Wallpaper

Published 1/23/06

I was playing around with my camera, teaching myself how to work with RAW images. It was late and everyone was asleep, so I set up some of my son’s toys and used a close-up lens to shoot them.

After learning what I needed to learn, I realized I had some cool images for wallpaper. I’m picky about that kind of thing. I don’t like fancy, busy wallpaper; to me, it should be clean and simple, with space for icons. And those icons shouldn’t disappear in the background.

Anyway, here are the thumbnails of what I came up with. The links are to 1024×768 BMP files — perfect for Windows wallpaper. (Warning: These are big images!)


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Eh... not so much says:

Great pics! I can see the paintwork on Froggy’s eyes!

January 23rd, 2006 at 2:58 PM

Andrew says:

Thanks! They don’t look very impressive as thumbnails, but when they’re full screen I think they’re pretty cool. (I’m using the hippo right now. It and the bunny are my current faves. :)

January 23rd, 2006 at 3:00 PM

greyrat says:

YAAAAGH! Those duckies are SCARY! And I’m worried about that bunny too!

Nice pics though.

January 23rd, 2006 at 3:42 PM

Julie says:

I love the hippo! These are really cute, Andrew.

January 23rd, 2006 at 11:13 PM

Lindsay D. says:

Awesome. I’m gonna use these on my Mac. (The PC at work is reserved for pics of my kitty, who make any space feel like my space).

January 24th, 2006 at 2:28 PM

Lindsay D. says:

“who makes,” not “who make”

January 24th, 2006 at 2:29 PM

Grant W Laird Jr says:

You did not mention which software program — what’s easy way to resize/crop to 1024×768 without mess up?

Thanks!

January 24th, 2006 at 11:46 PM

Andrew says:

The BMPs will work perfectly with 1024×768 or even 800×600 (Windows should shrink it to fit).

But if you’re looking for a good piece of software for editing, cropping, etc., try Picasa (picasa.google.com). It’s free and easy and good.

January 25th, 2006 at 12:53 PM

Dorene says:

Yes, very cute. But no kitties? So sad… ;)

You’re a talent. :)

January 26th, 2006 at 2:56 PM

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