Grayscale November Desktops

[shadowfax]

As per the move of some recent members (including myself) to grayscale avatars, i was just thinking that we should all "go grayscale" for November, as we approach that colorless season of winter.

so change your 'tar to grayscale if you have one, set your theme to Graphite, make your icons grayscale,* pop a black and white image on your background, and post your screengrab!

*don't worry about this one if you're too darn lazy.

note: this is not the November desktops thread, i'm not trying to cheat or anything. i thought i'd give you guys a 1 day heads up so you'd have time to change everything up on your desktops if you want to give this a shot. for some of you (if you want to be really comprehensive about it), this can take awhile.

down with colors!

[eyelikeart]

funny thing...I switched to a grayscale image just the other day... ;)

[Powerbook G5]

I really like that, it has a sort of deeper meaning to it between the "unknown" gravestones and the grayness of the picture.

[edesignuk]

I can't be asked to convert my images to grayscale, so I just photoshoped my screen cap to grayscale quick, just for you! ;) :D

http://homepage.mac.com/edesignuk/images/macdesktop_bw.jpg

[eyelikeart]

Originally posted by Powerbook G5
I really like that, it has a sort of deeper meaning to it between the "unknown" gravestones and the grayness of the picture.

thanker...

it's at Arlington National Cemetery...first day of Geek Fest DC actually...after a BIG filling lunch... :D

[wdlove]

Nice photo eyelikeart. Do you know if that is part of the unknown soldier monument? Didn't realize that there were other unmarked graves at Arlington.

What did you have for lunch that was filling at Geek Fest eyelikeart?

Your are correct shadowfax, November is one of the darker months. Here in New England on average we only get 50% of the possible sun this month. Actually the best treatment for the darkness is light. Color helps to brighten a persons mood.

[pyrotoaster]

Interesting idea, shadowfax...

For the lazy folk (myself most likely included), I've started a November Desktops (in Color!) (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=45275) thread. :D

[sparkleytone]

cool idea. gives me an excuse to play with the quartz filters in the print pane, which didn't work as well as using the Universal Access system pref. i used jp2, so you need QT 6.4 and Safari :)

[sparkleytone]

-nt-

[cr2sh]

wow, thats weird.. yesterday i changed all images in my forums to graphite, and was thinking about changing my avatar to match...

http://www.sininc.org/phpBB2/

great minds must think alike...

[sparkleytone]

hot DAMN. getting a screenshot to fall within the forum size restriction is HARD when its black and white.

[eyelikeart]

Originally posted by wdlove
Nice photo eyelikeart. Do you know if that is part of the unknown soldier monument? Didn't realize that there were other unmarked graves at Arlington.

What did you have for lunch that was filling at Geek Fest eyelikeart?


There's a ton of "Unknown" tombstones at Arlington...it's quite beautiful & overwhelming to see it all.

Mr. A & I had lunch at Chipotle prior to our first bit of photo taking. We had some huge burritos! :D

[AmigoMac]

an idea from my son.

[Powerbook G5]

Now that the forums are working along with my school network, I can finally post my screen shot. (And yeah, it really is harder to meet the file size limit with B&W for some reason)

[shadowfax]

to all you having problems fitting them in here... try www.macsnaps.com

http://www.macsnaps.com/snaps/screengrab/1067725947.jpg

sorry i couldn't get mine in earlier, the forums went down literally a minute after i posted this thread.

[shadowfax]

here's one more, just 'cos it's a classic :D

http://www.macsnaps.com/snaps/screengrab/1067726324.jpg

still looks nice in B&W ;)

[wdlove]

Two very nice choices shadowfax! ;) I don't know if I'm still confused, but that looks like Rena to my memory. She is just stunning, hard to come up with the correct words.

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by wdlove
Two very nice choices shadowfax! ;) I don't know if I'm still confused, but that looks like Rena to my memory. She is just stunning, hard to come up with the correct words. yeah, the second one is the fullsize of my "blue" 'tar. the original rena 'tar, really the best one IMO. the first pic is actually Zhang Ziyi in a Maybelline ad, i think. her eyes just looked nice in it, i thought.

[King Cobra]

Shadow, I'm having trouble trying to load images from your signature. The thumbs show up fine, but the full size image loads suddenly terminate at around 50KB.

The grayscale theme has been running rampid lately, perhaps because of the many users of Panther, mostly brushed up, feel inspired by the lack of color from Apple's brushed metal. Anyways, my desktop, which has stood unchanged on my computer screen for a couple of months now, is here:


http://geocities.com/andrejfavia/desktops/desktops.html (http://geocities.com/andrejfavia/desktops/desktops.html)


EDIT:
All right, everyone. Ready to trip out? View this thread again from the start, but first go to System Preference > Universal Access > [Click on Switch to White on Black] :eek: :eek:

[DreaminDirector]

Finally, I get to post a desktop that fits into the category...

p.s. hey Shadowfax, what is the little menubar uptime app that you have called? It looks really cool.

