The Dual-monitor Wallpaper Thread
Marik_Steele
To rule in hell... Join Date: 2002-11-20 Member: 9466Members
To rule in hell... Join Date: 2002-11-20 Member: 9466Members
<div class="IPBDescription">and quasi-contest</div> Hello creative folk! It's Marik here, in a rather good mood now that I've dumpster-dived (dumpster-doven? dumpster-divinated? scrounged?) my way to a free and mostly-working secondary monitor. It'll be perfect as soon as 2 things are fixed:
1. I get rid of the cat smell. I sure hope I won't have to pull a fried kitten out of there, it'd be the opposite of cute.
2. I get a dual-monitor wallpaper to show off. This is where you come in!
Frankly, there aren't many sites with good dual-monitor wallpapers, unless you like widescreen photographs of terragen-made landscapes, widescreen images of beaches and oceans, mountain ranges...all sorts of stuff that us computer nerds are afraid of because, well, we hear there's lions and tigers and bears and <i>door-to-door-salesmen</i> out there. Pretty creepy stuff.
Here's what to do:
Step 1: Know what resolution you're dealing with. Instead of 1024x768, try 2048x768. Instead of 1600x1200, try 3200x1200. It's as easy as doubling the width.
Step 2: Make a dual-monitor wallpaper you like or think other people would like. Doesn't matter if it's NS-related, just has to comply with forum rules (any others can be PMed to me directly if desired).
Step 3: Host it. Attatching it will likely be impossible due to file size restrictions, and it would make this thread take forever to load. Link to it, and if you feel you must, make a *small* thumbnail image to see here.
And here's where the quasi-contest comes in. Coil, me, and perhaps some other staff members use dual-monitor setups. I dunno if they'll be offering any thank-you rewards, but I've decided that If I see a dual-monitor wallpaper I like enough to use, I'll give the maker a custom forum title. When somebody else makes a wallpaper I like even more (because it's cooler or I've just used the old one so long I'm bored) the custom title gets moved to them. (Just a little incentive for creative people to stay creative & active).
Hint for people who want to make one for me: I'm running one monitor at 2048x1536, and the freebie monitor at 1280x768, so my resolution is an awkward 3328x1536. A <i>really</i> nice wallpaper just might convince me to change my resolution to accomodate for it.
1. I get rid of the cat smell. I sure hope I won't have to pull a fried kitten out of there, it'd be the opposite of cute.
2. I get a dual-monitor wallpaper to show off. This is where you come in!
Frankly, there aren't many sites with good dual-monitor wallpapers, unless you like widescreen photographs of terragen-made landscapes, widescreen images of beaches and oceans, mountain ranges...all sorts of stuff that us computer nerds are afraid of because, well, we hear there's lions and tigers and bears and <i>door-to-door-salesmen</i> out there. Pretty creepy stuff.
Here's what to do:
Step 1: Know what resolution you're dealing with. Instead of 1024x768, try 2048x768. Instead of 1600x1200, try 3200x1200. It's as easy as doubling the width.
Step 2: Make a dual-monitor wallpaper you like or think other people would like. Doesn't matter if it's NS-related, just has to comply with forum rules (any others can be PMed to me directly if desired).
Step 3: Host it. Attatching it will likely be impossible due to file size restrictions, and it would make this thread take forever to load. Link to it, and if you feel you must, make a *small* thumbnail image to see here.
And here's where the quasi-contest comes in. Coil, me, and perhaps some other staff members use dual-monitor setups. I dunno if they'll be offering any thank-you rewards, but I've decided that If I see a dual-monitor wallpaper I like enough to use, I'll give the maker a custom forum title. When somebody else makes a wallpaper I like even more (because it's cooler or I've just used the old one so long I'm bored) the custom title gets moved to them. (Just a little incentive for creative people to stay creative & active).
Hint for people who want to make one for me: I'm running one monitor at 2048x1536, and the freebie monitor at 1280x768, so my resolution is an awkward 3328x1536. A <i>really</i> nice wallpaper just might convince me to change my resolution to accomodate for it.
Comments
Quasi-modo was literally "Half-formed".
<a href='http://digitalblasphemy.com/' target='_blank'>Digital Blasphemy</a> has some sexy wallpapers, anything here catch your fancy?
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Good God they even support Tri Screen on some.
<img src='http://onfinite.com/libraries/142951/c40.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
<a href='http://www.angelfire.com/art2/anthonyhupp/' target='_blank'>Fire and Ice</a>
Just click on the name to get a better look at it.
Edit: How does one turn an image into a link using this forum?
without the spaces
Ah, didn't work the first time. Must have been a typo.
<a href='http://img78.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img78&image=supwidercsern1.jpg' target='_blank'><img src='http://img78.exs.cx/img78/3935/supwidercsern1.th.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /></a>
I have it in better quality, but it gets up to a meg in size