how do i resize images to fit desktop background

[Guest chuck]

**i posted this in the wrong forum earlier so i'm posting here also. sorry.**

i can't seem to figure out how to resize an image to use as a desktop

background so that i dont get a screen full of several images of one picture

rather than filling the screen with the single image itself. does this make

sense? i assume it has to do with an image being smaller than 800x600 but i

cant figure out how to change it so that it is that size. thanks.

[Guest Big_Al]

Re: how do i resize images to fit desktop background

 

chuck wrote:

> **i posted this in the wrong forum earlier so i'm posting here also. sorry.**

> i can't seem to figure out how to resize an image to use as a desktop

> background so that i dont get a screen full of several images of one picture

> rather than filling the screen with the single image itself. does this make

> sense? i assume it has to do with an image being smaller than 800x600 but i

> cant figure out how to change it so that it is that size. thanks.

>

 

I personally would use photoshop to resize the photo to my screen

resolution size and 72 dpi.

 

But there are a ton of editing programs that can resize images.

Even http://www.faststone.org/FSResizerDetail.htm is freeware and may

suit you.

 

Look for photo editor, resizer, etc in google.

Sometimes if you bought a digital camera, they also come with same basic

tools to do this.

[Guest Ron Badour]

Re: how do i resize images to fit desktop background

 

Right click the desktop, properties, Desktop tab, position box: stretch

 

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Regards

 

Ron Badour

MS MVP Shell User

 

 

"chuck" <chuck@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:54EC983A-60BC-4EF9-8233-9A7E53EDE608@microsoft.com...

> **i posted this in the wrong forum earlier so i'm posting here also.

> sorry.**

> i can't seem to figure out how to resize an image to use as a desktop

> background so that i dont get a screen full of several images of one

> picture

> rather than filling the screen with the single image itself. does this

> make

> sense? i assume it has to do with an image being smaller than 800x600 but

> i

> cant figure out how to change it so that it is that size. thanks.

>

[Guest chuck]

RE: how do i resize images to fit desktop background

 

thanks for the help guys. i should have known it was something simple. lol!

i'll try that program too and see how it works.

 

"chuck" wrote:

> **i posted this in the wrong forum earlier so i'm posting here also. sorry.**

> i can't seem to figure out how to resize an image to use as a desktop

> background so that i dont get a screen full of several images of one picture

> rather than filling the screen with the single image itself. does this make

> sense? i assume it has to do with an image being smaller than 800x600 but i

> cant figure out how to change it so that it is that size. thanks.

>

[Guest Frank-FL]

Re: how do i resize images to fit desktop background

 

 

"chuck" <chuck@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:DF00063A-DDF1-4636-8831-D9E44EC9708C@microsoft.com...

> thanks for the help guys. i should have known it was something simple. lol!

> i'll try that program too and see how it works.

>

> "chuck" wrote:

>

>> **i posted this in the wrong forum earlier so i'm posting here also. sorry.**

>> i can't seem to figure out how to resize an image to use as a desktop

>> background so that i dont get a screen full of several images of one picture

>> rather than filling the screen with the single image itself. does this make

>> sense? i assume it has to do with an image being smaller than 800x600 but i

>> cant figure out how to change it so that it is that size. thanks.

 

Right Click the desktop > properties > desktop tab > browse > pick one, it

will come up as a proper wallpaper.