Custom Windows 7 Wallpapers - The Continuing Saga

[The Howling Wolves]

Great job Gary....
Can I take it for a spin?

 

[Britton30]

Great job Gary....
Can I take it for a spin?

Thanks Dennis!
No problem, be back by 11 though and no texting while driving.

 

[beman36]

People don't post here much do they?
Here's an attempt at a car guy's wall. Thanks to Nick for help on the truck and making the flag logo.

very cool! love those old cars! great job bud!

here's my rendition of windows se7en "old style" LOL

 

[beman36]

Se7en ninja style! LOL

 

[Britton30]

Thanks Beman! Yours are real nice, speshally the Ninja one, very cool.

Post other works here... http://www.sevenforums.com/chillout-room/187622-gfx-team-showcase-beyond-sigs.html#post1585690
Lets see what else we do.

 

[MilesAhead]

like this? is this what U had in mind?

Hmmmmmm, is there such a thing as a transparent layer so I could drop the emblem on top of an existing wallpaper? (I don't mean an installed wallpaper but using a program like Photofiltre to add the "decal" on top.) Would be cool if I could stick it in a "black area" of a fractal flame so it doesn't obscure the flame.

 

[beman36]

if I understand U correctly, u wanna put an image on a wallpaper? which u can do by playing with the layers by "inserting or overlayering" the layer.... also normally U can make a PNG image transparent by removing the background around the image hope this helps U

 

[MilesAhead]

if I understand U correctly, u wanna put an image on a wallpaper? which u can do by playing with the layers by "inserting or overlayering" the layer.... also normally U can make a PNG image transparent by removing the background around the image hope this helps U

Hmm, thing is there's also black in the middle of the image(W7 circular logo thingy you did) so that messes up using black as transparent color. Since it's black on black maybe I'll forgo that and just paste it on top. I'm lazy I guess.

edit: btw it's just for using on my own desktop. Not trying to rip off your work.

edit2: came out ok. Here's a reduced shot of desktop

 

[beman36]

give me the wallpaper and I will make you one if you like...

 

[A Guy]

Good stuff guys

A Guy

 

[MilesAhead]

give me the wallpaper and I will make you one if you like...

Thank you. But I'm using it now. I used Photofiltre to reduce the size of the W7 logo ball, then copied and pasted into the fractal swirl I did. It looks pretty good. The colors you used match nicely with the swirl colors. Since both images have plenty of black area the fact it's pasted is hardly detectable.

 

[MilesAhead]

btw if anyone wants my fractal flame without the orb, it's at the bottom of this page:

FavesSoft Wallpapers

 

[beman36]

give me the wallpaper and I will make you one if you like...

Thank you. But I'm using it now. I used Photofiltre to reduce the size of the W7 logo ball, then copied and pasted into the fractal swirl I did. It looks pretty good. The colors you used match nicely with the swirl colors. Since both images have plenty of black area the fact it's pasted is hardly detectable.

I hate to tell ya but I can see the black square around the orb you "pasted" on your wallpaper in your screen shot, what I suggest you do is get paint.net which is free and learn how to use that, then you can just add layers onto your wall and sorta "merge" your image into the wallpaper of your choice...just a freindly suggestion

 

[MilesAhead]

I like it.

edit: I've done layers in the past. But Paint.Net has to be the easiest I've tried. A couple of clicks.

edit2: If you give the ok I'll put this up for download with credit in a readme in the zip for the orb work. If not just say so and I'll delete the image here.

edit3: been messing with StartOrbz and your W7 orb makes an excellent start orb.

Here's my desktop with the start orb:

 

[beman36]

as long as you like it, thats what counts bud...but that square around the logo would drive me nuts! LOL

 

[beman36]

I hope you dont mind, but I had to take a shot at it LOL

 

[MilesAhead]

as long as you like it, thats what counts bud...but that square around the logo would drive me nuts! LOL

Here's one a bit better. Used a larger logo and did a circular crop before pasting.
Goes well with the small logo as start orb.

 

[beman36]

ok but what I am trying to show you is that cutting and pasting is not working, I can still see the "cutting" job and it isn't merging in with your wallpaper....I am not making your wallpapers to show off or say I'm better than you, what I am trying to do is show you the "proper" way of photo editing...I have learned from Arc and poohman and take thier advice and tricks and try to use them and utalize them! as example I made a slightly diff variation of your wall...see how it all flows together? yiou cannot see that I have copy and pasted the win logo but rather use layering and other tricks to make it all flow together

edit: I would suggest you download and learn to use paint.net or gimp! they are freeeeee and very powerful tools! also goto youtube and check out some tutorial vids, it can teach you about layers and merging and blending images and whole bunch of stuff!

 

[The Howling Wolves]

My 2 cents before I retire....

 

[MilesAhead]

Maybe you can tell me how to get a circular crop in Paint.Net? In Photofiltre I can put in the numbers so it comes out exact. But if I save to a file then it has a white area for the remainder of the rectangle.

Paint.Net I cannot figure how to get ellipse selection to go where I want.