I want a borderless image on my desktop

[Doug]

Sometimes I would like to put a borderless image on my desktop. In real life
if I were to drop a photograph the size of a postage stamp onto my wooden
desktop, it would just BE there. By contrast, on a Windows Vista desktop it
is surrounded by the border and toolbars of its containing graphics utility,
and the best I have managed so far uses Microsoft Office Picture Manager -
see:
http://www.abovepar.f2s.com/resources/smallpic.png
It is such an obvious need there MUST be a way, but it eludes me. Some of
the skin views in Windows Media Player get close to the idea, but really all
I want is to be able to open a completely borderless image on my desktop and
drag it around, to be able to toggle whether or not it is On Top, and to
close it without deletion.
Doug

 

[Dave Cox]

Sometimes I would like to put a borderless image on my desktop. In
real life if I were to drop a photograph the size of a postage
stamp onto my wooden desktop, it would just BE there. By contrast,
on a Windows Vista desktop it is surrounded by the border and
toolbars of its containing graphics utility, and the best I have
managed so far uses Microsoft Office Picture Manager - see:
http://www.abovepar.f2s.com/resources/smallpic.png
It is such an obvious need there MUST be a way, but it eludes me.
Some of the skin views in Windows Media Player get close to the
idea, but really all I want is to be able to open a completely
borderless image on my desktop and drag it around, to be able to
toggle whether or not it is On Top, and to close it without
deletion. Doug

I don't know of a way to display photos exactly the way you are
describing.

But you can use the Slideshow gadget to make a semi borderless
slideshow of your pictures on your desktop.

 

[Randall]

Sometimes I would like to put a borderless image on my desktop. In real life
if I were to drop a photograph the size of a postage stamp onto my wooden
desktop, it would just BE there. By contrast, on a Windows Vista desktop it
is surrounded by the border and toolbars of its containing graphics utility,
and the best I have managed so far uses Microsoft Office Picture Manager -
see:
http://www.abovepar.f2s.com/resources/smallpic.png
It is such an obvious need there MUST be a way, but it eludes me. Some of
the skin views in Windows Media Player get close to the idea, but really all
I want is to be able to open a completely borderless image on my desktop and
drag it around, to be able to toggle whether or not it is On Top, and to
close it without deletion.

Fuggedaboudit

 

[Andre Da Costa]

Use Apple QuickTime.