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dliuzzi
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Hello,

I have a quick suggestion to make. I have a three monitors setup, and although I have placed them as close from one another as I can, there is still the gap in between caused by screen bezels. Since DisplayFusion treats the screens as if there were no gaps, this creates an effect that becomes most clearly seen in wallpapers with diagonal lines or edges. For example I have a panoramic wallpaper of the Golden Gate Bridge where the bridge itself goes diagonally top left to bottom right, and the bridge seems to "break" near the bezel.

I was thinking that it would be great if I could drag the screens in the Desktop Wallpaper dialog and be able to move the individual monitors apart from each other, to mimic the monitors' bezels. I understand that having bezels "cover" the image, some pixels will be lost, but IMO it would also make the image look more natural and create a more realistic look.

By the way, I have tried doing this with the Screen Resolution dialog in Windows, but although it does make me drag the monitors further apart from one another, they snap right back the moment I release the button :(

Cheers.
May 5, 2010  • #1
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Kevin F.
450 discussion posts
You can mess around with the picture offsets found in desktop wallpaper, its not the best fix but it should work for vertical differences until Jon implements the idea. I do not know for sure if he will but this has been mentioned before.
May 5, 2010  • #2
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dliuzzi
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Kevin,

I *almost* was able to obtain the desired results by following your suggestion of tweaking with the image offsets. I say almost because the side effect is that the resulting image shrinks according to the offset. In my case, I moved the left monitor 300 pixels to the right, and the right monitor 300 pixels to the left. Wallpapers now flow wonderfully across bezels, but now they're 600 pixels shorter :/ Now that I see this, I'm thinking adding a "scale" slider on the Position tab would probably be easier to implement than my drag and drop suggestion, and would potentially allow the same control.

Anyway, thanks for that great tip!
May 5, 2010  • #3
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Kevin F.
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There IS a scale adjustment on the next tab over, but this will cause you to lose some vertical paper as well, though with proper tweaking you could minimize this to.... ~150 px each side... Not optimal, but what can you do?...

O wait. Idea! You can go into paint and cut out the inner 600 pixel... I know its by hand but what can you do? Something like this would be very hard to implement into DF, as the UI controls wouldn't be natural at all.

If you are only using the one wallpaper, you can also make it fit aspect ratio by height to get it better if needed... The tools are definitely there to get it perfect, it'll just take some work.
May 6, 2010  • #4
Jon Tackabury (BFS)'s profile on WallpaperFusion.com
I added the image scaling option as an alternative to having bezel adjustments. It isn't perfect, but it should provide something quite close. :)
May 17, 2010  • #5
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