By request, a desktop background…
Posted May 28th, 2008 by Howard TaylerIt’s been a while since I’ve done one of these. DJ Delorie on the Nightstar forum demanded a desktop background from today’s strip, and (as is rarely the case) it was fairly easy to format it. Of course it was also very tedious since my upgrade to Photoshop CS3 ate the macros I’d created for automating this stuff.
The desktops are available in three aspect ratios and several resolutions, shown below:
- 4:3
- 5:4
- Cinema (1.6:1)
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May 29th, 2008 at 12:44 am
OK, someone’s gotta make a Schlock Mercenary movie! Schlock flying through the air is a damn sight more entertaining than Iron Man doing the same thing!
May 29th, 2008 at 1:59 am
Except he would jiggle more than a 500 pound shut-in doing the macarena. Warning: Do not watch this movie while eating.
May 29th, 2008 at 3:31 am
Darn you payday! Why must you make me wait for the Schlocky goodness.
May 29th, 2008 at 10:21 am
Hey! A man after my own heart! Yeee-hah!
May 29th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
can you get the picture without the Yeee-HAH! ?
May 29th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
Schlock doing ANYTHING damn sight more entertaining!
SHLOCK: The Movie!
What’s Shrek got that the Sargeant don’t?
May 29th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
Thanks Howard! Schlock has officially displaced Mario on my desktop.
For the mathematically challenged (does the mathematically-challenged Schlock reader actually exist?), if you have a widescreen (16:10) monitor, you want the Cinematic 1.6:1 version.
May 29th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
Howard, I really was liking how the story was going, how you fit the super awesome power armor into the story, and then Schlock dual wields two plasma cannons in rocket mode. You are really on your game this month.
May 29th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
P.S. If you use Mac OS X 10.5, you’ll find that the top of Schlock’s speech bubble is under the menu bar, which looks awful. Luckily I grabbed the big version, so I can do a custom crop that better fits the Mac environment.
May 30th, 2008 at 12:11 am
@EnOne: I’m sorry, the text is part of the line-art layers, and I color around the lines, not through them. Dropping it out would mean re-coloring the background — not a huge task, but it would definitely mean another two hours of image prep to get all those resolutions done.
Short answer: It’s possible, but I have other things to work on now.
May 30th, 2008 at 3:31 am
Right now, I’m trying to crop it for my PDA Phone.
Looks AWESOME on my desktop right now. As soon as I have it on my phone too, my life will be totally Schlock-synced.
May 30th, 2008 at 7:09 am
@Howard Tayler: That’s ok, I didn’t know if it was part of the picture or a layer on top of the picture.
May 30th, 2008 at 7:26 am
@WEKM If you’ll tell me what resolution your phone uses (if ANYBODY can tell me that!) I’ll include that in future cuts of desktops.
June 3rd, 2008 at 3:16 am
320×240
240×320
because my phone does both landscape and portrait