Desktop Pictures
Icicles and Winter in South Hampton
Icicles
Winter is almost over, but as a last reminder of the colder times of the year, Daniel Chvatik took the following pictures of an icicle formation on a tree after a snow storm in Boston, MA. The pictures were taken using an Olympus E-20 and processed using Cameraid and iView MediaPro.
Winter in South Hampton
Jens Grabenstein shares his winter visions with us. The pictures were taken at a beach in South Hampton, Long Island. They were shot with a Canon EOS 300 using a 28-80mm zoom lens and 200 ASA 35mm Kodak Gold film. After development the images were scanned using a UMAX flatbed scanner. Re-sampling and re-touching were performed with Adobe Photoshop 5.5.
Previous Months’ Desktop Pictures
If you haven’t 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, National Parks, Insects, Konstanz, Mark Montgomery’s Desktop Pictures, Konstanz Part II, British Columbia, New York, France, Maine, From ATPM Readers, New York II, Washington, D.C., Lighthouses, Mobius, St. Lucia, Icicles, and Winter in South Hampton.
Downloading all the Pictures at Once
iCab and Interarchy (formerly Anarchie) can download an entire set of desktop pictures at once. In iCab, use the Download command to download “Get all files in same path.” In Interarchy, use HTTP Mirror feature.
Contributing Your Own Desktop Pictures
If you have a picture, whether a small series or just one fabulous or funny shot, feel free to send it to editor@atpm.com and we’ll publish it in next month’s issue. Have a regular print but no scanner? Don’t worry. E-mail us, and we tell you where to send it so we can scan it for you. Note that we cannot return the original print, so send us a copy.
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.
Once you are satisfied with the selection, click on “Set Desktop” in the lower right corner of the window. That’s 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.
Also in This Series
- Western US National Parks · September 2008
- San Francisco · August 2008
- Vehicular Graphics · July 2008
- Boston · June 2008
- White Mountains · May 2008
- Pictures From ATPM Readers · April 2008
- Havana Vehicles · March 2008
- Manado, Indonesia · February 2008
- Cuba Buildings and Cityscapes · January 2008
- Complete Archive
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