Dual monitor wallpapers and how to set it up
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
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Hi everyone. In my gain for knowledge and everlasting enlightenment I found myself a dilemma. At work I have a two monitor setup and staring at them all day I thought why not put a beautiful wallpaper that spreads across both monitors. Seems simple enough; and it is but after a few hours of searching the web for tutorials on how to do this all that I found was a nice little wallpaper.
So seeing that I had no other choice I started fiddling with Windows desktop settings. All great discoveries were done fiddling were no-one nose should be :) .
Ok then, let me stop boring you and get down to business:
0,5. The tutorial will be for the Vista OS since this is the most used OS at this time. :D
1. Download 'The GIMP' or use your preferred image editing software to modify the wallpaper.
2. View how width is your dual monitor setup. Mine was 1900 * 2 (monitors) pixels width and 1080 height.
3. Modify the image by adding the width of the two monitors together. In my case I just doubled it.
4. Go to 'Desktop Background' by right clicking on the 'Desktop', select 'Personalization' and then again a click on 'Desktop Background' - those are the steps for Vista.
5. Select your wallpaper and instead of using 'Stretch' you need to use 'Tile'.
6. Enjoy your new dual monitor wallpaper. Aren't they beautiful? ;)
*The images presented here are with informative character and DO NOT in any way represent or reflect the setup that I have or the company I work for. These images are here to represent and help you to visualize the steps of the tutorial.
So seeing that I had no other choice I started fiddling with Windows desktop settings. All great discoveries were done fiddling were no-one nose should be :) .
Ok then, let me stop boring you and get down to business:
0,5. The tutorial will be for the Vista OS since this is the most used OS at this time. :D
1. Download 'The GIMP' or use your preferred image editing software to modify the wallpaper.
2. View how width is your dual monitor setup. Mine was 1900 * 2 (monitors) pixels width and 1080 height.
3. Modify the image by adding the width of the two monitors together. In my case I just doubled it.
4. Go to 'Desktop Background' by right clicking on the 'Desktop', select 'Personalization' and then again a click on 'Desktop Background' - those are the steps for Vista.
5. Select your wallpaper and instead of using 'Stretch' you need to use 'Tile'.
6. Enjoy your new dual monitor wallpaper. Aren't they beautiful? ;)
*The images presented here are with informative character and DO NOT in any way represent or reflect the setup that I have or the company I work for. These images are here to represent and help you to visualize the steps of the tutorial.
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