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Personalize Your Mac OS X Backgrounds

Desktop Backgrounds, While Apple includes some lovely wallpapers with OS X, swapping in a fresh desktop background is the easiest and one of the most effective ways to reinvigorate the look of your Mac. Start by rummaging through your own photo library for something that grabs you. To Avoid blurriness you should use images at least as large as your screens maximum resolution. Found by navigating to background images of any subject you can imagine. Want a trippy nature themed look? Desktopgraphy (Desk08.customize.org) has the good for your Mac. For edgier fare of the occasionally NSFW variety check out the wallpaper collect at the deviant are (bit.ly/jDhkQC). A Wide range of cool cartoony backgrounds for all ages can be found at The iCon Factory (iconfactory.com/freeware/desktop). But if youre still not satisfied and old fashioned Google Search Can Help in your search.

Enter your subject of interest (Twilight, or Game Of Thrones say) then click images in the resulting pages sidebar. In the size selection of the next page choose an image size matching your Macs resolution to narrow your choices to pictures that will look sharp when you use them as your macs wallpaper. System preferences/ Displays and clicking the display button your Macs default resolution is the highest available. Fortunately, shots in your iPhoto Library probably exceed the magic number. To turn them into Desktop backgrounds go to System Preferences/Desktop Button,, then scroll o the contents of your iPhoto library (here you can also access the photos folder or add other by clicking the "+" button). Then Click an image file inside your events faces and places or any album or folders youve created to show it off on your Desktop. Backgrounds can appear full screen, tiled, or re-sized to fit your displays dimensions handy for fitting widescreen backgrounds to full screen monitors or vice versa. You can even set a collection of images to display in sequence to make a slideshow on your Desktop.

This will allow you for full customization of your Mac OS X desktop and give you the full benefits of what you can really do with your Mac. Having such a feature out performs and out does what a PC can do. With the ability to re-size your image from the point of putting a background on your Desktop really gives way to the meaning of Desktop Back Ground. So if your tired of your background and are looking for a whole new look, then do as described above and see what you can really do to bring some life to your Mac OS X. Remember if it isnt a Mac then it isnt a work of art. With PCs you have to re-size VIA a program or Paint option, but with the Mac that option is available to you without doing any more needed work than simply selecting the option resizing to fit your screen and seconds later your done. So get out and start Customizing your Mac OS X today and see how much more eye candy you could be having with your Mac.