Mike Chambers

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Central Desktop Wallpaper Contest

with 84 comments

As you may or may not have seen, a couple of designers have released some Central desktop wallpapers. Even cooler, is that some of them even released their Photoshop sources files so anyone can modify them:

Anyways, I haven’t had a contest since the “Spoof Mike Chambers” contest, so I figured I would hold another one. So, here is the deal, I am holding a contest for the coolest Central related desktop wallpaper. Here are the rules:

  • Submission Deadline is Friday, February 13, 2004
  • The Macromedia Central team will pick the winner.
  • You can enter multiple times
  • To enter post links to your wallpaper in the comments of this thread.
  • Bonus points for providing your source files for other to modify.
  • Bonus points for providing multiple sizes, including:
    • 800×600
    • 1024×768
    • 1280×1024
    • 1280×854
    • 1600×1200

The prizes will be:

  • 1st : Xbox gaming console
  • 2nd : Macromedia Central super schwag pack
  • 3rd : Central T-shirt

You can download some Central assets here.

Post links to your entries in the comments.

Written by mikechambers

February 5th, 2004 at 1:11 pm

Posted in Central

84 Responses to 'Central Desktop Wallpaper Contest'

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  1. supercool prizes… wish i had design skillz

    eokyere

    5 Feb 04 at 2:42 pm

  2. claus wahlers

    5 Feb 04 at 4:40 pm

  3. Think Unplugged

  4. Lucas Hyppólito

    5 Feb 04 at 5:46 pm

  5. Lucas Hyppólito

    5 Feb 04 at 5:47 pm

  6. Lucas,

    Your links are turning up 404s.

    mike chambers

    mesh@macromedia.com

    mike chambers

    5 Feb 04 at 9:01 pm

  7. I have released the source files of my wallpapers, you can download here:
    http://www.ugoletti.com/blog/archives/2004/02/06/central-wallpaper-source-files/.
    I just working also to a new collection, will coming soon.

    Daniele

  8. btw, the strange device you see on my wallpaper (see above) is an 300 baud acoustic coupler i built more than 15 years ago

    claus wahlers

    6 Feb 04 at 7:44 am

  9. a

    a

    6 Feb 04 at 7:52 pm

  10. muxa

    6 Feb 04 at 7:56 pm

  11. Lucas Hyppólito

    7 Feb 04 at 9:51 am

  12. Lucas Hyppólito

    7 Feb 04 at 12:14 pm

  13. cloudy

    8 Feb 04 at 4:08 am

  14. Lucas Hyppólito

    8 Feb 04 at 8:03 am

  15. Lucas Hyppólito

    8 Feb 04 at 8:20 am

  16. aSH

    8 Feb 04 at 2:09 pm

  17. entry 001:
    http://www.kiwi-interactive.com/central/desk/001_darkBlue_800.jpg
    http://www.kiwi-interactive.com/central/desk/001_darkBlue_1024.jpg
    http://www.kiwi-interactive.com/central/desk/001_darkBlue_1280.jpg
    http://www.kiwi-interactive.com/central/desk/001_darkBlue_1600.jpg

    Source:
    source is 15megs so I can’t share that sorry. Mesh it is available if you need/want it though

    entry 002:
    http://www.kiwi-interactive.com/central/desk/002_boom_800.jpg
    http://www.kiwi-interactive.com/central/desk/002_boom_1024.jpg
    http://www.kiwi-interactive.com/central/desk/002_boom_1280.jpg

    Source:
    oh bugger…NEVER do this late at night *sigh* … and alway hit YES when it asks if you want to save it

    Central Ball Logo:
    http://www.kiwi-interactive.com/central/desk/Central_ball.zip - this is the ball logo on a transparent background in PSD if anyone wants it

    Mr K

    9 Feb 04 at 3:37 am

  18. Mr K

    9 Feb 04 at 5:12 am

  19. aSH

    9 Feb 04 at 7:59 am

  20. just try

    Einesce

    9 Feb 04 at 9:40 am

  21. Orange and green background images.

    Available sizes: 800×600, 1024×768, 1280×960, 1280×1024, 1400×1050, 1600×1200.
    Also for your customizing pleasure: zipped Photoshop 1600×1200 images and zipped 3ds max files with background gradients. Other resolutions upon request.

