Why walls in screenshots 'need' to be reasonably obscured.

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It took all of 3 minutes to cleanly extract this wallpaper image from the desktop screenshot.

This means it's 'easily' possible to be seen to be distributing anothers wallpaper without consent, rather than it being a case of simple 'fair use', and exempt from such concerns.

When a wall is predominantly 'empty'  partly obscure the actual subject 'figure' and not just the 'blank' bits....;)

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
lovely desktop Jafo
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I probably should have mentioned...

the small 'Garfield' wall that's now partly obscuring the 'main' one....is my extracted wall image...reduced so as not to be 'extractable' in itself...

Elemental: Reforged
Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
loverly cullers
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I like the phrase 'talk to the paw'
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
'talk to the paw'


I thought this meant talk to the author to gat permission...
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
When you constantly have to tell folks about obscuring screenshots it feels like you're talking to the paw...
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
i think it should be in bold on the submit page, so that people (espically newcomers) will know not to do that. Maybe its just me, but i dont feel newcomers are really informed about those rules.
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
i think it should be in bold on the submit page
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
There was another classic one today....took 30 seconds tops....to get a perfectly good image that 'used to be' Teschio's, I believe....