I stole the background image (file here in case I stop using it) from Andrea after she promised she was going to ditch it (she hates stripes).
I don’t mind stripes, but I don’t care for the color. Paint can’t do a thing with the file, and I haven’t tried GIMP because, well, I really haven’t played with GIMP enough to have any idea how to use it.
What I’d like is to get the colors to a variant on the solid background color I’d been using, which is the same as…
...this.
I don’t know whether that color looks goldish to anyone else, but I kind of like it.
Update: Still no clue how to GIMP it, so I tried just making one from scratch using Paint. Unfortunately when I converted it from BMP to GIF it came up looking like carp, so I’m stuck (for now at least) with the BMP version.
It does look more like what I wanted.
‘Nother update, next morning: ...and now I’m tired of it. Maybe I’ll randomize it so it’ll be the gold stripes sometimes, or the solid background, or the blue stripes. You’ll just never know from one page-view to the next.
<evil, maniacal cackle>
Or maybe I won’t.
<evil, maniacal cackle>
I’ll think about it.
<evil, maniacal cackle>
‘Nother other update: I thought about it.
<evil, maniacal cackle>
Yet another update, Monday: Three new background images, courtesy of Jed at FreedomSight (discovered via my new StatCounter stats). Turns out he knows how to use GIMP, whereas I know how to rummage through the menus, look confused, and say, “Heck with this, I’ll use Paint.“
Yet another other update, Monday: One of Jed’s images was a little more contrasty than I wanted on my screen resolution (A 1280-px width shows lots of background space on either side of the content), so I fiddled with it in MS Photo Editor to tone it down a bit.
