Desktop wallpapers with sl snapshots

Lately I've been noticing that I've been using quite alot of SL snapshots for my desktop wallappers? Do you do the same too?

For the longest time, I've been using the domokun wallpaper ..lol

One of the first few times, I was in the Ivory Tower and then I thought, hey this angle looks interesting (snap) And before I knew it, it resided on my desktop.

Then a couple week later, I went shopping and tried a few furniture. One of them was a bed, even avies need to sleep lol. But anyway, I saw a chair and lounged in it, and thought that the pose looked kinda good so I took a snapshot of that too. Then it became my desktop wallpaper.

A few days ago, I was walking at the SLU Tower (what a great place! So many things to explore) I was at the SLU library level and it happened to be sunset. And so I set that as my background next.

And this morning, I was exploring a friend's house. I found the garden to be so breathtaking and couldnt help snapping a picture - you guessed it! Its my new desktop wallie.

So do you use SL snapshots as your wallpaper too?

I do, as well. This is my current one.

Changeling visits Neverland

The one prior to that was :

Changeling Portrait

I haven't done for a long time... but you know... maybe I should

Nice pics, Changeling, Rinaz!

I have these two for my desktop at work:

I also have my (work) screensaver set to a slideshow of SL pics. Here's some of them:

I haven't used SL as my desktop.
I usually have something I'm modeling as my desktop (bike, gun, broom, whatever.)
Since I run dual monitors I can always refer to what I'm working on. Or the Wiki if I'm scripting
I am rather tempted to make a collage with a couple of things for a comparison of the RL and SL versions... hmmm.
(goes off to setup up some camera angles to match the reference pics)

L8r,
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I'm currently using this picture of my character as my wallpaper (attached)... there're a lot of little things I don't like about it, but overall it works. :D

(Oh yeah, I'm new here: this is my second day [strike]on the job[/strike] in-world, and I already know I'll be sticking around. ^^)

(Whoa, how come I'm showing up as a guest even though I'm logged in correctly? Is it because I'm still on a trial account?)

Not sure kiseki ... maybe its the trial But you could always activate your account now if you want Nice wallie by the way!

Beautiful wallies changeling! Soo pretty! Where did you get the faerie look? I'd like to have something like that

Olympia, the fishes look so adorable! It would make a perfect wallie for boring work

A collage? That sounds like a good idea Cant wait to see them upshaw

yay.. this is my desktop

I do the same. Mostly pics of my friends. Here's my current one:
Mr P

Looks great david As always *bows*

Rysidian, I've always enjoyed looking at group photos, lovely wallie you've got there. Cute monster at the back

Ohh, I like the last picture pituca! A perfect looking wallie

I was exploring Avalon yesterday, after looking at Damien's impressive website, I love their stylish deco and it looks gooood

http://www.spacethinkdream.com

Anyhow, after exploring Avalon, I saw a field of roses and of course, I could help myself but to snap a picture My new wallie! I love roses, especially yellow ones .. my favourite

What's a good way to get your SL snapshots to your PC? The only way I know of is maximize the snapshot, then make a printscreen and edit that in PSP (or whatever).

But a printscreen doesnt look as good as a "save to disk" picture...

I apologize for the hypersnap logos, but I'm sure an adept person can shop those out pretty easily - I just don't have it on the computer I'm posting from.

Using my fun wireframe thing, I took two shots of Gibson, one is skyward to their massive build, the other is a view of the city before it got torn down/repurposed. I just like the way the meshes pile up

Enjoy.

Your fun wireframe thing!!!! What is THAT? Can others play, too?

Well, as you mentioned, when you take a snap you can use the 'save to disk picture' but if its too late, yoiu can open the snapshot in SL, and from the file menu use the 'save texture as' option. Of course, this only works on textures and photos you have the correct permissions on.

Bwaahaaahaaa! That's funny, Rysidian.

I like your pics too, Pituca, David, Rinaz.



Actually I really like my work
http://www.rhythm.com/
(even if it's mutually exclusive from SL)

lol glad u like Ur avatar is reallly pretty btw

Am not sure riffey, I try print screen myself but it never seems to look as sharp as I'd like it to be.

I try to make it shaper by these steps though (not too fond of photochop's Sharp feature)

1. Duplicate layer
2. Filter > Other > High pass (About 5 or so)
3. Overlay (softlight also works fine)

Other than that I'm just as confused as the other guy

Ohh that looks facinating maxx! How did you do that? So cool

Olympia, what a cool website! Rythm and hues ... catchy name ... My goodness, what a facinating line of work you are in, you lucky woman you ... how does it feel to be working in film design and advertisment like that?

Aww shucks thanks david! Well, I think you avie rocks - Such is the talent that comes from someone like you

Anyhow, this is my current wallie at the moment ...just wanted to share ...Guess who's in it HEH HEH HEH ...

Here's my current desktop wallpaper ...

Its this little helper/debug app that I found. Its designed to help check graphic capabilities under DirectX/OpenGL, so you can do some interesting things like remove all textures (I don't recall if this worked with SL) and do wireframe, like you see there.

The only drawback is I still get the full model data - so if I'm in wireframe mode due to this app sitting between SL and my video card, I still have to download all the object data, including textures and other things that I'm not even rendering. Shame, 'cause it would really be neat to use it to minimize bandwidth, like say, scripting or something from a DSL-challenged location.

I plan to do more photos, but it is a bit of a pain, since I can't read any of the menus and see any chat, due to the fact the letters are actually textures put on top of flat polys in the user interface. Doh.

Glad you liked 'em.

Here are some of mine... : )

I love Marcos' Angels!

I wonder who that handsome guy on the left is...