Last month I provided information detailing how to personalize your Desktop with regard to Windows 7 supplied scenes. I hope you enjoyed the article and tried some of the scenes available.
This month I’m going to describe how you can become more creative and place a photograph of your choice, or even a slide show of your photographs, on the Desktop.
To locate a single picture from your Pictures folder, click Start and the following window will appear:
In the Search programs and files box at the bottom of the window, type the words Desktop Background.
At the top of the window, under the words Control Panel, click on the phrase Change desktop background and the following window will appear:
Click on the drop-down arrow to the right of Picture location and the following options will be shown:
Select Pictures Library and all of your albums will be shown. First, select the photo that you’d like to appear as your Desktop Background. Then, click on the drop-down arrow to the right of Picture position and select Fill. Finally, click on Save changes at the bottom right of the window, and the selected photo will now appear on your Desktop, filling the entire screen
The other options available on the Picture position are as follows:
- Stretch manipulates the pixels to fill the screen. Not a good option since it “stretches” the photo and creates distortion..
- Tile minimizes the size of the image and repeats it throughout the display.
- Center will place the image directly in the middle of your screen
You can experiment with each option to see the effect it provides. You can also, at any time, make changes if the option you chose does not provide you with the look you want.
If you want all of the photos in a specific album to appear as a slide show, select the album that contains the photos you want, and then click on the Select all tab at the top right of the window. This will place a checkmark at the top left corner of every photo in the album you selected. If you want to omit any picture(s) in the selected album, hold down one of the Ctrl keys, located at the bottom of the keyboard on both the left and right sides, and click on the photo(s) you want omitted. Notice that the checkmark disappears.
If you want to reinstate any photo(s) you omitted, again hold down the Ctrl key and click on the photo(s) you initially omitted, and the checkmark will reappear.
The album used in this example contains five photos. Notice that each has a checkmark in the upper left hand corner.
