Now you will need to change just one (1) of the measurements.Locate the Display resolution setting and make a note of this as shown below:.Right mouse click on the desktop area and select Display settings.I will now show you how to use Microsoft Paint to resize a photo for use as the desktop wallpaper for Windows 10 and also for Windows 7 and 8. Computer monitors come is so many different shapes and sizes now that it’s impossible to ensure that your photos are going to match the dimensions without any issues. The important part of setting a photo as your desktop wallpaper is ensuring that the width and height of the photo will match the proportions of your computers’ monitor. I tend to find that either the photo is distorted and people’s faces look squashed or a part of the photo is chopped off to make it fit. By resizing a photo you avoid any distortion which can be encountered from time to time.

As a follow-up to my previous post, how to set your own photo as your Desktop Wallpaper, I’m going to show you how to adjust the size of a photo being used as your desktop wallpaper.

Background photos for desktop