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[Call Me Wesley]

Mine since today:

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1. Wow. Can I ask what resolution you run your desktop at?

Because I typically run mine at 2304x1440 and I don't think I could fit that many icons side by side. If I'm sitting further away, I'll typically drop it down to 1920x1200. At that resolution, I can only have a few dozen before things look incredibly cramped.

[Call Me Wesley]

2. I'm getting a little short spaced at the dock,

but so far it's okay. Full resolution is 2560 x 1440. And that's the original size of the picture, also. :hi: On edit: Monitor is 27".

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3. Mighty impressive.

I've got an older 25" CRT that supports up to 2560x1600, but I typically run it lower because I'm rarely sitting right next to my monitor. I hope to be able to keep it as long as possible because at the time I got it, it was the cheapest way to get the PQ I was looking for. The thing weighs a ton, but the good LCDs that feature the size and resolution I want are ridiculously expensive. I can still find them on eBay, but the people selling them typically won't have them shipped. Maybe I'll get lucky and find another one in surplus.

[Call Me Wesley]

6. I have to admit that this thing I have

feels like sitting in the front row of a movie theater. My open windows are way smaller.

Biggest CRT I had was a 17" and, yes, it was huge. Have you looked here: http://www.geeks.com/products_sc.asp?cat=980
Newegg is fairly cheap, too: http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?nm_mc=AFC-TechBargains&cm_mmc=AFC-TechBargains-_-NA-_-NA-_-NA&Item=N82E16824611005

Sure not what you would have to pay for an Apple display.

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14. Those are nice, but not what I'm looking for.

In order to get the PQ I'm currently getting from my CRT, I'd need to look into one of the better IPS LCDs like the newer alphas. The cheapest I've seen for those recently has been on slickdeals.net and they're still around $500 for a 24" Dell. I've been mightily tempted to pick up a 28" Hanns-G that goes for a song, and perhaps just use it to extend my current desktop, but it kind of pales in comparison to my CRT in terms of PQ, it's rather bright though. In time I'm going to pick up an IPS for my family gaming rig and use that to replace my CRT when it eventually goes. I really hope I get a few more years out of it, however. It may be heavy as hell, but CRTs were getting pretty incredible toward the end of their production life.

[pokerfan]

4. this is shrunk about 50%

[Call Me Wesley]

7. Space, the final frontier ...

Really nice! But then, I'm a sucker for anything space/sci-fi related. ;)

[pokerfan]

11. one of my favorites

NGC 3521 in Leo ~ 30 million light years distant

[Call Me Wesley]

12. I think we had that conversation before. ;)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=9027469

Mine still is NGC 5128:

[pokerfan]

17. so many DSOs

so little time.

[Rambis]

5. Here is the pic that adorns my desktop

Stevie G after his second half hat-trick V Napoli

[Call Me Wesley]

8. What do you have against Napoli?

:P

Nice, thank you! Of course I have no clue who he is, but soccer rules anyway!

[era veteran]

9. Late summer 2010, in the garden

Spring is coming!


<a href="" target="_blank"><img src="" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

[Call Me Wesley]

10. Mmmmmh corn!

Great harvest and great garden! And yes, let's hope that spring is coming! :hi:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. My latest:

[Call Me Wesley]

15. Very nice and serene.

You know, cmd-shift-3 gets a screenshot, too. ;)

Thanks for sharing!

[cbdo2007]

16. Here's mine

It's in Tahiti or Fiji or something. My dream vacation are these huts over the water so this keeps me motivated.

[Call Me Wesley]

18. There's quite a temperature difference from your weather widget and the pic.

;) Love the clear blue of the sea and I can see how this keeps you motivated. You're no sleepwalker, are you? <splash>

[cbdo2007]

19. ha ha, nope not a sleepwalker.

These bungalows have glass bottoms in parts of them though so you can actually look down into the water while sitting on the couch.



Someday I'll save up enough money for my wife and I to go there on a second honeymoon, though it may be many (many, many) years down the line.

The water is incredible.

