Poor Background Resolution

[Tom Jensen]

I have a picture on my desktop background that shows terrible resolution; very grainy and almost unviewable.

It is a JPG image, and when I view it with a viewer it is beautiful.

I recently purchased a new monitor which made no difference.

What am I doing wrong?

[cobra]

in your background settings, select center, NOT stretch

[cuffs007]

also, jpeg pics will lose quality image when making it larger, like for your desktop... jpeg has good compression with a small size, but not if you want to enlarge it much... if you like saving pics for your desktop or want to enlarge them later on, i suggest saving them as TIFF files... yeah, the size of the file is larger, but you can keep good quality as you make them bigger.... was i just redundant?... sorry!

good luck