  22. shoebox

    9 Feb 04 at 6:07 pm

  23. rosyflower78

    9 Feb 04 at 6:35 pm

  24. … the lys photo was taken by JL Guérin, my father :)

    rosyflower78

    9 Feb 04 at 6:39 pm

  25. ericd

    10 Feb 04 at 1:13 am

  26. ericd

    10 Feb 04 at 10:31 am

  27. vishi

    10 Feb 04 at 1:36 pm

  28. Mario Klingemann

    10 Feb 04 at 2:13 pm

  29. NG Rohler

    10 Feb 04 at 6:06 pm

  30. Peter Elst

    10 Feb 04 at 7:13 pm

  31. littleguru

    11 Feb 04 at 12:09 am

  32. #4 of my submissions… the thing doesn’t compress very well, so i offer a zip file of 1600 x 1200, 1024 x 768.

    check out the 124k 800×600 lossy compressed jpeg for a preview only.

    http://www.ericd.net/central_desktops/contest/four_previewOnly.jpg
    now for the zip file of the 2 sizes
    http://www.ericd.net/central_desktops/contest/four_archive.zip

    ericd

    11 Feb 04 at 12:36 am

  33. Abel Rios

    11 Feb 04 at 1:39 am

  34. Here’s my attempt.
    I have to clean up the source files and make the other sizes, but I’ll have to do that tomorrow night. Work calls ;)

    http://www.tri-mediapro.com/downloads/central_desktops/central_WallPaper_1024×768.jpg

    Neil

    11 Feb 04 at 1:44 am

  35. Potter System

    11 Feb 04 at 9:31 am

  36. PS:
    i don’t put the source for ‘Feel Unplugged’ ’cause it’s a 8 Mb file..

    Potter System

    11 Feb 04 at 9:53 am

  37. Here are a couple ideas that I came up with:

    The zipped PSD sources are there as well.

    http://www.creativebooth.com/central/centralWallpapers/CentralWallpaper.html

    JEBoothjr

    11 Feb 04 at 2:16 pm

  38. trepid

    11 Feb 04 at 3:16 pm

  39. Scott Barnes

    11 Feb 04 at 10:23 pm

  40. Central wallpaper - collection II is ready:

    http://www.ugoletti.com/blog/archives/2004/02/12/central-wallpaper-collection-ii/

    - Daniele Ugoletti

    Daniele Ugoletti

    12 Feb 04 at 4:21 am

  41. Jack Zhang

    12 Feb 04 at 6:15 am

  42. Matt

    12 Feb 04 at 1:41 pm

  43. ‘c’ is for cookie

    preview-jpg:
    c_is_for_cookie_320_240.jpg

    files & sources:
    http://www.preset.de/central/

    rdg

    12 Feb 04 at 2:49 pm

  44. Lucas Hyppólito

    12 Feb 04 at 4:49 pm

  45. Exodo

    12 Feb 04 at 5:10 pm

  46. shoebox

    12 Feb 04 at 5:47 pm

  47. Rostik

    12 Feb 04 at 5:52 pm

  48. here’s my first entry.

    it not just a wallpaper, its a set of tools for central developers. rite on your desktop.

    have a look:
    http://fsd.webhostme.com/central/

    i whish….. :D

    chall3ng3r

    12 Feb 04 at 6:19 pm

  49. Scott at Werk

    12 Feb 04 at 8:21 pm

  50. Macromedia Central: Open LAte (Stayed Out to Late and Now It Is Morning Version)
    http://www.werkplace.com/central/werkplace3_800×600.jpg
    http://www.werkplace.com/central/werkplace3_1024×768.jpg
    http://www.werkplace.com/central/werkplace3_1280×1024.jpg
    http://www.werkplace.com/central/werkplace3_1280×824.jpg
    http://www.werkplace.com/central/werkplace3_1600×1200.jpg

    Images on all of these, I just drove cross country (USA) and took these shots. I will post psds of the large size after i seriously compress them, don’t want my bandwidth broken for the month ;)

    Scott at Werk

    12 Feb 04 at 8:44 pm

  51. Richard

    12 Feb 04 at 8:48 pm

  52. woops i got my titles flip flopped on my posts sorry!

    Scott at Werk

    12 Feb 04 at 8:52 pm

  53. Richard

    12 Feb 04 at 8:52 pm

  54. Jack Zhang

    12 Feb 04 at 11:09 pm

  55. gai

    13 Feb 04 at 1:22 am

  56. gai

    13 Feb 04 at 1:25 am

  57. I call this one “Feet Wet”

    http://www.aspentreemedia.com/Central/wallpaper/

    Mike Weiland

    13 Feb 04 at 1:37 am

  58. Abel Rios

    13 Feb 04 at 1:42 am

  59. Pawel Podgorski

    13 Feb 04 at 2:00 am

  60. _______________________________________

    Here are my entries:

    Preview and download them here:

    http://www.jhey.com/bgs/

    _______________________________________

    julio

    13 Feb 04 at 4:08 am

  61. crab

    13 Feb 04 at 7:53 am

  62. The T-shirt should be the winning prize, the x-box should be the consolation prize. No one wants one of them

    a) Because it is made by Microsoft
    b) Because it is a brick
    c) It has not good games

    p.s
    couldn’t macromedia central be released for playstation 2? PS2 has flash player installed, that would be cool as it would reach a wider audience.

