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Summer is over and you've uploaded lots of great new vacation pictures
of your kids onto your computer. You'd like to put one of the photos on your desktop
background and occasionally you want to switch it to another picture.
But there's just one problem.
When you put the pictures on your desktop background, the kids look fatter or skinnier
than they really are. By default, Windows will stretch a picture
to fit your screen dimensions. If your digital camera takes pictures
with different proportions than your screen—or
if you occasionally take vertical
pictures—Windows forces the picture to fit
by making it wider or taller.
Until now the only way to correct this probem was to spend about five minutes
every time you changed your desktop background. It took a lot of steps:
- Copy the photo, so you're not messing with the original.
- Open photo editor software. Most of these packages take an annoyingly long time
to start up.
- Figure out your screen dimensions.
- Crop and resize the photo to your screen dimensions.
- Save it and exit the photo editor.
- Open the Display control panel applet.
- Put the copy of the photo on your desktop.
...And you had to do that every time you wanted to change
your desktop background.
Why bother? You have more fun things to do with your time, like breaking up fights and helping with homework.
Ducklet DeskPhoto saves you time when you change your desktop. Using Windows Explorer,
start in the folder where you keep your photos. Simply right-click on a picture
and choose the Ducklet menu item. You will see mini-previews of
different parts the picture, automatically cropped to fit your desktop. Choose the
one you want, and the software does the rest instantly--all the steps listed
above.
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