If you are using a computer with Windows XP, you can make your desktop look like your favorite photo or graphic.

These instructions are brought to you by Eve Adam, a.k.a. "Harmonic Eve" using MSN TV's "Page Builder" website creation tool.

Eve Adam, a.k.a. Harmonic Eve

UPDATE: Since I wrote these instructions, I have started using Windows Vista. All I learned with XP carries over, making Vista easier to learn. (Harmonic Eve, August 10, 2008)

My Australian pen pal, Gai, sent me a photo she took of a sunrise at her home in Victoria, Australia. I liked it and wanted to use it for my computer desktop. Here are the instructions I wrote for her, so she could use it too. We both use Windows XP, although now I am sharing these instructions with you through MSN TV. Some of my later sites were created through Trellix by EarthLink. Eve Adam, a.k.a. Harmonic Eve

This is a photo of me taken when I was a YOUNG Grandmother.

My hair was not really that bright a red, either then or now. I am a natural Strawberry Blonde.... still. Somehow the camera picked up too much red. My name at home as I was growing up was "Sunshine" and as a small child I used to love using my crayons to make sunrises and sunsets.

Below is the sunrise photo my pen pal Gai took one morning and emailed to me in California from her home in Australia.

The photo above may have too much red or not enough for your taste, but after all ... it's a sunrise! Some photos work quite well regardless of how much you shrink them, or stretch them tall or wide, or how bright they are, or how much contrast they have. A sunrise is a good photo to learn on because every sunrise is beautiful any way you see it.

Click on "next page" at the bottom right side of this page to see how I made the sunrise photo into a desktop for my computer.

Eve Adam, a.k.a. Harmonic Eve

Do you already have a photo you want to improve?

If you already have a photo or graphic on your desktop that you like, but you think it could look better, you can skip to page 5 of this site and start with step 5. >>>To keep the desktop you already have but adjust its appearance, right click anywhere on your desktop and select "Properties" from the menu that appears. This will bring up the "Display Properties" window.  Click on the "Desktop" tab. Then start following STEP #5 at the place where it says, "Below the 'Browse' button is a place to choose your preferred position." Just don't give up .... YOU CAN DO IT!