Happy New Year!
I resolve to do a lot of "house-cleaning" this year. As I mentioned last year there are some small changes coming to this site. I intend to work on it all year, though, hopefully it won't actually last that long.
In the meantime, here is a desktop wallpaper (out of a couple or so I'd promised late last year.)
I don't know what it is but soon after winter sets in I'm thinking about the warm summer weather. When I was looking for starter material for a desktop wallpaper I was looking at fall and winter themes. But I got tired of feeling so cold and was wishing for warmer weather. (In my neck of the "woods" we're really in a rain drought and do need the rains and snows.)
Going through the downloads from morguefile.com I found this photo of shells on a beach taken by veggiegretz. It's different from the other beach photo I used for another desktop wallpaper so it was perfect. Using Corel Painter Photo Essentials, I tried out a variety of paint effects. The watercolor effect kept it light and airy so that's the one used for this wallpaper.
Go now to the 5th desktop wallpapers page to find this summery image for your computer. It comes in six resolutions from 640x480 to 1440x1080.
Labels: beach, desktop wallpapers, shells, summer
New Desktop Wallpaper: Bleeding Hearts
Despite seeing double right now, I managed to put together a new desktop wallpaper for you. In fact, I'm using it myself because I'm wishing for spring to come sooner than later. It is also appropriate to display for Valentine's Day!
The original photograph for the desktop wallpaper comes from morguefile.com and was created by a member called westminister. It's an image of the pretty flower called bleeding hearts. The drooping pink-and-white flowers do look like hearts.
What I did was surround the flowers with a nice frame, creating a dreamy image. Then the image was re-sized to six resolution sizes. All done with Paint Shop Pro Photo X2.
Go to Wallpapers 5 to find the thumbnail image and download links. And remember, these graphics are for your computer's desktop, not for web pages!
Labels: bleeding hearts, desktop wallpaper, flowers
Webpage Background: RGB Side
Today's offering is a webpage background graphic featuring a left side border of small blocks in red, green and blue, thus the name of "RGB." After I created the Color Block backgrounds in June I thought about other colors than pastels that I could make backgrounds out of. I came up with this, which are the three basic colors of the original CRT color monitors.
Plain and functional. That's what this background graphic is. If you like it after viewing the sample page, download the graphic to your hard drive following the directions on the page. You'll find the thumbnail image on page 5 of the side border backgrounds page. Just follow the log-in instructions.
Labels: rgb colors, side border, webpage background
Desktop Wallpaper: Skateboards
Late today (in some parts of the world), I uploaded six (yes!) different sizes of a desktop wallpaper featuring skateboards with the accompanying legs of the skateboarders.
The original photo was provided by website member, mnp, at morguefile.com. I applied an impressionist painting effect using Corel Painter Essentials and Paint Shop Pro X. Pretty cool effects!
Anyway, the desktop wallpapers are sized from 640x458 to 1440x129. The thumbnail page contains all of the links. Just choose the one that best fits your monitor's resolution. Each link opens in a new, download window whereupon you follow the directions on the page.
Go to Wallpapers Page 5 to begin your download now!
Labels: desktop wallpaper, impressionist effect, skateboards
Color Block Border Web Page Backgrounds
Today, I've uploaded three web page background graphics, one side border and two top borders, in the same basic pastel color blocks on white. Each graphic has space between the page edge and the edge of the border to allow for menu items and small ads (side border) or menu items, header graphic or title text, and/ or banner ad (top border - 100 px and 150 px choices). While these graphics are made for page backgrounds, I don't see why they cannot be used as table backgrounds (large file size may be a limitation).
Check out the graphics at Arride Graphics!
Color Block Side Border
Color Block Top BordersLabels: border backgrounds, color block, pastel, web page
Graphics, At Last
Valentine's on my mind for these graphics. Today's offerings are two desktop wallpapers and one webpage background with a top border. All with hearts. For Valentine's Day and more.
All of the photos for these graphics came from one of my favorite sources, morguefile.com. The photographers are, by their user names, dieraecherin, taylorschlades, and sullivan. I used the photos of the first two photogs for the desktop wallpapers and used sullivan's photo for the top border webpage background. All are pretty cool and fun.
Check out the wallpapers on the fifth page of that section, and check out the page background on the fifth page of the top border backgrounds page.
Enjoy and happy Valentine's Day!Labels: calendar desktop wallpaper, graphics, heart, top border background, Valentine, webpage background
New Desktop Wallpaper: Fan's Eye View Behind Home Plate
Now that baseball is well into the 2009 season and has started interleague play, I decided to offer a baseball-themed desktop wallpaper to celebrate. I've played around with the original photograph, which I took some time ago, in Virtual Painter and sized it in four different resolutions (sizes) to fit most monitors, desktop and laptop computers alike.
The effect you see on the wallpaper is silkscreening on washi. It's easily done with Virtual Painter and any image or photograph. I think the effects are pretty cool and fun to work with.
View the thumnbnail and the full-size desktop wallpapers beginning with the fifth wallpapers page. Each size will open a new window from which you can download the wallpaper that fits your monitor's resolution. Remember, these images are not meant for web pages, including social networking profile pages, etc., and are blanket-covered by the Terms of Use.
Labels: ballpark, baseball, desktop wallpaper, fans, view
