Windows 11 Stolen Wallpaper!

antspants · Aug 4, 2023

Found a couple on eight forum from around 2014, just before/after Win 8.1 came out. Funny requests

I don't know why but uploading them has degradated the image resolution.

atinfo · Aug 5, 2023

antspants said:
I had the first covid shot, AstraZeneca ...

I have never been vaccinated! I didn't do it on purpose. Fortunately/Unfortunately I'm still alive!

antspants said:
... and I wasn’t well, 3 days later I had a heart attack. Memory has been bad ever since, as has my heart.
I’d had health problems prior. I disappeared from ten & eight forum and life in general. Currently it’s my 5th year of not stepping outside of my house except for medicals.

Many many bad news. A lot of people around me had a heart attack after the vaccination (some of them

!).

antspants said:
Yeah I had a 3 of the same seagate HDD’s die in the same week, apparently they were all bad from the start but seagate failed to inform buyers. Over 20 years worth of graphic art and web design, all my clients files, logos everything. Also my personal art. Put me into a deep state of depression.

Also, Toshiba had such behaviour (I had one). Exactly I can understand what you say.

antspants said:
Found a couple on eight forum from around 2014, just before/after Win 8.1 came out. Funny requests

Great. I like the lightning idea. The Minions, I love them. The road race (circuit) reminds me of my model cars (yours are classic cars), cool. I love the "8.1" idea, RGB cars on "8" and yellow-green cars on 1. The 400-meter race track is similar to an airport runway. Energetic colours on the fastest race route! I love the idea and the design.

antspants said:
I don't know why but uploading them has degradated the image resolution.

11F makes uploaded images smaller (in size) by converting them to the WebP format. If your source is a PNG, you can notice the degradation. If the source is a JPG, it gets worse. You can see an awful banding where the colours shift (in an image).

antspants · Aug 5, 2023

I think igt was Gururrrrrr8!, hippsie the Minions and Edwin liked minimal.

This was near 10 years ago. I only see Edwin in here.

antspants · Aug 5, 2023

@atinfo you should start a thread in the lounge (or here) and make wallpapers for people

Personally I struggle with photoshop these days and trying to recall or search for answers gets frustrating. I try occasionally.

atinfo · Aug 5, 2023

antspants said:
you should start a thread in the lounge (or here) and make wallpapers for people

As far as I can.

I believe in collaboration. Somebody starts a design (an idea), uploads the source (.psd, .ai, .sketch, .fig, ... ), and everybody can modify it. Something like GitHub, but instead of sharing the codes, sharing the graphic works.

"... This was near 10 years ago. I only see Edwin in here."
Yes! Edwin is everywhere, even on ThirteenForum.Com.

antspants · Aug 5, 2023

atinfo said:
As far as I can.

I believe in collaboration. Somebody starts a design (an idea), uploads the source (.psd, .ai, .sketch, .fig, ... ), and everybody can modify it. Something like GitHub, but instead of sharing the codes, sharing the graphic works.

That’s a great idea.

atinfo said:
"... This was near 10 years ago. I only see Edwin in here."
Yes! Edwin is everywhere, even on ThirteenForum.Com.

I want to join 13! It redirects to google

atinfo · Aug 5, 2023

antspants said:
I want to join 13! It redirects to google

I was joking. There is no 13F out there :woozy:

. I mean, Edwin is one of those hyperactive members.

There is TwelveForum.com. You can sign up there instead.

antspants · Aug 5, 2023

atinfo said:
There is TwelveForum.com. You can sign up there instead.

Did that a while ago

antspants · Aug 5, 2023

atinfo said:
I was joking. There is no 13F out there

I’d guess there is, for future, or it wouldn’t redirect to google. It would just be a not found error.

Firas · Aug 5, 2023

@atinfo

I am sorry for the difficulties you faced in the past

atinfo · Aug 5, 2023

antspants said:
I’d guess there is, for future, or it wouldn’t redirect to google. It would just be a not found error.

The "ThirteenForum.com" URL has been registered by a Canadian company. It's been reserved (the domain is parked), but It's not connected to a DNS yet! I doubt the domain has something with this forum.

