On Mon, 6 Aug 2007 17:26:03 -0700, Page
<Page@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>Yes, you're correct. Windows Explorer and Photo Gallery will do all you say.
> What I'm talking about is choosing a background for your desktop. A .png
>file will not display properly, that is, it will not let you frame it with a
>colored background. In fact, when you browse for a picture for your
>background and select "All Picture Files" it will not show any .png files at
>all. If you force the .png file to be the background by right-clicking on it
>and choosing it to be your background then you do not get to choose any
>positioning for your picture such as tile, colored framing, etc. This is
>what I'm trying to fix. Can you help me?
Why do you want to use a png file for a background? If I knew the
'why' I may be able to give you a method to duplicate it with a jpg
that Vista will accept as a background and allow positioning and
framing.
For example just playing around I took the forest background in sample
pictures brought it into Photoshop, opened a photo of a couple boys,
trimmed out that photo's background dropped it over the forest
background so just the boys remained, merged visible saving as a .JPG.
Then I made it the desktop background then selected change background
color made it forest green and there you go... a custom new desktop
background with a centered picture with a surrounding different
background color.