Now that you have selected your image, you must decide how you want it to appear. It will appear in the window to the right of this menu, where you see the little colored rectangles in the image below. See that menu to your left? Your single image is in a folder, so click Choose Folder and go find and select it. In System Preferences, click on Desktop & Screen Saver. Locate the image and place the it in its own folder.įrom the Apple menu, select System Preferences. Be careful! That picture of Jupiter could come out egg-shaped. Your Mac can be told to fill the screen, which will stretch or compress the image, so if your image’s aspect ratio is a square, for example, the image will be squashed looking. The image should also be a rectangle in approximately the same aspect ratio as your screen.
On our computer, a 56Kb image is about the smallest we can use before it starts to look pixelish. One of those Apple Cinema Displays will need a proportionately larger image to look good. Our LCD screen is one of the smaller ones – 15” diagonal. Keep in mind that you will be blowing the image up considerably. The larger the image, the better the quality. We’ll show you how to use custom desktop pictures and screen savers! Set Your Desktop PictureĬhoose your image. LCD displays don’t need screen savers, because the images don’t “burn in” to screens like they did on older CRT displays.
Screen savers are also cool even though they aren’t necessary anymore. You can add just one picture that will be displayed on your desktop all the time, or you can choose to shuffle through your desktop pictures to make a custom slide show for your desktop. You have a couple different display options when it comes to desktop pictures and screen savers.
There are loads of free desktop pictures and screen savers available on the Internet – just search for them! In fact, Apple has a website chock full of free screen savers. Putting a picture on your desktop and adding your own screen saver is one of the easiest ways to customize your Mac.
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