March gets a new desktop background!

Ever since I stopped with the monthly calendar desktop backgrounds, I've been trying
to upload a background without calendar every now and then. So far, I've managed to
upload one. But no worries, I haven't forgotten about you!

I've got a new background for you. It's a picture of Hanny Cools, doing a table on the 
RedCross jumps in Hasselt, near the concrete park. 

RIGHT-CLICK HERE, AND CHOOSE "SAVE AS"

I hope you all remember how to make a picture your background. If not, just google it.

A new desktopbackground!

Last year I started a project, where every month I'd post a desktopbackground
with a calendar on it. The project was quite succesful, with many people actually
downloading and using the backgrounds I made. 

When I stopped the project, many people were disappointed. I did however 
promise to keep putting backgrounds online, just not on a regular basis anymore.
So here's the first one.

It's a picture from our trip last easter. Me, Fabio and Dimitris went on a two week
long holiday to France and Barcelona. This photograph was shot on the Barcelona
coastline.

I hope that by putting this photograph as your background, it will give you a warm
feeling in these cold times. I know that that's what it does to me.

(Click the picture for a FULL SIZE version!)

Desktopbackground May

Damn, the weather here is far too good to be sitting inside! Hence, 6 days later than planned... The psd files has been lying ready on my pc for a few days though, but I really didn't feel like finishing it off. But here it is, finally.

This months pictures is inspired by Kemo, on of Belgium's finest photographers, who has been, almost single-handedly, documenting BMX in the BeNeLux for years now. On the DirtE19 jam, a few years back, he shot a picture of 2 riders doing nofoot cancans at the same time on 2 jumps. I kinda tried to one-up him, but I have to say it was a **** pain! I don't think we ever had to do so many runs to get a single decent shot! But in the end, I think the result is not too shabby, and I hope you will feel the same way.

Here's a list of which version you should download:

1280/1024

4/3:
1600/1200
1400/1050
1280/960
1152/864
1024/768
800 /600

16/10:
2560/1600
1920/1200
1680/1050
1440/900
1280/800

RIGHT-CLICK THE LINK, CHOOSE "SAVE AS".

For a How-To on making this picture your desktopbackground, check this page.


Here's a small picture of what it looks like:

Desktopbackground April

Nine days late... The worst so far, and hopefully the worst ever (but I doubt that...). I have an excuse though, as far as being abroad counts as a real excuse, I did have acces to a laptop with photoshop and everthing... But screw that, I was on holiday!
During said 13 day holiday, I took around 2500 pictures, and believe me, it took me some time to finally come up with THE one best picture nominated for background of the month, and I'm still not completely happy with it, but I hope you will be.

In the next week, I'll be putting online a day by day journal with words by my travelcompanion Fabio. I'll be providing the accompanioning pictures. So all the more reasons to check back here!

On to the background then.

Here's a list of which version you should download:

1280/1024

4/3:
1600/1200
1400/1050
1280/960
1152/864
1024/768
800 /600

16/10:
2560/1600
1920/1200
1680/1050
1440/900
1280/800

RIGHT-CLICK THE LINK, CHOOSE "SAVE AS".

For a How-To on making this picture your desktopbackground, check this page.


Here's a small picture of what it looks like:

Desktopbackground March

Last weekend, the weather was nice with the sun shining, so we went riding on our own trails at DirtE19, Edegem. I still didn't really have a picture for this month's background yet, so when the sun was going down I picked up my camera and went hunting for a nice photo. This kinda explains why almost every photo of that day was shot horizontally.

The light was great, the riders were great, the tricks were great, and our trails were great. I hope you'll think the same about the photo's, and especially about this month's background.

Last month I manually made about 10 different versions for all kinds of different resolutions, this month I'll upload 3, which should fit about everybody.

Here's a list of which version you should download:

1280/1024

4/3:
1600/1200
1400/1050
1280/960
1152/864
1024/768
800 /600

16/10:
2560/1600
1920/1200
1680/1050
1440/900
1280/800

RIGHT-CLICK THE LINK, CHOOSE "SAVE AS".

For a How-To on making this picture your desktopbackground, check this page.


Here's a small picture of what it looks like, together with the other shots taken that day:

Desktopbackground February

Just three days overdue, I think I managed the deadline pretty well this time. Keep in mind I had my last exam only Friday, and me being a terrible procrastinator, and I thing I managed very well!

For this month's background, I had to go back in time a bit, as the sunny weather in the shot will probably tell you. Last July, a group of friends went to go ride in the mountainbike paradise called Les Deux Alpes, in France. This is one of the shots of that trip. I hiked down the entire mountain, stopping at about every 3 turns and at every single jump, to take out my camera and make a few shots. This one I liked best, and I hope you'll like it too, after all you're gonna be staring at it for the next month...




Rider: Wes.


To get the backgrounds:

(if you don't know what screen resolution you have, check out my previous post, of the desktopbackround of January, there's an How-To in there.)

(right-click the link, then click "save as")

800*600px

1024*768px

1152*864px

1280*800px

1280*1024px

1400*1050px

1440*900px

1600*1200px

1680*1050px

1920*1200px

Desktopbackground January

In the year 2005, DirtE19 designed and printed a real full-blown calendar. It wasn't perfect, but it was pretty damn sweet. However, we ended up with a lot of unsold copies. Basically, you want your calendars ready at last at the end of September, and by December, January the lastest all your copies should be sold. Nobody is buying a calendar after that anymore. And because of the problems we had that first year we did it, we never actually produced a calendar again, which I think is a shame.

This is where the idea for this project came about. I'm going to try to put a new desktopbackground online for every month, preferrably with a pictures shot the month before.

Sure, since it's almost February, this project didn't really get a good start, but hopefully the next 11 months I'll do better.


Technical info:
for ideal size, you should know what resolution your screen has. To find out what resolution your monitor has in windows XP, you go to your desktop, right-click it. Then click "properties". Then go to the last tab. You should see a slider, and your screen resolution is right underneath it.

In het Nederlands:
om te weten welke resolutie je scherm heeft, rechtsklik op je bureaublad, klik op "eigenschappen", en dan op da tab "instellingen". Daar zie je een schuiver met daaronder je schermresolutie.

I don't have Vista, so I don't know if it's the same or not, maybe someone with vista can check for me.



anyway, on to the pictures:

here's a small version, so you know what it sort of looks like:



To get the fullsize backgrounds:
(righ-click the link, then "save as")

1280*800px (this will work for most 15" widescreen laptops)

1680*1050px (for larger widescreen monitors)

1280*1024px (for larger 4:3 monitors)

1024*768px (will work on most older 4:3 monitors)


There's countless other resolutions out there, and I'm not gonna make all of them if nobody wants it. So check what resolution you have, and post a comment to request a custom resolution.