Question on Digital Cameras...?

I just recently bought a Olympus FE-230 digital camera. Today I wanted to put one of the pictures that I took on it as my desctop background. When I did that though, the pictures were super big...when I whent to the picture and right clicked on it and then said set as background, the picture was all stretched out. Then, I when to properties and selected center or tile rather then stretch but when I did that the picture came up huge and I could only see a fraction of it (ie. A pic of my cat but could only see the tip of its ear). How do I down size the files or the picture so that it fits.

You probably have the camera on its highest resolution (7mp). Your desktop is usually 1024x768 or less than 1MP. So you have a 1mp window through which are looking at your 7 mp photo. That is why you only see a small part of the picture. If you have a flat screen monitor it might be 1650x1024 resolution but this is still only 1.7mp.

The solution is to resize the photo to the resolution of your monitor. You can retake the picture at a lower resolution or use an image editing program to resize the pic you already have to your screen resolution (one of the above values).

Then you will see the entire picture on your desktop.

don't think this is a good answer but u can crop it, or select it and on its properties u can make it a bit smaller

If you rightclick on your desktop, and choose properties, you can change the desktop display.

Choose stretch, because if the image is too large, it will 'stretch' it do exactly your desktop size. Sounds strange, but that's how it works.

Whatever you do, don't permanently change the size of your image or you'll lose the original. Whenever you modify it, do a SAVE AS and use a new file name. I usually just as a number or letter to the end of the file name.

Hope this helps.