[MrMacMan]

Down with the estab... colors...

:rolleyes:

http://macsnaps.com/snaps/screengrab/1067796800.jpg

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by King Cobra
Shadow, I'm having trouble trying to load images from your signature. The thumbs show up fine, but the full size image loads suddenly terminate at around 50KB. erm, maradong is hosting it on his webspace, and it turns out that the host server is moving locations for some reason or other, so it's having some various trouble (namely slow speeds) as they tansition it to the new site. sorry. i know it's annoying.

[wdlove]

Originally posted by MrMacman
Down with the estab... colors...

:rolleyes:

http://macsnaps.com/snaps/screengrab/1067796800.jpg

Nice to see that it works just as well in gray scale. I could not tolerate that desktop for only short periods of time. A little nausea creeps in!

[tazo]

please forgive my overwhelming dual monitors ;)

Oh yeah take a look at the names for 'Internet Explorer' and the 'Recycling Bin'

:D :cool: ;) :p

[Winston Smith]

King Cobras idea really works: Universal access-white on black.

Eyelikearts really takes on new meaning like this and the trip on Mr Macmans is evn greater!

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by tazo
please forgive my overwhelming dual monitors ;)

Oh yeah take a look at the names for 'Internet Explorer' and the 'Recycling Bin'

:D :cool: ;) :p how can you take that? the apple logos are so poorly defined. it's all choppy. plus, where's the grayscale? you didn't grayscale anything!

:p

[tazo]

are you seeing the same logos i am becuase they look fine to me, a bit soft but by no means choppy...

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by tazo
are you seeing the same logos i am becuase they look fine to me, a bit soft but by no means choppy...

no, it's the same one, unless you just used insanely low compression. the compression wouldn't cause all the blue on the lining, which is yellow in this inverted version below, inverted and adjusted to show you the choppiness that you may not be able to see (if so, your monitor is pretty low quality. i can see it on my Tibook LCD)

[shadowfax]

here's a slightly cleaned up one--at least none of that blue nasty.

[tazo]

you have to use pretty low quality compression to get a normally 2mb file to be sub-100kb ;)

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by tazo
you have to use pretty low quality compression to get a normally 2mb file to be sub-100kb ;) dude, get an account with www.macsnaps.com

free, and no size limit, plus you don't have to attach the damn things. just an [img] link. anyways, i understand it's not choppy in the original, but does it have that blue crap along the lines?

[shadowfax]

as per tazo's suggestion, here's my broken telephone in grayscale. i'll be using this one for sure when i break up with my girlfriend....

http://www.macsnaps.com/snaps/screengrab/1067845475.jpg

[tazo]

shadow!


NICE! :) And btw the apple desktop i posted was always black, with a white logo....dont think i mentioned that.

[jelloshotsrule]

Originally posted by shadowfax
as per tazo's suggestion, here's my broken telephone in grayscale. i'll be using this one for sure when i break up with my girlfriend....


you have a girlfriend????

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by jelloshotsrule
you have a girlfriend???? no, i was talking about some indeterminate point in the future when, after i get one, she dumps me for some sleazeball with an excessively large phallus and a small brain.

[tazo]

now now shadow, don't knock the extremely large phallus :o :o :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

[jelloshotsrule]

Originally posted by shadowfax
no, i was talking about some indeterminate point in the future when, after i get one, she dumps me for some sleazeball with an excessively large phallus and a small brain.

if she's worth dating at all, she wouldn't do that....

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by jelloshotsrule
if she's worth dating at all, she wouldn't do that.... true. maybe i'll find out how trashy she is beforehand and beat her to it. and then i can go back to depressing grayscale BGs of rena. and she can break the phone. or go sleep with the guy with the big phallus.

getting back to the topic at hand...

[DreaminDirector]

yeah, I was going to say that this thread took a depressing turn (sounded like some of the girls I used to date who broke my heart...)

Anyway, I want to see more grayscale desktops! So far they been pretty kick ass...

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by DreaminDirector
yeah, I was going to say that this thread took a depressing turn (sounded like some of the girls I used to date who broke my heart...)

Anyway, I want to see more grayscale desktops! So far they been pretty kick ass... indeed. let me see what i can do:

http://www.macsnaps.com/snaps/screengrab/1067894146.jpg

[DreaminDirector]

Ah yes, the TT. My girlfriend is absolutely in love with that picture. She loves the snow and she loves that car. Nice job turning it into a grayscale.

[eyelikeart]

so does no one here normally use an actual grayscale image for their desktop?

