How to Change Mac Wallpaper

Dynamic-wallpaperChanging the Mac‘s wallpaper is a task that can be very recurring for many people. No doubt there are people who have a high regard for the wallpaper of their team but others do not care much what we have. If you are from the first group, you get tired of Mac wallpapers quickly, in this tutorial we show you how to change it.

Change the wallpaper from Mac settings

If you have your own folder with different images for our wallpaper, we can make the change easily from the System Preferences. We just have to follow the following steps:

  1. On the Mac go to ‘System Preferences’.
  2. We will go to ‘Desktop and screensaver’ and click.
  3. In the panel that comes out we can select in the left part the folder that contains the images and in the part of the right select the photograph in question.

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If we are in a version higher than macOS Mojave we also have the option of using dynamic wallpapers. These are changing depending on the time in our location showing a more nocturnal aspect when it gets dark. These appear at the top of the panel on the right.

If we want to add a folder with photographs other than the default ones, we simply have to select the add button found in the lower left (+). It is important to select images that are on the boot hard disk to avoid problems when we are going to restart the computer.

Change the wallpaper from the photo gallery

If with your iPhone you take super professional photographs, surely one has been worthy of framing. Although this is not the most comfortable if we can place it as our Mac wallpaper to see it daily. We simply have to have this photograph stored in our photo gallery synchronized via iCloud with our Mac . The photograph must have a good quality as it is obvious so that when it is scaled it will not be pixelated. To use a photo as wallpaper we must follow the following steps:

  1. Go to the Photos app on the Mac.
  2. Keep in mind that the application must be placed on the desktop you want to modify (applicable to those who have several screens connected to the Mac).
  3. Right click on the photo you want to use.
  4. Select share from the drop-down menu and then ‘set as desktop image’.

You can also make this change from the desktop

If you have the image in question on the desktop itself you can also easily set it. You just have to follow the following steps:

  1. Make sure the image is on the monitor you want to modify.
  2. Press the right button on the image you want to put as a desktop background and we will click at the end on ‘Set as desktop image’.

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On the internet there are many websites where you can download this type of content for the team although we made an article with different wallpapers for Mac that will surely interest you to take a look.