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Rhisiart
September 30th, 2007, 10:12 AM
What floats your boat?
icemanjc
September 30th, 2007, 11:03 AM
I usually stick with bands.
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Natobasso
September 30th, 2007, 11:31 AM
How do you really spell Gray/Grey anyway? :)
fryke
September 30th, 2007, 03:35 PM
grey, of course. I mean gray. Erh... ;) It's greyscale, isn't it?
Lt Major Burns
September 30th, 2007, 04:25 PM
gray is the american bastardisation of it, yes.
chevy
September 30th, 2007, 04:54 PM
Scenic... currently it's a picture taken from my window.
symphonix
September 30th, 2007, 08:27 PM
Mine cycles through scenic photos I've taken myself.
icemanjc
October 1st, 2007, 07:21 AM
Scenic... currently it's a picture taken from my window.

Thats a sweet picture, what do you use to track data that goes in and out on your menu bar.
chevy
October 1st, 2007, 08:50 AM
A small utility. I think it's named MenuMeter.
ScottW
October 1st, 2007, 09:09 AM
Grey is the color, Gray is the matter.
chevy
October 1st, 2007, 09:13 AM
... and Stingray is the Corvette !
Qion
October 1st, 2007, 10:12 AM
gray is the american bastardisation of it, yes.

So angry... :(
Rhisiart
October 1st, 2007, 01:37 PM
So angry... :(
Bill Bryson's book 'Made in America (http://www.amazon.com/Made-America-Bill-Bryson/dp/0380713810/ref=pd_bbs_3/104-3381343-2455118?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1191260144&sr=8-3)' explains that many 'English' words used day to day in Britain are originally American.

The English gave America its language, but America has garnished it with some wonderful words.

'Gray' makes more phonetic sense.
Giaguara
October 1st, 2007, 05:30 PM
Should we add a gray and grey to the poll? ;)
nixgeek
October 1st, 2007, 05:51 PM
I usually go for the abstracts. The less in-your-face, the better...

I also enjoy some flora macrophotography for my backgrounds.
Giaguara
October 1st, 2007, 06:30 PM
Very nice ones nixgeek.
I usually have similar ones, this (http://flickr.com/photos/zisa/406096057/) I've had for a long time, trying to keep it cleaner... & some more tagged with desktop (http://flickr.com/photos/zisa/tags/desktop) and screenshot (http://flickr.com/photos/zisa/tags/screenshot/). On the Dell I have OS X background...
Qion
October 1st, 2007, 07:10 PM
I hope to become successful enough to one day own what I've been plastering across my desktops recently...

Porsche 911 Carrera (http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/2057/picture1ol4.png)
nixgeek
October 2nd, 2007, 06:55 PM
Very nice ones nixgeek.
I usually have similar ones, this (http://flickr.com/photos/zisa/406096057/) I've had for a long time, trying to keep it cleaner... & some more tagged with desktop (http://flickr.com/photos/zisa/tags/desktop) and screenshot (http://flickr.com/photos/zisa/tags/screenshot/). On the Dell I have OS X background...

Hehe, thanks. :D

And I don't blame you for using the ones from OS X on a Windows PC. Most of the pictures in Windows are just blah. About the only Windows that has some nice backgrounds is Vista (but that's about the ONLY thing good about Vista :p).
Giaguara
October 3rd, 2007, 03:59 AM
Hehe, thanks. :D

And I don't blame you for using the ones from OS X on a Windows PC. Most of the pictures in Windows are just blah. About the only Windows that has some nice backgrounds is Vista (but that's about the ONLY thing good about Vista :p).

Like this one (http://flickr.com/photos/zisa/214247274) on a Mac? :p
nixgeek
October 3rd, 2007, 07:59 AM
Like this one (http://flickr.com/photos/zisa/214247274) on a Mac? :p

AAaAAaAAaAAAaAAhhahHHHHH!!! MY EYEEEESSSSS!!!!!

