Artistic unique desktop wallpaper

If you practice art painting, you probably use a cloth to clean and dry your paintbrushes. After a while it turns into a rainbow palette that looks like an artistic canvas. The colour pattern is unique of each cloth and artist. This multicoloured pattern looks ideal for decorative purposes. My idea is to have it as an original desktop wallpaper of my computer.

For this instructable you need
- A scanner
- A basic Image software. I will explain the steps with FastStone Image Viewer, but any imaging software can do the same. Another light and capable software is IrfanView.

Some links to download the software

http://www.faststone.org/

http://www.irfanview.com/

Step 1 Scanning

The title is self-explanatory. Lay your cloth on a standard scanner and scan it at low resolution (100-150 dpi). If the cloth is larger than the scanner glass, you can get multiple scans changing the position and the orientation. In this way you get multiple images to choose from.

Comments

[Babyshoes]

Simple and funky!

[canida]

What a neat reuse idea - and it looks awesome!