Display Stretches my Favorite Photos

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Bob

I'd like to use some of my photos as wallpaper and when I
select that photo it appears to be "stretched". If I
click on tile or center I only get an enlarged section of
the picture. Any advice?

Thanks
Bob
 
Sounds like the picture is too big, what is the resolution of the screen and
the width and height (in pixels) of the image?

If you don't have an application that can resample (resize) and save your
image, this one is free to download and easy to use:
http://www.irfanview.com/ .
 
Use a graphics program to crop and/or resize the image so that it will have
the correct aspect ratio and won't distort. You can download a trial
version of ThumbsPlus at:

http://www.cerious.com

Once downloaded and installed, open the image, click the Transform menu,
click Resize. In the first box type 800 (for width) the height number will
appear automatically to make the aspect ratio for both the same, and not
distort the image. If the height number is larger than 600, you'll have to
close the Resize box, and crop off some of the Height. If the height number
is lower than 600 you'd have to crop off some of the Width. You'll get an
idea of where you need to crop if you double click the opened image, which
makes it full screen. After a while it becomes easier to eyeball an image
and know about where and how much it needs to be cropped before resizing to
fit the entire desktop without distortion from stretching because the width
and height will have an equal aspect ratio.
 
Sounds like the picture is too big, what is the resolution of the
screen and the width and height (in pixels) of the image?

If you don't have an application that can resample (resize) and save
your image, this one is free to download and easy to use:
http://www.irfanview.com/ .
Click to expand...

I'm not sure if you're the one who plugged this before a couple of days
ago or not, but at any rate thank you or whoever it was very much! I
downloaded it and it is really good! I've made it my default viewer in
file types. It does a lot of stuff for a freebie!
 
Bob said:
I'd like to use some of my photos as wallpaper and when I
select that photo it appears to be "stretched". If I
click on tile or center I only get an enlarged section of
the picture. Any advice?
Click to expand...

Make a copy of the photo and use say Irfan View (www.irfanview.com -
free) to resize it to the same resolution as your screen. Even perhaps
do a little cropping first so as to get exactly the section that looks
best. Save as a JPG file into Windows\web\wallpaper
 
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