Question about the Focus S giveaway

[J4rrod]

Ok, so I have a wallpaper built. Thing is, it's not correct size for a WP wallpaper (I know because I emailed it to myself and opened it on my phone). How do I change it's size (resolution?) to where it's the correct size to fit my phone?

 

[TheWeeBear]

The correct size is 480 x 800 J4rrod.

'Paint' that comes with Windows will allow you to resize it's resolution.

It's very basic but free, and will do the job of your resize.

Load in your picture / Resize / Pixels / OK

 

[enahs555]

Paint.NET - Free Software for Digital Photo Editing is what I used to create my entries, and they are pretty bad as$.
Also, there is GIMP which is a lot more advanced, and is like PhotoShop but with a different interface.

Example of one of mine:
http://forums.windowscentral.com/at...23906190-wpcentral-logo-submission-1-dark.png

 

[J4rrod]

Thanks guys.

I actually created the whole thing in Paint, but when I went to resize I missed where you could uncheck "Maintain aspect ratio."

Thing is, when I change the ratio from 1124x1040 the entire thing looks terrible. It messed up the entire project.

Anyway to change resolution while maintaining aspect ratio? I worked 4 hours on this thing on the count of Paint's Fill option not working with the images they gave us :'(

See what I mean?

Original: https://skydrive.live.com/redir.asp...7B74D2E37919A6AA!105&authkey=!AHc2k2AbEWt_q_o

Correct resolution: https://skydrive.live.com/redir.asp...7B74D2E37919A6AA!105&authkey=!ABjYgZzJSTFBkkc

Please someone help

 

[TheWeeBear]

Hope this helps you out a little J4rrod.

 

[J4rrod]

OOOOOOMMMMMMMMGGGGGGGGG. Dude, TheWeeBear, you are the man! I will PayPal you some money for that honestly. That is insane! How on earth did you even do that?

Seriously you deserve some recognition on this site. You're by far the most helpful guy here. Thank you so much!

#theweebearforpresident



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[TheWeeBear]

LOL keep calm J4rrod, i just like to try and help. You're more than welcome my friend.

There's loads of helpful folks around these forums, not just lil old me.

Thanks for your kind comments, very much appreciated.

 

[J4rrod]

Haha, I'll try TheWeeBear.

One more question: when I attach an image, such as I did when I posted the wallpaper over on the contest thread, the picture doesn't show up/preview on the thread itself like yours does. I tried attaching the file with the file type as JPG and PNG and neither worked, what am I doing wrong?

 

[TheWeeBear]

Just insert the url of the photo inside image tags J4rrod.

[.img]http://forums.windowscentral.com/attachments/general-discussion/19782d1324159832-wpcentral-metro-logo-final.jpg[/img.]

Remove the dots inside the image tags, they were added by me to stop the image appearring, so you could see what to do.

Hope that makes sense.

 

[J4rrod]

Again, TheWeeBear, you save the day.

 

[TheWeeBear]

Glad to assist J4rrod.