The Semi-Official Backgrounds Thread
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Have a good background? Post it.
http://i.imgur.com/8tGUw3y.jpg
Original: http://marikbentusi.deviantart.com/art/Someone-s-DOTA2-DnD-Group-541422225
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I use this one at work.
Looks like the source I pulled from was: http://iris-hime.deviantart.com/art/Bug-or-feature-179764485
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Pretty sure I posted this elsewhere, but CBA to find it. Anyway, this is intended to be used on a dual monitor setup:
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it's bloody huge so here's a small view. click for the big one
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Bing Desktop, usually animals or scenery.
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I always liked spacey backgrounds, most of my personal PCs draw from the Hubblesite.org collection.
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Bing Desktop, usually animals or scenery.
That's my lock screen. Shockingly not a built-in feature, but there's an app that does it for you.
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all mine are from digital blasphemy.
awesome backgrounds, although the number of full HD triple wide monitor desktops are lacking.
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although the number of full HD triple wide monitor desktops are lacking.
Windows 8 has a way to do separate backgrounds on each screen, which I've combined with the ability to randomly select a background from a certain folder every 30 minutes.
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yes, but when you use nvidia surround to span all three monitors so i can play GTA5 in surround sound and surround visuals windows stops seeing the individual monitors so i can't use at least part of that feature set. ;-)
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DisplayFusion?
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Ah. I can't do that unfortunately, my three screens are two different resolutions, and one of them is driven by integrated graphics and not my GTX 460.
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DisplayFusion
if that's ATI speak for that feature.... yes.
Ah. I can't do that unfortunately, my three screens are two different resolutions, and one of them is driven by integrated graphics and not my GTX 460.
ah. yeah. it's gorgeous when driven with my dual GTX970s..... worth the cash it was.
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Nah, not sure if it will actually support the features you are using but it's probably worth a look. Was ~$7 on steam a couple of weeks ago https://www.displayfusion.com/
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Also:
Shrunk in Paint. Woohoo! Best tool for the job!One of my laptops has a better chalkboard in VS, and the other has the official Hero background from Microsoft, of course.
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Windows built-in slide-show, updating every 30 minutes. Since I live where it's cool and dreary most of the year, the selection of pictures is (mostly) scenes of tropical beaches. Since I live alone and there is no one to complain, some of the pictures have people1 in them, but "tropical beach" is definitely more important than "people."
1 All of the people are clothed, at least enough not to get arrested on a typical US beach.
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I just gimped this from an old photo I had lying around:
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The position of the clouds kind of make that look like it's flying backwards
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I switch weekly and mostly grab from the latest set of holiday pictures ... so I guess that makes me one of those people with children/wife as background ... currently my daughter, but you can have the one of last week. A view of the Pyrenees from this spring.
Edit: grabbed wrong picture from the series
Edit²: and the one I wanted is too big ...
Edit³:
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Bing Desktop has had an odd history. I seem remember where you couldn't get it for Win8 or in certain territories or something.
The original version couldn't even minimize to the tray so I had a script set up to start it, give it a minute to update the desktop, then kill it again, otherwise its constant presence in the taskbar would drive me crazy.
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Pretty sure I posted this elsewhere
You did. That's why this is now also my desktop background.
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Makes me want to throw that terrain into X-Plane, stick an airport at the bottom of the valley, and shoot a few approaches to it a la Paro...
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Would be a much better picture if it was taken from inside those fences.
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We probably could've gotten closer, but this made the better picture. Maps reference:
Strange, satellite link one-boxes as map in preview.
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Strange, satellite link one-boxes as map in preview.
... and bakes as map view too.
Off to meta.d to file a bug report!
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I let my fandom flag fly.
Original: http://hqwallbase.com/174041-star-trek-uss-enterprise-uss-reliant-galaxies-wallpaper/
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That would make a great canvas painting to hang on the wall.
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Think I've been there as a kidd
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My desktop is a frame from the new Star Wars trailer. Thanks to the magic of Windows 8, it follows me everywhere. Even where I don't want it, but never where I actually do want it. Like anywhere I could upload it to here from.
This one is the lock screen of my iThing:
And that goes well with a user icon from yet another device:
(Some day I should get around to cropping that properly. But it is not this day! By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you procrastinate!)
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It's too bad there's that white band in the second image.
It would look a lot better if the background would continue below, like this:
Oh well, what's one to do?
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you know, that was the edit i was thinging of making myself.
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Start minds thing alike.
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/me engages "mind meld"
Your mind to my mind.... Your thougths to my thoughts........OH ICK! NOT THOSE THOUGHTS!
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Due to a deal I made some number of centuries ago, anyone who tries that with me is likely to get p9wahegfvhn98rewnyvr9wynd by Nyarlathotep.
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This post is deleted!
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The cave is blue-lit because Ben L's little gnome character is in there playing Dwarf Fortress.
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@Deprecated
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LIES!
Note: this is not my desktop image.
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@Zecc deleted but not purged.
