I used a mish mash of things to come up with this edit. I liked these Polaroid frames. I took advantage of these lips as Valentines Day has just passed by. Lastly I used the lens flare that CoffeeShop just put up to see how it looked.
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Everyone loves desktop pictures, moms especially. I certainly rotate my pictures at work and at home on the laptop weekly, if not every other day.
The most common size desktop wallpaper ratios are:
800×600
1024×768
1280×1024
1600×1200
To find your desktop display resolution do the following:
Right click on the desktop and select Properties in XP or Personalization in Vista.
Click Display Settings and a slider for Resolution with low at one end and high at the other appears. 1280 x 1024 (or 1280 x 800 for laptop users) is the most common. However, for people who like to see larger icons you could be using a lower resolution like 600 x 800.
Keep in mind the resolution you have set and find an image.
If you do not have a software editing tool but tons of pictures select an image in a viewer program like Windows Picture and Fax Viewer and right click to select Make Background Image or make the selection from the viewer program. Most digital camera images are taken at a higher resolution than 1280 x 1024 and will easily fill your desktop. However, it might not look exactly the way you want it.
Off to the editing software we go.
Here’s what I did in Photo Shop to resize the image.
Step 1
Open your image. Right click at the top of the dialogue box where the image name is and select image size.
Step 2
For a horizontal image change the Pixel Dimensions width and height to match your desk top resolution. Mine is 1024 x 768. When I change the width to 1024 the high automatically changes to 768.
For a vertical image change the width to 1024 then select the Crop tool. At the top click the Front Image button then change the height to 10.667 in. When you draw your box with the Crop tool it will automatically size the image correctly.
Save the image.
Step 3
After saving the image as a .jpg or .png file, locate the file on your computer, right click the file name, select Set as Desktop Background.
Check out my Horizontal desktop.
Check out my Vertical desktop.
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I’m late with my photo edits for Dolce.
This looks absolutely nothing like the original.
With fall rapidly approaching in many places I opted for editing out the background and creating my own. Using the magic wand I selected the owl in the center and deleted the leafy background. Adding a couple adjustment levels to bring out the owl a bit more in levels and then using a sharpen action I got it to pop better.
Then I added a brush frame of fall leaves around the outside. Created a new layer and filled it with random coloring and jittering of a leaf brush. Making mutiple layers of this leaf layer I moved it behind the leaf frame selected the frame went back to the background layer inversed the selection and hit delete. That added a bit of leafy look to the frame then I wanted it to be a bit darker so I added a texture too. Thinking the owl looked funny without a tree I inserted a tree branch from another brush preset. I think it came together rather nicely for a bit of fall montage.
I love the umbrella in this second image. I had to edit that out first with the magnetic lasso so I could play with the levels and make it really stand out. Those striped umbrellas remind me so much of rainbows. Thinking about rainbows I edited out the background and added a new texture layer with clouds in it. I also edited out her pink coat and then added several adjustment layers just to the jacket to make the pink pop more. I should have cleaned up more of her hair to make the edit more believable. Playing with all the strands takes too long right now. So this is the short cut version. Check out the original though, it’s quite different.
I have posted links and credit to the several places I found the assortment of brushes, textures, fonts, and tutorials I use.
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