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Stupid desktop wallpaper question
Running XP home, I can change my background so that it will tile, stretch and
center using bitmaps, But I cannot tile or center using a .jpg. I want to center a .jpg, size is 300KB. I cannot get a jpg to center and show the blank color on the sides of the background that it does with a bitmap. Is this a restriction of the video settings? Any suggestions? |
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Stupid desktop wallpaper question
No, there's no built-in restriction on jpegs. In fact, just about all my
desktop backgrounds are jpegs. If the dimensions of your image, in whatever format, do not match the dimensions of your monitor (16:10, 16:9 or 4:3), the image won't fit properly on your monitor. Windows tries to squeeze the image onto your monitor as best it can, but the results often look odd. Centering the image can have unintended results. For best results, crop your image so that it has the same dimensions as your monitor. --- Leonard Grey Errare humanum est Newbie123 wrote: Running XP home, I can change my background so that it will tile, stretch and center using bitmaps, But I cannot tile or center using a .jpg. I want to center a .jpg, size is 300KB. I cannot get a jpg to center and show the blank color on the sides of the background that it does with a bitmap. Is this a restriction of the video settings? Any suggestions? |
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Stupid desktop wallpaper question
No, there's no built-in restriction on jpegs. In fact, just about all my desktop backgrounds are jpegs. If the dimensions of your image, in whatever format, do not match the dimensions of your monitor (16:10, 16:9 or 4:3), the image won't fit properly on your monitor. Windows tries to squeeze the image onto your monitor as best it can, but the results often look odd. Centering the image can have unintended results. For best results, crop your image so that it has the same dimensions as your monitor. --- Leonard Grey Errare humanum est Newbie123 wrote: Running XP home, I can change my background so that it will tile, stretch and center using bitmaps, But I cannot tile or center using a .jpg. I want to center a .jpg, size is 300KB. I cannot get a jpg to center and show the blank color on the sides of the background that it does with a bitmap. Is this a restriction of the video settings? Any suggestions? |
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Stupid desktop wallpaper question
On 12 Oct 2009, =?Utf-8?B?TmV3YmllMTIz?=
wrote in microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize: Running XP home, I can change my background so that it will tile, stretch and center using bitmaps, But I cannot tile or center using a .jpg. I want to center a .jpg, size is 300KB. I cannot get a jpg to center and show the blank color on the sides of the background that it does with a bitmap. Is this a restriction of the video settings? Any suggestions? Using XP Pro, I can tile, center, or stretch jpg files just like I can bmp files. Maybe it is a matter of your video system. I like to use the freeware image viewer Irfanview. It can make any image it can display into your desktop wallpaper. It also has one additional option that Windows built-in wallpaper setter doesn't have: it will stretch the image to it's maximum viewable size while keeping the proportions. So, it will enlarge the image until the horizontal or vertical dimension fills the screen and display the background color in the remaining area. |
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Stupid desktop wallpaper question
On 12 Oct 2009, =?Utf-8?B?TmV3YmllMTIz?=
wrote in microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize: Running XP home, I can change my background so that it will tile, stretch and center using bitmaps, But I cannot tile or center using a .jpg. I want to center a .jpg, size is 300KB. I cannot get a jpg to center and show the blank color on the sides of the background that it does with a bitmap. Is this a restriction of the video settings? Any suggestions? Using XP Pro, I can tile, center, or stretch jpg files just like I can bmp files. Maybe it is a matter of your video system. I like to use the freeware image viewer Irfanview. It can make any image it can display into your desktop wallpaper. It also has one additional option that Windows built-in wallpaper setter doesn't have: it will stretch the image to it's maximum viewable size while keeping the proportions. So, it will enlarge the image until the horizontal or vertical dimension fills the screen and display the background color in the remaining area. |
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Stupid desktop wallpaper question
Actually, Windows automatically converts jpg wallpapers to bitmaps and stores them in the Windows folder. The problem you have may be with the conversion process. To avoid problems, convert manually with IrfanView or GIMP. "Newbie123" wrote: Running XP home, I can change my background so that it will tile, stretch and center using bitmaps, But I cannot tile or center using a .jpg. I want to center a .jpg, size is 300KB. I cannot get a jpg to center and show the blank color on the sides of the background that it does with a bitmap. Is this a restriction of the video settings? Any suggestions? |
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Stupid desktop wallpaper question
Actually, Windows automatically converts jpg wallpapers to bitmaps and stores them in the Windows folder. The problem you have may be with the conversion process. To avoid problems, convert manually with IrfanView or GIMP. "Newbie123" wrote: Running XP home, I can change my background so that it will tile, stretch and center using bitmaps, But I cannot tile or center using a .jpg. I want to center a .jpg, size is 300KB. I cannot get a jpg to center and show the blank color on the sides of the background that it does with a bitmap. Is this a restriction of the video settings? Any suggestions? |
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