Unexpected obstacle with my Christmas plans

@Asylum (47893)

Manchester, England

November 22, 2015 7:44am CST

Each year I usually decorate my computer desktop with a Christmas wallpaper and Christmas icons etcetera. While it was quiet earlier today I decided to select which to use for this year, but encountered a problem. I have a very large collection of Christmas wallpapers, but the majority are 800 X 600 pixels. My new desktop monitor is wide screen and I am using a resolution of 1366 X 768, which is a total mismatch. They will operate as wallpapers at this resolution, but the resultant effect is far from good. I am currently trying to adapt some in Photoshop, either by cropping them accordingly or overlaying them on the correct frame and filling in the blank space. I may have another search for appropriately sized images, otherwise I may have to resort to creating my own from scratch.

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@LadyDuck (471294)

• Switzerland

22 Nov 15

You reminded me that I have to go through my Christmas newspaper and choose one for the holiday.

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

22 Nov 15

I always try to select mine a few weeks before I intend to use them, which removes any urgency. This time it has proven worthwhile because I now have the time to sort something out.

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

22 Nov 15

@LadyDuck I always to avoid having to choose one urgently, which I may feel later was a poor choice.

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@LadyDuck (471294)

• Switzerland

22 Nov 15

@Asylum It's better than I do the same, the days before Christmas are always busy days.

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@SIMPLYD (90722)

• Philippines

23 Nov 15

Because of this post , i remember to also change my wallpaper to something appropriate to my laptop. I will try Zedge . What do you recommend as alternative though ?

@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

23 Nov 15

There is no specific site that I visit for wallpapers. I have collected a large selection over the years, but from a complete spectrum of sites. These have given me plenty of choice over the years, but now the majority are the wrong resolution.

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

23 Nov 15

@SIMPLYD The computer will stretch thr wallpaper to cover the whole screen, but if you use one that is 800 X 600 on a widescreen monitor then it will distort slightly.

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@SIMPLYD (90722)

• Philippines

23 Nov 15

@Asylum I never have a problem with the size of wallpapers i get from the net . I just download then and set them as my desktop display and they fit so nicely .

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@allknowing (135943)

• India

23 Nov 15

Don;t you have option like these?

@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

23 Nov 15

Of course I do, but stretching a 800 X 600 image to fit a wide monitor distorts the overall result.

@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

23 Nov 15

@allknowing That would leave a black strip down both sides, which is undesirable.

@allknowing (135943)

• India

23 Nov 15

@Asylum Have you tried placing it in the centre?

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@Marilynda1225 (82703)

• United States

23 Nov 15

My wallpaper is still pumpkins and I'll be changing over to something Christmas this weekend. Last year I had a nice fireplace wallpaper and I could envision Santa filling my stocking which was hanging on the mantel.

@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

23 Nov 15

I like to follow the seasons and festivities in that way, but of course we do not celebrate Thanksgiving here vin England. Nevertheless, I will have a new avatar on Thanksgiving because most members here are American.

@MALUSE (69373)

• Germany

23 Nov 15

There is enough Christmas outside. I don't intend to exaggerate decorations by including my computer, too.

@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

23 Nov 15

My computer has as much right to celebrate Christmas as the stores do, so I will never consider depriving it of that pleasure.

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

23 Nov 15

@MALUSE It is obviously a female computer and applying the age old system of "If you do not know what is wrong then I am not telling you".

@MALUSE (69373)

• Germany

23 Nov 15

@Asylum This argument convinces me. Yet, my computer hasn't uttered a wish in this direction for which I'm grateful. It's an acer.

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30 Nov 15

I don't do anything like that at work, I'm on maternity leave at the moment and cannot even remember what my wallpaper was.

@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

30 Nov 15

Before I retired they restricted the option to change the wallpaper on the company computers, but I always do this at home.

@marguicha (222788)

• Chile

22 Nov 15

Your post reminded me that I hve to learn to print my shortstories to keep them, specially the unpublished ones. Technology changes and as programs and hardware become obsolete, we can no longer use or even find what we have. I wonder whether I will be able to recover someday some stories I wrote in Works.

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

22 Nov 15

I have not encountered Microsoft Works for well over a decade, but any old files can still be opened. Assuming that you have Microsoft Word, you can download a converter from the Microsoft website which will allow you to open the document in Word. Once opened, you should be able to use "Save as" to save the article as a Word document.

@marlina (154131)

• Canada

22 Nov 15

I don't bother with this at all.

@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

22 Nov 15

I never bother with decorations around the house, but always change my computer display for the occasion.

@garymarsh6 (23404)

• United Kingdom

23 Nov 15

I have wonderful photos to use as a screen saver from my own travels. It eggs me on to look for my next holiday!

@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

23 Nov 15

Do you really mean screensaver, or do you actually mean wallpaper? Of course you could always use the photographs in a slide show as a screensaver.

@cacay1 (83406)

• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines

23 Nov 15

You still have many days to choose which one you will finally adapt to have a very merry feeling and thinking during Christmas.

@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

23 Nov 15

I intend to sort something out before mid December because that is the time that I usually change the desktop wallpaper.

@HazySue (39268)

• Gouverneur, New York

22 Nov 15

@Asylum I had forgotten all about changing to a Christmas Wallpaper. I hope you find one you can use.

@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

22 Nov 15

I am definitely struggling at the moment, but will not give up even if I do have to create my own.