Picture on desktop

how do I remove a picture on my desktop

If the picture is being used as your desktop, you can change that by going to the Apple > System Preferences > Desktop and Screensaver and choose a new picture.
If you mean a file on your desktop, you can drag it to the trash can on your Dock.

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after downloading iphone pictures to desktop, itunes won't open. I downloaded itunes 10.6 (64bit) but get "Do you want the following program to make changes to your computer?" Apple Inc. I've clicked "yes", restarted the computer, and still no luck.

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Can't set smart album pictures as desktop backgrounds.

i have imported 'without copying to library' a whole bunch of pics into iphoto and have created smart albums. now i went to 'change desktop background' by control clicking on the desktop and am selecting a pictures from one of the smart albums but its only displaying a blue background. this is true for all smart albums and normals ones as well. when i select an image from the other folders they work fine. what could be the reason?
the primary reason of importing stuff to iphoto was so that they are easily available across applications.

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Do you know of any reason why the Desktop pref pane should not be able to use photos in a "referenced" iphoto library
It's just the nature of the beast.
but I just don't trust it enough to do what it will with my photos by having them stored in the iPhoto library.
What are you afraid of?
When you import a pic into iPhoto in the default Managed mode all it does is make a byte by byte copy of the pic. Nothing else. It's an exact copy. It makes no alterations, adds nothing, removes nothing.
The pic is stored in the Finder. Yes, it's in a Unix Style Package file, but apart from all the ways to access your pics I'll describe in a moment, if you want to look inside the package you can do so at any time: Simply right click on the iPhoto Library and select 'Show Package Contents' from the resulting menu. A Finder window will open and you'll see the Library inside.
There are various files, which are the Library itself and some ancillary files. Then you have three core folders
Originals are the photos as they were downloaded from your camera or scanner. (As your Library is referenced the files will be aliases rather than the actual files.
(ii) Modified contains edited pics, shots that you have cropped, rotated or changed in any way.
(iii) Data holds the thumbnails the the app needs to show you the photos in the iPhoto Window.
Remember: iPhoto depends on the structure as well as the contents of this folder. Moving things, renaming things or otherwise making changes will prevent iPhoto from working and could even cause you to damage or lose your photos.
Running a referenced library has a number of pitfalls - apart from the fact that System Preferences cannot use the files.
1. Import and deleting pics are more complex procedures
2. You cannot move or rename the files on your system or iPhoto will lose track of them on systems prior to 10.5 and iPhoto 08. Even with the later versions issues can still arise if you move the referenced files to new volumes or between volumes.
3. Most importantly, migrating to a new disk or computer can be much more complex.
Always allowing for personal preference, I've yet to see a good reason to run iPhoto in referenced mode unless you're using two photo organisers.
If disk space is an issue, you can run an entire iPhoto Library from an external disk:
1. Quit iPhoto
2. Copy the iPhoto Library as an entity from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.
4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.
If you're concerned about accessing the files, there are many, many ways to access your files in iPhoto:
For 10.5 users: You can use any Open / Attach / Browse dialogue. On the left there's a Media heading, your pics can be accessed there. Apple-Click for selecting multiple pics.
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To upload to a site that does not have an iPhoto Export Plug-in the recommended way is to Select the Pic in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export and export the pic to the desktop, then upload from there. After the upload you can trash the pic on the desktop. It's only a copy and your original is safe in iPhoto.
This is also true for emailing with Web-based services. If you're using Gmail you can use iPhoto2GMail
If you use Apple's Mail, Entourage, AOL or Eudora you can email from within iPhoto.
If you use a Cocoa-based Browser such as Safari, you can drag the pics from the iPhoto Window to the Attach window in the browser.
Or, if you want to access the files with iPhoto not running, then create a Media Browser using Automator (takes about 10 seconds) or use THIS
Other options include:
1. *Drag and Drop*: Drag a photo from the iPhoto Window to the desktop, there iPhoto will make a full-sized copy of the pic.
2. *File -> Export*: Select the files in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export. The dialogue will give you various options, including altering the format, naming the files and changing the size. Again, producing a copy.
3. *Show File*: Right- (or Control-) Click on a pic and in the resulting dialogue choose 'Show File'. A Finder window will pop open with the file already selected.
Your choice, obviously, but best to be aware of all the ramifications. By all means post back if you require more info.
You can set Photoshop (or any image editor) as an external editor in iPhoto. (Preferences -> General -> Edit Photo: Choose from the Drop Down Menu.) This way, when you double click a pic to edit in iPhoto it will open automatically in Photoshop or your Image Editor, and when you save it it's sent back to iPhoto automatically. This is the only way that edits made in another application will be displayed in iPhoto.
Other information that may offer comfort:
Events in the iPhoto Window correspond exactly with the Folders in the Originals Folder in the iPhoto Library package file (Right click on it in the Pictures Folder -> Show Package Contents).
You can move photos between Events, you can rename Events, edit them, create them, as long as you do it via the iPhoto Window. Check out the Info Pane (wee 'i', lower left) the name and date fields are editable. Edit a Event Name using the Info Pane, the Event Folder in iPhoto Library/Originals will also have the new name.
Mind you, I don't suggest that you change over in one go. I think the best thing to do is create a new Library (Hold down the option (or alt) key key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Create Library') and set it as a Managed Library. Import 50 or 100 pics an explore it, see how it works and see if that does anything for your confidence.
Regards
TD

