Solid Wood: Wallpaper
Those of you following my Flickr stream might already know that I was working on a new wallpaper set called “Solid Wood”. And guess what… once again it’s not just a set of wallpapers, but a complete devkit :P
Customizing
So make sure you download the devkit, customize it and illuminate your desktop. Btw you might argue that the menu bar of Mac OS covers parts of the lights… well that was actually the intention ;)
So if you resize the wallpaper in Photoshop, make sure that you use “canvas size” rather than “image size”. Otherwise the lights would also be resized and thus may be covered completely by the menu bar… which won’t look that good.
Official BD Wallpaper
Btw if you’re just interested in the official Bartelme Design wallpaper, you may download it right here. Enjoy.
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Wolfgang October 28, 2007 at 09:24 AM
Oh sorry – you were way too fast :) The upload of the ZIP file is not finished yet.
William Wilkinson October 28, 2007 at 09:36 AM
Thanks so much for this!
Michael October 28, 2007 at 11:33 AM
With which licence is it released? :)
Sam Brown October 28, 2007 at 12:39 PM
Gorgeous work as usual Wolfgang, love your work.
Gregor October 28, 2007 at 02:08 PM
This is looks amazing – as usual! Thank you!
Unique October 28, 2007 at 02:41 PM
Happy to see something in other color then blue ;)
Great work, I already set it on my laptop. Feels relaxing and reminds me quite about Ubuntu desktop.
squawk October 28, 2007 at 02:44 PM
Looks very nice. It will be interisting to see what the lights look like on Leopard, because the menu bar is slightly seethrough…
Caitlyn Imburgo October 28, 2007 at 04:14 PM
Amazing release, Bartelme. I’m using it on my Macintosh now. :)
Oli October 28, 2007 at 04:55 PM
Wie immer fantastisch!
Danke, Wolfgang!
SasaVtec October 28, 2007 at 07:23 PM
Another great release Wolfgang, thank you very much :)
Todd Fraser October 28, 2007 at 09:00 PM
Looks great! I love the lighting effect. This could get people’s computer screens to match their IKEA furniture :P
I wish it came in 2560×1600. It would be nice for a DevKit to start at the largest possible size and allow everyone to resize down from there. :)
Matthew October 28, 2007 at 09:36 PM
tut tut, is that 1 post a year? :P
Frippe October 28, 2007 at 10:23 PM
Ah, downloading it now again. Thought it was a little small in size. Maybe I should stop checking your site so many times a day :)
Andreas October 28, 2007 at 10:47 PM
Great work as usual :)
You should also post a tutorial for how it was made. I’m sure it would be helpful for a lot of people, including me.
Fath October 29, 2007 at 10:59 AM
Great job! as always :)
Andy Macht October 29, 2007 at 12:53 PM
Langsam nimmt die Devkit-VVeröffentlichung ja wieder fahrt auf :)
Adrian October 29, 2007 at 03:40 PM
As always, thanks for sharing :)
J. Houk October 29, 2007 at 05:28 PM
A proper post. Your Devkits are always a great inspiration. Thank you for your selfless designs.
Tobi October 29, 2007 at 10:28 PM
Great Wallpaper! My transparent menubar in Leopard looks very cool now :)
Lynne October 30, 2007 at 12:00 AM
So glad I came across your site. These kits are real time savers.
Lynne
MacGeek Pro October 30, 2007 at 01:38 AM
Thanks a lot, Wolfgang!
Jen Germann October 30, 2007 at 05:55 AM
Thanks very much for this, Wolfgang!
Brandon Walkin October 30, 2007 at 05:55 PM
This looks great.
I couldn’t find any information about the license it’s under. Can developers use it in their apps?
Nick Toye October 30, 2007 at 06:31 PM
Hmm, not really a fan of this and the transparent menu bar in Leopard.
It looked cool in Tiger, not so sure in Leopard.
Adrian October 30, 2007 at 08:40 PM
This is great!
Tip for Leopard users who don’t like the transparency – modify the desktop image to have a solid colored bar underneath where the menu pixels are. Problem solved.
Tip for Wolfgang – your form validation isn’t working too well. I missed out my email (it doesn’t tell me it’s required) then I got a blank page with just the validation error and no way to go back (neither browser back and the link on the page would work).
pickupjojo November 01, 2007 at 12:22 AM
Thank you so much for sharing!
Steven November 01, 2007 at 06:03 PM
Great job Wolfgang:-)
+uo+p November 01, 2007 at 09:45 PM
it`s very nice
Doufer November 02, 2007 at 07:44 PM
Very very nice!
I’m playing with it now.
Hans Gartner November 03, 2007 at 07:01 PM
Wow, wirklich ein hübsches Wallpaper, habs direkt installiert.
Danke!
Juggser November 05, 2007 at 01:21 AM
it looks amazing unusual – as usual! great wallpaper!!!
Dave Butler November 05, 2007 at 06:12 AM
Wolfgang thanks for the release. More stuff for me to tweak for my design work.
Mick November 06, 2007 at 10:44 PM
Another bute! Nice job…
James November 06, 2007 at 11:05 PM
Looks like there is a watermark in the lower 3rd of the wood. What does it say?
I’m a huge fan of yours. Thanks for your inspiration.
Benni Graf November 06, 2007 at 11:18 PM
Sadly it doesn’t fit to my Windows-Theme (Royale) as good as the last Wallpaper-DevKit did. Actually this is a good reason for buying a Mac, though… ;-)
Thanks! Benni.
