Had to upload this image again because MSFN somehow lost it. 

If you have a nice-looking desktop using the classic theme, feel free to post it in this thread!

Purpose of this thread is just to create some more community involvement. 

XP running in VMware unity Mode on 2003 X64 Bit. 

vista x64 on my netbook.

Here is my Windows 8.1 desktop with my HUD Machine Red theme.

Using Start Is Back by Tihy and Aero Glass by Big Muscle, Ribbon Disabler and also My shell32.dll Details pane mod to bring back the details pane, plus many other changes with my HUD Machine Icons and extras Pack.

This theme is not available yet so don't ask where to get it.

here is my Desktop, i have 5 desktop views, enjoy!

Download: http://msfn.yaxm.org/bliss.png -- changed the link since it was down (the file is the one Aegis posted a few post below [it is bigger]) - Camarade_Tux

Source: http://www.sxc.hu/browse.phtml?f=view&id=545398

Clearlooks Windows XP theme by schmoove, which can be found on the deviantArt site.

Minimal Bars Firefox theme by zebs3619.

http://www.kwikpiks.com/files/99/MSFNScreenShot.png

Desktop thumbnail:

1024x600 - 125KB

steve

Webpage error details

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Timestamp: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:00:47 UTC

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URI: http://wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/l...be/urlParser.js

Today, while browsing the 9rules website (http://9rules.com), I came across this thread in their design community and found a superb personalizing desktop application i.e. Personal desktop. the link to the thread is : http://9rules.com/design/notes/2312/

The Link to the desktop image is : http://deus62.com/linkto/desktop01.jpg

The Link to the software company who develops this application is : http://www.sydatec.com/personaldesktop2/index.html

The sad news for me and anyone who cannot speaks German is that its only available in German

Is there a way one of the pro's here can look into it and change the language

or

shall we all request the company to make it available in English as well.

Have a Look ..

Regards

Mutahir

Is there a true (upscaled) 1024x768 version of this image? I am not saying take the 800x600 and increase the size, because I want to be rid of the extra pixelation and artifacts that causes.

I've exhausted my search of The Google and also checked DeviantArt but I can't find anything.

Thanks.

It's time to post your desktop screenshots for 2007.

I also wanted to let you know I'm going to collect the screenshots that are posted on my harddrive.

Far too many pictures are missing because they have been uploaded to services such as imageshack and deleted after a 30-day 'inactivity' period.

In fact, I'll collect both files and links so I can query pictures periodically from image hosting services to prevent their automatic removal.

Of course, you're perfectly free to refuse this.

Customize, tune, post. B)

If you're a AMD/ATI user (like me!)

You can get the original AMD Spider Platform Wallpaper from Tom's Hardware Guide in 4 sizes here:

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/11/19/the...web/page16.html

I have created my own little version to reflect my own system. Even if my gear is older, the spider platform concept still applies if you're using a AMD CPU and chipset + videocard.

I will certainly tick off Intel/Nvidia users this way.

Fox

However we can make screenshots visually appealing just like we do with desktop themselves. The goal of this tutorial is to teach you how.

0- Thumbnails

THIS is the only rule in this topic so if you don't use them atm, read on!

Images bigger than 300 per * pixels (or the other way round) must never be posted directly inside a topic : link to them.

If not, the image will be removed and a link put in its place. More details why thumbnails are needed here.

1- PNG file format

JPG is widely used and has a high compression ratio. However, it is a lossy compression format and takes a big part of the visual appeal of your desktop out. On photos it goes unnoticed because people usually don't look close enough to them to see the artifacts. But they are present and some compressors are worse than others.

PNG on the other hand is lossless: your screenshot will always be clear and sharp, just like you see it every day. Moreover it compresses better than jpeg on pictures with large chunks of the same color (title bar for example). I have to add that I a clearly biaised towards png screenshots when I have to decide which desktop will go in the monthly contest.

2- Everything but MS's Paint

Paint is a nice tiny app but the in/out part could be much better. It is far from having the best visual quality or size for jpeg and doesn't compress at the most when dealing with png.

I advise you to use IrfanView or XnView. Both are free and for instance, Irfanview usually compresses 40% better than paint (for a png file).

3- Host

Everybody knows imageshack, xs.to, tinypic, photobucket... All of them are free but contain a lot of advertisement, imageshack can be really slow, and they delete pictures that are not checked enough often for them (therefore a lot of images are lacking in past topics).

Zxian has set up a nice website so we can upload screenshots without the usual hassle (remember imageshack removes images after 30 days); I advise you to go with it: KwikPiks.

If you don't like Canadian people, you can still use screenshots.haque.net or get a deviant art account.

4- Rumshot

Rumshot is a .net2 application designed to take screenshots and generate eye-candy thumbnails.

It comes with a few themes by default but much more are available on their website.

The bad part is it doesn't compress better than paint so I usually recompress screenshots with irfanview. Important: do not do this with thumbnails, they contain complex transparency values that would get lost.

A simple example of what you can get:

wip

mr.browstone : post

hypnotic

Zxian : post

Is it still windows?

skiso : post

two monitors, arghhh

Claude : post

simple

Orus : post

Romantic g33k?