Does anyone have any good sites to find free dual monitor wall paper? I am sick of looking at the windows default background.
I have dual monitors in both my office, and at home, and whatever wallpaper I use is duplicated on both. You should be able to apply any image as your background. Your graphics card probably supports the ability to stretch your display accross both monitors. I wouldn't recommend it, though cuz It's kind of difficult to navigate when you're running programs.
Yeah, what I am talking about though is wallpaper that is designed for dual monitors. It is already in a ratio that stretches it natrually across 2 monitors. I know Digital Blasphemy has these but I was looking to see if anyone knew of any free ones. I am not real interested in paying $12 for one image.
I use small pics and tile them across my monitors, plus I don’t have to worry about finding wallpapers at the right rez. I do have the Hot in Houston wallpaper Clutch did this summer on my PC for a few months, but I just got it at 800X600 and tiled it too..
Scroll through these if you like National Geographic. I change mine every couple of days to this site. National Geographic Pic of the day
Maybe you can try taking a high-quality normal wallpaper image (I'll pretend that both your monitors are 1024 x 768), go into Photoshop*, blow it up to 200% (2048 x 1536) using bicubic resampling, and then make a 2048 x 768 selection of the part of the image you want to keep. For example, if you wanted to use Clutch's "Better Not Go Inside" wallpaper, you could trim away the bodies and just have Stro, T-Mac, and Yao's faces staring you down. If it was some sort of abstract image, you could keep whatever part you like the most. * or just about any program more advanced than MS Paint
Then I have the site for you. I found it just this last week - it has dual monitor images and triptych images. You will have to select the monitor size for yourself and paste the two images together though - I used paintshop pro. It's really not a lot of work and the result is worth it. Make sure to set your desktop background to tile to get the correct result. http://mandolux.mine.nu/archive/ Enjoy!
NASA images of the day... they are all super-high resolution. http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/index.html
DAMN! Digitalblasphemy is awesome! There are some badass pics there that I'd like to have hanging on my wall.
Dual monitors is kind of like Tivo: Once you've gotten used to it you can never go back to "the old way". For example, if you ever do any work where you have to look at data in one window and work on data in another it is SO convenient to have the source info open on one monitor and the working data open in the other. Creating web sites is one example (web page editor in the main monitor; pictures or test web browser open on the other). Another example would be following knowledge base instructions. It's so easy to have the KB article open on one monitor while your editing your registry or manipulating permissions on the other.
