Many of the pictures in Christian Bloggit's various posts can be saved to your picture folder and be used as desktop background or screen savers.
TO GET PICTURE: Find the picture you want, click on it, then right click your mouse. Choose 'save as picture', and save it to your picture folder.
TO USE AS DESKTOP BACKGROUND: Go to Start button at bottom left of screen, click on it and choose Control Panel. Go to Appearance and Personalisation and click on 'change desktop background'. Your picture folder will pop up. Find the picture you saved in that folder, and double click on it. It will take the place as your new desktop background.
TO USE AS SCREEN SAVER: Go to Start button at bottom left of screen, click on it and choose Control Panel. Go to Appearance and Personalisation and double click on it. Under 'Personalisation' click 'change Screen Saver'. A pop up box will appear. Where it says Screen Saver in the middle of the box, click on it and find 'Photos.' Click on 'photos'. The Screen Saver will now show a random display of all the pictures in your picture folder. Under Screen Saver, there is a command called 'Wait'. Click 5 minutes or 10, whatever your preference.
You can also take pictures you like and add your own textbox wording if you want to, save as a picture file in the picture folder and this will form part of your screensaver pictures. Or make your own desktop background. Not every picture is suitable as a desktop background as the icons must be clearly visible on top of the picture.
How to make a textbox invisible so only the writing shows: right click on textbox, select 'format textbox'. Select 'Colours and lines' at top of popup. Select Fill /colour / click on down arrow, select 'No fill'. Select Line / colour / click on down arrow, select 'No line'. Or instead of textboxes, use Word Art.
You can also use programmes such as Paint or Corel Draw to make your own pictures, and then save to the same picture folder. MS Word and Powerpoint can also be used to draw/make slides.
FASTSTONE SCREEN CAPTURE is freely available to download from the internet. It basically takes a photo of whatever you highlight and saves it as a picture. Save it in your picture folder.
