"PT" <xyz@xyz.com> wrote in message news:%23rfbHlqIJHA.456@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
|I have two monitors: one is a 4:3 on a desktop and the other a 16:9 laptop
| monitor.
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| 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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Every answer you were getting, about cropping, etc., missed the point that in setting a photo as
wallpaper, there is an option on the side that let's you "center" the photo instead of "stretching"
it. This leave the photo proportions correct, but there will be a border around the photo.