Wallpaper
From Digital Alterity Wiki
Back when I was playing with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop an awful lot, I made these background images to keep my desktop interesting. These days I tend to just use photographs I take as backgrounds, but if the web server logs are any indication, many people still find and use these images on their own computers.
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Apple Logo in Space
This background was absurdly simple to make. I had a vector Apple logo hanging around from when I created it for another project. I just placed the Illustrator file into Photoshop, screwed around a bit with transparency, and created my star field using a trick I learned from reading Scott Kelby. In spite of its simplicity, it's still one of my favorite backgrounds that I've ever created.
Fountain
I took this picture of a fountain while staying at the Wyndham Resort in Orlando. The camera was on a timed exposure at about midday, resting on the lip of the fountain.
Hello Kitty Rising Sun
I originally threw together this background back when I made the Hello Kitty used in my Starry Angel illustration. I've never been all that fond of using the Starry Angel illustration as a background because the outlines look terrible to my color blind eyes when viewed on top of the dark blue background color. I threw this little bit of fun together using the flag from my Ninja illustration. This illustration is by far the most popular image ever on Bactroid.net.
Moogle
I created this background back when I first made the moogle illustration. I wanted a way to put my cute litle moogle on my desktop so that I could quickly admire it with Exposé. I just put him on a glaring pink background and added the word Kupo in Photoshop, adding a stroke to the type layer to get the outlining just right. The typeface is acutally Jester-24pt. I've had Jester around ever since I found it on a free website back when I was taking little pieces of the Internet home from high school on floppy disks.
Slytherin Seal
I originally did an illustration of the Slytherin House Seal some time ago. I decided to turn it into a full-fledged desktop wallpaper when I decided to create a desktop wallpaper section of Digital Alterity. I antiqued the seal by meshing together several different procedures that I saw online and in Photoshop trick books. None of them was giving me quite the result I was looking for. I ended up giving the logo sort of a sepia tone and created dust and scratches through a combination of adding noise, gaussian blur, and some distort effects. The flames were all done by hand using a combination of the liquify tool and various layer blending modes. The green smoke is nothing more than a Photoshop cloud render.
