[Becca]

Tired of a boring computer desktop background? Join Becca and angelaNussbaum today at 5pm MT to learn how to use your digital goodies to make a personalized one! Every month, we give you a challenge and a theme for inspiration!

In honor of the "Camping" day here at SG Staycation, your theme is to scrap the "Great Outdoors" or photos of "roughing it!" For the added challenge, use some grunge brushes or papers somewhere on your desktop to mimic "roughing it!"

Upload your desktops to this gallery - Staycation 2010 Gallery -- and then come back here and share a link to it!

Some instructions to get you started...

PC Directions:
To get the size you need for your layout, right-click anywhere on your desktop. A menu will pop up, select Properties (or for Vista, it will say "Personalize"). In Properties select Settings. There you should see a sliding bar for Screen Resolution. Under that you will see something like "1440 by 900pixels". Write that down and click Cancel.

For Windows XP users, right-click anywhere on your desktop, go to Properties> Settings. You will see a sliding bar for "Screen Resolution." Write those numbers down and click Cancel.

For Windows Vista users, right-click anywhere on your desktop, go to Personalize> Settings.

For Windows 7 users, right-click anywhere on your desktop, and choose Screen Resolution.

Open your scrapbooking software, and create a new image in the size of your screen resolution (For example, mine is 1280x800). You don't have to scrap at 300dpi for your desktop (you can use 72dpi), but if you do, you can print that layout later!

When you're designing your desktop, remember to leave space for your icons! When you finish, save a copy as a JPG. (Make sure it's a copy, you want your original layered file in case you want to make changes.) Open up the folder you saved your JPG in, find the right file, and then right-click and choose "Set As Desktop Background".

MAC Instructions (Provided by Zaz, THANKS!):
Go to System Preferences and click on Display. Here you will find the dimensions of your desktop. It will also warn you if the size you have chosen will stretch your image.

I save my image to the desktop and change it at System Preferences (click on Desktop).

[Becca]

I kinda ran out of time with my desktop, so here's my 'unfinished' version. I wanted to add some more photos on here and a bit more embellis... I'll try to finish it up before tonight's chat. Promise!

August Desktop

[Belle]

Would love to do the chat, but it's much too late for me. Hope everyone enjoys the chat.

[SodScrap]

Becca, on 29 July 2010 - 09:44 AM, said:

I kinda ran out of time with my desktop, so here's my 'unfinished' version. I wanted to add some more photos on here and a bit more embellis... I'll try to finish it up before tonight's chat. Promise!

August Desktop

LSL-it's a beautiful desktop. Thanks for the reminder of how to find the monitor size. I hope to be there, but not sure if the timing will work or not......

[mjaguiar]

Becca,
Here is my layout for today's challenge. Thanks for a fun one!


August Desktop

[SodScrap]

Leaving in a few minutes for an appointment...hope to be back in time. Well, I should be back in time except the family will expect to eat dinner!! LOL Hmmmmmm.....do I really have to feed them? I mean REALLY???

[princessrunningfingers]

I came home from stitching and managed to get this one done for tonight's challenge. It doesn't represent roughing it, but I did use a grunge brush. TFL

August Desktop