BUMPS.BMP and PASTEL.BMP are two images that are designed to be used as background images for the OS/2 desktop.  They are non-obtrusive (you can still read your icon text with either of these in use, for example) and they make the Workplace Shell a bit more interesting to look at.

BUMPS.BMP is an 800x600 image generated in the Imagine raytracer on an Amiga computer.  The texture itself is "Bumps", an altitude map included with the Essence package of textures by Steve Worley.  BUMPS works best if you use an 800x600 desktop and tell OS/2 to tile the image.

PASTEL.BMP is a piece of a backdrop created using the Art Department Professional's BACKDROP loader, which lets you build nice looking gradients between any series of colours.  It's colours are all about the same intensity, with varying hue, making it a good colourful backdrop. You could probably also use it to convince people that your monitor is broken.  PASTEL's edges meet up seamlessly so using it as a tiled backdrop gives you a very smooth desktop.

Creating backdrops for OS/2 turned out to be more challenging than I had thought.  While OS/2 2.1's video drivers support the Palette Manager, the Workplace Shell doesn't go out of it's way to change the hardware palette to make your backdrops look nice.  What I did was take a JPEG image I had, map it to the system colours using PMJPEG, save it as a GIF, loaded the GIF into ADPro and locked the palette, and then told ADPro to map my pictures to that palette.  ADPro does a much better job of rendering an image with a fixed palette than the Workplace Shell does!

These images are Copyright 1993 Steve Tibbett.  You may distribute them freely but they may not be included in a commercial product without my permission.  If people like these images, I will make more.

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