by rstevenson » Thu Feb 04, 2010 11:59 pm
DonAVP wrote:I wonder how many APOD viewers capture one or some of these images for an interesting desktop? I would venture that it was close to 90% if not more.
I have 110 shots of Mars in one image folder, and 117 shots of stars, nebulae, etc. in another. I pick a new desktop image from them almost daily, as the mood strikes. Many came from APODs, but many others from other sites, sometimes found through links from this forum.
My monitor is 1680 x 1050 pixels, so many of these shots didn't originally fit it, though they're usually big enough to allow me to carve them a little. My graphics editor (GraphicConverter) allows me to set the proportions of the selection rectangle, so I can quickly drag a monitor-shaped selection out of a larger image and save it as another of my desktop images.
A big
thank you goes out to The Asterisk, and all the other sources I've found.
Rob
[quote="DonAVP"]I wonder how many APOD viewers capture one or some of these images for an interesting desktop? I would venture that it was close to 90% if not more.[/quote]
I have 110 shots of Mars in one image folder, and 117 shots of stars, nebulae, etc. in another. I pick a new desktop image from them almost daily, as the mood strikes. Many came from APODs, but many others from other sites, sometimes found through links from this forum.
My monitor is 1680 x 1050 pixels, so many of these shots didn't originally fit it, though they're usually big enough to allow me to carve them a little. My graphics editor (GraphicConverter) allows me to set the proportions of the selection rectangle, so I can quickly drag a monitor-shaped selection out of a larger image and save it as another of my desktop images.
A big [b][size=150]thank you[/size][/b] goes out to The Asterisk, and all the other sources I've found.
Rob