Spring Flora
This months
desktop pictures come courtesy of Jens Grabenstein. The photos were taken with a Nikon F50 using a 35–80 mm zoom lens and 200 ASA 35 mm film. Most of the photos were shot in the garden of his parents home in Dingelsdorf, Germany, or in the surroundings of the village. The photos were developed as reprints in 10*15 format and scanned with an Agfa SnapScan 310, producing a raw scan of each image with a resolution of 300 dpi. Re-sampling and re-touching were performed with Adobe Photoshop 5.5 for Macintosh.
If you havent seen the rest of the series, it includes:
Yellowstone National Park,
Drops,
Toronto,
Niagara Falls,
Monaco,
Montréal,
Bahamas,
Clouds,
Aerial,
Made with Macs,
Landscapes,
Northwest,
Animals,
Spring Flora.
Placing Desktop Pictures
Mac OS 8.5 and Newer Go to the Appearance control panel. Click on the Desktop tab at the top of the window. Press the Place Picture... button in the bottom right corner, then select the desired image. By default, it will show you the images in the Desktop Pictures subfolder of your Appearance folder in the System Folder, however you can select images from anywhere on your hard disk.
After you select the desired image file and press Choose, a preview will appear in the Appearance window. The Position Automatically selection is usually fine. You can play with the settings to see if you like the others better. You will see the result in the little preview screen.
If you are satisfied with the selection, click on Set Desktop in the lower right corner of the window. Thats it! Should you ever want to get rid of it, just go to the desktop settings again and press Remove Picture.
Mac OS 8.0 and 8.1
Go to the Desktop Patterns control panel. Click on Desktop Pictures in the list on the left of the window, and follow steps similar to the ones above.
Random Desktop Pictures
If you drag a folder of pictures onto the miniature desktop in the Appearance or Desktop Pictures control panel, your Mac will choose one from the folder at random when it starts up.
DeskPicture An alternative to Mac OSs Appearance control panel is Pierce Softwares DeskPicture,
reviewed in issue 5.10 and available for
download.
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