This question has gotten me curious. What are YOUR desktop backgrounds like? What do you think they say about you?
I'll go first. My desktop background is a picture I took of the Colosseum when I was in Rome. I like it because it is not terribly obtrusive, and it reminds me just how much I loved AP art history in high school.
It is also characteristic of they way I like to take pictures of big buildings or landmarks. I stand close and get a picture looking up at just how big it is. Maybe it has something to do with how I enjoy feeling short, since that doesn't happen to me very often.
I think I attached the desktop picture correctly. We'll see.
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"The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit." ~ Alfred North Whitehead
These days I'm just using default nature pictures which change about every 20 minutes.
Back in the day, I used to be creative with desktop backgrounds. I'd take the standard pictures of Stonehenge or of tulips or of an island and then go into MS Paint and mess with them. Like, I painted someone sleeping on Stonehenge, painted someone sinking next to the island, and made it look like the sand dune was sneezing. (I'm not an artist by any means, but when you're 13 years old you can get pretty creative.)
Funny thing was, I didn't actually know where to find the pictures, so I would just use print screen and edit from there. But that meant all the icons had to stay in the same place as when the background was printscreened or it would look weird.
Defy V wrote:Funny thing was, I didn't actually know where to find the pictures, so I would just use print screen and edit from there. But that meant all the icons had to stay in the same place as when the background was printscreened or it would look weird.
There's actually a prank you can pull in which you take a screenshot of someone's desktop, set it as their background, delete all the icons and hide the start menu, and then watch their confusion as nothing opens when they click on it.
I have a brand-new laptop that I have turned on exactly once. Now I'm going to think waaaaaaaaaay too much about what I should put as the background...
My last computer I would generally use pictures from my photographer friend (especially the ones she took especially for me). She had a really nice picture of a pine tree I'd use every winter (and sometimes into spring, when I wasn't paying attention). I still have that computer, but ... not here. Here I have a computer I tend to keep pretty generic with just Windows 7 themes. (Nature ones.)
I did find this awesome picture of a desktop background I had for a while back in 2007...
Mine is my nephew in his bed with the cat and his mom's iPad. He's watching my brother's ship go through the Panama Canal on the iPad, but you can't actually see that in the picture.
I love flowers. Yellow doesn't love buying me flowers. So instead he will randomly take pictures of flowers and email them to me. My background rotates through those.
I've never cared too much about my background; the way I use my computer means that it almost never gets seen. The only time I did set it I used the same picture that is my avatar.
The Epistler was quite honestly knocked on her ethereal behind by the sheer logic of this.
My main desktop rotates through some of my favorite photographs that I've taken, changing about every half hour. I like it, because I almost never have a chance to look at them otherwise.
My other desktops just rotate through the stock images.
Mine is a field of bluebonnets, cause I love Texas and bluebonnets are awesome. But it's slightly pixelated, which makes it look like an impressionist painting.
Defy V wrote:Funny thing was, I didn't actually know where to find the pictures, so I would just use print screen and edit from there. But that meant all the icons had to stay in the same place as when the background was printscreened or it would look weird.
Defy V wrote:Funny thing was, I didn't actually know where to find the pictures, so I would just use print screen and edit from there. But that meant all the icons had to stay in the same place as when the background was printscreened or it would look weird.
HA.
I think I tried to hide the icons before printscreening and the result would be really pixelated. I have no clue why. It was a long time ago.