Yeah and the temperature....it said zero degrees when I woke up this morning so it's like we're in a heat wave now!

[Call Me Wesley]

20. I hope you'll see it again soon!

It really looks amazing! :hi:

[Dunedain]

62. Bora Bora

Been there, those huts have a glass floor.

[siligut]

21. This is the photo I am using

I am developing a crush on the guy in the lower left foreground, the one in the white polo shirt :shrug: What?

[Call Me Wesley]

23. China?

Hey, I didn't say anything about the guy. You have his name and address? ;)

Nice photo, did you take it?

[siligut]

26. Yes, China, last fall in Tiananmen Square

Don't know any of the people in the photo, I just see that guy every morning and have grown accustomed to his face. He seems very centered.

I did take the pic, thank you. :D

[Tom_Foolery]

22. Automotive beauty...

'56 Lincoln Continental Mark 2

""

[Call Me Wesley]

24. A Chevrolet! Good Swiss automobiles!

J/K, of course. Love these old cruisers. Great perspective work in this photo. :hi:

[rbnyc]

25. Here:

[Call Me Wesley]

31. Cutie!

And well informed, I suppose. Thanks for sharing! :hi:

[hobbit709]

27. Today's

[Call Me Wesley]

32. Very colorful!

Did you make it if I might ask?

[hobbit709]

35. Yep. Used my fractals program to render it in 1920x1080, 8-color.

Then used Irfanview to make a negative.

[Call Me Wesley]

37. Very nice!

Thanks!

[hippywife]

28. Can I just say that

you are the awesome? That's pretty cool. :hi:

I can't post mine here at home because it's a photo that a friend took at the Monterrey Bay Aquarium and I don't know that she'd appreciate me posting it elsewhere. The one at work is always an APOD photo, but I've been there so infrequently the past two weeks, I'll be darn if I can remember which one it is! :rofl:

I did think of you and Heidi when I saw this one, altho, it's probably not nearby your humble abode.

[Call Me Wesley]

33. Outstanding photo!

I checked it out - it's not nearby. It's from a state (St. Gallen,) that borders Liechtenstein and Austria. Which explains the awkward dialect they speak there. ;)

You're awesome, too! :hug:

[blogslut]

29. Okay

[Call Me Wesley]

34. I really like this!

:thumbsup: BTW, you got mail! :hi:

[blogslut]

47. Thanks!

I found the wallpaper at this neato place:

http://simpledesktops.com/

[kentauros]

30. more predictable weirdness

(my coloring of a Phil Foglio drawing from XXXenophile)

[Call Me Wesley]

36. Great coloring!

But what's weird about it? ;) Besides the Internet Explorer icon there. :scared:

[kentauros]

38. It's weird because my love for djinn is a bit 'excessive',

and I know how some react to the idea of any of them not being all male ;)

Oh, one thing about the coloring job, is that I sat in the same spot for over six hours, completely engaged in making it just right, only to aggravate my sciatic nerve, and end up in that kind of pain for a month after. Not sure if it was worth it, but it was fun, nonetheless :D

Here's another one I did last summer in Corel Painter IX, instead of Photoshop for the one above, but isn't as my desktop. It was actually a complete re-working of just the line-art and not of a djinni originally. It goes with a fanfic story I developed with another writer-friend, as I like to have visual aids sometimes for stories:

[Call Me Wesley]

39. Nice, too!

Not sure if I would have the patience to do it. Sure not with a mouse ... That's one good thing about the iPad and it's sketching/painting apps - I actually can import a picture and stack a few layers on it and color it in from there with a stylus. Than it's almost like a graphic tablet.

[kentauros]

40. Thanks :)

That one I did over many days, tweaking here and there as needed. The hardest part was getting the shadows on the pantaloons right, so they didn't come out looking like stripes instead. Somewhere I've got a book on folds and wrinkles, and using it has helped considerably in making clothing look right on a body, whether in motion or just for different poses.

