Thursday, March 8, 2012

How to Choose the Best Wallpapers for Your Desktop

Desktop wallpaper makes your computer more interesting. When you purchased the computer, notebook, netbook or tablet, they normally come with standard wallpapers. You might be okay with the standard ones for a while, but soon enough you will want to have new wallpapers that represent your personality. It can also be that you do not find the standard wallpapers interesting at all and want to replace them right away with the ones you find interesting. There are few hints of how to choose the right desktop wallpaper for you.

First of all, you need to decide your interests, whether they are nature, animals, certain animals like dogs or cats, music, technology, films and so on. You can have as many interests as you want since the limitation of the wallpapers you can have depends on the free space on your computer. If you have much space, then you can have thousands wallpapers, but if that is not the case, you need to decide which wallpapers you like best so you can leave the others. The next step would be deciding whether you want to download them off the Internet or create ones on your own using the pictures you already have. Downloading them off the Internet seems like an easier way than creating ones on your own, especially if you are not that familiar with wallpaper building. With the Internet, all you have to do is type the keyword of the wallpaper theme on the search engine. The results will come up but you have to be careful as many of the sites contain virus. Thus, you need to check whether the download site is a trusted one. After download the wallpapers, test them on the desktop as there are wallpapers that will and will not look good such as blurry. To save time and energy, check the wallpapers resolution while you browse. Check whether they match with your desktop screen resolution. If they do not, simply leave them and go for ones with the resolution that is perfect for your computer screen.

If you decide to build your own desktop wallpapers, make sure you have the collection of the photos for you wallpaper themes. For instance, if you are into nature photography and you have some good collections of the photos you took by yourself, make them into wallpapers. Another idea is by creating wallpapers using photos of you and your friends or family. This way, you will always remember them and possibly the important dates such as your friends' birthday, or your anniversary. Just make sure that the wallpapers resolution matches your screen resolution.

Learning how to choose the best wallpaper desktop will help you get the best wallpapers for your computer. Do not waste your time and energy finding or creating wallpapers that you cannot use or that will not be good on the desktop.