Need Help Putting Image On Desktop

Nightengale · 07-21-2009, 09:43 PM

I love Rebecca's $500/day/goal-setting thread.

Better yet, I had an idea for creating something similar using TickerFactory.com. I wanted to create two tickers: one for the $500/day goal and one for my subscriber goal (listbuilding). (The money's in the list!)

So off I went to create the ticker and put it on my desktop. Created it, saved the HTML code, right-clicked and selected "Set Background As." Aaack! It set the entire image as my destop background and believe me, it did NOT look pretty. (It was all twisted and distorted and the background was black!)

I've just changed it back to what it was. Anybody know how I can put the little ticker image on my desktop WITHOUT setting it as my entire background???? I like my current background image and just want to put the little tickers on my desktop as icons, not the entire background!

I LOVE this idea (thanks Rebecca!) if I can just get it to do what I want!

Thanks,
Michelle

RanD · 07-21-2009, 10:13 PM

Depending on your browser, you can right click and select save file as, or save image as. This will not save it as a picture on your desktop, but it will give you a local copy to open or work with.

If you just have a plain Windows background (one that came with Windows) you can save it as your background and set the option to center the image so that it only appears in the center with the background surrounding it. How big it will appear is based on the size of the image, so you may need to resize it in a graphics program and resave it as the background. If you are using another image as your background currently, you would have to use a program like Photoshop to put one image on top of another.

I don't know about using it for icons, those images are .ico files. There is probably something out there to convert an image to an icon, but I don't know of one myself.

RebeccaL · 07-21-2009, 10:34 PM

Just took a look at this for you, it seems they are only meant for web pages etc, since on the desktop they would be a static image rather than a piece of code that would update itself.

Looks like you can use it as a Google Gadget if you have the enabled on your desktop, though maybe not the ticker you want:
Google Gadgets From TickerFactory.com

RanD · 07-21-2009, 10:45 PM

Whoops! Since you mentioned the goal setting thread, I was thinking you just wanted the pictures as motivation, especially when you mentioned having them as icons. It never occurred to me that you might have meant a live ticker.

07-21-2009, 09:43 PM	#1
Nightengale Senior Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: West Palm Beach, FL, USA. Posts: 1,425 Thanks: 299 Thanked 350 Times in 189 Posts Social Networking	Need Help Putting Image On Desktop I love Rebecca's $500/day/goal-setting thread. Better yet, I had an idea for creating something similar using TickerFactory.com. I wanted to create two tickers: one for the $500/day goal and one for my subscriber goal (listbuilding). (The money's in the list!) So off I went to create the ticker and put it on my desktop. Created it, saved the HTML code, right-clicked and selected "Set Background As." Aaack! It set the entire image as my destop background and believe me, it did NOT look pretty. (It was all twisted and distorted and the background was black!) I've just changed it back to what it was. Anybody know how I can put the little ticker image on my desktop WITHOUT setting it as my entire background???? I like my current background image and just want to put the little tickers on my desktop as icons, not the entire background! I LOVE this idea (thanks Rebecca!) if I can just get it to do what I want! Thanks, Michelle

07-21-2009, 10:13 PM	#2
RanD ADD Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: , , USA. Posts: 205 Thanks: 27 Thanked 41 Times in 34 Posts	Re: Need Help Putting Image On Desktop Depending on your browser, you can right click and select save file as, or save image as. This will not save it as a picture on your desktop, but it will give you a local copy to open or work with. If you just have a plain Windows background (one that came with Windows) you can save it as your background and set the option to center the image so that it only appears in the center with the background surrounding it. How big it will appear is based on the size of the image, so you may need to resize it in a graphics program and resave it as the background. If you are using another image as your background currently, you would have to use a program like Photoshop to put one image on top of another. I don't know about using it for icons, those images are .ico files. There is probably something out there to convert an image to an icon, but I don't know of one myself.

07-21-2009, 10:34 PM	#3
RebeccaL Senior Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: NSW, Australia Posts: 2,981 Thanks: 166 Thanked 156 Times in 58 Posts Social Networking	Re: Need Help Putting Image On Desktop Just took a look at this for you, it seems they are only meant for web pages etc, since on the desktop they would be a static image rather than a piece of code that would update itself. Looks like you can use it as a Google Gadget if you have the enabled on your desktop, though maybe not the ticker you want: Google Gadgets From TickerFactory.com
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07-21-2009, 10:45 PM	#4
RanD ADD Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: , , USA. Posts: 205 Thanks: 27 Thanked 41 Times in 34 Posts	Re: Need Help Putting Image On Desktop Whoops! Since you mentioned the goal setting thread, I was thinking you just wanted the pictures as motivation, especially when you mentioned having them as icons. It never occurred to me that you might have meant a live ticker.