24 bit Aquatic Paintings Desktop Wallpaper
By Lawrence Goetz
goetz@dorsai.org
http://pages.prodigy.com/goetz

***Wallpapers***

These photos were taken and made to look like paintings by Lawrence Goetz.
Copyright 1998 Lawrence Goetz

anemone.bmp - A flowerly sea animal.
coral.bmp - A cluster of coral with fish swimming about.
coralflowers.bmp - A collection of coral that resemble flowers.
dolphins.bmp - Two dolphins swimming.
fish.bmp - Some fish swimming in a cave.
piranha.bmp - A group of piranha swimming.
shark.bmp - A shark swimming by.
starfish.bmp - A starfish sticking to your screen.      

They will work on a system with less than 24 bit color. 16 bit color looks 
normal. They look fine in even 256 colors, just a slight color loss.

***Installation***

Installation instructions for Windows 95:

1) Unzip the files to a directory of your choice. A preferred location for 
the bmp files is c:\windows.
 
2) Go into the properties of your desktop by right clicking the desktop and 
choosing Properties. You can also get to the desktop properties, by going to
Start/Settings/Control Panel/Display, if you prefer. 

3) Once there, you should be in the Background section. If not, choose the
Background tab at the top of the window.

4) Choose a Wallpaper from the selection. If you placed the bmp files in 
c:\windows then they will appear in the Wallpaper list. Otherwise you will 
need to browse to the directory and choose the file from there.

5) Now once you have chosen the Wallpaper, make sure Center is selected to 
have the picture in the center of the screen.

The images are in 640*480. If you are in a larger screen resolution, the 
image will not fill the whole screen. If you have Microsoft's Plus! you can 
have the option (if it's not already turned on) to resize the image to fill 
your screen. You can find this option in the Plus! tab at the top of the 
Display Properties. Make sure "Stretch desktop wallpaper to fit the screen" 
is checked.

If you don't have Plus!, you can resize the image in your favorite image 
editing program. Adjust the image's width and height in Pixels (pels) 
to match the size of your desktop.

If you prefer not to resize the image, another option is the use of a 
Pattern to fill in the rest of the screen. You can find Patterns in the 
Background area, to the left of Wallpaper. 

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If you like these images, I would appreciate a postcard. 
Preferably a card with a picture of your local city, state or country.

Please send it to:

Aquatic Wallpaper
Lawrence Goetz
3263 Bedford Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11210
USA

Visit my home page for great children's shareware and Java applets 
that I've made. There is also a free file rotation program called, 
Message Of The Day Mover, that can be used to rotate the wallpaper on your 
computer on a daily basis or whenever you want it to.

You'll also find my other collections of wallpaper there too.

http://pages.prodigy.com/goetz
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***Notice of Use***

These images are meant to be used as Wallpaper in your operating system. 
However they can also be used in other forms, including, but not limited to, 
web, book, software, newspaper, publishing, etc. . The images are 
to be used only as part of whatever you are making. You can not merely 
distribute the images alone, they need to be part of some other product 
(i.e., an image in an application, a picture in a book).

If you use the image(s), other than as Wallpaper in your operating system,
the following statement must accompany the image(s):
Copyright 1998 Lawrence Goetz

If you are a software publisher and you wish to include these images in 
your collection of images or wallpaper, you may do so as long as 
this readme.txt accompanies it.

You are not required to, but I would appreciate a complimentary copy of 
any product making use of my images, whenever possible.

If you have any questions, please e-mail me:
goetz@dorsai.org

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Microsoft Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation.