Digital Focus: Turn Photos Into Digital Wallpaper Daves Favorites: PalmJpegWatch Q&A: Which is Better: TIFF or Bitmap?
Digital Focus: Turn Photos Into Digital WallpaperWallpaper your PC or PDA; Format Wars: TIFF vs. bitmap. Dave Johnson Feature: Digital Photos Become Digital Wallpaper One of the coolest things about a digital camera is the way your images are immediately available in bits and bytes for all sorts of applications–you can e-mail them, post them on the Web, put them in a newsletter, or stencil them onto a T-shirt. One use for images that people often overlook is wallpaper. No, I’m not talking about pasting your photos onto the kitchen wall. I’m talking about putting them on your PC, PDA, and even your mobile phone. The Windows Desktop Start with an image that’s in either bitmap, JPEG, or GIF file format. To minimize the amount of memory you use when displaying a background image, load it into your favorite image editor and resize it down to about the size of your desktop resolution. Most of the time, your image will begin life much larger than the desktop, and shrinking it down to just fi
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