How do you change the login screen background?

I have been looking everywhere in the setting on how to change the background on the login screen and i can't find it, does anyone know how to do it without having to download an app?

Make sure you check your operating system first, because there are a few ways to do this.
This is for Mac OS X 10.7.5
First find out what your screen size is by going into System Preferences and clicking on display. Mine is at 1920x12000, but you might want to go with a picture thats a little bit bigger.
Find your picture, I edited mine in photoshop, but I think you can edited in Preview or some other photo converter. Make sure the picture is the same size as the display, convert it to a PNG by exporting it or saving it to a PNG format on to your desktop.
Go to your Macintosh Hardrive
Go to: System / Library / PrivateFrameworks / LoginUIKit.framework /  Versions/A/Frameworks / Log inUICore.framework / Versions / A /  Resources / appleLinen.png / [email protected]
Make sure your photo file has the same name as appleLinen.png. Replace appleLinen.png with the new picture by droping it in the resources folder.
Make a copy of that same picture and paste it on to your desktop. Rename it to [email protected]. Then replace [email protected] with that picture file.
This should allow you to place a new background to your login screen, but I myself am still working out the kinks. You will notice your sleep, restart, and shutdown buttons will disappear.
Now if you have a much older operating system on your computer there is an easier way to do this.
This is for Mac OS X 10.7.1,2,3,4
First find out what your screen size is by going into System  Preferences and clicking on display. Mine is at 1920x12000, but you  might want to go with a picture thats a little bit bigger.
Find  your picture, I edited mine in photoshop, but I think you can edited in  Preview or some other photo converter. Make sure the picture is the  same size as the display, convert it to a PNG by exporting it or saving it to a PNG format on to your desktop.
Go to your Macintosh Harddrive
Go to: system / library / frameworks / AppKit.framework / versions / c / resources / NSTexturedFullScreenBackgroundColor.png
Make sure your photo file has the same name as NSTexturedFullScreenBackgroundColor.png. Replace NSTexturedFullScreenBackgroungColor.png with the new picture by droping it in the resources folder.
That's it for that!!!
Good Luck, I hope I can find the answere about why the sleep, restart and shutdown buttons disappear on the screen.
Oh... and don't forget to save the exsisting files that are already there in another folder and lable it.

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