Desktop display of a succession of photos/pictures

When I set up my new iMac G5's display, I made it center a succession of photos that it shows randomly, changing every 5 seconds, per the available options. Recently, though, I had to (reluctantly) create additional accounts on the computer for my wife and kids. For some reason that I can't fathom, the desktop display feature doesn't allow me to center the desktop picures for those other accounts, as it does for mine, so they can't similarly center a succession of photos/pictures. (Because their preferred photos/pictures can't be centered, they fill the screen as super-sized, super-blurry pictures.) Any suggestions? Thanks.

Nevermind. I figured it out. Just had to click on any one of the photos and the center/tile/stretch option appeared.

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