If it’s larger, the outer edges get chopped off. If the picture is smaller than the screen, it leaves a swath of empty border all the way around. This option makes your picture repeat over and over until the multiple images fill the entire monitor.Ĭenter. Larger pictures may be squished vertically or horizontally as necessary, and small pictures are drastically blown up and squished, usually with grisly results. Makes your picture fit the screen exactly, come hell or high water. If the photo doesn’t precisely match the proportions of your screen, you get “letterbox bars” on the sides or at top and bottom. Your entire photo appears, as large as possible without distortion or cropping. Parts may get chopped off, but this option never distorts the picture.įit. Enlarges or reduces the image so that it fills every inch of the desktop without distortion. You may never want to open another window, because you’d hate to block your view.įill. Now, at the intervals you specified, your desktop picture changes automatically, smoothly cross-fading between the pictures in your chosen source folder like a slideshow. (If you’re really having trouble staying awake at your PC, you can choose every minute.) Now, from the “Change picture every” pop-up menu, specify when you want your background picture to change: every day, every hour, every 5 minutes, or whatever. Use the Browse button to find a promising-looking folder full of images. Fortunately, you can choose multiple desktop pictures from the gallery. The novelty of any desktop picture is likely to fade after several months of all-day viewing. That might be an adorable baby photo of your niece, or it might be Sofía Vergara with half her clothes off the choice is yours. It also offers you a Browse button that displays what’s in your Pictures folder, because it’s more fun to use one of your own pictures on the desktop. Picture starts you off with five luscious nature photos. It’s not a bad idea, actually it’s a little easier to find your icons if they’re not lost among the details of a nature photo (or a Sofía Vergara photo). Solid Color is a palette of simple, solid colors for your desktop background.

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