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SCOTTSDALE
SEA & SKI CLUB- How to Download
SSSC Photo Archive Pictures
If you would like download any of these pictures
to your PC And/or make the picture your PC background picture (called
wallpaper) proceed as follows:
- You should
be using version 3.X or higher of Netscape
or
Internet Explorer web browsers!
- Double left
click on the thumbnail to enlarge the picture to maximum size
- Place the
mouse pointer over the full size image
- Right click
on the full size image to pop up the menu
- Click on
Set as Wallpaper to make it the background image
- This creates
a type .BMP image file called Netscape Wallpaper or Internet
Explorer Wallpaper
- This gets
saved in the \WINDOWS or \WINNT directory
- You overwrite
this every time you save another picture, so instead rename this
file first
- To change
names right click on the Start button & select Explorer
- Go to the
/WINDOWS or WINNT directory, find & select Netscape Wallpaper.BMP
or Internet Explorer Wallpaper.BMP
- Right click
the highlighted name & select Rename
- Name it whatever
you want but don't change the .BMP extension if present
- To change
your wallpaper selection click Start & select Settings
then Control Panel
- Click on
the Display icon & select the Background tab
- Select the
wallpaper name you want, choose Tile or Center &
click OK
Advanced
Users, if you want to save the file in it's original format
(e.g. .JPG or .GIF)
- Instead of
selecting Set as Wallpaper as shown above
- Choose Save
Image As as shown above
- You get to
choose the file name & directory
- Internet
Explorer also lets you choose a conversion to a type .BMP file
- .JPG & .GIF
are compressed so they can be emailed as an attachment
- However to
be used as wallpaper it must be converted to the large .BMP format
first
- You can download
an editor like Lview
Pro or Paint
Shop Pro to do these conversions
- Other graphics/image
editors are available from Stroud's
Shareware
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