{"id":1671,"date":"2010-11-28T00:47:44","date_gmt":"2010-11-27T15:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2010-11-28\/1671"},"modified":"2010-11-28T00:47:55","modified_gmt":"2010-11-27T15:47:55","slug":"going-vertical-portrait-mode-desktop-backgrounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2010-11-28\/1671","title":{"rendered":"Going Vertical: Portrait-Mode Desktop Backgrounds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class='resize_warning' id='arw1669'>\n<b>NOTE<\/b>: Images with an <img class='raw' width='19' height='18' src='\/i\/s\/red_zoomup.gif'\/> icon next to them have been artificially shrunk to better fit your screen; click the icon to restore them, in place, to their regular size.\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>I recently replaced a six-year-old low-end Dell monitor with an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eizo.com\/global\/iblick\/spec\/?id=SX2462W\">Eizo FlexScan SX2462W<\/a>,\n<span class='nobr'>a widescreen<\/span> mid-level monitor with many good features for photo work. Having\nmoved <a href=\"\/blog\/2008-02-02\/710\">from this setup<\/a> to one now with\ntwo widescreen monitors, <span class='nobr'>I decided<\/span> to put the extra monitor <i>on its side<\/i>, vertically,\nso that the long edge is up and down.\n(You can see it in <a href=\"\/blog\/2011-02-16\/1706\">this photo<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n<p>So, now having one portrait-oriented monitor, <span class='nobr'>I suddenly<\/span> had no photos\nto use as its desktop background. Especially since it's the &#8220;extra&#8221;\nmonitor, and by default will be unused unless I'm doing something\nparticular with it, <span class='nobr'>I wanted<\/span> to have some nice photos to cycle through on\nthe background, so <span class='nobr'>I quickly<\/span> and skimmed through the portrait-oriented\nphotos I'd posted in the past and somewhat haphazardly picked <span class='nobr'>a bunch<\/span> to\nmake desktop-background images with.<\/p>\n\n<p>I'm not quite sure whether all of these will work out well in practice, but for what it's worth,\nhere they are, an even 60 selections...<\/p>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n #g1669 { margin: 0 auto; width:771px; background-color: black; padding: 10px; border: solid 1px #444 }\n #g1669 img { margin:0; padding:0; border: none; width:150px; height:240px }\n<\/style>\n<div id='g1669'>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2008-12-11\/1023\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF7_006900_tm.jpg\" width=\"150\" 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height=\"240\"\nid=\"i040959_tm\"\/><\/a>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2008-10-10\/959\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JEF_041489_tm.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"240\"\nid=\"i041489_tm\"\/><\/a>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2009-11-23\/1368\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF7_026199_tm.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"240\"\nid=\"i026199_tm\"\/><\/a>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2009-04-05\/1178\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF7_014699_tm.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"240\"\nid=\"i014699_tm\"\/><\/a>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2009-12-05\/1387\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF7_027799_tm.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"240\"\nid=\"i027799_tm\"\/><\/a>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2010-10-25\/1642\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF7_039625_tm.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"240\"\nid=\"i039625_tm\"\/><\/a>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<p>If you're interested in these for yourself (how many people use\nportrait-oriented monitors?), clicking through brings you to the post that\nincludes the photo, where you can then find vertical desktop background\nversions for download.<\/p>\n\n<p>Since setting up my monitor this way, when I've been out and about with\nthe camera I've kept an eye out for scenes that might be appropriate for <span class='nobr'>a\nvertical<\/span> desktop, so once <span class='nobr'>I get<\/span> around to posting about recent outings in\nmore detail, <span class='nobr'>I'm sure there<\/span> will be plenty of fall-foliage vertical\ndesktops. Such posts containing one will be added to <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/category\/pretty-photos\/vertical-desktops\">my\nblog's &#8220;Vertical Desktops&#8221; category<\/a>....<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently replaced a six-year-old low-end Dell monitor with an Eizo FlexScan SX2462W, a widescreen mid-level monitor with many good features for photo work. Having moved from this setup to one now with two widescreen monitors, I decided to put the extra monitor on its side, vertically, so that the long edge is up and down. (You can see it in this photo.)<\/p> <p>So, now having one portrait-oriented monitor, I suddenly had no photos to use as its desktop background. Especially since it's the \"extra\" monitor, and by default will be unused unless I'm doing something particular with it, I [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}