Soooo......
How does one use this Wolfpaper?
In fact, what is wallpaper?
Well, wallpaper is simply that background image what is commonly placed in Windows or Mac environments. Just eye candy really, but fun all the same. I mostly make these with my wolf photographs hence the term, Wolfpaper.
The images that I make are designed for the most common screen proportions out there. Yes, there are some weird ones, I once even had a notebook (a Sharp Widenote) which was 600 x 1024 which meant that if I wanted full screen background images I had to make my own, but that is the exception, not the rule.
The images I make are designed for the screen resolution that I use on my desktop computers. I currently have a 21" Hitachi, a 19" and 21" ViewSonic running at 1200x1600 pixels of resolution. So that is the size of the original image that I make. Since very few people use that resolution (or have a 21" monitor for that matter) and since the larger the image size the bigger the file size (a 1200x1600 image would be four times larger than a 600x800 image) I have opted to send the most common size used which is 600x800 pixels. These can be expanded to 1024x768, and look OK, but they will not be nearly as good as if I had sent out this larger size. Considering it would take twice as long to download this size, it would take up twice the Hard drive space and a lot of people still do not use this resolution, it simply makes more sense to send out the smaller ones. Sending out large files would also make the server very, very unhappy.
However, there is good news. I now offer CDs with full 1200x1600 resolution images, as well as smaller sizes. For more information, please check out the links on the top left of the page.
OK, so I'm on the mailing list and receive email attachments of Wolfpaper. So how do I get these downloaded JPGs set up as wallpaper?
Newer email programs actually allow you to just right mouse click in an image and set as wallpaper just like you would within a web browser. However you can do this in other ways and use the JPGs directly. If you have Windows 98 or higher, The easiest way to do this is to right click on your desktop (click anywhere, but not on a program icon) and by default the background tab is chosen. You can simply press browse and find where your e-mail program downloaded the image and chose that image. You will be asked to set your desktop as an active desktop and there you go!
What if you want Windows to automatically load the image into a different program every time?
Say when you want Windows Explorer to automatically open a JPG into something other than whatever it is currently doing.
If you are using Windows 95/98 open Windows Explorer and go to View,
Folder options and then file types, delete the entry for reading JPGs and
then double click on a JPG it will ask you want you want to open the file
with. You can then chose whatever you want (in your case Netscape or Internet Explorer would be the program of choice) and that might make things easier for you because in either of these programs, you can simply right mouse click in an image and chose set as wallpaper ;-)
What if you want to have the image as a BMP?
This is also easy. There are several ways you can do this. You can use Netscape or Internet Explorer and simply chose file, open and find that JPG you just downloaded. The JPG will then be opened in your browser as though it was a web image and if you right mouse click in that image one option is to set as wallpaper. The nice thing about this is that the BMP it creates is a temporary one. This will over time save you disk space because you will always have the original JPG file to use again, but only one temp BMP as your wallpaper. Newer email programs also usually open the image right in the email and you can usually just right mouse click inside the image as if in a web page and then chose set as wallpaper.
If you wish to manually do things, you can convert the JPG to a BMP and a wonderful shareware program to do that is Graphics Workshop.
There are a lot of other programs out there which will do this, but if you are just looking for something to convert files with, well, here you go :-)
If anybody out there has any other suggestions, neat programs to download, MAC instructions (I don't do MACs) and/or other systems, notes, comments, be nice please ;-)
Good luck and enjoy your wonderfully woofie wallpaper images!
- Monty
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