About

Fever-of-Fate is a large wallpaper, scan, screencap, and icon archive, containing desktop wallpapers, high quality scans, large DVD screencaps, and 100×100 icons of anything and everything you can think of.

All content here is free for you to use, as long as you link back to http://fever-of-fate.com, giving us credit for the original stuff.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. What script are you using for the Wallpaper, Scan and Screencap Sections?
   The whole site is powered by a combination Expression Engine and WordPress.
2. Where did you get the pictures for your wallpapers?
   Some were scanned by me, others I got from the sites listed in the Links Centre.
3. Can you please teach me how to make wallpapers/scans/screencaps like yours?
   Unfortunately, I don’t really have time for that. Try looking at good tutorial sites, that’s how I learned. These were extremely helpful for me: Photoshop Tutorials, Spoono, and Shadowness.
4. Can you please make a graphic/wallpaper/scan of a specific person for me?
   I’m sorry, but I don’t take requests anymore, I simply don’t have the time for it. If you can’t find what you’re looking for here, I suggest you look at a couple of the sites in the Links section. Chances are, at least one of them will have what you’re looking for.
5. What programs do you use to make your graphics?
   I make all my graphics on either my Intel iMac or my iBook G4, both running OSX 10.5. My graphics program is Adobe Photoshop CS3, my scanner is a Canon Pixma MP800 and for screencapping I use FreeSnap (free!), which I setup with a global hotkey (Apple-Z) to take a capture of my entire screen. I then play the video/DVD in either Apple’s own DVD Player or in VLC, in full-screen mode. I use skEdit for all my HTML editing and Transmit as my FTP program.
6. How did you come up with the site’s name and what does it mean?
   It’s a line from a poem from the book Dark Rivers Of The Heart by Dean Koontz, one of my favorite authors. This is the complete poem:

   “On the road that I have taken,

   one day, walking, I awaken,

   amazed to see where I have come,

   where I’m going, where I’m from.

   This is not the path I thought.

   This is not the place I sought.

   This is not the dream I bought,

   just a fever of fate I’ve caught.

   I’ll change highways in a while,

   at the crossroads, one more mile.

   My path is lit by my own fire.

   I’m going only where I desire.

   On the road that I have taken,

   one day, walking, I awaken.

   One day, walking, I awaken,

   on the road that I have taken.”