Login Screen Background 'squeezed'
It's probably a result of the background image not being the same size as your display. I didn't know why we were supposed to scale the image to match exactly, but that looks like the reason.

Try scaling (and cropping, if necessary) the image to the exact pixel size of your display. (GIMP is a very good tool for this.) If you don't know the exact size of the display, for example if you have a Retina display,  > About This Mac will tell you.