Wait a second... therat? THERAT!?!?!? Is it you? Have you come back?!?!? Oh joy of joys!
Edit: I figure I oughta contribute. I love some of the pics posted here, but I really have difficulty using complex images as my background, largely because I'm a MESS when it comes to having 4,5,6 or even 7 rows of Windows icons on the screen. I've got 3.5 rows on my screen right now and honestly, I feel really proud of how clean it is... ^_^
Anyways, this is a background I accidentally discovered ages ago. I found the original image here (http://www.redbubble.com/people/sevenhundred/works/5642903-keep-calm-and-carry-on-gaming5) and, wanting a black background, used MSPaint to BRUTALIZE it, then STRETCHING it into my current computer's full resolution, resulting in the following image (I'm too embarassed to show my aforementioned rows upon rows of icons):
(http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z310/CarmineRed/Private%20Album/keepcalmandsavetheprincess_blackDesktop.jpg)
Honestly, this is far from the original work but I love it. I love the sort of digital-industrial-distressing that happened when I paint-bucketed the Black but purple remained. I love the random Purple stripe along the left. And the font turned out neat even though it was stretched too! Gah, I gotta e-mail this artist again and offer to remunerate him somehow. I've gotten years of mileage out of this background and I ought to give back... especially seeing as how I've been such a philistine with his original work.
Wait a second... therat? THERAT!?!?!? Is it you? Have you come back?!?!? Oh joy of joys!
Edit: I figure I oughta contribute. I love some of the pics posted here, but I really have difficulty using complex images as my background, largely because I'm a MESS when it comes to having 4,5,6 or even 7 rows of Windows icons on the screen. I've got 3.5 rows on my screen right now and honestly, I feel really proud of how clean it is... ^_^
Anyways, this is a background I accidentally discovered ages ago. I found the original image here (http://www.redbubble.com/people/sevenhundred/works/5642903-keep-calm-and-carry-on-gaming5) and, wanting a black background, used MSPaint to BRUTALIZE it, then STRETCHING it into my current computer's full resolution, resulting in the following image (I'm too embarassed to show my aforementioned rows upon rows of icons):
(http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z310/CarmineRed/Private%20Album/keepcalmandsavetheprincess_blackDesktop.jpg)
Honestly, this is far from the original work but I love it. I love the sort of digital-industrial-distressing that happened when I paint-bucketed the Black but purple remained. I love the random Purple stripe along the left. And the font turned out neat even though it was stretched too! Gah, I gotta e-mail this artist again and offer to remunerate him somehow. I've gotten years of mileage out of this background and I ought to give back... especially seeing as how I've been such a philistine with his original work.
um I am not sure how to take that, there was a guy whose name was therat, and there was me, I went by several different name changes but my sig always said to call me THE RAT. But I have grown up since then and learned how to spell.
My image I just made that one day in PAINT when I was bored. I bought some acrylic paints and made a hand painted duplicate that I hanged on my wall.
