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can you guys use pictures or screenshots as wallpapers without having to manually resize the picture? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Varyk@sh.itjust.works to c/googlepixel@lemdro.id

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for anyone with the same problem, I add a border until the photo is larger than 1600x2650, at which point you can see the entire photo on the screen, as shown here:

This is one of the dumbest things I deal with on the pixel, although there are a lot of dumb things with this phone.

OP below:

ever since I got the pixel, one of the most frustrating non-Functionalities has been that I have to manually screenshot any picture that I want to make into a wallpaper background because my Google pixel 6 enlarges by about 3x any photo, I choose to make my wallpaper background and cannot make the picture smaller by pinching it smaller.

but now even if I save a screenshot, it blows it up more than 3x and I have to manually add a giant border around the picture in an external app so that the picture itself is much smaller if I want to see the entire picture on my phone wallpaper.

is this just some shitty thing with my phone or do all pixels do this?

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[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Pixel screenres is 2400x1080, my pic is 803x1075.

I'm long-pressing the home screen, clicking wallpaper&style, scroll down, more wallpapers, my photos, then the folder and then this picture.

instantly is blown up to about 2x my screen capacity and i have to crop out part of the picture. no resize allowed.

[–] flipflop97@feddit.nl 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That looks normal. It just cuts off the sides because the screen is narrower than the image. If you want to fit the complete picture and add letterboxes, you'll have to edit it manually by adding height to the image

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

That blowup is of an edited image, so both the horizontal and vertical are smaller than the screen resolution of the pixel 6.

so it takes the photo that is smaller than the screen, blows it up to 2x, then cuts off the sides, top and bottom

It isn't fitting the picture to either vertical or horizontal parameter and won't allow resize.

Resizing a wallpaper is such a basic function, not having pinch and zoom seems pretty lazy or a bug.

Do you also have to manually add borders for your wallpapers?

other pixel users are saying they don't have the same oversize no-resize problem, so you might be in the same boat as I am.