omg how do you make image a background?!

wtf....................

 

i right click the image file and see no option to make it my desktop background...

 

Click on the System Preferences icon in the dock
Click on "Desktop and Screensaver"

There, you should see a list of the wallpapers present... you should be able to click the small "+" icon near the bottom left to search for more images to use as backgrounds. Select the pic you want.

 

see if you can save it first. If not, its probably a restricted/copywrited picture.

 

omg! lolz...

 

Are you using Safari 2? If so, Safari 2 does not have the option to directly make an image as the Desktop Picture...you will need to save the image first. With Safari 3, when you right-click an image that you want as a desktop picture, it'll have the option to Set as Desktop Picture.

 

I tried this already >.<

I downloaded pictures from interfacelift for exactly my res, 1280 800.

When I click the pictures nothing happens, the desktop simply changes to one of the default apple solid blue color.

lame

 

Have you tried restarting the Mac? That's not what its supposed to do.

 

you can download Deskdecal. its pretty useful u jus drag the pic you want onto the apps icon and it sets it as the background.

 

Um. System Preferences -> Desktop and Screen Saver. You can probably figure it out from there ?!

 

She/he already did that.

 

Was that reply even necessary?

littlemaclady, you should read the OS X manual thoroughly so you can better understand the operating system as it's radically different from Windows XP and Windows 98SE.

Setting a background picture:
1.) In your internet browser, right click the image and click something similar to "Save Image As..." and save it to a default Wallpaper directory that you should create in your Pictures folder in your user accounts.



2.) Click the system preferences icon in your dock, in OS X Leopard it's a silver gear box and in OS X Tiger it's a white light switch. If you don't have one in your dock, open a finder window by clicking any hard drive icon on your desktop and select "Applications" folder in the side menu. In applications, double click the system preferences application.



3.) In system preferences under "Personal", click the "Desktop And Screensaver" tab. Click the "Desktop" tab in Desktop And Screensaver properties. On the left hand side of this window is a plus and minus button, click the plus button.



4.) A directory will open, select the "Pictures/Wallpaper" directory or whatever folder you save your wallpapers in in your Pictures folder than click choose.



5.) Now OS X will read that directory as your chosen picture folder for desktop backgrounds. Simply click on the picture you want than close the window out.



You'll have to ignore the veterans and those... incapable of containing their laughter for what seems like an ignorant question to them. Don't ever hold back a question, if you don't know the answer, that's reason enough to ask.

 

I don't make fun of switchers or newbies . Don't bring me along!

And coyoteunknown, regarding screenshots, in OS X, its Command + Shift + 3 . There are other more detailed ways to do screenshots, such as only taking a screenshot of the window or of an area you select, but mostly I just use Command + Shift + 3.

This guide has a lot of the shortcuts you will need or want in OS X. Worth taking a look!

 

I try to refrain, but, OMG! sometimes I just lose my self-control.

 

I don't mean to dissuade, I try to provide a lot of decent information, but sometimes, it's just funny. More the attitude and the approach, than the actual question.

 

*laughs* I was referring primarily to count, my apologies. Thanks for the guide link, right after I made the initial post I did a quick google search on capturing images and found Apple+Shift+3 to be the fastest, so I went with it. I'll read the guide, thanks.

Perhaps a little more effort could have been given on the questioners part, but it'll save a lot of possible flaming and hurt feelings to just answer the question.

Besides, I myself prefer to talk to living breathing individuals compared to "Help Centers" where you click a bunch of links that may not provide as accurate or detailed information as we could. Kind of like those new Tech Support systems on phone numbers. It seems like you press numbers forever and never get anywhere, always hoping to eventually reach a "Live Person" to help you. So I like helping individuals out whenever possible even though a quick google search or reading a manual could answer their question faster.

Anyways, no worries. Sorry for snapping at you.