Double Wide!

So you got two honking great monitors, side by side - a double wide - and you suddenly find that while you can have the same image smeared over both, or even a different image in each monitor, there are few images lying around that span both :-( It's a sad day!

I have a dual monitor setup at work, two NEC 1970NX's, a nice setup. The monitors are each 1280 x 1028, giving me a 2560 pixel wide area to fill.

Well, it so happens that the digital camera takes a wider shot than that, so I'm in luck! I have taken some shots that are appropriately condensed toward the middle of the frame and I am trying them as screen backgrounds. Not all are a success, but feel free to download and enjoy them. The thumbnails show the image, you can click on it to see the big version, then save it, or you can right click and "save link as..."

Save the image somewhere on your computer. These are big jpeg images, the backgrounds used in windows are actually bitmap images (that are even larger), but Windows will make it's own copy in good time. Bring up the screen applet (right click on the background, and select "Properties.")

Select Browse and find the image you just saved, select "Tile" on the 'Position' drop down. To save everything, click on "Apply", then Click "Ok". You should now have the image spread across both monitors.

All images are my copyright, you are free to copy, distribute, but not charge for them. Please ascribe to me if you do pass an image on.

Storm over Great Salt Lake, UT
Architects Office. Deco frontage in Echo Lakes, NJ
Bench at dusk. Watchung Reservation. NJ
News at an angle. Alexus Diner, NJ
Hadrian's country, Cumbria, UK
Hadrians Wall, Cumbria, UK
Jardins de Versailles, France, not Kentucky!
Neptune at Versailles. One for the ladies that want a genuinely Hard body.
Port Imperial Terminal, Weehawken, NJ
Pier 79, NYC.
Washington Monument flags, DC
WW II Memorial, DC
Enola Gay and guardians, Udvar-Hazy Center, NASM
Trees along swollen, flooded streams
The Great Swamp
Massed Bands
Lake, Charlotte, NC
New York, New York, Vegas Style
Snowy Pavillion
Somewhere near Chloride, Nevada
Scrapyard, Tucson, AZ
DC-3 Dakota