Maya November 07, 2007 at 07:39 PM
Respekt! Wirklich fantastisch gemacht Wolfgang man sieht du verstehst dein Handwerk. Mal sehen ob ich davon was vielleicht in einem unserer nächsten Prospekte verwenden kann, Holz ist für uns natürlich mehr als passend ;-) Super!
Gary November 09, 2007 at 09:14 AM
Wow this looks great, Finally got rid of my computer make freebie logo wallpaper :)
KleinerKoch November 09, 2007 at 12:49 PM
Wie geht’s eigentlich mit Cookbook voran?
simon November 10, 2007 at 03:59 AM
Spitzen Wallpaper,
danke fuer deine Muehe.
PZR November 12, 2007 at 04:29 PM
Great, that is amazing. Thanks :-)
Bob November 13, 2007 at 09:19 PM
Awesome! Just found this site with all those dev-kits, amazing – I’m sure to come back
Rustybones November 16, 2007 at 03:21 AM
Hey mate, just thought I would give you a heads up, both of your feeds are broken (Journal and Sidenotes). Tried it out in Firefox and gave me a error on line 1.
Aside from that nice devkit :)
Wolfgang November 16, 2007 at 05:18 PM
Yeah feeds were randomly broken after upgrading to ExpressionEngine 1.6. I hope this bug is fixed in 1.6.1 which I’ve just installed :)
Aaron November 17, 2007 at 12:51 PM
Wood is awesome! Thank you Wolfgang.
Karl November 17, 2007 at 02:54 PM
Wow, this looks so real, just love the lightning. Now i don’t know which one to install, this one or the coloured one :)
JayCustom November 18, 2007 at 03:19 AM
Very well done, and also very rare…was using a self made photoshop version until now. Thanks for sharing.
Gunnar Mattiasson November 18, 2007 at 10:04 PM
Awsome! How about a tutorial to show us how it’s done?
opisy November 20, 2007 at 12:34 PM
Thanks for the new wallpaper! Great work!
ivan November 21, 2007 at 12:17 PM
Please, could someone help with resizing the image to see the lights
HFdesign November 21, 2007 at 12:51 PM
@ Ivan, what type of program do you use to view the wall paper?
Ivan November 21, 2007 at 11:31 PM
I’ve tried resizing it with Photoshop CS2 using “canvas size” like the screenshot of the instructions.
But after doing it no change is done. I’m not professional with photoshop, so maybe I’m not doing it ok.
Ewald Natter November 23, 2007 at 09:10 PM
Thanks Wolfgang! I liked it so much that I’m using it for my website’s new footer. Hope you don’t mind. Put a link to your site though.
Thanks again for a lovely devkit!
Andy November 24, 2007 at 11:20 AM
wirklich klasse gemacht das teil. häufig sehen mir diese “fakes” einfach zu digital aus doch dein wallpaper hat etwas angenehm warmes, ist schwer zu beschreiben, jedenfalls einfach gut!
HFdesign November 24, 2007 at 04:09 PM
@ Ivan, You should first resize the image (image-> image size) and then you can resize the canvas (image -> canvas size) That should solve your problem
Zeb November 24, 2007 at 04:59 PM
Downloaded.. Excellent wallpaper!
Webdesign Nijmegen November 24, 2007 at 11:52 PM
Great stuff, that’s going to make some fine background on my wooden desk :)
pro-seo November 27, 2007 at 10:45 PM
Klasse Teil , spitzen Wallpaper .
Danke
Playa Ingles November 27, 2007 at 10:52 PM
Klasse Arbeit, weiter so .
Marv November 29, 2007 at 02:46 PM
Sehr schön, wollte schon immer einen “Holzdesktop” haben ( ;
Gute Arbeit, Dankeschön.
Myspace Layouts November 30, 2007 at 08:25 PM
This looks amazing, as per usual, your work never fails to impress me. I think you should do one for rusty metal or old paper, or something funky like that… please keep up the great work – take care!
Marty.
John Yellow December 03, 2007 at 12:09 AM
A really nice work. Thanks! Brown is undoubtedly my favourite color :)
tom December 04, 2007 at 11:43 AM
Feine Arbeit! weiter so!
Ryan December 05, 2007 at 05:29 AM
good
James Burt December 05, 2007 at 09:25 PM
Very cool!
Aukcje December 08, 2007 at 02:04 PM
Brilliant idea. Thanks for very interesting article. btw. I really enjoyed reading all of your articles. It’s interesting to read ideas, and observations from someone else’s point of view… makes you think more. Greetings
Webdesign Berlin December 11, 2007 at 03:43 PM
Exzellent!
Aber bei mir hat der Link nicht funktioniert. Schade…:(
Avasilcai Daniel December 12, 2007 at 02:12 PM
Ich mag alle deine wallpaper…
klaus December 16, 2007 at 05:11 PM
Das Wallpaper im Holzdesign passt zum Thema meines Blogs. Klasse Arbeit!
Gruss
Klaus
Michael December 20, 2007 at 02:45 PM
Sehr schönes Wallpaper. Die Holzmaserung strahlt einfach eine angenehme Wärme aus. Vielen Dank für Deine Mühe!
SEO Black Hat December 22, 2007 at 12:33 AM
Very nice to share your great work with us, thanks a lot !
drcetinerdotorg December 23, 2007 at 08:01 PM
Thanks again for a lovely devkit!