I'm disappointed with desktop handling of photos - am I missing something?

Hi out there,
I'm new to macs -- and I told you so doesn't even come close -- but one thing that's really surprised me is that the desktop and screen saver features seem to be very limited.
The desktop doesn't seem to be able to handle vertical photos at all, and none of the available options for sizing -- centre, tile, size to fit, or stretch to fit are appropriate for a lot of the photos I have in my archive, which are a big range of sizes (both in terms of pixels and orientations).
Am I missing something, or is there another piece of software I need to make this work.
I'm really disappointed that the one thing that should be cool and easy is not working for me, unlike everything else on the computer!
Thanks for any help.

Nope, you aren't missing anything…you are absolutely correct. This is something that bugs me, too.
Desktop preferences should work like Screen Saver preferences, but it doesn't. If you select a folder of images in Screen Saver, it digs into nested folders. Doing the same thing in Desktop prefs doesn't work because it only looks in the folder itself, not subfolders. Bummer.
And it's also a bummer that there's no "Fit screen" option in Desktop that will properly stretch images (be they portrait or landscape), maintaining the aspect ratio, and not cropping or distorting the photo as it does so.
I haven't found any fix for these shortcomings, and hope that Apple will address them soon.

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