A screenshot of my 1032x768 16bit DOpus Magellan.  It's
very nice, if I my may say so myself, but then again, all
uploaders of their own screengrabs seem to brag shamelessly
about their desktops.  :)

   What makes my desktop stand out are the my strange, but
well-made 256-colour icons, and the way the background
picture and the icons are integrated into one design.  I've
also taken use of Executive's Dashboard program, to produce
the monitors at the bottom left corner (displaying RAM usage,
a CPU histogram and a counter), as well as the CPU percentage
count to the right.
   I've drawn all icons (the partition icons (top left), the
DOpus toolbar, the small FTP buttons and the weird
transparent icons at the bottom) except from the big internet
buttons in the top left corner, which is ripped from a
screengrab by Hyrax.
  The background picture is rendered by Ben from the
Rockethouse hompage.

  If you now think that all this is faked in the way
that i've drawed on the screengrab, think again. I've made
an ImageFX arexx script that takes care of most of the
effects on the background picture. The last addition to
the background picture was the pen and pencil-drawn icons
at the bottom, which i've used the layers function in
ArtEffect. But since ImageFX also has layers, I hope it
will be easy implementing this in the ifx script as well.

  The reason the titlebar has a shine and shadow pen is
thanks to VisualPrefs 1.4, and the patterns in the window
frames are hacked in by Birdie 1.5.

   You can download my icons (at the moment, only the
partition ones) at http://members.xoom.com/whi/desktop.html