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100% homemade IBM inspired wallpaper [now with POLL]

Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 3:58 am
by Torque
Hello Thinkpad forums.

I would like to make my own contribution to the Thinkpad forums desktop wallpaper-thing here :)

Was down around the industrial harbor the other night, and shot some pictures of the scenery there.
Came across an office building and did a (not so original, I know) skewed shot of the facade,
with the sky reflecting in the dark glass. The picture is taken in Århus, by the way :)

Anyways, came home and started browsing the pics.
Played around with this particular one in Photoshop and desaturated the sky, trying to give it a more cold, corporate look -
and it actually compliments the thinkpad design quite well.

Did the IBM logo by overlaying a JPG from the web and making a smoother vector in Illustrator.

Hope some of you will find this good and use it :)

I can give you the wallpaper in resolutions up to 3000x2000 (which is the limit of the original photography).


Image

Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 4:00 am
by Torque
This is the original :)

Image

Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 4:10 am
by christopher_wolf
I like it. :)


I can see how it is IBM "Business" inspired. :)

Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 4:50 am
by KristianJ
Very nice work! 8)

Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 7:58 pm
by hary
nice, I'll use it!
Thanks!

Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 9:46 pm
by Torque
I'm glad you like it :)

Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 9:58 pm
by AlphaKilo470
Great job. I'll be sure to add the paper into the rotation on my computer.

Re: 100% homemade IBM inspired wallpaper [now with POLL]

Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 2:36 pm
by mattbiernat
Torque wrote:100% homemade IBM inspired wallpaper [now with POLL]
i like the way you advertised this wallpaper. heck i will use it!

Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 7:34 am
by snessiram
Has been my background since I got my TP (a month ago) :D . Really like it, clean, simple, professional.

I also cut a piece from the glass, put a white semi-transparant IBM logo on it, made the whole thing a bit lighter and use that as my live messenger background now :D .

Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 7:44 am
by Torque
Cool! great to hear apreciation of ones work :)

Working on some new ones, although I've converted to mac :)

Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 12:21 pm
by snessiram
Can't wait to see some other stuff :)
Converted to mac
You [censored]! :lol:

Which mac? :D (a macbook?)

Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 8:50 pm
by underclocker
Very business like. Looks somewhat like IBM's headquarters building in downtown Chicago.

Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 3:33 pm
by Torque
snessiram wrote:Can't wait to see some other stuff :)
Converted to mac
You [censored]! :lol:

Which mac? :D (a macbook?)
A Core 2 Duo Macbook Pro :)

I miss the Thinkpad though, but the OS is great.

Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 3:42 pm
by Torque
Noticed Imageshack had put it down, or at least so it seemed here.

http://alcoholic.dk/view.php?id=1372&thumb=false