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Here's my current wallpaper (one I took):

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You can get the original image on my DeviantART profile, click the 'download' link on the left, plus leave a comment if you are a deviantART person, thanks.
 
Do you know if there's any applications that can be used to do an effect like that fairly easily? I'd love to do a picture of my fiance in that style, but I don't think I'm quite artistic enough to do it right.

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Try Adobe Illustrator CS2.

One of the new features in that version is "auto trace". Play with its settings to vectorize a photo, and you can come up with results that are similar to that. To get the best results, though, you'll probably have to manually edit it a bit, unless someone knows a trick to it.
 
Try Adobe Illustrator CS2.

One of the new features in that version is "auto trace". Play with its settings to vectorize a photo, and you can come up with results that are similar to that. To get the best results, though, you'll probably have to manually edit it a bit, unless someone knows a trick to it.

No Illustrator Pro's have chimed in yet but...

I'm studying Illustrator at the moment, even with 'live trace' it is still quite a bit of work. Or maybe it isn't and I don't know enough about it. :p

Personally I think it is amazing.
 
So not Christmasy, but eh whatever...
 

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So not Christmasy, but eh whatever...

That looks amazing! Do you think you could give some sort of explanation of what each it does and why you have it (for example, on one of the side columns why do you have the software version number in a bubble? And how do you do it?)

Looks cool!
 
No Illustrator Pro's have chimed in yet but...

I'm studying Illustrator at the moment, even with 'live trace' it is still quite a bit of work. Or maybe it isn't and I don't know enough about it. :p

Personally I think it is amazing.

I agree, the live trace feature is awesome. It's especially good for taking hand-drawn sketches and vectorizing it for resizing to print on a large area, where otherwise just scanning the raster image would pixelate really bad.

In Live Trace, though, it has a drop down that gives you various options. I don't have it installed at the moment, so I can't fiddle with it, but I think there's a photo option or something similar that keeps color and such. Tweaking that helps get it fairly close, but you're right, to get it just like the picture here, you'd definitely need more tweaks.
 
That looks amazing! Do you think you could give some sort of explanation of what each it does and why you have it (for example, on one of the side columns why do you have the software version number in a bubble? And how do you do it?)

Looks cool!

He always has these cool screenshots. Very unixy and geeky stuff....in a good way that is.
 
That looks amazing! Do you think you could give some sort of explanation of what each it does and why you have it (for example, on one of the side columns why do you have the software version number in a bubble? And how do you do it?)
Looks cool!

How are you doing that? What apps are you running there?


Well its just a couple apps really, though they are neat ones.

The System Monitor on the far left is called X Resource Graph using a custom blue toned skin.

To the right of the system monitor, all of those vertical icon container things, is done by using an app called DragThing with the theme "Let's Be Bad Guys".

DragThing is basically a better dock (it doesnt disable the dock though, it is still there) and allows you to file and easily access folders, urls, documents, and well anything else for that matter. Its completely configurable (hot keys, sounds, effects, you name it) and you can make as many floating holder things as you can think of. Showing an Apps version number is a nifty feature as well, as is the ability to show full paths via hovering over them, Like I said, lots of options).

And to quickly just explain my layout of these, the first one contains my harddrives, networked drives and any cds/diskimages, and trash and desktop. The second one, contains all active processes, excluding system processes(they can be shown though optionally). The next bar is like the dock, it has all apps I use, links to documents, URLs and Folders. Finally the last box has shortcuts for some most used things, especially a few one touch connect to server buttons, which gets shown by the up and down green arrows on the icons. Also this lets you put a trashbin on the desktop, which I kinda like.

Finally the white text at the top of the screen is displayed using an app called GeekTool which lets a few custom scripts that I wrote output onto the screen. My scripts are here, but be forewarned this can be pretty resource intensive depending on what scripts you use and how often they update.

Oh and that little thing at the bottom left is just a web radio player, FStream.




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He always has these cool screenshots. Very unixy and geeky stuff....in a good way that is.

Hey thanks, yeah I always have this insessant need to know as much as possible about everything going on with my laptop at all times :D .
 
Just about to change to my christmas one, but in the meantime, this is it:
(Think I may have got it from someone here...)
 

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That looks amazing! Do you think you could give some sort of explanation of what each it does and why you have it (for example, on one of the side columns why do you have the software version number in a bubble? And how do you do it?)

Looks cool!

How are you doing that? What apps are you running there?

I doubt I'd use them myself, but I'd be interested in knowing what app has made the popup windows with the app icons. As far as the bar on the far left with the system monitoring info, it looks like the mac port of gkrellm. The text on the desktop looks like what you get with GeekTool. However, they're outputting text from the command line, so you need to know the commands necessary such as "uptime".

edit: I see he replied on the previous page
 
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