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How To Create A Windows 7 Theme

You may have seen our article last month on how to add lots of Windows 7 country themes to your collection of already pre-loaded themes on Microsoft’s latest OS… But what if you want to be able to have your own collection of pictures and wallpapers displaying on your desktop? Well, you can create your own theme for Windows 7 in just a few simple steps, or just create a desktop slideshow for simplicity.

In previous versions of Windows, if you wanted a picture to be displayed as your desktop wallpaper, you could right click that picture and select ‘Set as Desktop Background’, but if you wanted to cycle through wallpapers, you had to use a third party program such as this Windows Vista wallpaper changer. Don’t worry, the basic option is still there in Windows 7, but you also have another option…

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How To Add Lots Of Windows 7 Country Themes To Your Collection

Ok, so Windows 7 is all the rage right now. In case you hadn’t heard, since its release a few weeks ago, the market share of Windows 7 has already surpassed that of Snow Leopard and Linux put together! One of my favourite features in Microsoft’s new OS is the ability to use a theme with various desktop backgrounds. If you haven’t seen this already, you can find it in the ‘Control Panel’ under ‘Appearance and Personalization’.

Since the testing versions of Windows, guides have been popping up all over the net on how to add other country themes to your own (country-inspired theme styles along with various wallpapers of the country concerned), which is included by default, which is all well and good, but it’s a bit of a hassle digging out the themes from the Windows folder on your hard drive, and when you do your choices are limited to 5 countries.

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Windows Vista Wallpaper Changer Review

Do you need a Windows Vista wallpaper changer? Up until the point at which I upgraded to Windows Vista and started using a second monitor around 18 months ago I could never be bothered with changing my desktop wallpapers and had probably used the same wallpaper for around 3 years.

However, once I upgraded my main monitor to a good quality widescreen version, I thought it would be a good opportunity to get some high quality wallpapers – I was pleased to find some great 1920×1080 widescreen wallpapers over at InterfaceLIFT – a site I highly recommend and has new wallpapers added on a daily basis! (If you’re a real fan of digital art, then take a look at our Digital Art Gallery? article)

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Digital Art Gallery?

As consumers of digital technology, I think it’s fair to say that most of us are interested in creativity being expressed through technology – 3D animation, digital music, photography and so forth. When it comes to digital art though, where does one exactly find high quality digital art? I mean, we all know good art when we see it, but where do you find it? Art museums very rarely feature prints of digital artwork, so where do you go to obtain high quality art which you can actually save to your desktop or order prints for? You’re about to find out.

Perhaps the best place to start would be community art groups. I guess you could refer to these places as online digital art museums except they generally have a community driven focus with interviews, commenting and forum systems. Being online these sites pull artists from different backgrounds, of different ages together which help broaden the styles of art on display.

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