Ghost Pictures of Desktop and Screen Saver best practice.

My Apple LCD Screen have only about 10 month and sometime i can see the edge of desktop picture who in my case is the Apple Rocks Collection Desktop Picture , i use 30 minutes before Screen Saver kick-in and 30 minutes before LCD Screen go to sleep .... is this a case of picture burning itself in the LCD Screen , is this irreversible or someting can be done about-it ....
For now i have reduce to 15 minutes before the Screen Saver kick-in and 30 minutes before the LCD Screen go to sleep , so now instead it is 30 minutes not 60 minutes before the screen go to sleep.
What is your best advice since as a video editor when the LCD Screen Saver kick-in too fast it is becoming very distracting to my workflow and 15 minutes seem to be not too short to my taste.
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Can't use picture as desktop background ..

one day my iMac was acting slow so i rebooted it .. when it restarted my desktop picture was gone (just a blue screen) so i tried several photos (clicking scrolling down and clicking on "set as desktop picture" and nothing works screen still blue , i even tried apples default photos.. i take a LOT of photos and use photoshop CC and lightroom 5 for PP and the computer seems to be working fast as ever , video card seems fine .. i downloaded "adwaremedic " and it did get delete a couple of spyware cookies (i believe thats what it was ) didn't help ...

AdwareMedic doesn't remove spyware or cookies (there's no such thing as a "spyware cookie"), it only removes adware (ie, ad-injection software). Adware is unlikely to be the cause of this problem.
Hold down the option key and choose Library from the Go menu in the Finder. In the folder that opens, find the Preferences folder, then delete the file named "com.apple.desktop.plist". Then restart your computer. After it starts back up, try setting a desktop picture again.

Pictures of desktop no longer possible upgrade 10.5 10.6 on blind server

I have a script (the script is not the problem) that starts the TeamViewer application on my blind server and then makes pictures of the running application and sends them per email to me so I can see it is running on my server.
Under 10.5 it worked always (still does), under 10.6 it does not, I can hear it make the ‘click’ sound but no picture appears on the desktop (btw the script is fine so that is not why I post here). Also using the keyboard commands, when logged in to the blind server, produces the ‘click’ but no pic.
Here is the script for the record:
set dFolder to "~/Desktop/"
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activate application "TeamViewer"
delay 1
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delay 5 --
end repeat
Now what I found is that if I connect a screen to the server it makes the pictures in both ways. No screen no pic. conclusion the availability of a screen effects the whole procedure.
Any idea how to fix this?

I'm wondering if it's related to upgrading to 10.6 rather than starting with a clean installation or to restoring user files from 10.5 on a 10.6 install? There was a similar problem I experienced after using Time Machine to restore my user files and account after a clean 10.6 install.. I was nolonger able to use the system's screenshot function (appleshift3 or 4). I mean, I could use it, but if it wasn't sending the data to a file, using the ctrl modifier so it would send the snapshot image directly to the clipboard. I used this function under 10.5 to copy backgrounds where an icon was to be placed for something I didn't want visible and paste the background into the file's icon in file info. Well after using Time Machine to restore my 10.5 user data, somehow 10.6 nolonger works to paste from the clipboard into the file icon. I had to resort to using the regular snapimage to file function, open the snapshot in preview, copy to clipboard in preview and then paste over the file icon in file info. I even talked to Apple about this problem and they couldn't figure out what was going on.. Something from 10.5 in user preferences files disables clipboard functionality used by many applications in strange ways... I gave up trying to fix this problem...

IMac putting pictures on Desktop after opening from email

This is driving me nuts! Every time I open something from email, a picture, a document, a video, the next thing I know it's on my Desktop. Can anyone tell me can I stop this from happening? And how it got started to begin with? Is it Thunderbird doing it? Thanks in advance!

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Script to take pictures of desktop every 10 minutes.

Hi,
I have a headless server. It has a problem I cannot recreate manually.
It is programmed to do a restart and if this fails to do a forced restart. However when it does the forced restart I would like to know what is happening and why it failed. So I thought if I have it take pictures of the desktop I might see what dialogue boxes are open and hence find what programme is hanging and stopping the restart.
I would also like it to repeat this procedure every (lets say) 10 minutes.
I have broken my head over the script (I am not very good) to no avail. Any help out there?

