Wanted something with a bit more character to it than my usual 
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Post Your Desktop: January 2023
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Nice, I played the various editions of Tomb Raider for so many years. Good memories...
New OS (upgraded to Monterey from Big Sur) means new desktop background
![OS.png]( "OS.png")
Every Extend Extra - upgraded in Pixelmator with Machine Learning and added a few color adjustments too
Theme is LickelCobalt - Not a NickelCobalt theme at all - it just has a similar name. I could never come close to a style like NickelCobalt which is a theme that's nearly 20 years old.
Talk about me being stuck in the past.
I have a lot of work to do still.
Icons are of course MINIUM2 from Sascha Höhne
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Theme is LickelCobalt - Not a NickelCobalt theme at all - it just has a similar name. I could never come close to a style like NickelCobalt which is a theme that's nearly 20 years old.
Talk about me being stuck in the past.
I have a lot of work to do still.
Icons are of course MINIUM2 from Sascha Höhne
Ha! - Glad you likee.
The Jewel case is an image (png) I applied with Photostickies
The album art is displayed behind with Silicio
Both on the app store.
The glass panes I made with Bryce 3d
wait, so you use 2 apps so the album shows along with the jewelcase? may I suggest you use ubersicht https://tracesof.net/uebersicht/ — you can customize the look of the player and build your own theme and just have the jewelcase image load in one same app.
btw, would you share the jewelcase png so I can try it, please?
Decided to follow @bhtwo but with Sleeve 2 and a home-made backdrop applied with PhotoStickies
The music controls appears over the album artwork in my edit
Wallpaper called "Tender" is from Sascha Höhne's old website (via some time spent on Wayback Machine)
It has been upscaled and de-banded using Pixelmator Pro.
No theme this time around
![Screen Shot 2023-01-18 at 20.26.46.png]( "Screen Shot 2023-01-18 at 20.26.46.png")
The music controls appears over the album artwork in my edit
Wallpaper called "Tender" is from Sascha Höhne's old website (via some time spent on Wayback Machine)
It has been upscaled and de-banded using Pixelmator Pro.
No theme this time around
Sorry... could not resist.
Yellow is not one of my favourite colours.. Lol!
I have the desktop to rotate them daily but it loses the duo colours on the HEIC files... weird?
Any suggestions?
![yellow.jpg]( "yellow.jpg")
Yellow is not one of my favourite colours.. Lol!
I have the desktop to rotate them daily but it loses the duo colours on the HEIC files... weird?
Any suggestions?
So, if I understand you correctly, you have several variations of this background picture, all .HEIC files with a light and a dark version. And your rotation uses the light versions only, while skipping the dark versions.
Is this the issue that you're describing in your question?
Just thinking out loud here, and I could be completely wrong
I like to think of these .HEIC files as image files (bundles) with several layers inside them. These layers could hold simple light/dark variants, or one image for each hour of the day (like p.e. the Ventura one).
Apart from the first (the top layer so to speak), all the following layers/images are exclusively triggered by either the chosen System Display Setting or the hour of the day.
In that context, the rotation routine would not be able to grab them from inside the stack of layers, in order to show them separately as a background image at any given time or circumstance.
If you like to see them all, my guess is you have to save them as separate image files - preferably in a dedicated folder inside your User's Pictures folder.
Thanks for that Gerrit - great analysis.Just thinking out loud here, and I could be completely wrong
I like to think of these .HEIC files as image files (bundles) with several layers inside them. These layers could hold simple light/dark variants, or one image for each hour of the day (like p.e. the Ventura one).
Apart from the first (the top layer so to speak), all the following layers/images are exclusively triggered by either the chosen System Display Setting or the hour of the day.
In that context, the rotation routine would not be able to grab them from inside the stack of layers, in order to show them separately as a background image at any given time or circumstance.
If you like to see them all, my guess is you have to save them as separate image files - preferably in a dedicated folder inside your User's Pictures folder.
Edit.. also, welcome back to the year 2004 apparently. This screenshot looks really weird after seeing many of other users post theirs..
Felt inspired to post a screenshot after working a bit on some icons(only a few seen on the desktop)
Wallpaper is Animal Reign 3 by m4de
cDock is back in a new release for Ventura users too, and as such I was obligated to install and apply one of my old themes. Because why not?! cDock 5.1 beta is available on macEnhance Discord or on GitHub
![Screen Shot 2023-01-23 at 00.49.53.png]( "Screen Shot 2023-01-23 at 00.49.53.png")
ciao
Felt inspired to post a screenshot after working a bit on some icons(only a few seen on the desktop)
Wallpaper is Animal Reign 3 by m4de
cDock is back in a new release for Ventura users too, and as such I was obligated to install and apply one of my old themes. Because why not?!
cDock 5.1 beta is available on macEnhance Discord or on GitHub
ciao
A reused wallpaper, but a classical (imo). My new Mac Studio:
![MCPv2-20230128.png]( "MCPv2-20230128.png")
Not 100% on this but it might be one of Oliur's gradient wallpapers, which is in a paid pack.