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[saltwater]

What do you guys use for a background on computer? I find smoke art, abstract amazing...

[ccheath]

I used the pic I took of Grand Canyon. B E A UTIFUL. Thanks to virus and trojans I had to reinstall windows so everything default again.:grumpy:
Never got around to get the pic back on but will soon.

[similost]

This is what I have as my background right now. I make these myself...

http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=75647&stc=1&d=1201024924

http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=75648&stc=1&d=1201024924

[saltwater]

I like the second one, may i use it?

[similost]

Send me you're e-mail address and I'll send you the full size one and some others I have. I had to resize them to get the server to accept them

[x_25]

I use images of various characters from animes that I like. Here is the one I am using now.

http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/9950/chobitsnz8.jpg

This is what I have as my background right now. I make these myself...

What do you use to make those? I really like the gold one. Is it julia based? (I only know a little bit about fractals)

[similost]

I use a free program called Fractal Explorer.

[similost]

BTW.. pretty cool stuff you do there..

[x_25]

BTW.. pretty cool stuff you do there..

Mine? I didn't make it. I found it online. :D I'm not that talented.

I use a free program called Fractal Explorer.

I will check it out. The last fractal program I had was extremely complicated to use.

[similost]

THis one isn't too bad.. it does take some exploring and some tutorial reading.. but it's about the best free one I've found for ease of use..

[saltwater]

thanks simi got em!

[similost]

Any time....

[ozmoid]

You guys make me look terribly boring. :) I use a set of panels keyed to the 10 steps of grey in the Zone system, color matched to my print provider. :dunno: Not exactly stimulating fare for most folks. :smoke:

[SpeakerLabFan]

I used the pic I took of Grand Canyon. B E A UTIFUL. Thanks to virus and trojans I had to reinstall windows so everything default again.:grumpy:
Never got around to get the pic back on but will soon.

I like to throw on outdoor pictures also. Using a couple of North Cascades pictures in the New Year, to remind me where I should be instead of sitting in front of a computer.

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o240/speakerlabfan/Ncascades.jpg
http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o240/speakerlabfan/sahale.jpg

[similost]

Just set this as my background.. the other was getting old..

Wished I could leave them full size to post here, because at 1600 x 1600 there is some really cool details in these....

[SPL db]

I usually have a picture of a 32 Ford that I've downloaded off of the Internet somewhere...

Right now, this is what I have on my work computer...

Scott

[Mark W.]

LOL Windows XP default. The wife uses a B&W of Stonehenge I took while visiting in 2003, With 150+ people walking around the path at circles the stones I managed to take 3 rolls of 36exp with no more then 3-4 people in the shots. By using lots of patients and being ready for the instant. I waited until the people were all behind the stones on the far side of the circle or used tight closeups.

On my photo computer I have a shot of Abiqua Falls a majestic 100+ foot waterfall just 11 miles from town almost no one visits each year due to it being so hard to find. also a B&W shot.

[similost]

Now that's a really great background SPL.. nice and dark with spots of bright.. makes it easy to see things on the desktop, and looks killer!

[SPL db]

Now that's a really great background SPL.. nice and dark with spots of bright.. makes it easy to see things on the desktop, and looks killer!

Glad you like it! :yes:

Kind of what I thought as well! :thmbsp:

Scott

[BroonsBane]

I almost always use pics that we have taken ourselves...our dogs, nature shots of Lake Superior and surrounding areas etc.

[pioneervato]

You guys make me look terribly boring. :) I use a set of panels keyed to the 10 steps of grey in the Zone system, color matched to my print provider. :dunno: Not exactly stimulating fare for most folks. :smoke:


Hey Oz, did you know that Ansel Adams had three zones known only to himself? :D

[mwr885]

I use a scanned version of an old "Sailor Jarry" tattoo flash sheet. I have been trying to get it done to me but WAF issues have prevented it.

[DougMac]

You guys make me look terribly boring. :) I use a set of panels keyed to the 10 steps of grey in the Zone system, color matched to my print provider. :dunno: Not exactly stimulating fare for most folks. :smoke:
I set both monitors to gray since I do a lot of work in Photoshop and Lightroom. I don't want the screen awash with colors that might throw me off.

My wife, OTOH, has wallpaper from Katamari Damacy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katamari_Damacy) loaded on her machine. Don't buy this game! It's addictive!

