Is there. A trick for resizing pictures saved from the web as wallpaper?

Question

I'm use to using pictures taken from my iPhone n ipad as wallpaper, and I can take a picture of my iPad screen.
When I try to use the web saved pictures they appear too big for my wallpaper.
Even the pinch and move doesn't seem to allow me to get it small enough.

Answer 1

You may also want to bear in mind, many photo off the internet are tiny, as in smaller than your iPad screen.
If your iPad's resolution is 1024 x 768 (which is the resolution of an iPad 2) and you download some image from the net that's 400 x 300 pixels, it's gonna zoom in and it's not going to look great because another part of the whole resolution thing is pixels per inch. You get an internet photo with 72 pixels per inch and try to put them on an iPad that wants to show a couple hundred pixels per inch it will be fuzzy and not pretty.
The iPad's programming tells it that all the screen must be covered, so it zooms in to make the horizontal or vertical edges touch, which often leaves you only the ability to move your photos up and down or left to right.
Basically, even with the various apps and such, they can only do so much. Give them an image with not much to work with and the results likely won't be as good as if when you give them a high resolution image.
If you have a computer you can look at your images there and see their size. Right click on them and check their properties and it gives you the numbers. If you do work with the apps and the results aren't what you hoped, this can be a way to determine if it's the apps' fault or the material you're giving it to work with.