AWESOME! I was hoping you would do this at some point. I'm running triple widescreens at work and have wanted to use your images on them for a while.

+1 vote for them please

Hi Ryan,



Can we please have 5760 x 1200 for us mortals that are running 3 x 24" monitors.



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Hope you soon get well and you and yours have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy 2009!



Thanks



HEADRAT

I just use Microsoft Office Picture Manager (default picture viewer on Windows XP) to crop anything I need cropped. It's not really that hard- click "edit picture", then "crop", and drag the edges of the picture in until you get the right resolution (which is shown on the side), and hit "OK".



Although Picture Manager is an XP program, I imagine that older systems would have a similar application that could do the job just as well.





That being said, it puzzles me that anyone would think cropping an image is something tedious and difficult.

Ryan, I totally agree with you about automatic cropping, but it wasn't what I was suggesting (because I realize that the framing of the crop is important and varies with different images, and no automatic crop will do it right).



I meant more of a web-based application where once the image was selected, a user would be given a field to enter their desired resolution and then a small thumbnail of the image would be displayed. The user would drag around and scale the "crop frame" box that was appropriately kept at the necessary ratio to match their desired resolution, and hit a "Crop" button once they had a decent result they were happy with (hence my suggestion for it being flash-based). This would allow for people to see what they want to see in the crop.



You could also continue to provide a few "Common Crops" that you like best, and then just provide the option for custom crops for people with crazy situations or who just don't like what you cropped in your image.



The pluses of this is it would be a simple/free interface for people who don't want to/don't have Photoshop or something like that, and you have less work to do anticipating all possible resolutions people could want.



I know websites like eBay, Facebook, etc already have some of this online manipulation type of web-based software, so it can't be that far-fetched to implement.

I wonder if you could do a poll and see what most people use and go from there.

I have no problem cropping/splitting the images to my liking, and while I'm not a newbie, I'm not a geek either. Personally, and for completely selfish reasons -- I want you to have LOTS of time to create new images ;) -- I hope you leave the cropping to your members. If you DID split all of them for us, I betcha you'd get many comments and complaints about how it's not quite right for people's individual systems.

Tools like ImageMagick and the GD library can do a lot of image manipulation, including resizing. I am pretty sure GD uses pixel resizing, which does not result in the highest quality results. Not sure what ImageMagick uses. It is definitely worth looking into to save Ryan from having to resize everything manually. I know the Gallery app uses ImageMagick to handle its resizing. One thing though: it should probably be resized on upload, not on download, to reduce server load (after all, hard drives are cheap compared to additional servers to handle increased CPU load).

It seems to me that with the exponentially-increasing number of different resolutions being used by people as multiple monitors and abnormal displays become increasingly popular, having you (Ryan) render each possible situation by yourself isn't the best solution. (Even I am using an obscure setup, with a 13" MacBook screen *centered beneath* a 22" widescreen LCD...so far, I've been content using two different wallpapers, one for each.)



But anyways, it would certainly make your life much easier if you could somehow only have to render the largest size image and then use some fancy image manipulation software on your website (flash-based?) to allow users to select their desired resolution and choose how to crop it to suit their liking. This would eliminate the need for tech-newbies to have to use Photoshop, like many of us currently do.



This would be quite a nifty addition, if feasible.



Tyler

I'm glad to see you creating ever larger and more diverse resolutions. What are the chances of you adding a vertical image? I run a 24" 1920x1200 monitor in portrait mode so I've had to scale/crop images to get them to fit correctly.



And, let me just say that I've thoroughly enjoyed your images for the last 9 years ... keep up the amazing work!



-Ben

I've been running 4 standard view 19" Screens and recently upgraded to 3 22" widescreens. I was using Ultramon to stretch the images across the screens but it distorted them a little. This looks much better. Thanks!

I must admit that with all of the talk concerning triple widescreen monitors, coupled with the fact that I just viewed “At World’s Edge (Winter)” at 7680x1600, I am becoming increasingly jealous. My 15” desktop monitor and 13.5” laptop are simply not making the grade anymore. Now, where did I hide my credit cards?

Well, I am running dual 30" screens, so I could certainly use them, but I can also make due with tiling or centering the ones you've already posted. Thanks for putting these out for us!

I was just looking at your holiday collection and thought you might want to add "The Emblem of" to the other category.

I have a pair of 1440x900 screens. Thank you very much for adding that resolution. However, could you please add a 2880x900 resolution so I can span wallpaper across both screens? I would be grateful. Thank you either way for your impressive and hard work.

I run dual 30s at 5120x1600, I don’t know how much of the community I represent though

Ryan I run 4 non-widescreen displays at 1600 x 1200 so 6400 x 4800. Is there a chance of getting renders at this resolution? Keep up the amazing work!

I'd like to think my comment on "At Worlds Edge - Winter" about spreading the Holiday Cheer and releasing the Triple Wide screens had something to do with them suddenly showing up...but I'm not going to pretend to be that full of my self LOL.



None-the-less, Thank you so much Ryan, I was really surprised to see the Triple Wide screens posted, and very grateful for it.



Like Tim, I also need to re-size these to 5760x1200, as I'm not one of the crazy people running triple 30 inchers. But lucky with Monster source files of 7680 x 1600 these will scale quite nicely.



So, as you said in your post "...or if you have any other comments..." the only thing I could say would be to offer a 5760x1200 link directly. Other than that, this is truly some Holiday Cheer.



Now I'll happily play with all my new toys and patiently wait for a re-render of 2005's "The Overseer"



Thanks for always willing to listen to your fan's and members, and have a great holiday.

Mac OS X always, always, ALWAYS treats each monitor as a separate display, whereas Windows dithers about whether they are separate displays or whether they are one big display split across multiple screens depending on what it's doing. There's pros and cons to each approach, of course, and to my mind each OS could certainly stand to have its respective multimonitor support improved a great deal - but that's a whole other candle for a whole other cake.



Still, I'm not complaining. I move back and forth between Macs and PCs daily depending on what I'm doing and it's the work of mere moments to split a contiguous image file in Photoshop. Keep up the good work! :)

I personally have to split your normal triple screen ones anyway as I have 1 monitor on 1 PC and 2 on another.



It is hardly any bother to do really. It would be fair to say that a lot of people can't do this task but surely the people who have 3 30" screens are likely to be people who can...

Thanks! I'm excited for these renders because they're the first multimon renders with > 1200 vertical resolution. It will be a lot easier to crop these down to size than it was to add in the extra 80 pixels I needed.



(I run multiple 1024x1280 displays in portrait mode)

Fantastic!!!

I'm running 3x22" monitors with a matrox triplehead2go box and it's not quite the same having 3840 or 4800 res images stretched across the wide resolutions.

This is going to be awesome.

A huge thanks Ryan.

Is there any reason why you can't use some kind of script to do the splitting for you? Chopping an image in three parts and adding a watermark does not seem like a very difficult job for ImageMagick or any other similar program... Basically, if you already have the wide images, chopping them up is a matter of running a small program (most likely for a long time, but unattended nonetheless).



Hope you have recovered completely from your surgery. Keep up the good work!

This will scale nicely to 5760x1200 for those lucky enough to have three 24" monitors which will hoepfully be soon enough! I think this is a great addition. Thanks Ryan!

It really changes some of those when you squeeze a desktop meant for 3 30'' screens onto 1 15" screen. Definitly makes things interesting for something the abstracts.