I’ve had a widescreen monitor at work now for almost a year. A while back I discovered something that I’ve had a lot of fun with. I found that with a bigger monitor, my windows desktop accumulated a lot of icons and I had no particular order for them. I never could find anything I needed. So, I decided to create a little order out of the chaos. Using Photoshop, I created a background for my desktop that had all the categories that I needed and a few additions as well. It provides a neat effect. Here’s the one I currently have on my machine…Click the image for a larger view.
I’ve done two other versions as well.
This was the first one I ever did.
I kept that one for a long time before moving to this one:
But for some reason I didn’t like the second one as much, so I ended up with the one I showed you first. It makes for a nice change from the standard Windows Desktop look and feel. Plus, I get lots of comments from co-workers who see it. 