Part of the problem is the photo's original resolution, it's too low to look
good ath the higher resolution setting of your monitor, also the size of the
photo is important, if you took at 2x3 inch photo and stretched it to fit a
12x16 screen, it would look wildly distorted.

"PT" wrote:

> I have two monitors: one is a 4:3 on a desktop and the other a 16:9 laptop
> monitor.
>
> I want to use a .JPG file from a 4" x 6" digital camera photo as the desktop
> background on the laptop. But when I set it up by right clicking on the
> desktop, selecting properties, and browsing to the appropriate .jpg photo
> file, the resulting image is stretched out, distorting the photo in a manner
> similar to what appears on sports bar HDTV sets.
>
> I assume there's a way to retain the correct aspect ratio, leaving a pair of
> "black" bars at the left and right ends of the photo.
>
> How to do it?
>
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> PT
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