Cannot crop pictures for background

I cannot crop any pictures for my background or desktop on my ipads. I have an orginal, the new ipad and the ipad air. When I pinch the picture to make it fit it always pop's back to the orginal size. I have done this before, but for some reason I can seem to do it now. What am I doing wrong.

Have you got, or could create, a higher resolution version of the image that you could try instead ? With iOS 7.0.3, from http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5595 :
You can reduce screen motion in iOS 7. iOS 7 uses a parallax effect to create the perception of depth on your Home screen and elsewhere.
To reduce the effect, you can turn on Reduce Motion in Settings > General > Accessibility. When you turn on Reduce Motion, Home screen transitions will fade instead of zoom.
When the parallax effect is on, you may notice the following:
Wallpaper, icons, and alerts shift slightly as you move your phone.
When you set a wallpaper in Settings > Wallpapers & Brightness, the photo or image will be slightly zoomed and can't be scaled to fit the screen.
If you zoom in, you will need to rescale your wallpaper to fit to the screen. You can't rescale certain photo formats, including landscape or square images.

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I have recently purchased the lovely iPod Touch and I would therefore like to download the pictures for my music. However, when I attempt this, I am told that the program was unable to download the pictures for some albums. I attempted to get pictures for a little over 500 songs and iTunes was unable to download 344 of them...
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Let Apple know your idea.
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I would like the cropping and sizing capabilities of photos on the iPhone, to be on the iPad as well. Trying to zoom into a specific section of a photo to make into a wallpaper is not do-able on the iPad and I don't understand why. It's easy to do on my iPhone, why not iPad??
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You are preaching to the wrong crowd here. Let these guys know how you feel.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html
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Gem
Events are organised strictly on date and time, as read by iPhoto from the Exif data in the Photo. You cannot manually sort.
Create Albums. You can do much more organising with Albums, use Photos from different events, place them as you will. Best of all, Albums use no disk space at all. They simply reference the file on the Hard Disk. So a pic can be 1, 10 or 100 Albums with no wasted disk space whatever.
Regards
TD

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There are Craigslist apps that are nice, but trying using copy paste. Go to your photos, select the photo. Hold down your finger on it to copy. Then in the body of the post, hold down your finger and select paste.

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hi,
once I got a nice idea while watching some webpages. we can give a background picture for a webpage in <body> tag?
I want to do same thing for any Swing application. Currently I am working on that issue. Any suggestions are welcome!!
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Hi everybody!
Finally I got it. now Using this We can enable background for any swing application.
the complete code is shown here. If you have any problems regarding this code, please mail to [email protected]
/******************************[TexturedImageIcon.java]***********************/
import java.net.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.awt.geom.*;
import java.awt.image.*;
import javax.swing.*;
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          JButton b = new JButton("fdfdfdfd");
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          f.setSize(300,300);
          f.show();
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import java.awt.event.*;
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import javax.swing.event.*;
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          initComponents();
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          east.add(emailField);
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          east.add(pwdField);
          east.add(pwdField1);
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          JButton ok = new JButton("Ok");
          JButton cancel = new JButton("Cancel");
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          shortField.setText("");
          nameField.setText("");
          emailField.setText("");
          smtpServerField.setText("");
          pwdField.setText("");
          pwdField1.setText("");
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          clearFields();
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Greetings,
Where is the background picture for a window stored? What is the file called? I am trying to find the image used on a DVD.
Thanks

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