    Any way, good luck everyone, if this is still open by this afternoon, then I will enter.

    Jack Smith

    13 Feb 04 at 9:16 am

  63. i am a chinese
    so i like duck color
    this is for 1024*768

    Fanlishu

    13 Feb 04 at 9:24 am

  64. white

    Fanlishu

    13 Feb 04 at 9:25 am

  65. Well I finally got around to getting some wallpaper done. I didn’t have a chance to resize them all yet but here ya go!

    http://www.infinitely-flash.com/IFHome/wallpaper/centralforever_1024×768.jpg
    http://www.infinitely-flash.com/IFHome/wallpaper/centralforever_center_1024×768.jpg
    http://www.infinitely-flash.com/IFHome/wallpaper/centralforever_centercross_1024×768.jpg
    http://www.infinitely-flash.com/IFHome/wallpaper/centralforever_centercrossshots_1024×768.jpg
    http://www.infinitely-flash.com/IFHome/wallpaper/centralforever_centercrossshotsVision_1024×768.jpg
    http://www.infinitely-flash.com/IFHome/wallpaper/centralforever_centercrossshotsVisionText_1024×768.jpg

    The png’s are all there. Just switch the file extension…

    Ok, so there is one more. However I’m not going to give link, I don’t want any bad press. There’s one called centralExposed. I’ll let you figure out how to view it. Oh yeah, there will be no png along side of this one.. hehehe.

  66. I have finished my thirth collection:

    http://www.ugoletti.com/blog/archives/2004/02/13/central-wallpaper-collection-iii/

    - Daniele Ugoletti

    Daniele Ugoletti

    13 Feb 04 at 1:33 pm

  67. Ok, one more. Pngs and diff sizes available

    http://theflashho.com/central/deco.jpg

    1024 x 768

    Richard

    13 Feb 04 at 2:22 pm

  68. http://www.infinitely-flash.com/IFHome/wallpaper/OccasionallyConnectedUser_1024×768.jpg

    Ok, i couldn’t resist.. This one was too tempting. Switch extensions for the .png..

  69. Phil Coffman

    13 Feb 04 at 4:08 pm

  70. Martin Salerno

    13 Feb 04 at 4:22 pm

  71. sangles

    13 Feb 04 at 4:54 pm

  72. JEBoothjr

    13 Feb 04 at 5:06 pm

  73. Pawel Podgorski

    13 Feb 04 at 5:17 pm

  74. Can we vote? :o) the public choice… ;)

    aSH

    aSH

    13 Feb 04 at 6:21 pm

  75. Carson Catlin

    13 Feb 04 at 6:40 pm

  76. my second post,

    http://fsd.webhostme.com/central/Wallpaper2.zip
    http://fsd.webhostme.com/central/WallPaper2_src.zip

    just tring to re-upload DynaDesk source files (DynaDesk_src.zip), check back in few mins.

    // chall3ng3r //

    chall3ng3r

    13 Feb 04 at 7:18 pm

  77. Carson Catlin

    13 Feb 04 at 7:44 pm

  78. Carson Catlin

    13 Feb 04 at 8:06 pm

  79. http://www.style3.com/centralized_1024×768.zip

    source files.. don’t suck my b/w to hell though ;) 14MB.

    Phil Earley

    13 Feb 04 at 9:38 pm

  80. just a quick note that i’ve successfully uploaded the correct source file of DynaDesk (of my first post) to a different server: http://fsd.webhostme.com/central/

    sorry for the previous (would have been) corrupt version.

    // chall3ng3r //

    chall3ng3r

    13 Feb 04 at 11:57 pm

  81. I noted that people were still placing comments on this page during the evening of Friday the 13th… so (assuming the contest ended at midnight), I tossed my other projects aside, put in a video, and played with Photoshop.

    However, when I came online to post my submissions, I clicked to a related ‘mesh’ webpage — which states a 5 pm (PST) contest deadline… Unfortunately, THIS page simply says the deadline ends “13 Feb 2004.” If there’s any info about a 5 pm deadline posted on this page, I missed it… along with some other folks ;-)
    I hope that you’ll post any “5 pm PST” deadlines more consistently on all relevant web pages in the future.

    Three Central Contest Wallpaper images, with associated files, are posted at http://www.infotexts.com/central/centralpapers.html

    The original Photoshop (7.0) files can be downloaded from that page.

    I enjoyed looking at the other contributions; particularly the “unplugged dragon.”

    –maura g

    maurag

    14 Feb 04 at 3:32 am

  82. So when will the winners be announced?

    Phil Coffman

    18 Feb 04 at 9:16 am

  83. We are talking about desktop wallpaper for a technology product… Number 5 is far and away the best. Looks like this guy really knows how to convey a concept through design!

    Greg Moore

    18 Feb 04 at 7:33 pm

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