gunner154 Posted July 26, 2008 Share Posted July 26, 2008 Is it possible for me to have a wallpaper of 4:3 aspect ratio on a widescreen monitor, but having the width stretched to fit the monitor while leaving black bars (dependent on the desktop colour) exposed at the side of the image to make up for the widescreen proportion? I'd like to know how to do it, for both images with width greater (stretching it means compressing the whole image so fit the width) or smaller than 800 pixels (stretching to fit width) for width.Edit: Here's how it started. I have a large (non-widescreen) picture to put up as a wallpaper on a 16:10 monitor, resolution set to 1280x800. However, rather than have the width stretched to the monitor edges while maintaing aspect ratio (what I wanted) or just having it display on its own but surrounded by a black border, the image got zoomed in, cutting out the edges of the picture itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted July 27, 2008 Share Posted July 27, 2008 I'm not sure but athttp://interfacelift.com/you can select the resolution you want.Wouldn't you tell the image to "center" at properties->desktop tab->position->center ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunner154 Posted July 27, 2008 Author Share Posted July 27, 2008 That doesn't alter the size of the image, so a huge image still gets bits cut out.I'm now using Microsoft Picture Manager to manually scale the image to the size I want (ie fit the width/height) and then set it as desktop wallpaper. Seems to work for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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