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1476873&tstart=0
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How to remove picture in Desktop Pictures Folder

I'm fairly new to my iMac...I've had it less than a year. Somehow (don't ask me how!) I've managed to get a couple of personal pics under the" Desktop Pictures" folder that is found when you right click on the desktop and select "Change Desktop Background". When it opens there are several folders under "Apple" one of which is "Desktop Pictures". The ones in question are pictures I'd previously used as my desktop background, but I do this all the time and none of the others have ended up stuck in this folder. I don't know how I did it, but I did and I can't seem to remove them. It's not a life or death situation and I can live with it, but to be frank they are pictures of an "ex" and I'd prefer to remove them if possible. Please advise. Thanks in advance for your assistance.

Wow! How easy was that! I feel like a moron. I work 8-10 hrs a day on a computer at work doing AutoCAD so I'm not exactly computer illiterate, but I was completely vexed at how to remove those. Thank you so much...I appreciate it very much!

Removing background picture from desktop

When I start my PC a picture covers the screen [desktop] as 'background' which cannot be changed/removed

Did you try to set another image as the desktop background?
Try to ask advice on a Windows oriented forum.
* http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/ - BleepingComputer.com - Computer Help Forums
* http://windowssecrets.com/forums/ Windows Secrets Lounge

Transferring edited pictures to desktop on Mac

So when I use lightroom to edit the pictures and then try and transfer those edited pictures to my desktop for some reason the pictures go back to its original unedited copy. How do I make keep the edited form of the pictures when I'm transferring them to my desktop?

Lightroom is a non-destructive editor and as 99jon mentioned your LR edits are contained in the catalog file. The original camera file and other files that are 'Imported' into LR are never modified. To apply those edits you need to use the Export module or LR's other modules (Book, Slideshow, Print, Web).
kyliechevalier wrote:
So when I use lightroom to edit the pictures and then try and transfer those edited pictures to my desktop for some reason the pictures go back to its original unedited copy.
Please be very careful how you move, rename, or "organize" your LR imported image files and folders. This should only be done from inside LR. Any LR file or folder that is moved or renamed using Windows File Explorer, Mac Finder or other application will become disconnected from the LR catalog. Done this myself a few times and I know better......it doesn't hurt to be reminded.
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Lightroom Training Videos « Julieanne Kost's Blog

System Preferences not showing all pictures in Desktop & Screensaver

This problem only happened recently, whenever i go into system pref to change my desktop i do not see all the preview pics from my picture folder. Even though i do not see them in the system pref window i can still click on them and it will still set them as my desktop. Would having alot of high res pictures make them not show in system pref?
Ibook g4 12'' Mac OS X (10.4.8)

it is possible that with a large volume of large res pix in that folder that the little "preview icons" take some time to generate. Also, i have noticed that not all my graphic files will generate a "preview" even if the app in question can utilize and read the file.
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Show my pictures on desktop?

Greetings,
Is there an application that will show my pictures on the desktop in a slide show on a continuous basis as I work on my MacBook Pro? Windows 7 has a wiget that will do that will run a slide show of all the pictures on the hard drive in a little box and I am wondering is Apple has something like that.
Thanks in advance for your help and support.
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Picture from desktop to SAP screen

how can i insert a picture frm my desktop to SAP output screen

Hi Sajith,
You can do that using CUSTOM CONTAINERS. Here are the steps.
1) In screen painter, just create a container named CONT(say).
2) now declare the follwing in the program.
data: container type ref to CL_GUI_CUSTOM_CONTAINER,
pic type ref to CL_GUI_PICTURE.
3) In PBO module ,
If cont is initial.
CREATE OBJECT container
EXPORTING
PARENT =
container_name = 'CONT'.
CREATE OBJECT pic
EXPORTING
LIFETIME =
SHELLSTYLE =
parent = container.
CALL METHOD pic->set_display_mode
EXPORTING
display_mode = CL_GUI_PICTURE=>DISPLAY_MODE_FIT_CENTER
EXCEPTIONS
ERROR = 1
others = 2
CALL METHOD pic->load_picture_from_url
EXPORTING
url = <b>'file://D:\SP\cb.jpg'</b> ' image from your desktop or any other drive in your system
IMPORTING
RESULT =
EXCEPTIONS
ERROR = 1
others = 2
endif.
Hope this answers this question.
Regards,
SP.

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How can I download pictures from my iPhone to my desktop?

Your computer should recognize your iphone as a digital camera. You can then use whatever method/program you use to download from any other digital camera ( iphoto, camera and scanner wizard, photoshop, aperture,etc.)

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