Wallpaper is...
The terms wallpaper and desktop picture refer to an image used as a background on a computer screen,
usually for the desktop of a graphical user interface. Wallpaper is the term used in Microsoft Windows,
while the Mac OS calls it a desktop picture (prior to Mac OS X, the term desktop pattern was used to refer
to a small pattern that was repeated to fill the screen).
Desktop wallpaper is the image that fills the background of your computer screen when all programs are
closed. Some people choose to leave the desktop blank, filling it only with a color. Others use one of
the default backgrounds provided by the operating system, such as a logo, a stock photograph, or an
abstract design. But many people prefer to make custom desktop wallpaper from personal pictures or
images found online.
If you aren’t much of a shutterbug but would still like customized desktop wallpaper, the answer is
as close as the Internet. Virtually any image found online can be used as a background image,
providing it is of sufficient resolution. Normally, larger photographs and pictures work very
nicely. Just right-click on the image, choose Save image as and give the file a name. It’s handiest
to keep all images that you might like to use as desktop wallpaper in a single folder.
Read more about wallpapers on Wikipedia
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