blurred desktop immage

[lara croft]

I down loaded a desktop immage, but the immage is all blurred. The size is fine, but can't appreciate it because of the blurriness !!. Any non-technical ideas???

[Mobius1]

You say the "size is fine", by which I'm assuming you're happy with how it fits onto the screen. Increasing the size of a digital image beyond it's native (read: natural) resolution or size can cause it to appear blurry.

The only way I can think of addressing this is to find a larger higher-quality version of the image and use that instead. If the icons and stuff on your desktop are normal fidelity and not blurry then it's definitely the image you're using that's to blame.

[pjm007]

Images such as scanned photographs, are made up of small squares called pixels. Image resolution refers to the spacing of pixels in an image and is measured in pixels per inch, ppi, (sometimes called dots per inch, dpi). The higher the resolution, the more pixels in the image. Higher resolution allows for more detail and subtle color transitions in an image. A printed image that has a low resolution may look pixelated or made up of small squares, with jagged edges and without smoothness.

Image size refers to the physical dimensions of an image. Because the number of pixels in an image is fixed, increasing the size of an image decreases its resolution, hence the bluriness and decreasing its size increases its resolution.

[honkytonkman]

Basically the image you've used was smallish and low- resolution so when your computer 'enlarges' the image to cover the desktop it goes all blurry, for the reasons given by Mobius and pjm007.

You need a larger, better quality pic. Have you tried Google Images?

[charliep88]

well of course your DT needs glass you ninnie