OS X Mountain Lion For Dummies

Putting a Picture on the Desktop

Figure 3-3 shows my Desktop with a portrait of my dog Zeke. (See the default Desktop background in Figure 3-2.)

Figure 3-3: My beautified Desktop.

Here’s how you can change your Desktop picture if you care to:

1. From the Desktop, choose ⇒System Preferences.

Or Control-click the Desktop itself and choose Change Desktop Background from the contextual menu, and skip to Step 3.

The System Preferences window appears.

2. Click the Desktop & Screen Saver icon.

When the Desktop & Screen Saver Preferences pane appears, click the Desktop tab if it’s not selected already, as it is in Figure 3-4.

3. Click a folder in the column on the left, and then click a picture in the area on the right.

In Figure 3-4, I clicked a picture called Pink Lotus Flowers, one of the items in the Desktop Pictures folder.

Figure 3-4: Choosing a flower as my Desktop picture.

You have at least three other ways to change your Desktop picture:

Drag a picture file from the Finder ...