
even when i'm viewing a high quality jpeg from dslr camera, colors are saturated and the whole picture is pixelated especially when zoomed.
anyone else noticing this issue?
thank you!
gibumee said:
hello,
i love my tab but one issue has been bothering me.
in both gallery and in browser, picture quality is sub par.
even when i'm viewing a high quality jpeg from dslr camera, colors are saturated and the whole picture is pixelated especially when zoomed.
anyone else noticing this issue?
thank you!
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is this because android 2.2 isn't designed for GT's screen size?
if anyone has any ideas or can referred me to a previous post that discusses this, i'll greatly appreciated it.
why don't you change the display: white, black and saturation balance on the display settings and also remove the check box from the "save power mode" ??...
adolfotregosa said:
why don't you change the display: white, black and saturation balance on the display settings and also remove the check box from the "save power mode" ??...
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Thank you, I didn't think to look there. That definately helps with the saturation issue.
However, all my images are displayed pixelated, especially when they are zoomed. Images are 18 megapixel jpegs and should be crisp on most displays. Same image looks better on my Blackberry!
gibumee said:
Thank you, I didn't think to look there. That definately helps with the saturation issue.
However, all my images are displayed pixelated, especially when they are zoomed. Images are 18 megapixel jpegs and should be crisp on most displays. Same image looks better on my Blackberry!
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Isn't your Blackberry going to have much smaller pixels anyway?
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Dave
gibumee said:
Thank you, I didn't think to look there. That definately helps with the saturation issue.
However, all my images are displayed pixelated, especially when they are zoomed. Images are 18 megapixel jpegs and should be crisp on most displays. Same image looks better on my Blackberry!
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Don't use the built in gallery: it's horrible (well, just bad actually) for anything at a resolution different from the Tab's screen. Try something like QuickPic from the market, while it's slow, shows the images properly. Or if it's possible (i don't know) install the stadard Android gallery.
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Or try Image Viewer from the Market. It's very fast and renders in high quality.
Great!
Thank you so much guys, 3rd party image viewers seem to be the solution.
Hello, is there a way to apply a wallpaper without making Android compress the file?
I have beautiful 1080p or even more pics that looks wonderful in gallery but when i set it as wallpaper (with no zoom) it just ''creates'' a new one with a sightly lower quality but you can easily see the low bitrate
I can't believe Samsung with a top-of-the-line device with a incredible PPI giant screen, that should outshine in picture quality, and just the wallpaper that is something that you look all the time, they manage to compress it.
Anyone know if at least we can replace the wallpaper file that is located somewhere in system to make the device load it?
Where do you get those wallpapers from?
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Anyone else have an issue where the lockscreen wallpapers aren't crisp and sharp looking? Seems like android compresses the wallpapers and they never look as good as the original image. I've tested out the new moto x and the stock wallpapers look tack sharp on the screen. This isn't just the lockscreen that's giving me this problem, it's the home screen wallpapers as well.
I've tested 1440p and 4k wallpapers as well with the same result. No, im not using low res photos.
Any ideas?
Pi_ said:
Anyone else have an issue where the lockscreen wallpapers aren't crisp and sharp looking? Seems like android compresses the wallpapers and they never look as good as the original image. I've tested out the new moto x and the stock wallpapers look tack sharp on the screen. This isn't just the lockscreen that's giving me this problem, it's the home screen wallpapers as well.
I've tested 1440p and 4k wallpapers as well with the same result. No, im not using low res photos.
Any ideas?
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You are not alone. I have noticed the same thing. I believe its something with TouchWiz. I cropped my wallpapers to 1440x2560 in photoshop and they seem a lot better. Its funny how they still look a tad sharper in Gallery.
Anyone else with this issue / a solution?
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Anyone else with this issue / a solution?
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No problem here, maybe I have the same issue but I never noticed it. . I also crop all my wallpapers to 1440x2560 and set them as a wallpaper using Quick Pic.
Ahmadmob said:
No problem here, maybe I have the same issue but I never noticed it. . I also crop all my wallpapers to 1440x2560 and set them as a wallpaper using Quick Pic.
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I've tried this, and still no luck. Wallpapers on the Nexus 5 are tack sharp, same as the moto x 2014.
The images in the gallery look amazing, but when they are applied as a wallpaper they look compressed and
blurry, even when they are cropped to match the 1440p resolution. This isnt a huge deal, but just wish it didn't look like this.
This is True
I am going to buy Galaxy Alpha .
and when I looked at wallpapers on home screen and Lock screen on my friend's Alpha it really looked pixalated
I thought its because of 720p and 316 ppi .
but when I checked Gallary app and other apps pics and resolution was looking really superb .
I can see pixels only if I really look Deeply .
2k screen is wastage of battery , Frame rates and performance , specially on S805
I hope they solve this Wallpaper problem
I can confirm this, I've compared a 1440p pic on gallery and when I set it as a wallpaper, as a wallpaper it definitely doesn't look as sharp as when I opened it in gallery. hmmm I hope they fix it with a firmware update or something. Don't know if it has anything to do with this issue but did any of you guys try a different launcher to see if the problem is solved?
Pictures look better in Gallery if you're using Adaptive display mode, because what this mode does is increase sharpness and saturation when viewing images and videos.
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iridaki said:
Pictures look better in Gallery if you're using Adaptive display mode, because what this mode does is increase sharpness and saturation when viewing images and videos.
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I go back and forth between basic and adaptive display, same issue on either display mode.
On both my Moto X and Moto G, whenever I apply wallpaper through Zedge the wallpaper image looks sharp but when I downloaded the same image and apply from photo album the resulting wallpaper looks like their image quality has been reduced. The effects are really noticeable since it produces color banding.
I'm using both stock Moto and Google Now launcher, both have the same issue so I guess it's not Touchwiz related. If anyone can help in pointing to apps that will allow me to apply my photos in gallery without reducing quality I will be grateful.
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You are not alone. I have noticed the same thing. I believe its something with TouchWiz. I cropped my wallpapers to 1440x2560 in photoshop and they seem a lot better. Its funny how they still look a tad sharper in Gallery.
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Gallery does automatic sharpening.
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Gallery does automatic sharpening.
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Yeap... That's it. Thanks a lot!
An easy way to have the same effect on the homescreen wallpaper, is to open the image with studio and apply the Sharpen effect (100%). Then save as 8MP> and set that image as wallpaper. That image will have noise in the stock gallery, but when applied as wallpaper should look almost identical to how the original one looks in the stock gallery.
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I have no problems with wallpapers.
I edit them to an ideal size, which on the note 4 is 2880x2560 for AOSP-based launchers(scrolling wallpaper) or 2560x2560 for touchwiz/lockscreen.
I then set them through FX File Explorer which doesn't edit the image unless it's really needed.