A Glitch

Wondering what happened to me and Arride Graphics? Well, I've been around but agonizing and procrastinating over the loss of use of my primary computer where my graphics, webpage builder and websites are stored. I had no backup for the graphics and sites either "in the cloud" or an external hard drive. Bad move.

So when my hard drive crashed, I was left with very little. I tried resolving the problem myself, but I think it's beyond my capabilities and patience. I'll have to turn it over to the pros. In the meantime, I got a new notebook 'puter with which to start from scratch. Frankly, I'd rather play online games than think about trying to reproduce everything in this new 'puter.

But and so: But I want to continue making web graphics and desktop wallpapers for Arride Graphics. So, after I get the procrastinating bug out of MY system, I'll try to see if the downed computer can be fixed, if not at least recover the files contained regardless of monetary cost.

Also, I bought a new webpage builder which means a new learning curve to deal with, so that's another hurdle. Thus, you may or may not see new stuff in the coming months and the new site remodel I mentioned last year.

Thanks for reading this blog and for your patience.

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.