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Designing your own wallpaper

I enjoy photography and meddling in photo-shop, i was wondering if i was to design my own wallpaper what size is best?
i have seen sizing 640x480, but what the best size for the desire? my pictures are high resolution anyway but want to get the best out of them and is jpeg and acceptable file for wallpapers or is it a specific file? :thinking::D
 
is it me but when i choose photo in the wallpaper option as that where my home made wallpapers seemed to have saved seems the larger files(1280x1024) the phone insists on cropping them, now i have no problem resizing the images to fit as cropping ruins the wallpaper i made, i am just double checking this will be best thing to do. :p
 
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Hey guys, I just tried this and too got the cropping issue. BUT I think I've figured it out.
960 x 800 are the correct dimensions but make sue that it's 960 wide by 800 high. Not the otherway around.
Looking at the phone I'm sure, like me, you figured "well it's clearly taller than it is wider.."
But in actual fact the wallpaper spans across all of the homescreens and so that's why it needs to be wider than it is tall.

Give that a go and it should work! :)

Giz
 
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