

Susette Horspool, CC-BY-SA 3.5 3-Editing Photos to Look Good on the Desktop Here is a screenshot of the Photos editor, after you've clicked on "Crop." Here I will check to make sure the fence post is straight, resize the photo to 3x5", and make the frame smaller, if I want to zoom in on particular features. Depending on the strength of light coming from your screen, you'll now want to edit the photo to look good as well. Now your photo will fit the screen properly, without anything more being cut off. To reformat what shows in the photo, click and hold in the photo somewhere, then move it around within the 3x5" shape, until all the elements you want to be included are showing.Click and hold to grab the scale, then move your mouse (the scale) up or down until the key lines in the photo are straight. If you want to move the photo back the way it was, or straighten it better yourself, go to the scale just to the right of the photo.However, it also gives you the means for modifying both of those changes. It may also rotate the photo slightly, if it doesn't think it's straight. The computer will automatically reshape your photo to that size, but it does it by cutting off part of the photo.Click on "3:5" near the bottom of the list. On the right hand side, you'll see a number of choices.From the tabs in the middle of the screen, click "Crop." Now you can change the looks and shape of the photo.In the upper right hand corner, click "Edit." Find your photo in the screen saver folder you just set up.That shape takes a 3x5" photo, but that's not how most photos come, so you'll need to change that.

#HOTO EDITING FOR MAC SCREEN TV#
Most screens have a similar shape, whether you're using a Mac screen or a small TV screen as your desktop. Susette Horspool, CC-BY-SA 3.5, own photo 2-Formatting Photos to Use as Mac Screen Savers So this is a photo I might use to motivate myself to buy a house, if I wanted one. I happen to like peaked roofs and flowering trees. (In the examples section at the end, I'll show you how my own screensaver photos are organized.) Click and drag to it whichever of your new photos you like best, then add whatever photos you already have that fit the bill.Īfter that you'll edit each photo a bit, then hook the folder up with the screensaver software.Create a Photos folder and label it something like "Screensavers-My House.".

