# Link To Your Desktop Background Pic **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 14, 2013, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-to-your-desktop-background-pic/658298 "2013-05-14T04:58:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Pixel\_Dent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@Pixel\_Dent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixel_Dent)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-to-your-desktop-background-pic/658298/41 "2013-05-14T19:30:40Z")
[It’s very exciting](http://www.geocities.ws/kiraseldon/screentones/gray_lines.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-to-your-desktop-background-pic/658298/42 "2013-05-14T19:57:13Z")
From a previous thread here, [this photo of a five year old girl](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/02/19/article-2280946-17A86061000005DC-58_964x637.jpg) peeling potatoes done in a “Dutch Master” style. Larger and without watermark, of course. ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-to-your-desktop-background-pic/658298/43 "2013-05-14T20:03:58Z")
No judging 😛 [![](http://images.fanpop.com/images/image_uploads/Hello-Kitty-hello-kitty-181851_1024_768.jpg) ](http://images.fanpop.com/images/image_uploads/Hello-Kitty-hello-kitty-181851_1024_768.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-to-your-desktop-background-pic/658298/44 "2013-05-14T20:33:32Z")
[Mine here at work](http://i.imgur.com/D0Ztb9P.jpg), it stretches across dual monitors. ---
**Author:** ![BigDadWolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@BigDadWolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigDadWolf)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-to-your-desktop-background-pic/658298/45 "2013-05-14T20:39:14Z")
Here’s mine - I have had it for years and rather like the effect. [trinity college library](http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120707133625/starwars/images/e/ed/Trinity-college-library-dub.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-to-your-desktop-background-pic/658298/46 "2013-05-14T21:51:01Z")
[I’m actually rather overdue for a new one.](http://cdn.ientry.com/sites/webpronews/article_pics/sendak_avengers.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Arrogance\_Ex\_Machina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrogance_ex_machina/32/192_2.png) [@Arrogance\_Ex\_Machina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrogance_Ex_Machina)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-to-your-desktop-background-pic/658298/47 "2013-05-14T22:30:24Z")
Using [this picture](http://www.krillbite.com/g/UpdateScreenshot_03.png) from Among the Sleep Kickstarter - I haven’t backed the game but loved that picture. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-to-your-desktop-background-pic/658298/48 "2013-05-14T23:18:49Z")
[C-GVRA](http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h207/mnems/AvroLancaster_zps29eaeead.jpg), the Avro Lancaster at the Warplane Heritage Museum in Hamilton, Ontario. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-to-your-desktop-background-pic/658298/49 "2013-05-15T00:32:34Z")
[This is mine](http://i.imgur.com/HBmL92T.jpg), it’s a screenshot from the game Planetside 2. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-to-your-desktop-background-pic/658298/50 "2013-05-15T00:36:30Z")
On the laptop I’m typing this on, I have one of Microsoft’s stock images. But on my PC at work, I have this picture of [Marco Scutaro celebrating in the rain](http://www.bayareasportsguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Marco-Scutaro-SF-Giants-NLCS-MVP-rain.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-to-your-desktop-background-pic/658298/51 "2013-05-15T00:46:23Z")
> [@Gagundathar](#): > > [http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag18/Gagundathar/AlmostHome4\_zps4122475c.png](http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag18/Gagundathar/AlmostHome4_zps4122475c.png) > > This is my own work. Comments are appreciated. Damn, that’s good work! I go to science fiction conventions and have been a fine art appraiser for 14 years, and this is finished, professional and you really ought to do something with a talent like this! ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-to-your-desktop-background-pic/658298/52 "2013-05-15T00:50:21Z")
nm ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-to-your-desktop-background-pic/658298/53 "2013-05-15T02:17:28Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > I still use the venerable Microsoft [Azul](http://img1.jurko.net/wall/paper/azul.jpg) photo. Reminds me of my favorite vacation spot in Jamaica. Yup. I’ve used this one for at least a decade on every computer whose desktop I’ve had control of until I eventually changed it to [this](http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e266/WryOnRye/shark0201_800x5421.jpg), also an ocean picture, but slightly cooler because it’s real photograph of a shark closely tailing a guy in a kayak. My cell phone desktop picture is one of the stock photos that came with my phone of an ocean background with a big blue sky on top. I guess I like what I like. I’ve been using [this eclipse photo](http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e266/WryOnRye/eclipse.jpg) as my desktop for maybe four years now, but I’m usually a sucker for blue seas and skies. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-to-your-desktop-background-pic/658298/54 "2013-05-15T02:57:47Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > [Mine here at work](http://i.imgur.com/D0Ztb9P.jpg), it stretches across dual monitors. Dual monitors to accommodate the cool desktop, or the cool desktop because there are dual monitors? Either works.🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-to-your-desktop-background-pic/658298/55 "2013-05-15T03:00:08Z")
I’m that dad, so I tend to have a picture of one or both of my kids. [My current picture is kind of awesome](http://www.flickr.com/photos/7386791@N03/8735006361/), if I do say so myself. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-to-your-desktop-background-pic/658298/56 "2013-05-15T03:03:39Z")
I change mine a lot, but currently it’s [this](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0BaIPEpIhHU/Tatm4CyF3XI/AAAAAAAABAA/Bu8UVNpEB_I/s1600/dc-shoes.jpg), altered to remove the ®, the star, and shorten the top vertical line on the “D” so it matches the “C”. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-to-your-desktop-background-pic/658298/57 "2013-05-15T06:07:12Z")
If you’re gonna make a desktop pattern, [why not do it with some style?!](http://cmykev.tumblr.com/post/50480786813/bttf) ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-to-your-desktop-background-pic/658298/58 "2013-05-15T06:14:06Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Damn, that’s good work! I go to science fiction conventions and have been a fine art appraiser for 14 years, and this is finished, professional and you really ought to do something with a talent like this! My goodness, thanks for the compliment! I have quite a number of pieces but this one is set for my desktop resolution. Maybe I should share them somewhere. Just not on FaceBook. Urgh. Thanks, Prof. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-to-your-desktop-background-pic/658298/59 "2013-05-15T06:41:44Z")
> [@April\_R](#): > > No judging 😛 > [http://images.fanpop.com/images/image\_uploads/Hello-Kitty-hello-kitty-181851\_1024\_768.jpg](http://images.fanpop.com/images/image_uploads/Hello-Kitty-hello-kitty-181851_1024_768.jpg) Hello Kitty is awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-to-your-desktop-background-pic/658298/60 "2013-05-15T09:41:05Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > On the laptop I’m typing this on, I have one of Microsoft’s stock images. But on my PC at work, I have this picture of [Marco Scutaro celebrating in the rain](http://www.bayareasportsguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Marco-Scutaro-SF-Giants-NLCS-MVP-rain.jpg). Awesome - that was Game 7 of the 2012 NLCS when the Giants beat the Cardinals, 9-0. It was a long wait for Scutaro to eventually get his first World Series ring. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-to-your-desktop-background-pic/658298.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-to-your-desktop-background-pic/658298.md?page=4)