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Need Help , Im looking for a DEEP Black wallpaper

post #1 of 16
7/25/07 at 10:25pm
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I am looking for a DEEP black wallpaper with the new silver metallic Apple logo in the center. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have a 15" MacBook Pro glossy screen and this would top off my UI enhancements. I have looked with absolutely l no luck. I found one, but the black is very matte and soft.

Thanks in advance.
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post #2 of 16
7/26/07 at 1:37am
http://seashore.sourceforge.net/index.php
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post #3 of 16
7/26/07 at 3:57am
Heh personally I would just use Gimp, or Gimpshop. But to each their own I spend more time in X and use a bit more power in my applications typically. You could also use Inkscape nearly as easily should you choose to, depending on your preferred workflow.

But yea I am thinking along the same lines as Kakaze, why not just make it? That is not exactly the most complicated thing I have heard of.

Seablade
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post #4 of 16
7/26/07 at 4:28am
I didn't link Gimp because it's not native and a lot of people don't know or want to fück around with X. I never heard of Inkscape.

I'm a Photoshop/Illustrator person myself...even though Illustrator seems to get slower and slower with each release.
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post #5 of 16
7/26/07 at 1:15pm
Gimp you are obviously familiar with, but provides a very nice and powerful digital image editing package. While it does require X to run, installing X is a piece of cake, just insert your OS X DVD and install it from there.

If memory serves Seashore is built from Gimp actually, just provides a native toolset and less features. Give Gimp a few more years though and it will be running Native anyways for those that want it as they are making decent progress on a native implementation of GTK.

Inkscape is to Illustrator as Gimp is to Photoshop. It is a SVG creation program, not as powerful as illustrator mind you, but still quite capable from what I Have been told. As I do more of my creation in Blender, and Gimp for image editing, I have not used it much myself, played around with it a few times and liked what I saw, but nothing serious yet. I BELIEVE but am not sure it also needs X.

Seablade
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post #6 of 16
7/26/07 at 2:38pm
It's been a long time since I tried gimp so it might've changed since then. If gimp is like Inkscape—which I checked out last night after reading the post—then it's not a problem because you just double click like any app and wait for X and then Gimp to load.

The last time I tried gimp, however, I had to install it through Fink and deal with the command line. I think I even had to compile it from source, IIRC, to finally get it to work.

If it is like Inkscape then I'll start recommending it again but otherwise it's a bit too complicated for a lot of people to use Fink to get it running.
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post #7 of 16
7/26/07 at 3:03pm
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If gimp is like Inkscape—which I checked out last night after reading the post—then it's not a problem because you just double click like any app and wait for X and then Gimp to load.
Yep, both the regular Gimp.app and Gimpshop.app do this now.
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The last time I tried gimp, however, I had to install it through Fink and deal with the command line. I think I even had to compile it from source, IIRC, to finally get it to work.
Hmm Gimp.app has existed for quite some time, so either that was longer ago than I dealt with Macs, or else you just didn't see the .app Seablade
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post #8 of 16
7/26/07 at 3:10pm
For the record...

Gimpshop:
http://plasticbugs.com/?page_id=294

Gimp:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macos...e/gimpapp.html
http://gimp-app.sourceforge.net/
http://www.gimp.org/macintosh/

Inkscape:
http://www.inkscape.org/

Seablade
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post #9 of 16
7/26/07 at 7:18pm
funny how a "can i find a wallpaper" thread evolved into "lets talk graphics editor/creation apps"
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post #10 of 16
7/26/07 at 8:36pm
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Can you say HIJACK?
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post #11 of 16
7/27/07 at 12:16am
Not really.

Both of us were suggesting the same thing, and made suggestions on how to do it. Make the wallpaper yourself. My posts were just as much to the OP as to Kakaze.

Seablade
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post #12 of 16
7/27/07 at 2:19am
The discussion is still relevant...vaguely. And, hey, no one else is talking!

And it's quite possible, sea, that I dealt with Gimp before it was an app. Last time I touched it was probably at the ass end of 2004—soon after getting my PowerBook.
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post #13 of 16
7/27/07 at 4:28am
You probably just missed the .app then, I had my powerbook before then and was using it.

Not a huge deal wither way though

Seablade
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post #14 of 16
7/28/07 at 11:44pm
here's a lot of backgrounds: interfacelift.com. I know there's a white Apple on a black backdrop in there somewhere
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post #15 of 16
7/29/07 at 3:33pm
yea they have alot of good stuff, their server is prety slow though

but yea i would just make one on your own, its super easy!
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post #16 of 16
8/5/07 at 2:50am
Yea, making a background is super easy.... I put together a collage of my favorite apple topic-ed webcomics in The GIMP... I used my labs PowerMac to do it of course (2 23" displays beats my 13" any day of the week) but the end result is really nice IMO
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