Firas said:
@atinfo

I am sorry for the difficulties you faced in the past

Thanks

. I'm fine now. All things are under control! Just the right side of the body has been a bit slower than before! Fortunately, I still can go cycling and walking otherwise I would die (I love walking and cycling in nature).

atinfo · Aug 7, 2023

@antspants ,
Apology for plagiarism. I had a try to mimic your style, and here is the result:

Microsoft Windows 11 RF43 (Raptor-Fiesta 43) Race Wallpapaer ( Credit: @antspants )

If you are not satisfied with it (copyright), I'd remove it.

4K Downlaod (Dark)
4K Download (Blue)

antspants · Aug 7, 2023

atinfo said:
@antspants ,
Apology for plagiarism. I had a try to mimic your style, and here is the result:

Microsoft Windows 11 RF43 (Raptor-Fiesta 43) Race Wallpapaer ( Credeit: @antspants )

If you are not satisfied with it (copyright), I'd remove it.

HA! Good job.
I've never publicly taken credit for anything. Way back in the day, I worked extensively on ICQ interfaces on the condition that I was kept out of it. Until this very post, nobody not even 99% of the developers knew. I'm kind of shy but mostly never like anything I make. I think it's a self esteem issue most likely. These days I just go Meh! Sure quote my Facebook post

Anyway, good job!

antspants · Aug 7, 2023

I'm currently playing with wallpapers but every time I look at them objectively, I laugh.

The ones I posted here were requests, basically. So it doesn't bother me to show them.

See what we can do hey?

atinfo · Aug 7, 2023

antspants said:
I worked extensively on ICQ interfaces

UI/UX designer... :smirk:

(I've never used the ICQ).

antspants said:
Anyway, good job!

Many thanks :thumbsup:

antspants said:
I'm currently playing with wallpapers but every time I look at them objectively, I laugh.

Same here. It's normal behaviour for designers! :woozy:

antspants said:
See what we can do hey?

If you have the time (and you like), I can DM you the PSD to play with this.

Edwin · Aug 7, 2023

@antspants
I still have that wallpaper you made for me 10 years ago!!!

antspants · Aug 7, 2023

@Edwin A fun forum, as is this. I was looking at all that the other day. At least one person noticeably wiped. None of my business and possibly best to not ask.

Firas · Aug 8, 2023

@atinfo

Very nice
Think outside the BOX :)

antspants · Aug 8, 2023

@atinfo I am having a lot of trouble with A. Photoshop & B. Making anything that isn't because I like it for myself.
I've always liked minimal, and I have always been partial to the main BG here. I think it's calming maybe, for me. Unless it's a request it would currently seem that I can't create.

atinfo · Aug 9, 2023

Firas said:
Very nice
Think outside the BOX :)

Thanks

.
I love the @antspants idea cause it reminds me of an "infinity shape" highway in my neighbour city! Mine is a (somehow) RAW design! I made it very fast as a starting point to work on later (maybe). I am crazy about WRC (especially Ken Block :plead:

). Fortunately/Unfortunately, I never board an aircraft (I have "fear of flying", and I boarded just once when I was a toddler :woozy:

), but I love watching their takeoff/landing on a runway (especially fighters on a flight deck).

antspants said:
I've always liked minimal ... I think it's calming maybe, for me.

I don't like the term "Minimal" (no offence), but I love a simple, clean and crisp design with a bit of (somehow) vivid colour in it.
I hope it's calming for you (!):

This ZIP file contains three wallpapers (4K, PNG), Enterprise, Professional and Home editions. The only difference is the Windows edition badge (name and colour):

4K Download Link

antspants said:
I am having a lot of trouble with A. Photoshop & B. Making anything that isn't because I like it for myself.

"Fibers Filter", I think 1 and 2 (top) are Win XP to 7 era wallpaper styles. I like the font (number 3, bottom left). It's a micro-minimal! Number 4 (bottom right) is cool. I love the smooth curves (bloom). It's stretched (I'm against "stretching" resize, just "proportional" resize!).