How to make background image on your widescreen monitor

The way to make desktop background image (desktop wallpaper) look perfectly on your widescreen monitor or laptop

If you are an owner of a widescreen monitor or laptop and the user of Windows OS, so this article is exactly for you.

Windows OS offers three positions of background image on a desktop: center, tile and stretch:

desktop wallpaper look perfectly on your widescreen monitor or laptop

If these aren’t enough for you or you can’t make your desktop background look perfectly on your widescreen monitor using Windows’s positions – Screen Calendar is just what you are looking for to manage your desktop.

The main problem of widescreen monitors’ owners is that when they choose stretch position, wallpaper image is stretched to cover the entire desktop and looks distorted. If you have wallpaper with a landscape, it may look well even being distorted, but it will still be obvious that the picture doesn’t look normally. And if you have a picture of people, buildings or objects - you can’t use this position at all, because stretched picture will look ugly. Special types of image arrangement in Screen Calendar make this problem solvable. Choosing Fit to screen arrangement, you can check Constrain proportions to stretch an image constraining its proportions and leaving empty spaces on its sides. Or check also Without empty spaces to cover the entire desktop with an image without distortion. In the latter case you picture will look perfectly, only its top and bottom parts may be cut (that depends on an image size). That’s what Windows doesn’t allow to do.

Fit to screen arrangement of background image is identical with the Windows’s stretch position

desktop wallpaper look perfectly on your widescreen monitor or laptop

Fit to screen constraining proportions of a background image

desktop wallpaper look perfectly on your widescreen monitor or laptop

Fit to screen constraining proportions without empty spaces

When an image is centered, it is placed in the middle of the desktop and is surrounded by a solid color. Screen Calendar allows setting up your desktop wallpaper not only in the center of your desktop (as Windows does), but also in any other place of your desktop. Screen Calendar offers nine different image positions instead of Windows’s only one centered position.

An image alignment can be chosen by simply clicking the monitor preview in Screen Calendar setup window

An image that is tiled is placed on the desktop much like tiles are placed in a shower or a tiled floor. Tiling is commonly used for patterns instead of photos because a pattern is one square image that repeats itself across and down the screen, effectively forming a single image.

Tile arrangement is identical with the Windows’s tile position

So, using Screen Calendar, you get not only a desktop calendar and task scheduler, but an excellent desktop manager as well. Get free trial version of Screen Calendar 7.4 to try it of buy the software to enjoy the perfect look of your favorite pictures on a widescreen monitor or laptop.

Project news

21 Nov 07- Screen Calendar 7.4 Standard is released. What's new: iCal format compatibility.

24 Sep 07- Screen Calendar 7.3 is released. What's new: Vista compatibility .

18 Aug 07- Screen Calendar compatibility with Windows Vista is started

12 Mar 07- Screen Calendar for Outlook version 7.3: MS Outlook 2007 supporting.

26 Feb 07- Screen Calendar version 7.3: attach any files to your daily records.

16 Jan 07- Promo Screen Calendar version 2.0

27 June 06 - New promotion tool Promo Screen Calendar

17 June 06- New skin:
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29 May 06- Version Screen Calendar 7.1: supporting JPG, BMP and PNG image formats for calendar background.

21 December 05 -
new software:
Screen Calendar for Outlook
scheduling business day in the Microsoft Outlook directly.

17 November 05 - Version Screen Calendar 7.0 :

synchronization records with MS Outlook ;
customization Chameleon Skin settings;
dual-monitor supporting: active calendar on every monitor;
a new type of background resizing for wide screen monitor.

18 April 05- Version 6.1.
What's new: Chameleon Skin feature - calendar adjusts to any background and looks
contrasting with any wallpaper.

20 August 04- Version 6.0. What's new: a full-functional scheduler with reminding,
postponing and recurring of records.

15 January 04- Version 5.1. What's new: saving background image with or without calendar.

14 December 03 - Now you can purchase CD-ROM delivery of Screen Calendar

12 July 03 - Version 4.06.
What's new: postponing the records to next or another day.

18 May 03 - read the new tips:
How and where can I get calendar wallpapers?

6 May 03 - Version 4.05.
What's new: marking the dates with notes: in left or right top corner by red color or date's color or date underlining.

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"What are desktop wallpapers like?

8 Apr 03 - Version 4.03. Current date on the system tray icon.

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27 Mar 03 - Version 4.0 is released.
Our customers' opinions and wishes helped us to realise the absolutely new version saving all features of the previous version. Download Screen Calendar and enjoy your desktop perfection!