Fan Creates SCN Wallpaper
How’s that for a headline? I played around with that for at least five minutes trying to get something that sounded like a jump-out-at-you headline as you often see used in newspapers and magazines.
But it’s true. See the second comment from acesand8s on this posting where he also provides a link to the wallpaper.
Here is the wallpaper from the link provided in the comment from acesand8s.
I have to admit it is kind of flattering and sort of exciting to have someone make up a wallpaper using your pictures and it is certainly a first for me. I am pretty sure it would be a first for SCN as well although I have not asked her about it yet.
On my 1600 wide notebook screen it looks like this (at left).
Anyone who knows anything about computer wallpaper design will see two issues with this. There is no unused space on the left hand side for desktop icons so they don’t get lost in the wallpaper images. Also the task bar at the bottom of the screen ‘crashes into’ the images on the wallpaper.
While this second problem probably does not happen on a 1920 x 1050 screen—because I can see from the full-sized version above that there is some space at the bottom of the wallpaper—the problem of no space for desktop icons on the left hand side will still be there.
If you want to find out a little more about wallpaper design then check my posting on this very subject from back in August 2010 here (Caution: The linked posting is marginally NSFW).
But anyway, having said that, I really like it. I do. The graduated steel-grey background is simple but effective.
Interestingly acesand8s has used one of the two pictures that I put on SmugMug—but did not use in the Abalook posting—as the ‘keystone’ image; the main and largest image in the wallpaper. I have to admit, with its darker blue-ish angel-dust edging it works well as the main image. This is more obvious when you see the wallpaper larger.
Should you want to you can get the full sized 1920 x 1200 version of acesand8s’ wallpaper featuring SCN either from the link provided by acesand8s in his comment (which gets the image from his 4shared file account—be careful to select the correct “Download” option) or by clicking on either of the images above. Clicking on either of the images above will open the full-sized 1920 x 1050 graphic from the Abalook SmugMug folder and then you can save this by using right-click and selecting “Save Image As …”.
If you go for the SmugMug version you will need the password.
I’m still excited …
>>> Updated 16th Dec
Now that I am back at base I can load acesand8s' SCN wallpaper onto my 24" 1920 x 1200 screen and show you how it looks.
As you can see the Windows task bar does fit along the gap at the bottom without crashing into the images and when I move my clocks (one for South Africa time, one for local time, and one for USA West Coast time) up to the top right hand part of the screen the only thing that does not really work out are my desktop icons down the left hand side. But I do like the wallpaper. The graduated steel-grey background blends in really well with the dark grey Aero theme I use for Windows 7.
