>>5523083You're on windows 7, yes?
This is because win 7 resaves the files you set as wallpaper to a specific location in the system files, and it can only handle BMP and JPG.
so windows is taking your nice, smooth lossless PNG and converting it - using shitty compression algorithms that it likely shares with mspaint - into a JPG.
You can solve this by either resaving it at max jpg quality in photoshop (so you've cut your losses) or doing what I do:
>file - open with - web browser - right click image in browser - set as desktopBecause when firefox (and I assume other browsers) do it, they somehow don't fuck up the quality.
I dunno the reason for that, but basically, windows 7 cannot into itself. Basically, the only effect this will have on you after you know to fix it with a browser is that you can't use the windows auto-change-desktop thing with PNGs.
