No matter what I do in PSE13 or similar I cannot get the hang of fitting an image to fit perfectly as desktop wallpaper. I tried everything and I'm whacked out and failing totally miserably.
Pleaseeeee help an old aged pensioner crack this stupid thing.
Doc Very Strange; after having injections into eyeballs for Macular Occlusion.
APPLE iMac MC508, Mac OS X (10.6.5), Dual-core Intel® Core™ i3-540 (3.06 GHz)
Fitting the image exactly to the display resolution in pixels usually means cropping or resizing your images to the precise number of pixels
For a 21.5" iMac, those dimensions are 1920 wide by 1080 tall.
You can check this on your own system
, About This Mac, More Info…, Graphics/Displays
I'm running OS X 10.8 on this machine, so the sequence after More Info... might have different wording on OS X 10.6
Doubling or halving both numbers can also work, depending upon the resolution of the original item.
so 960x540 can work if the original source is high enough.
EDIT: Also, there are options for 'fit to screen', 'fill screen', and 'stretch to fill screen' in , System Preferences, Desktop & Screen Saver, that can simplify the process if your original is CLOSE to the screen resolution.
desktop image size
