3.2 Putting a Picture on the Desktop

     Figure 3-3 shows my Desktop with a portrait of my dog Zeke painted by artist Jeanne Illenye. (Refer to the default Desktop background in Figure 3-2.)
     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 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 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 Elephant, one of the items in the Desktop Pictures folder.
     You have at least three other ways to change your Desktop picture:

✓ Drag a picture file from the Finder onto the image well (the little rectangular picture to the left of the picture’s name).
✓ Choose the Pictures Folder in the list of folders on the left side of the Desktop & Screen Saver Preference pane and then choose a folder by using the standard Open File dialog. That folder then appears in the list; you can use any picture files it contains for your Desktop picture.
✓ Click one of the iPhoto or Aperture items in the column on the left side of the Desktop & Screen Saver Preference pane.

     Although I love having a beautiful Desktop picture, I use a plain white Desktop (click Solid Colors in the list, and then click the white color swatch) for most of the figures in this book so you can see fine details.