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by eyelikeart
so does no one here normally use an actual grayscale image for their desktop? i have only used graphite aqua since i got my mac. i hate the blue theme.

also, for about a month now, i've been using the rie komiya desktop i have posted before:

http://www.macsnaps.com/snaps/desktop/1066160433.jpg

[pivo6]

My turn.

[shadowfax]

mmmm, i like. i wish there was an option in accessibility to just make GUI elements like icons and resources grayscale, while letting images, web pages, etc. be in color.

i would use that all the time...

[XnavxeMiyyep]

My background is in brwonscale, does that count?

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by XnavxeMiyyep
My background is in brwonscale, does that count? looks pretty good, barring that terrible compression ;)

[Powerbook G5]

New grayscale pic with a new background I just resized and added today.http://www.macsnaps.com/snaps/screengrab/1067905996.jpg

[ezkimo]

Hey Pivo,
Would you mind e-mailing me the photo your using? znich@kdsi.net

Thanks!

-Zach

[wdlove]

That snow looks beautiful shadowfax, thank you. That will help me to hold on a while longer. Hopefully we will have a White Christmas.

[pyrotoaster]

Well, here's my greyscale desktop from my 12" Powerbook, Stark.

I suppose it's a bit halloween-y, but I'm just killing time until I can switch to Christmas desktops. ;)
http://homepage.mac.com/pyrotoaster/PyroToaster/Picture%203.pdf

[scem0]

Sorry to bring back an old thread, but Nov has barely even started, and this thread has already been dead for some time...

and, well, I have a desktop which fits the specifications. Its not just a color desktop turned greyscale :rolleyes:. Well it does has a tiny, incy bit of color in it. But that doesn't count. :)

Here it is:

[shadowfax]

i toss the gauntlet to you all again...

backing away from rena some more (:(), i have chosen another great woman for my desktop, one whom i know to be possibly the best actress ever, and certainly the most stately and beautiful woman i've ever seen.

http://www.macsnaps.com/snaps/screengrab/1068366294.jpg

[MrMacMan]

wow some nice backgrounds...

BTW, pyrotoaster -- what was that processing?:confused:

[Powerbook G5]

That's a Konfabulator widget that just counts down the seconds of the day and when the bar reaches 100% it is midnight the next day. It's just a useless little app that makes it "appear" that your computer is rendering the day, but it also makes for a spiffy CPU monitor.

[shadowfax]

well, i had the epiphany of using audrey hepburn (again, most beatiful woman ever, hands down) for my desktops... here's another one. not as clean, but i like it.

http://www.macsnaps.com/snaps/screengrab/1068446313.jpg

[wdlove]

I agree that Audrey Hepburn is a beauty. Actually Kathryn Hepburn is the classic beauty. In her pictures you usually see her with a dress and a lot with turtle neck. Her conservative dress added to her beauty.

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by wdlove
I agree that Audrey Hepburn is a beauty. Actually Kathryn Hepburn is the classic beauty. In her pictures you usually see her with a dress and a lot with turtle neck. Her conservative dress added to her beauty. katherine hepburn? ha! i don't think i would consider her beautiful--at least, not in the Audrey sense. she had grace, style, and above all independence, but there's something all too masculine about her, IMO. i never liked her hair much, either...

[cr2sh]

shadow- what program are you running in the toolbar that tells your up time?

[shadowfax]

UptimeInMenuBar (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/16402)

[wdlove]

Originally posted by shadowfax
katherine hepburn? ha! i don't think i would consider her beautiful--at least, not in the Audrey sense. she had grace, style, and above all independence, but there's something all too masculine about her, IMO. i never liked her hair much, either...

I don't think that she had any masculine features at all. Kathryn was a top actress. On this I guess we will have to agree to disagree. Maybe it is a generational thing.

[shadowfax]

mostly what was masculine about her to me was her brow and her voice. and her voice.

[wdlove]

I think that her voice was one of her great qualities. Her voice was very recognizible. To me she was the epitomy of feminity.

[shadowfax]

my parents got me Roman Holiday for my birthday--which is later this week--but i opened it early :D

took a bunch of screen grabs... here's one :)

http://www.macsnaps.com/snaps/screengrab/1069113641.jpg

[wdlove]

I agree that is a beautiful picture of Audrey. The grayscale make her look even better, very alluring. Thank you for sharing. You realized that you spoiled part of your B-Day. ;)

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by wdlove
You realized that you spoiled part of your B-Day. ;) i have a huge-ass calculus test on friday i have to waste my BDay studying for. i have no remorse about spoiling my BDay... it's already messed up.

[wdlove]

Originally posted by shadowfax
i have a huge-ass calculus test on friday i have to waste my BDay studying for. i have no remorse about spoiling my BDay... it's already messed up.

So it sounds like you B-Day is on Thursday. An early Happy B-Day. I have no doubt but that you will do very well on your test, good luck! ;)