[X] My Assistant

[volcanopele]

I've been playing around the last few days with trying to find a new desktop background. I finally settled on one I really like and I've posted it below. I'm curious as to what UMSF-related background people are using.



This is the JPEG compressed version. If anyone would like the png version, let me know.

EDIT: Updated image.

[SkyeLab]

I have around 40 space related desktop backgrounds that refresh once an hour and also double up as screen savers when my machine has been idle. I use a free download of software from Webshots , :

http://www.webshots.com/

Once downloaded, you can drag and drop your fave images into the folder to be included in your desktop background collection.

Many of my current collection have come from the fine work produced by the many artists using and contributing to this fine forum.

Cheers

Brian

[lyford]

I use a free download of software from Webshots

This is great for the PC but no Mac version exists - but the OSX Desktop Preference Pane will let you set any folder of pictures as a set of desktop backgrounds. You can then set the same folder for your screen saver with the "Ken Burns Effect."

The Cosmos screensaver includes some neat pictures that have been tweaked to be purty; you can pillage those images by following the directions here - this one is a favorite of mine from that:


One last cross platform tidbit about desktops - typically Mac users have their icons on the right of the screen, Windows on the left. I like to keep the busy bits of the picture away from the icons for clarity, so the same pic might not be the best for both machines.... or else just flip it.

[dvandorn]

One last cross platform tidbit about desktops - typically Mac users have their icons on the right of the screen, Windows on the left. I like to keep the busy bits of the picture away from the icons for clarity, so the same pic might not be the best for both machines.... or else just flip it.

Yeah -- one of the problems I have with a majority of the space-themed desktop images out there is that the left side of the screen (where my icons are located on this Windows XP machine) is too busy and cluttered. My favorite desktops are those which feature a lot of black sky in the upper left portion of the image. Hence my predilection for lunar and deep-space scenes.

-the other Doug