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Everyday our technologies become more and more interactive, from the way we use our Phones all the way up to the latest Computer innovations. It's become a way of life to expect variable interactions with everything we encounter, and in that same vein, flexible changeability.
Keeping this in mind, I've devised a way for you to have a high quality art-piece that brings simple innovation to your desktop. This pack contains a functional, self-customizable desktop graphic.
Blade-Interactive is "self-customizable" in that YOU have complete control over choice of it's look, via choosing your own personal background color on the spot, without having to have to refer to a folder chalk-full of variant colors.
Even if you don't like the particular style of Blade-Interactive, at very least you should download it, try it out, and learn how explicitly simple the actual process is, and just how invariably convenient it is to swap out colors at your every whim without having to change your wallpaper.
This is a key direction change in how your desktop wallpaper functions---in that it actually does function, as opposed to simply sitting there.
Fans of Desktop Skins, this is especially of note to you, as you no longer have to go digging for a wallpaper to meet your color needs. You can make Blade-Interactive match any of your skins.
This pack contains two different variations of Blade-Interactive: The DS version, with a radial drop shadow behind the graphics (as depicted in the card above), and a clean version without said radial, for those who like a clean contrast to the blacks.
NOTE:
Blade-interactive is limited by the XP Windows interface, and can only allow single color options. That said, `emciem has checked it on Ubuntu (who supports gradients), and it works great!
I've been informed that color customization does not work on the Mac OSX Tiger, or on Windows Vista. The wallpaper will load, but you'll be restricted to using it with a black background.
'08 Update for Xp Issues: It's come to my attention that several Xp users are having difficulties making BLADE work correctly. If you've tried all of the above and it's still not working properly, I've been told that having your desktop icons enabled could solve the problem.
Big thanks to ~mcrilla for the new info.
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I'm currently Still looking into a workaround with Vista, who does not support PNG images as wallpapers.
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Special thanks to ~CyberwasteFX and $FallenRox for their aid in testing!
Also, ~CyberwasteFX has put together his own version of this wallpaper pack using my original resources. For those of you interested, click here:BLADE-THE-CYBERVISION-MIX.
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XP Instructions:
Open your Control Panel and choose Display. From the Display panel, choose the Desktop tab. Use the Browse button, and choose the Blade pack from where you have saved it. Once you've applied the wallpaper, make sure you have the dropdown box set for CENTERED (or the colors may not change), and choose whichever color you'd like from the button marked COLOR. Click Apply, and you're finished!-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
No stock used. Finished in PhotoshopCSIIIext.
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Sta.sh
I have a question does this work on windows 7? I have tried the steps that you have posted for other issues but still have a solid black color through out the transperancy. is there a special trick? or it simply wont work. thanks again
kind regards
Not sure if you tried it----but I know on XP, the piece had to be set for "centered" (ie retain it's exact size in pixles) in order to allow the transparency to work.
If the desktop properties were set for "stretch" or "tile" for the wallpaper, it would place the wall, but have no transparency. Don't have W7, so don't know if that's applicable... but I thought I'd toss it out there.
Thanks for all the feedback. Much appreciated!