tailieunhanh - Desktop & Screen Saver

. Desktop & Screen Saver This panel offers two ways to show off Mac OS X's glamorous graphics features: desktop pictures and screen savers. | . Desktop Screen Saver This panel offers two ways to show off Mac OS X s glamorous graphics features desktop pictures and screen savers. . Desktop Mac OS X comes with several ready-to-use collections of desktop pictures ranging from National Geographic style nature photos to plain solid colors. To install a new background picture first choose one of the image categories in the list at the left side of the window as shown in Figure 9-7. Your choices include Apple Images muted soft-focus swishes and swirls Nature bugs water Leopard outer space Plants flowers soft-focus leaves Black White breathtaking monochrome shots Abstract swishes and swirls with wild colors or Solid Colors simple grays blues and greens . . Using your own pictures Of course you may feel that decorating your Mac desktop is much more fun if you use one of your own pictures. You can use any digital photo scanned image or graphic you want in a lmost any graphics format JPEG PICT GIF TIFF Photoshop and -just in case you hope to master your digital camera by dangling its electronic instruction manual in front of you each morning even PDF . That s why icons for your own Pictures folder and iPhoto Albums collections also appear here along with a button that lets you choose any folder of pictures. When you click one of these icons you see thumbnail versions of its contents in the main screen to its right. Just click the thumbnail of any picture to apply it immediately to the desktop. There s no need to remove the previously installed picture first. Tip If there s one certain picture you like but it s not in any of the listed sources you can drag its image file onto the well the miniature desktop displayed in the Desktop panel . A thumbnail of your picture instantly appears in the well and a moment later the picture is plastered across your monitor. Figure 9-7. Using the list of picture sources at left you can preview an entire folder of your own images before installing one specific image as