How to Change Background on Mac

Backgrounds and wallpapers are very popular tools of personalization and customization for laptop computers and desktop computers all around the world. The ability to choose any image or design and paste it up as the wallpaper of the desktop is a very useful feature to have.

Whether you own a MacBook (Apple laptop) or an iMac (Apple desktop), you have the ability to use any image or graphic design of your choice as the background of your desktop. This is a feature that is not exclusive to Apple, as Windows also allows you to do the same. Irrespective of which computer operating system you are using, you can now pick a wallpaper of your choice.

How to Change Background on MacBook and iMac

Follow these simple instructions in order to change the appearance of your wallpaper.

• Locate the file that you want to use as your background on your systems hard drive.
• Now drag this file to the desktop of the machine.
• Click on the Apple menu, select Control Panel and then select Appearance.
• Your current background will appear in the window, and you must then click on Remove Picture.
• Now click on Place Picture.
• Drag the file that you wish to set as the background from the desktop to the picture preview window, and then click on Set Desktop.

The procedure is as simple as that, and this is something that will not take you more than a minute to accomplish. This simplistic process is one that you will never forget, and you can change the background as many times as you like in the future. Another method for you to carry out this procedure is by control-clicking on the current desktop and then selecting Change Desktop Background. This will bring up the appearance window that is mentioned above.

You can also select the alignment of the background from the same window, and the option you choose depends on the dimensions of the image. You can preview the various options to see which one looks the best. Remember that if you stretch images with small dimensions, the images will appear blurry and grainy when you do so. Changing the wallpaper on Mac laptops and desktops is something that can be learned easily, but you will also need to learn all these little tricks and nuances as well.

Also keep in mind that the steps mentioned above work on Mac OS IX. Mac OS X Snow Leopard has made it even easier to change the background. All you need to do is drag the image you want as the background to the desktop, control-click anywhere on the desktop, select Change Desktop Background and then go to the photo that you want and then click on it. Several unnecessary steps that are mentioned above have been eliminated while changing desktop background on Mac OS X.

You can use any of the pre-installed wallpapers that are present on the machine as your wallpaper, or you can use any image that you have clicked and imported (JPEG, TIFF, PICT formats) to the machine as the wallpaper or you can even use any image that you have downloaded from the Internet (JPEG, TIFF, PICT formats) and saved on your machine as your wallpaper.