deskthority

Sure, just try some crops yourself. I did enough yesterday… (I'd start playing the world's smallest violin, but there's a waiting list.)

yup, but win eror i cant open photoshop if not i've crop it
yeah the header is depiction of muri now

webwit wrote: ↑https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sou ... op+picture

thanks

or http://www.nomacs.org/

I believe the worst keyboard on the planet deserves a place on the header

Very nice header need more water theme

this last one is very nice

btw when i click images for header it automaticaly/preview the header changes, its new feature?

Not quite:

http://deskthority.net/post34299.html#p34299

Although I see there is a wiki page for these I didn't even know about and haven't been updating. So join the TL;DR club!

I made a header crop of the springs ماء mentioned, but from a similar picture, let's see how it looks:
Some caps of the dirty beam spring keyboard i got recently:
And an weird perspective of IBM caps:

Springs is nice. SSK could use darker area on the left behind the logo. (Try shooting again from the reverse angle. The function row looks a good choice.) And I've no idea what all that grey's about on the other one! Badly exported Photoshop layers?

I like them all madhias, I don't mind if the contrast with the DT logo is low actually

It is no problem with layers, didn't work here with layers! It should be a cropped image with lots of grey. Like this:



The SSK image i don't really like that much, it was some shot from a studio session, maybe i'll do it again, let's see!

madhias wrote: ↑I made a header crop of the springs ماء mentioned, but from a similar picture, let's see how it looks:

DT_Header_BeamSprings3.jpg

And an weird perspective of IBM caps:

i like this like hidden keycaps

Ah, looks more confused when you're an administrator…

Well, that's the load an administrator has to carry

Oh, I see why this one was selected! The background looks like a Scottish tartan. In fact, it looks a bit like the tartan of... the Muir clan!



Oh yeah... we're on to you, Muirium.

(just kidding - I like the header )

My sect has additional duck motifs worked into the main clan pattern…

here are some of my shots as headers, update 1:
I like the F barrel in preview. Works well in my opinion. That speccy header is great matt3o! Love it.

#2 is okay. The Alps switches shot could use the focus on the right half of the picture, with blur behind the DT logo. Those work best.

I like #6: Cryillic AEK, but the colours are too grim. Needs a nicer light, or some tweaking I suppose.

Matt's Spectrum header would be better without the fake blur. (Blur is depth, and that's so flat it screams out fake to me!) I can play around with the original image if I lay my hands on it!

Muirium wrote: ↑#2 is okay. The Alps switches shot could use the focus on the right half of the picture, with blur behind the DT logo. Those work best.

I like #6: Cryillic AEK, but the colours are too grim. Needs a nicer light, or some tweaking I suppose.

Yup I´ll have to play around a little with those. Their not right yet!

#1 is awesome! Ceramic gold pin chip, nice wavy traces, nice lighting on the "naked cage" - I love it.

Logo readability isn't great though. But might be worth it in this case. I really do prefer authentic images over gradients and other fakery.

The best formulas for great DT headers are: put something solid coloured at the left, like a desk or a shadow; or focus on the right of the picture and get a nice smooth blur on the left. You want a smooth, preferably dark background for the header text.

I agree, the DT logo is not singled out in those. But I can resize and recrop. Sorry mr_a500 the chip got cut for logo space!
Still needs some more work though.

The Alps are much better!

Of course, you can simply make new posts to update the pictures. The thread remains easier to read that way. Not every image in here is guaranteed to make the cut. I'm the judge, after all!

Muirium wrote: ↑The Alps are much better!

Of course, you can simply make new posts to update the pictures. The thread remains easier to read that way. Not every image in here is guaranteed to make the cut. I'm the judge, after all!

right but those images in my first try were really useless. I´ll make new posts with new pictures from now on.

I put the two I think are good enough into rotation now:

http://deskthority.net/headers.php

Not a bad attempt!

Hey thanks! There's always room for self improvement.

Arg. What happened to the one I liked?

I agree that the logo readability wasn't the best, but it had all the elements I liked. Can't we find another crop for it?