:p

Actually, you're quite right about how it looks on the Mac. Even the Mac can make Vista's wallpapers look better. :p
Rhisiart
October 3rd, 2007, 11:39 AM
I remain unconvinced.
Qion
October 3rd, 2007, 04:25 PM
And that makes you wrong.
g/re/p
October 3rd, 2007, 05:46 PM
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nixgeek
October 3rd, 2007, 06:35 PM
...

Sweeet! :)
scole456
October 3rd, 2007, 06:55 PM
According to my college dictionary it is 'gray' from Mid.Eng.; Old Eng. 'grag' which came from Greek 'grau'. Grey is just another spelling of gray.
Rhisiart
October 4th, 2007, 05:50 PM
According to my college dictionary it is 'gray' from Mid.Eng.; Old Eng. 'grag' which came from Greek 'grau'. Grey is just another spelling of gray.
Spot on.
Rhisiart
October 15th, 2007, 02:23 PM
I always understood that grey (gray) was the preferred background for graphic designers, as colourful styles distracted the designer from any work she or he was doing.
Qion
October 15th, 2007, 02:29 PM
I always understood that grey (gray) was the preferred background for graphic designers, as colourful styles distracted the designer from any work she or he was doing.

I prefer at least some color abstraction because, when working in black and white or grayscale, a gray background can become a source of misleading contrast.
Rhisiart
October 16th, 2007, 06:40 PM
I prefer at least some color abstraction because, when working in black and white or grayscale, a gray background can become a source of misleading contrast.
What colour do you recommend?
g/re/p
November 19th, 2007, 06:00 AM
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Qion
November 19th, 2007, 08:26 AM
What colour do you recommend?

Sorry, just a touch late, but I was referring images, IE pieces of artwork. I dislike working against a solid color; I've found that any shade, if constant, can skew my interpretation of my work. I tend to use pictures that have a good range of color, but that are not intense and easily fall into the background (I don't like backgrounds with a lot of blue).

http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/7937/picture1gl0.png
Satcomer
November 19th, 2007, 11:22 AM
My current G5 running Leopard.

http://img77.imageshack.us/img77/3599/satcomerpe1.png
Rhisiart
November 19th, 2007, 01:28 PM
Sorry, just a touch late, but I was referring images, IE pieces of artwork. I dislike working against a solid color; I've found that any shade, if constant, can skew my interpretation of my work. I tend to use pictures that have a good range of color, but that are not intense and easily fall into the background (I don't like backgrounds with a lot of blue).
I agree with you about the blue. For reasons I don't understand, I keep gravitating to the image below.
g/re/p
January 7th, 2008, 01:45 AM
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g/re/p
January 7th, 2008, 02:02 AM
I agree with you about the blue. For reasons I don't understand, I keep gravitating to the image below.



Nice Guitars - Yours?
pds
January 7th, 2008, 09:28 AM
Space, the final frontier. I cycle through a series of Hubble photos.

But the contents of the untitled folder are usually spread around.
Rhisiart
January 7th, 2008, 02:13 PM
Nice Guitars - Yours?
Sadly no. I used to play piano, but if I had to do it for a living today I'd starve to death within three days.
CharlieJ
March 16th, 2008, 08:32 AM
Grey is the color, Gray is the matter.
How come on your site. When you choose a font color it is 'Gray'????
Caught you out there! :D
Qion
March 16th, 2008, 12:23 PM
Sadly no. I used to play piano, but if I had to do it for a living today I'd starve to death within three days.

Metabolic issues?
michaelsanford
April 18th, 2008, 08:17 PM
I troll Flickr for beauty, and have taken and posted (http://www.flickr.com/photos/michael_sanford/sets/72157604340469221/) a few photos just for my own backgrounding pleasure.
Rhisiart
May 10th, 2008, 11:51 AM
Metabolic issues?
Playing the right notes, but in the wrong order. ;)
maclick
May 19th, 2008, 10:21 PM
I prefer a simple neutral to black desktop.
Qion
May 19th, 2008, 11:13 PM
At least for my Mac Pro, I prefer a simple gray/grey background as well.

Picture is what the Jaguar XF should have looked like. They botched it from the original sketches, which were brilliant.
maclick
May 19th, 2008, 11:23 PM
Yes very nice an clean.