# Designing Mac Desktops Problems!?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/designing-mac-desktops-problems/77265>\
**Category:** design\
**Created:** [January 25, 2005, 11:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/designing-mac-desktops-problems/77265 "2005-01-25T23:07:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![sky\_vault](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@sky\_vault](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sky_vault)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2005, 11:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/designing-mac-desktops-problems/77265/1 "2005-01-25T23:07:24Z")

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So just started working with a new G5 imac and im having trouble with  
desktop images and resolution. Ive been making my images at the set  
screen resolution of 1440 x 900 but when i set them to the desktop they blur  
and smear out … so whats the deal ?  
these images are being created in illustrator and im going for that clean  
vector look and all looks fine with the same images just modified image size  
to 1280 x 1024 for my pc monitors.  
so is there some magic trick with the mac because im lost?  
Thanks for any help.  
sky