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Nice tip!
Authored by: mm2270 on Oct 02, '02 11:54:26AM

Good tip! Tried this and it works well. There's only one small problem. That is, at least in my case, you get a small 1 pixel white dot in the center of your screen. I used Photoshop 7 to create my 1x1 pixel image, since I don't have Elements. Maybe that's why? There doesn't seem to be a way to save the image as a transparent document, unless I'm not aware of something. I have to play around with that a little more.



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How Apple Does It
Authored by: faisal on Mar 18, '05 10:09:58AM
It turns out that the solid color choices in the Desktop & Screen

Saver system preference pane are actually PNG files stored on disk:

/Library/Desktop Pictures/Solid Colors

If you don't like the choices presented, open the folder, copy one of the files and rename it (e.g. to "Solid Black.png"), open that in a graphic editor (e.g. GraphicConverter), fill it with the color you want (e.g. black), save it as PNG, then re-open the system preferences pane and pick the new prefered color.



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