Got bored and made a desktop

PhoenixEmpire · **Posted:** May 10th, 2008, 11:50 am

Yep. I have mono so i'm home sleeping all the time. Actually, i think i'm better now but whatever lol.

So like a week or so ago i made this after a 4-hour nap and today i was going through my favorites and saw good ole' RSBANDB, so i thought to myself, "why not show them what i've been up to."

So here you go, it's a desktop i made to look like a diminishing fireball.

Adbot · **Posted:** May 10th, 2008, 11:50 am

qwerty · **Posted:** May 10th, 2008, 12:49 pm

wow i like it =)
wish i could do stuff like that
wat you make it on?

qwerty x

kamakiri · **Posted:** May 10th, 2008, 1:52 pm

Very cool. I just got meself a new desktop!

PhoenixEmpire · **Posted:** May 10th, 2008, 4:18 pm

qwerty wrote:

wow i like it =)
wish i could do stuff like that
wat you make it on?

qwerty x

Thanks

I made it on Photoshop CS2

Kirby · **Posted:** May 10th, 2008, 4:38 pm

I use CS3

Great job, but it seems a little too... empty. Try making a few more of those explosion things and it will look awesome.

PhoenixEmpire · **Posted:** May 10th, 2008, 5:46 pm

Kirby wrote:

I use CS3

Great job, but it seems a little too... empty. Try making a few more of those explosion things and it will look awesome.

I tried to leave it empty so you could put lots of icons around the desktop without it covering up the image. That, and if you Vista people are anything like my friend you have random things scattered around your desktop. So the plain-ness is to allow creativity with your numerous icons and such.

Adbot · **Posted:** May 10th, 2008, 5:46 pm

Kirby · **Posted:** May 10th, 2008, 6:39 pm

Numerous? I only keep six icons on my desktop. 2 folders to fit most of my icons (why clutter the desktop when you can just use 2 more clicks?), recycle bin, windows explorer, Firefox, and Photoshop.

Well, have fun with your icons...

qwerty · **Posted:** May 11th, 2008, 12:50 am

did you all by photo shop legally?

:wink:

qwerty x

99887 · **Posted:** May 11th, 2008, 2:53 am

That looks great... makes me wanna get CS3 instead of my crappy 7.0

I think they are legit...

Chief Snake · **Posted:** May 11th, 2008, 4:06 am

I really like that texture, how did you do it?

blethorskite · **Posted:** May 11th, 2008, 5:08 am

Really cool look. Light coloured icons will really stand out well against that backdrop.

Mushroom Queen · **Posted:** May 11th, 2008, 4:05 pm

It's nice and simple. I like it.

qwerty · **Posted:** May 12th, 2008, 8:12 am

can we use it?

qwerty x

PhoenixEmpire · **Posted:** May 13th, 2008, 6:44 pm

qwerty- Yes, i bought mine completally legally.

Chief- I used some grunge brushes and grungestract brushes and sharpened them. To get the blurry parts i just used a soft blur tool where i thought it needed it. Then i used the sponge tool around the outer parts to take away the color and give it a 'smokey' look.

qwerty- feel free to use it, i don't really use them so you guys will probably be the only ones that will lol.

Chief Snake · **Posted:** May 15th, 2008, 12:15 am

Oh ok, just brushes? That's interesting. I need to find myself some more sometime.