My desktop wallpaper is the default Windows 10 wallpaper, and occasionally something on Wallpaper Engine.
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Great image!
Bill Paxton, holding hands with a slightly taller Bill Paxton wearing sunglasses. They're standing in front of a poster for the movie Twister, but the title has been replaced with the logo for the board game.
My roommate made it during a literal fever dream over a decade ago, he was in bed, fiddling with his phone's photo editor mumbling "I have a vision" over and over again. The tag line "he called me a ne'er do well, he's dead" was something I said while playing GTA next to him at that time, and he added the quote to the final image.
I made my desktop wallpaper with JSplacement before that project disappeared off the internet. The background is pretty boring because i wanted some color, but knew that i would rarely see it (I always have multiple layers of programs opened at all times)
My phone's pixel art wallpaper was made in photoshop (turns out that's a really bad program for pixel art)
Oh shit. I haven’t been working in 3D for aaages now, what happened to JSPlacement? I loved that little bugger.
I don't remember the full story, but it seems like the dev got fed up with feature requests/bug rapports so they decided to delete the source code and their online accounts.
My phone’s pixel art wallpaper was made in photoshop (turns out that’s a really bad program for pixel art)
looks puzzled
What functionality would you want that Photoshop lacks? I'd think that everything that one could want is in the "heavyweight" image editing programs. You've got user-specified palettes and color reduction to same. A single-pixel tool, flood fill, zoom, rectangular fill, layers. Maybe someone could have some kind of functionality to help with isometric stuff, dunno if it has that, but your image isn't isometric.
thinks
Maybe multiple views of the same image concurrently at different zoom levels?
kagis
No, it can apparently do that these days. Looks like GIMP can too.
Maybe showing a grid, especially at high zooms? I'm pretty sure that it can do that.
kagis
Yeah:
https://www.megavoxels.com/learn/how-to-make-a-grid-for-pixel-art-in-photoshop/
And GIMP can too:
https://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-concepts-image-grid-and-guides.html
I can imagine that maybe for sprite animation, there's stuff that could be added, but I don't think that that's what you're talking about.
Phone is partner and child in the park. PC and laptop are both fedora default colored pencil like background
Phone Background: picture of my daughter
Phone Lock screen: Feathers McGraw
Desktop: linux mint default
Work Pac: A greenish color i always liked
The default. It rotates around.
The first one is a drawing of women kissing, because I love lesbianism and art. The one on my homescreen is my old room.
I took a hike up Mission Peak (Fremont, CA, US) some number of years ago and had to stop 3/4 the way up as it was too muddy, but I got a good shot of the bay and have been using it on my phone since. It also has this weird feature where the lighting on it also makes it look bright but cloudy to dark and stormy depending on screen brightness.
Picture of my wife.
Carl Kolchak, of course! Also, now that I'm retired, this is gonna be my new outfit every day. :)
Picture of what used to be my cat, Henk, sitting upright in a window still looking at the camera mad as hell because he can no longer stretch there due to the new plants.