Doug

[x_25]

Buy this game! It's addictive!

Fixed it. :D

[jerrymrc]

My background at work and at home right now.

[elgato8905]

Here's mine. What can I say... I'm a little sick in the head.:D

[saltwater]

you aint sick! trust me... little pic like that, it gets worse!

[Urizen]

I've used a variety of the free ones from here:

http://www.digitalblasphemy.com/dbhome.shtml

[Unican_Eric]

My idol drummer Neil Peart with his kit. Awsome.

[ablethevoice]

Before I started a thread on the subject, I decided to do a SEARCH on the term. Glad I did because some of you have already broached the subject of Fractals. Actually, the "classic" fractal pattern one thinks of when one hears the word "fractal" is actually more accurately called the Mandelbrot Set. That's this one:

http://www.daviddarling.info/images/Mandelbrot_set.jpg

The term "fractal" actually refers to a kind of geometry which, by definition, has "equal detail at any scale of magnification". For instance, the night sky is a fractal shape. You look at it with the naked eye and see a certain number of stars in a certain pattern. Any amount of magnification will bring out more stars arranged in a different pattern. Enough magnification (assuming one has infinite light sensitivity) will look past the stars in our own galaxy and start to bring out other galaxies arranged in somewhat similar patterns to the stars.

Anyway, as to what I use for my desktop background, I have several self-generated patterns I've done with a program called FRACINT (http://spanky.triumf.ca/www/fractint/fractint.html). The only thing I can't do with this particular program is cycle colors. I'm told (by a pop-up information window created by Fractint itself) that I need a "palette-based" video driver. Whatever that is...

I switch my desktop fairly frequently so as not to burn in any colors (even if I do use an LCD monitor, old habits die hard after using a CRT monitor for so many years). Most of my desktops are my fractal designs, but I also use astronomical images I've kiped off the web.

Here's one of my fractal drawings I called "Digital Cauliflower":
http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=98676&stc=1&d=1215655423

This one is "Deep Flower":
http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=98677&stc=1&d=1215655423

And here's a "not mine, but I like it a lot so I borrowed it from the internet": A Hubble image of the Crab Nebula:
http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=98678&stc=1&d=1215656160

I have others, but their file size is way too big to not be rejected by the AK server so I'll stop here.
Yes, you may copy and paste the fractals if you want them:yes:

[Gohan]

This my current background

http://img78.imageshack.us/img78/8862/dragonballzgohan49zw2.jpg

Gohan

[thisOne]

this... (I also hide the icons so there is nothing on the desktop)

http://visualproductions.co.uk/horfield/images/gallery/blown%20away%20large.jpg

[whoaru99]

Plain gray desktop. Sometimes one of the light patterns I "borrowed" from my beta version of Vista.

[treserious]

I'm currently using this at home
http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=96211&stc=1&d=1214107754

and at the office I have this tiled
http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=98683&stc=1&d=1215661537

I also have the same space invader made out of square post it notes stuck to the side of my desk.

[Red Stick]

I usually change it by seasons. Either pictures of the kids or local nature.

[PioneerGuy85]

Click it:
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r60/mr740ti/th_Screenshot-18.png (http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r60/mr740ti/Screenshot-18.png)
I don't hide the icons; I just don't have any period. :D

[BroonsBane]

a shot of one of our Great Danes Gracie being a goofball hanging over the banister:

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k163/Graciefloydie/DSC06259-1.jpg

[John in MA]

I use a plain dark blue background. Easier to locate icons that way, and no resources used with a big JPEG or GIF always on the screen.

[Johnny]

http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=98747&d=1215719869My girl -

[shrinkboy]

my current one, a random selection from an alaska trip a few years ago

[MRX37]

Plain Grey.

I don't like fancy graphics on the desktop. When I want fancy graphics, I load a game.

[Strawman]

Mine is currently a map of the Eniwetok Atoll, Marshall Islands. It was a nuclear test site in the 50's, and I was stationed there in 1978 for the cleanup effort. Good times...

[RussinOhio]

http://www.maritimequest.com/warship_directory/us_navy_pages/aircraft_carriers/nimitz_cvn_68/16_uss_nimitz_cvn_68.jpg

[jazzwolf]

This is what I use. I alternate between these 2 wallpapers.

Izzy