One of the advantages of Windows is that it can be customized to suit the taste of each user. Today we will see a feature that contributes greatly to that, the wallpaper. This is how we will teach you CHow to adjust the size of a wallpaper image in Windows.
How to adjust the wallpaper image
If you are choosing an image and you don't know how to filter by resolution, but if you already have a background image and you want to adjust its size, it will be a little more complex.
The first thing is to know how Windows treats the background image you have. If the image has a different shape than your screen.
To choose what Windows will do with the image you have already selected, you must read and follow the following simple steps:
- Right click on the desktop and select “Personalization”. (Alternatively, puede ir al panel de control> Apariencia y personalización> Personalización)
- Here you will see your themes. Then, you will see a tab that says “desktop wallpaper”. click on it.
- On “Image position”, select the appropriate option.
If the Windows option still doesn't look right, you need to find your wallpaper image file and resize it with a program that suits your needs.
If you already know where the image is, you can skip this section, but, you can find it by following these simple steps:
- Right-click on the desktop and select “Personalization”. (Alternatively, puede ir al panel de control> Apariencia y personalización> Personalización)
- Here you will see your themes. Then, you will see a tab that says “desktop wallpaper”
- Under this tab, is the file name from image, write it down.
- Open the Windows menu.
- At the bar “Search programs and files”, enter file name and wait
- When the image appears, right-click it and then click “Open file location “.
You can even put a GIF as your computer's wallpaper. The possibilities are endless. If you share your computer with other people, you might be interested in knowing how to prevent other people from changing the wallpaper.
Fill in
Used to stretch a small image, compress a high resolution and modify the aspect binding. What makes the background fit the frames of our monitor.
Adjust
It will help in case of very large images or with a resolution other than our monitor; it usually happens that apply it as a background to the edges of the image are outside and only a central part is visible.
Here we can use this option with which we will be able to see the entire image when using it as “wallpaper” and the empty parts will be filled with a solid color.
to expand
Useful when we want to choose a small low resolution image, adapting it so that it can be seen on the entire monitor, even when stretching images with little detail, lack of sharpness may be noticed, so it is recommended always select backgrounds with good resolution and when the screen can display it correctly.
Mosaic
Tool that will help us to repeat the same Image in the extension of our monitor, thus filling the empty spaces.
Center
It is about using the image in its original size, place it around the center of our desk and fill the rest of the screen with a solid color.
What is the ideal size for a wallpaper?
The standard size of an image to ensure a good wallpaper setting It has a resolution of 1024 x 768, but at this time we find multiple varieties of monitors, for this it is best to know the aspect linkage.
Most of the current screens work in the format 16.9 known as' panoramic’ in this type of screen the most optimal is to use images of 1020 x 1080 pixels, but we also have old monitors from 4,3 'squares’ where the ideal is 800×600 pixels.
Even though there are exceptions where larger images can be used, everything will depend so much on the monitor aspect and resolution linkage which can be displayed as the size of the picture. These are the most used formats currently, even though there are also manufacturers that manufacture monitors of different sizes and their ideal formats for wallpapers are the following:
5.4. (1280×1024)
16.10. (1280 x 800) (1440 x 900)
5.3. (800 x 480) (1280 x 768)
3.2. (1152 × 768) (1440 × 960) (2000 × 1333)
How to change the login image
To give a personal touch to our session in Windows we must go to the start menu, later we go to configuration, we enter the account aggregation and later we will have our account information available.
We select to create an image and proceed to look for the one of our preference or we can take a photograph directly if we have a camera connected to the PC; with this procedure we can change the image of our account what will we see at the beginning, but if what we want is to change the background image, when we want to log in we have two options to select: a spot color or an image.
Flat color
To determine a flat color background at Windows login we must go to the registry editor, open the start button and type “regedit” to get to the route:
HKEY _LOCAL _MACHINE Software Policies Microsoft Windows SystemSystem
After this we will create a DWORD value and name it DisableLogonBackgroundImage, we attribute 00000001 at this value, this will be enough to see a flat color as the background on the login screen.
By image
To select a personalized image as the background on the home screen, access the settings, later we enter the customization option, we click on the lock screen to proceed to examine the computer and look for the image of our choice.
After selecting the lock image, we must activate the option “display the lock screen background image on the login screen” what forAn image of your choice will be assigned to you on the screen where it shows your username before logging in.
What should be considered?
Before setting the wallpaper, you must pay attention to several things, like screen size. Your desktop takes up the entire screen space, but the image you choose can be bigger or smaller, therefore first you must know your monitor size. But it is not enough to measure the monitor in centimeters, you need to know how many pixels will fit in it.
If you have a laptop, you can see this on the label. Opposite case, you can enter the Control Panel and later:
- and a “Hardware and sound”.
- Walk into “Screen”
- On the left, click on “Adjust resolution”
- Do not touch anything, just look at the tab “Resolution” and write down the numbers it says. Order is essential.
- If you have more than one screen, click on the tab “Screen” and select the others, then repeat the step 4.
Now that you know the size of your desk, when selecting an ideal image, you should try to make it more or less that size. You can download images of different genres for free at the Microsoft Official Website.
Note that what matters when viewing these resolutions is the image aspect linkage, In other words, the link between an image's height and its width.
As an example, a picture of 2×2 will look good on a 4 screen×4 and 8×8, but not in one of 8×4, because the link between height and width is not the same. You can use a calculator to find out your monitor's aspect ratio and more easily compare it to the image you want to use..
