I am so happy you added the 1366 x 768 resolution. I bought a new Toshiba laptop a few months ago and the resolution is 1280 x 800 so the wallpapers weren't displaying right. They are much better with the 1366 x 768 resolution. Thank you! Keep up the great work. I am constantly getting comments about my beautiful desktop backgrounds and I tell everyone how wonderful Digital Blasphemy is!

Do you have an inkling when the Multi-Screen Render of Enshrouded would be finished? I know you said it was "not soon", but is it still going or is it canceled in favour of other projects?



Thanks for all the great work!

As an aside, I bet there are a ton of online image resizers, which might be easier for people to use than ImageMagick or other tools. Here's just one I found on a random Google search:



http://www.picresize.com/



I don't particularly endorse it, but it seemed to use some sort of reasonable filtering algorithm when I tried it briefly.



Alternatively, ImageMagick would make it fairly easy for anybody to implement server-side image resizing (for example, on this site itself), although the main issues would be with potential DoS attacks on either CPU or disk space (by automatically submitting endless resizing requests). The resized versions could be deleted after, say, five minutes or so, however, which should give people enough time to download them.



In case it's useful, here's the command-line I use with ImageMagick's "convert" utility to resize images for my online photo album, which yields a good quality resize:



convert -filter Lanczos -set option:filter:lobes 8 -quality 90 -resize 1024x1024> srcfile.jpg dstfile.jpg



That will resize the image maintaining the aspect ratio such that the neither dimension exceeds 1024. You could instead fix a precise dimension as follows:



convert -filter Lanczos -set option:filter:lobes 8 -quality 90 -resize 1024x768 srcfile.jpg dstfile.jpg

I vote for 800x480 or some up-scaled multiple thereof. My 7" EeePC uses that resolution.



Scaling down images is easy enough if there is a source of the right aspect ratio, but the 1.666 of 800x480 doesn't match any of the resolutions you provide.

Scaling is something that should be easy for anyone to do on their computer... Imagemagick provides some very useful tools for image manipulation, including simple resizing, for free. It has binaries for unix, mac osx, and windows. Would you write a small doc on resizing using these simple tools? The great thing about imagemagick is that the syntax is the same across all platforms.

http://imagemagick.com/script/binary-releases.php



The line to resize is:

convert [inputfile] -resize [width]x[height] [outfile]



It's not gui-tastic, granted, but still shouldn't be hard.

Hangin' in there for the tri-screen version of "Enshrouded." That sure is a complex piece, haha.

you let the browser do the scaling? ever?

weird. my OS scales wallpapers to whatever it needs for the desktop, and does a uniformly fantastic job of it.

My new laptop that just arrived a few days ago has exactly the 1366x768 resolution screen, so I'm very pleased. I'm not sure I understand all the stuff about the scaling, but I have noticed that things in IE tend to look better than in Firefox. But I always thought it was Windows that scaled it to the desktop. I usually just zoom in, right click, and set as background. Now that I got the lifetime membership I don't even bother to download the wallpapers, I just visit your site. Love your work!

My laptop uses that resolution, and wow do those eever look a lot nicer! Thanks so much!



And for Patrick, you'll be happy to know that with Windows 7 you'll be able to cycle through wallpapers of your choice automatically; setting the frequency that it changes at, what you'd like included, etc...



Just thought you'd like to know. :)

I understand that perhaps Firefox does not scale images as well as IE. But my question is, why does that matter? You can click the magnifying glass icon and it will zoom to full resolution. Then you just download the wallpaper. The wallpaper is for use on a 1366x768 desktop, and whether you download it from Firefox or IE shouldn't matter. I am currently on such a laptop, and I can continue to download the 1920x1200 resolution for use on my computer. If this is true, then Ryan you need not provide this extra resolution, since pictures with the same ratio will scale down to the same size.

Hey Ryan, love the revised Fluorescence.



I was curious, since you've added mobile resolutions, would you be able to upload a 480x280?

I have a samsung P3 and it's very hard to find wallpapers with that resolution. Please if it's not a lot of trouble that'd be great.



I hope your health is recovering well. Best Wishes.

Ryan, does it create a lot of extra work for you to produce the renders in new resolutions (which seem to be proliferating)? Or is there some way that you automate it, like with Photoshop Actions?

I really appreciate this new resolution. When I got my new laptop I discovered that it used this resolution setting, and any others just looked really distorted. I have been making due with another wide-screen resolution, but it winds up cropped, thus I miss seeing the full image. This new resolution will eliminate that problem for me, and I am really looking forward to watching the complete images cycle through.

Ryan, Thanks for the updated zip files! Wow that was quick. :)

Ryan, I was first shown your site back in 2002 and used the free galleries for a while. In 2003 I bought a one year membership. I forgot about it for a while actually (was in the USAF at the time and Iraq happened) but I did get a few wallpapers so it wasn't a big loss for me. Sadly between then and now, I forgot about your site. I was getting ready to format some old hard drives the other day and going through them found a folder with your work in it. I forgot how good your work was. I looked at your site today and saw how it has improved in the few years since. I just bought a lifetime membership and had to download the zip file with a majority of your in it. All superb. I need to get a program now to cycle your wallpapers around so I can see all of them.



Keep up the good work.

I got 1366x768 resolution and I needed to photoshop all pictures to use as wallpaper :/ Thanks a lot

I agree with Zak in that we...well I, would like an updated Zip file of the 1280x1024 resolution wallpapers. I have one widescreen monitor and one fullscreen monitor at home and would like to easily be able to wallpaper them both with the appropriate resolutions.



Thanks!

I'm still slightly in disbelief that Enshrouded is still rendering. I am duly impressed - but I wonder, is it possible to use something like Amazon's cloud computing service to do distributed computing for this. Must investigate.

I don't worry about it that much, i have the IE tab plugin inside Firefox so I can switch the rendering browser with a single click.

Isn't it annoying to keep finding more resolutions you have to worry about. I remember the good ole days when 1024x768 or 1152x864 was all you needed to cover most screens. ;-)

Thanks Ryan for the additional resolutions... Any chance for an updated zip file for 1280x1024?

Yeah that's crazy FF doesn't scale as well as IE! Never would have expected there to be a difference in that area...



Yet another reason I like IE ;)

I've been wishing for 720p wallpapers for a long time, now they're finally here.

I agree about Firefox not scaling images well. To counter this, I use a Firefox plugin called "IE Tab" that always loads your website using IE's rendering engine. This way I can be be in the Firefix UI, but using the IE engine and "Set as Wallpaper" functionality. It's a good compromise. Keep up the great work!