I haven't used a mouse on my home PC in almost a decade. I started with a Wacom 4x5 and now have a 6x8. If I had the money to burn, I'd get a Wacom Cintiq. And if I was doing any of this professionally, I'd get one of the 12 by whatever sizes further up :)

[Call Me Wesley]

42. Wacom cintiq is awesome.

But as I said, I can have the same effect with the iPad, the stylus and SketchbookPro. ;)

[kentauros]

44. Sure, if those are the tools you prefer.

As I'm not a mac-person, I'd rather have the Cintiq ;)

I think in one of Wacom's newsletters, they featured a traditional artist that had decided to go digital, too, and he had this huge Cintiq in his lap. I mean it looked like an 11x14 or bigger! I didn't read the details to see what it was, but that would be a helluva nice tool to use :D

Although the "dream" version would be a drafting table-sized Cintiq :P

[av8rdave]

41. Here's mine

[Call Me Wesley]

43. Chemtrails!

Just kidding. Great perspective and space in this photo! :hi:

[cyberswede]

45. Mine

[Call Me Wesley]

46. Love the pose.

Your daughter?

[cyberswede]

61. Thanks!

Yes, this is little cyberswede. :)

I got this shot by accident at a dance rehearsal last spring, when she was 7. (Most of my photos click right AFTER the cute pose - LOL)

[CrownPrinceBandar]

48. Mine.......

Me (left) and my buddy Kevin (center) and his late wife and my dear friend Marie (right), whom we just lost to breast cancer three weeks ago. The pic is of Chimney Top in Grant county, West Virginia. I'd say one of the prettiest spots in the state

[Call Me Wesley]

50. I'd probably freak up there. High anxiety ...

But I guess the view is terrific.

And safe passage to your friend Marie. May she be free from suffering. Peace and comfort to you and yours.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

54. Thanks, CMW..........

Marie was like a sister to me and our close-knit group of friends took it pretty hard.

I'm scared to death of heights, but I find I often seek these kind of places out to challenge that fear. I admit I do get a rush out of standing at the edge looking over. It makes me feel more alive.

[EnviroBat]

49. That reminds me of a painting from one of my favorite books a a child.

I got this book all about spacecraft. It was written from the standpoint of historic spacecraft that had fought in strange, other-worldly wars. I dearly loved that book. I would stare at the images for hours. Where did you get this image if I may ask?

[CrownPrinceBandar]

51. Was it this book, by chance?................

I actually have all 3 of the original TTA books from back in the 70's. I'm a sucker for illustrated sci-fi books.

[Call Me Wesley]

55. Heh! I still have this one by the same author:

Love the work of Chris Foss:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XhAzekAG0tg/THUgleWGEVI/AAAAAAAAFYQ/S7wiMXXC8Hw/s1600/05+CHRIS+FOSS+-+CITY+OF+ILLUSIONS.jpg

[CrownPrinceBandar]

57. Yup. I have that one as well..........

along with Spacewreck.



Foss is great. I'm also a big fan of Angus McKie and Bob Layzell. But my absolute favorite sci-fi artist has to be Jim Burns. From Planet Story written by Harry Harrison:

[Call Me Wesley]

60. Ah, yes.

I can't always put the names to illustrations, but of course I know him. Pretty famous for this one:

[Call Me Wesley]

52. I made it. ;)

Here are a few others I made, sci-fi related: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=8303637

This one's made with a 3D model of the 'Pegasus' and the President's cruiser from the new Battlestar Galactica series.

Thanks! :hi:

[Inchworm]

53. I ran outta brandy.. and had a camera

:P

Yours is really much cooler :)



:hi:

[Call Me Wesley]

56. Help me here ...

An empty glass? A small telescope/finder? It does look great! :hi:

[Inchworm]

58. Yup

It is my empty shot glass (don't know proper name for it) and a gun scope I use to look at birds and bugs from porch.

I didn't capture my screen because my photo doctoring software took a crap, so I just uploaded the wallpaper :)

:hi:

[Call Me Wesley]

59. Good thing the scope isn't attached to a gun,

otherwise the 'look at birds' thingie would have a different meaning. :P

'Shot glass,' that's what I would call it. You can't drink Brandy from that! You need one of these:


;)