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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Polari on September 03, 2006, 07:31:31 AM

Title: Post your desktop thread
Post by: Polari on September 03, 2006, 07:31:31 AM

I uploaded this for GAF but since it took ages with my browser crashing, Imageshack saying it doesn't recognise PNGs and some server error message, I figured I might as well post it here too.

(http://img131.imageshack.us/img131/6115/sep2006ad6.jpg)

Title: Re: Post your desktop thread
Post by: Vizzys on September 03, 2006, 07:42:07 AM

(http://xs105.xs.to/xs105/06350/wallpaper.jpg)

Painted it myself.  :D

http://scapegoat101.deviantart.com/



PS: .pngs suck. Hard.

Title: Re: Post your desktop thread
Post by: Polari on September 03, 2006, 07:53:33 AM

Quote from: Viz on September 03, 2006, 07:42:07 AM

PS: .pngs suck. Hard.

Haha, what.

Nice work by the way.

Title: Re: Post your desktop thread
Post by: Vizzys on September 03, 2006, 08:11:05 AM

I don't believe the file size of .pngs is worth having transperency. png-24 has a large color pallette much like jpegs and has transperency but the file size is nearly two times a 100% quality jpeg. Not worth it imo. png-8 has only 256 color limit like a gif and transperancy aswell but its also bigger then a gif with the exact same colors. It also doesn't support animation. ???

Title: Re: Post your desktop thread
Post by: BlueTsunami on September 03, 2006, 09:01:28 AM

Heres mine. Made it with VI and did the post processing (resizing and background color) in Photoshop...

(http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/7205/howyoudoindesktopuk7.png) (http://imageshack.us)

Title: Re: Post your desktop thread
Post by: MrAngryFace on September 04, 2006, 12:32:19 AM

(http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/1458/desktopfv5.jpg)

Title: Re: Post your desktop thread
Post by: cloudwalking on September 04, 2006, 12:52:39 AM

(http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/9475/dtopbd0.jpg)

I am such a huge nerd  :spin

And Viz I love your artwork!

Title: Re: Post your desktop thread
Post by: Polari on September 04, 2006, 01:12:11 AM

Quote from: Viz on September 03, 2006, 08:11:05 AM

I don't believe the file size of .pngs is worth having transperency. png-24 has a large color pallette much like jpegs and has transperency but the file size is nearly two times a 100% quality jpeg. Not worth it imo. png-8 has only 256 color limit like a gif and transperancy aswell but its also bigger then a gif with the exact same colors. It also doesn't support animation. ???

Erm, it's because PNGs are lossless, unlike JPEGs which are lossy. It's basically a lossless format without the 256-colour limitation that plagues GIFs. I'm not saying PNGs are right for everything, but they do fill a certain niche. There's MNGs if you want animation.