grr8dane

Join Date 01/2004

Dual Monitor Wallpapers

I have been looking through the archives and trying to find a tutorial on how to create my own dual monitor wallpapers. I get the concept of doubling the width but when I do that it becomes a stretched picture instead of a picture that covers both monitors. I have also googled the procedure and I am still having no luck eliminating the stretched pic. Can anyone offer a little more help other than the 2003 - 2004 archives? Thanks.

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To apply dual monitor wallpapers, you will need to use the 'Tile' rather than 'Stretch' option.

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Yeah I have done that and the jpg still stretches.

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What are the dimensions of your JPG?

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I have my screen settings at 1280X1024 and I create the image to be 2560X1024 and the image is stretched still.

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DorkCoffeez

Join Date 03/2006

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Is there anywhere we can download this image from?

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It is not any particular image, it is any jpg that I use. When I change the settings of the image from 1280X1024 to 2560X1024 the image is stretched. Are there certain images I have to use or is the information I am finding that states you can take any image and create a dual monitor wallpaper by just changing the 1280 portion of the background?

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How are you creating the image? In your graphics program is the canvas size 2560x1024? Is the image?

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Bebi Bulma

Join Date 04/2004

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Of course it's going to appear distorted if you're just manually stretching an image from 1280 to 2650. It need to be created as dual sized to begin with.

KoL has a lot of nice multi-monitor wallpapers.

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Well in all of the online instructions I have found thus far, the text just states the change in width will achieve the desired results. I didn't assume the image would stretch since the 'experts' giving the instructions didn't say or show stretched images they showed perfectly adjusted images. I didn't find any clearer instructions on the message board either. Please forgive my ignorance, perhaps I should do a tutorial for this message board so someone else doesn't take the text literally as I did and make my mistakes. Thank you all for the help.

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Bebi Bulma

Join Date 04/2004

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Please forgive my ignorance, perhaps I should do a tutorial for this message board so someone else doesn't take the text literally as I did and make my mistakes. Thank you all for the help.

That would be a good idea, it's a failure only if you fail to learn from it.

Try adding your tutorial to the Wincustomize Wiki when you're done with it.

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