Dual Monitor Wallpapers

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I have been looking through the archives and trying to find a tutorial on how to create my own dual monitor wallpapers. I get the concept of doubling the width but when I do that it becomes a stretched picture instead of a picture that covers both monitors. I have also googled the procedure and I am still having no luck eliminating the stretched pic. Can anyone offer a little more help other than the 2003 - 2004 archives? Thanks.

gr8dane
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

To apply dual monitor wallpapers, you will need to use the 'Tile' rather than 'Stretch' option.

-Mike
[Stardock Support]

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Yeah I have done that and the jpg still stretches.
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
What are the dimensions of your JPG?
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
I have my screen settings at 1280X1024 and I create the image to be 2560X1024 and the image is stretched still.
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
Is there anywhere we can download this image from?
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
It is not any particular image, it is any jpg that I use. When I change the settings of the image from 1280X1024 to 2560X1024 the image is stretched. Are there certain images I have to use or is the information I am finding that states you can take any image and create a dual monitor wallpaper by just changing the 1280 portion of the background?
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top

How are you creating the image? In your graphics program is the canvas size 2560x1024?  Is the image?

Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Of course it's going to appear distorted if you're just manually stretching an image from 1280 to 2650. It need to be created as dual sized to begin with.

KoL has a lot of nice multi-monitor wallpapers.
Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top
Well in all of the online instructions I have found thus far, the text just states the change in width will achieve the desired results. I didn't assume the image would stretch since the 'experts' giving the instructions didn't say or show stretched images they showed perfectly adjusted images. I didn't find any clearer instructions on the message board either. Please forgive my ignorance, perhaps I should do a tutorial for this message board so someone else doesn't take the text literally as I did and make my mistakes. Thank you all for the help.
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Please forgive my ignorance, perhaps I should do a tutorial for this message board so someone else doesn't take the text literally as I did and make my mistakes. Thank you all for the help.
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That would be a good idea, it's a failure only if you fail to learn from it.

Try adding your tutorial to the Wincustomize Wiki when you're done with it.