I love this building. I would very much like to turn it into wallpaper on my computer. How can I stretch this pic without making it go all fuzzy?
This is the same guy who did the Weisman Art Museum on the University of Minnesota campus in the Cities; the Guggenheim museum in Bilboa, Spain; and the Getty museum in LA, in case you’re wondering.
Mac or PC?
does it make a difference?
i would say you can’t. the picture is a certain quality. you can’t expect it to look the same when you enlarge the size to fit the screen.
you will have to settle for it as that size on your desktop, or find another picture of the building.
you could always tile it. ha.
a nice building it is.
PC, if that makes any difference.
I was afraid someone was going to say that, Kilgore. I’ve been searching quite some time now and have been unable to find a larger picture.
I don’t know anything about Macs. Yes, I was going to suggest tiling it, but I don’t know nothin’ bout no Mac wallpapers.
The other idea I had was to save it to program that lets you mess with pictures and add a border to it, like a matting effect.
Will this work? Save it as your wallpaper. Then right click on the distorted picture and go down to properties. Then click on Microsoft Wallpaper and then change it from “stretch” to “center”. I might not have all of the words right. I’m trying to remember it without doing it.
No that’s not right. It’s just under “properties” Change from “stretch” to “center”.
Yes, it works - but the pic is about 2x3 inches. I’m trying to make it cover my screen - hence the fuzzines.
And tiling sucks, IMHO 
Thanks for the help, though - will muddle around a bit more and tri to figure this out.
sandyr
I have emailed the enlarged photo to you. Bear in mind that it is a large BMP file because wallpaper needs to be BMP
let me know if that is good or you want something else
Sailor, you rock
Thanks very much…How’d you do that?
Then could you also email me and explain how I got a jpg to be my desktop/wallpaper? I don’t think it minded.
OOPS! I have NEVER used wallpaper and had assumed (for some reason) it needed to be BMP. I will mail you both the JPG which is much smaller (of course)
No, don’t worry about it, sailor - already have the bmp up and running and it works just fine.
Just tell me how you did it!
WellI already sent it and the JPG file size is way smaller in size.
You can edit graphics with many programs and I use several because they are all free stuff and none does it all. It takes a while to practice and get to know the best way to do things.
But, you can enlarge/reduce pictures and do many other basic things and save using BMP/JPG/GIF formats just using the program MSPAINT.EXE that comes with windows.
If you have the older version ytou can download the newer version 5 for free from the MS web site.
I hope this helps. I also use 2 or 3 other programs depending on what I’m doing but just for resizing photos MSPAINT will do it
I have always found wallpaper annoying and I just like the green background.
I notice the photo is portrait (higher than wide) so since the desktop is wider than high, you will have to center it or tile it.
If you want you can easily select any other of the photos of the same building and add it to the wallpaper. Just let me know as it takes me just a few minutes to do it.
Wallpaper does need to be a bitmap, but in Win98 or later, you can tell it to use a jpeg, and it’ll convert it automagically.
I have to say I have two computers here, one running WIN95 and the other WIN98 and I ws just to lazy to start investigating. As I say, I have never used wallpaper.
I have sent Sandy some more JPGs by email. Sandy, let me know if you need anything more (or if you need me to convert to BMP although you can do it easily with MSPAINT)
I have got to the point where I use several programs to process the same photo. Each one does something better so I use each one for something different.
Adobe Photodeluxe has the most stuff (BTW, it is pretty easy to warp a photo of any building so it looks like those modern ones, that’s what I thought it was at first) but I use MSPAINT for simple things. MSPAINT also compresses JPG more than Photo deluxe. I also use one that came with my Kodak DVC 323 webcam
Yup, sailor sent me some more, and they’re perfect.
Thanks again 
Look what I did to the Supreme Court
Only my W98 not my W95, has stretch.
Here is what you do. Find out what your screen resolution is, say, 640 x 480. In a graphics program, have it size your picture to match that resolution size. There, complete, easy too, eh?
