Windows 95/98 Instructions:
(Win2000 and XP are similar.)
First determine your screen size. Select the size of your chosen image
in the galleries that most closely matches your screen's size.
Let the image you've chosen load completely on the
screen. Right click on the image and a menu will pop up. Choose "Set as
Wallpaper" or "Set Background" and the image will be converted to bitmap format (.BMP) and placed in your
windows directory. The settings for your desktop will automatically change to the new
image, named "Internet Explorer Wallpaper," "Netscape Wallpaper," or
something similar. The newest versions of Internet Explorer are storing this in another place, you might find it in this path:
"C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Internet Explorer
Wallpaper.bmp" In Win2000 and XP, this directory is in "Documents
and Settings" rather than "Windows."
To further adjust the settings, right click on the desktop, not on a window or
icon, and a menu will pop up. Selecting "properties" will bring up your desktop
settings (you can also access them from the control panel.) Under the tab
"Background" you can set your wallpaper to "Center," "Tile,"
or "Stretch" (if you don't have windows 98, or the 'MS Plus' package for Windows
95, you won't be able to stretch to fit.)
If your monitor is set to a different size than what is available in the galleries, you
will have to use "Stretch" or some other method of resizing the image that most closely matched your
screen.
(sometimes, "Center" looks just as nice.)
More Windows 7 wallpaper instructions here.
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Macintosh 8.5+ Instructions
First determine your screen size. Select the size of your chosen image
in the galleries that most closely matches your screen's size.
On the Macintosh, (OS 8.5 at least) you can hold down the mouse button on the image you
have selected and a menu will pop up. Select the option to "Download image to
disk" and save the image somewhere on your hard drive. Hold down control and click
the mouse on the Finder's background. Another menu will pop up and you can select
"Change desktop background" at the bottom of that list (You could also select
"Appearance" from the Control Panels in the Apple menu.) Under the
"desktop" tab, click "Place picture..." If you already have an
image on the back ground, click "Remove picture" first. Go to the location
on your hard drive where you saved the image, and hit "Choose". You should be
able to use the JPEG format, if not, you will have to use a graphics program to covert the
image to TIFF.
In this window you can also select how the image appears on screen. If your screen size
doesn't match the image sizes available, you can scale the image that most closely matches using "Scale to screen" or "Fill
screen" (sometimes, "Center on screen" looks just as nice.)
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