minneapolis pic

Koo Koo Mouse · Post by **Koo Koo Mouse** » Wed Aug 01, 2001 8:45 pm

I didn't think would it work taken at 60mph through a car window but I like it. I darkened it a little and sweetend the colors a bit. (DC3400) <a href="http://cskogen.homestead.com/files/Minn ... s.jpg">see it here</a

Its shrunk to 50% and re-compressed.. Ouch! (but still 130kb and thought I better link it)

Ya OK Im board..

**edit..** fixed link opps :kookoo

CaterpillarAssassin · Post by **CaterpillarAssassin** » Thu Aug 02, 2001 7:53 pm

It looks fake...

Did u make it on the comp?

Post by **sbp** » Thu Aug 02, 2001 10:24 pm

Oh sure like we're going to fall for that one again. Last time you posted something like this it was a link to some chick who turned out to be a guy. :/

Koo Koo Mouse · Post by **Koo Koo Mouse** » Sat Aug 04, 2001 11:05 am

LOL Sbp.. Did I? I don't recall.. Of course I've done lots of thing I don't recall *HIC*

CA - Thats funny.. I was at work yesterday and showed that pic to a friend. Got into homestead and brought up the picture. He says "nice but it looks fake" LOL!! I shall never try to retouch a photo again!
And yes the picture is real.. If I had made it from scratch (which I cannot do) I would have left out the exit sign.

Question here:

I know there are many ways, but how do you make a picture into backround without bitmapping it and throwing it into to the windows directory? (256 colors aint good) If I remember right Netscape had a "save as wallpaper option" IE does not. My picture viewers don't have it either.
Any Ideas?

Haircut · Post by **Haircut** » Sat Aug 04, 2001 1:07 pm

Which version of IE are you using, because mine has a set as wallpaper option, just right click on the pic and it's there in the menu.

Koo Koo Mouse · Post by **Koo Koo Mouse** » Sat Aug 04, 2001 3:39 pm

Thanks, One is 5.5 .. the other running 5.0 IE. Right click gets me the menu but "Save background as" is greyed out.. Even selected all and still greyed out. In the meantime I did find a prog that will do it but its from 1993 and it bmps it too..I cound have done the same thing manually.
I think its me.. I thought you could have 32 bit color as wallpaper.. Its just after having new high quality monitors the 256 color shows it's hourseshitness and maybe I never noticed

Especially graidients.. I going to grab a beer and expiremt.
I may bring this into the hardware section so please don't flame me for cross threading as I might post this question there. Thanks.

I just feel my question might go a bit deeper than a Quick fix answer and I should prolly move it.

Phjorg · Post by **Phjorg** » Sat Aug 04, 2001 5:02 pm

Windows by default will only allow you to set bmp's as your background... To have other file formats like jpg, html, avi, etc as a background image you must enable Active Desktop...

Try enableing active desktop and you should them be allowed to set whatever pictures as your background from IE

Haircut · Post by **Haircut** » Sat Aug 04, 2001 8:09 pm

Using IE 5.5 on Win2k SP1 here and it seems to let me select any image I want as background and I don't have active desktop enabled. Hell I have just put Koo Koo's mouse avatar as my desktop, looks quite scary having that mouse picture tiled hundreds of times I can tell you.

*edit* Just done a search on my computer and it seems like that picture that you select to 'Set as Wallpaper' is saved as a .bmp in C:\Documents and Settings\*username*\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer as Internet Explorer Wallpaper.bmp

Don't know what folder that equates to on Win 9x though.

CaterpillarAssassin · Sat Aug 04, 2001 10:56 pm

I dont know what ur talking about but I can save BMP's as 24bit...? I use Adobe Photoshop 6.0. I'll save it and upload it for you. Be here is a sec

CaterpillarAssassin · Sat Aug 04, 2001 11:02 pm

Here is is saved in 24bit BMP format so u dont need to enable crappy active desktop!

minikookoo

CaterpillarAssassin · Sat Aug 04, 2001 11:03 pm

It is 1.6mb. I would edit my posts but it just stops loading after the toolbar loads but reply works...lousy nutscrape...

Zyph · Post by **Zyph** » Sat Aug 04, 2001 11:27 pm

Hey CA: What's with the lines in the BMP you posted? Wierd.

Well, I went and did the same thing....used Adobe Photoshop 6.0.1 (with many updates....including ones for compatibility with Illustrator 9) and uploaded it too. File is 1.6MB.
Minnieapolis Pic converted to 24 Bit BMP File

No Lines in mine....wierd.