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Selected Wallpapers For Your Desktop
If you can’t live without a nice wallpaper on your desktop you might need to invest many hours in the search for the perfect one – that fits to your resolution and has an appealing theme. The quality of the desktop images is often not the one you’d praise over and over again looking at your desktop. The best wallpapers aren’t cheap photos, but are works of art in their own right.
In the third part of our collection you’ll find many different types of background images – beautiful wallpapers, devkits, Flickr pools, Widescreen and HD-monsters and even wallpapers-related social communites and wallpapers for gamers.
You might want to take a look at the previous collections of wallpapers we’ve already put together:
- Selected Wallpapers: For Desktop & Web-Design
60+ selected posters, wallpapers, galleries and background images. - More Creative and Beautiful Wallpapers
42 more galleries of wallpapers and posters. - Christmas Wallpapers
Selected Wallpapers — Volume 3
c’t Wallpapers
Hundreds of computer-related wallpapers and full screen illustrations in 240×320 to 1600×1200. Penguins rock.
Wallpapers.ru
Amazing collection of high-quality wallpapers – sorted by categories, “box-packs” and authors – in high resolution. In Russian.
13 Fantastic Free Wallpaper Images
By Crestock. In 4 formats as Widescreen (16:10) or Fullscreen (4:3) — from 1024×768 to 2560×1600.
Wallpapers Flickr Pool
Over 20,000 various wallpapers — minimum 1024×768 resolution.
Wallpaperstock.net
Hundreds of categorized wallpapers — RSS-feed is also available.
VladStudio Wallpapers
Artistic wallpapers designed by a young Russian designer and graphic artist.
Design Is… Pool
This Flickr pool “is only for geeky designer wallpapers made by designers for designers about design. Nothing else.” 240 images – designers’ statements – in different resolutions.
ArtLebedev Wallpapers and Posters
Dozens of wallpapers with an extensive use of whitespace. Some creative designs are also available.
Deep Blue Wallpaper Devkits
A .psd-devkit you can use for your own wallpaper designs (35 Mb). With this template you can develop wallpapers for both 30″ screen resolutions as well as dual screen setups – for those of you using two displays or a giant 30” Apple Cinema Display.
Another wallpaper devkit by Wolfgang Bartelme – Wallpaper Devkit 3.
Desktopography
The third Desktopography exhibition includes 40 amazing themes created by well-known graphic designers, illustrators and artists. The web-site itself isn’t that amazing – it is based on Flash and provides its visitors with background music. The latter actually fits to the themes of the wallpaper designs.
Mike Bonnell’s Wallpaper
The designer offers over 100 surreal and abstract images.
Gallery of Art
A growing gallery of wallpapers with “dark” themes — in various resolutions. The images are opening in pop-ups, so check whether your ad-blocker block them.
Vista Wallpaper
These wallpapers aren’t necessarily related to Microsoft’s operating system. However, the site offers beautiful themes – among them also nature-related wallpapers.
Looking for original Windows Vista Wallpapers? Here you go.
Mexivista
Offers every month a new theme with a calendar. Impressive, however the resolution is sometimes too small.
Four
Unusual drawings as wallpapers in the 1600×1200 resolution.
Adobe CS3 Wallpaper
5 themes by Terry White.
Animepaper
Hundreds of wallpapers with themes from Japanese anime. In various resolutions. Registration is required.
Game-Related Wallpapers
Gamers Wallpapers Gallery
8620 games-related wallpapers, particularly huge wallpapers of cars. Most pictures are presented in high resolution, e.g. 1900×1200.
BestGameWallpapers
Hundreds of game-related wallpapers in the 1600×1200, 1280×1024, 1280×960 and 1024×768 resolution.
WoW – World of Warcraft Motive
So many elves, trolls and Warcraft creatures on one site — the choice is big, and so is the time you’ll need to find the perfect World of Warcraft-wallpaper for your desktop.
Widescreen (16:9) and HD Wallpapers
DMB – Dualmonitor Backgrounds
The specialist for huge wallpapers. Panorama views in 17 categories; among them Science-Fiction (Screenshot), Music, Microscopic, Industrial, Astronomy, Abstract, Animals, Mobile Technology, Nature, Computers.
The Widescreen Wallpapers Pool
A Flickr-pool with almost 450 widescreen wallpapers.
Screentreats: HD Wallpapers Blog
This weblog presents high-resolution widescreen wallpapers regularly. Resolutions: 3200×1200, 2650×1600, 1920×1080, 1280×720, 1920×1200 and more.
Social Wallpapering
Social Wallpapering
Wallpaper in Web 2.0. Users can upload, rate and share their images within the community. All images are uploaded anonymously. What about copyright?
Desktop Nexus
The project has the same concept. User produce content and share it with each other. The site has over 7000 wallpapers from various sources.
Vitaly Friedman, editor-in-chief of Smashing Magazine (www.smashingmagazine.com), an online magazine dedicated to designers and developers.
- 152 Comments
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- 2September 21st, 2007 1:05 am
Awsome Wallpapers ! Thanks ;-)
- 3September 21st, 2007 1:35 am
I recommend you check out my list of 30 Kick ass Wallpapers which you can find here at vision7
- 4September 21st, 2007 1:43 am
makes me sure again to keep my desktop in nice, plain grey …
- 5September 21st, 2007 1:53 am
Man, you guys are non-stop! Another wicked post! Thanks!
- 6September 21st, 2007 1:55 am
Kick-ass! Thanks for these links, needed to upgrade my wallpapers
- 7September 21st, 2007 1:56 am
WOW, thanks.. needed to upgraded my wallpapers collection
- 8September 21st, 2007 1:58 am
Here’s one great resource that you missed:
They are particularly useful if you have a dual-monitor setup offering right and left portions of many images.
- 9September 21st, 2007 1:58 am
I get all my wallpapers from Desktop Nexus – by far the best selection. Great list.
Thanks!
- 10September 21st, 2007 2:38 am
You forgot one of my favorites, though it’s Mac only… desktoptopia (http://www.desktoptopia.com).
- 11September 21st, 2007 3:00 am
Fantastic!
And what about the Screensavers… ????
- 12September 21st, 2007 3:02 am
Great collection. thanks
- 13September 21st, 2007 3:29 am
This is great! As always.
How about: http://www.pixelgirlpresents.com – she hosts some good stuff too.
Thanks. - 14September 21st, 2007 5:04 am
Awesome wallpapers. I have seen a few, but many of these are completely new to me. Thanks!
- 15September 21st, 2007 5:43 am
Boy,I love Smashingmagazine!!
I’ve been literally crawling the whole web lately looking for a template
that could suit that website I was designing for a school project, but couldn’t find none.I guess now I’ve got served.Thanks guys!!
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- 17September 21st, 2007 6:58 am
Awesome, thanks for this, I have been looking for ages for great wall papers and you’ve done it once again. Thanks again SM!
- 18September 21st, 2007 7:49 am
This list revived my long lost love for wallpaper. I was thinking the art of wallpaper died off with webshots. Great list.
- 19September 21st, 2007 9:59 am
Awesome post, that would have been great if exact link to the wallpapers have been provided as well.
- 20September 21st, 2007 11:43 am
you guys rawk, i admire your work.
anyway I would agree with Mitch above. pixelgirlpresents is very high rated wallpaper site. Most of the wallpapers are design for mac lover. There is many interesting high resolution wallpapers. Some of the members is known art group members. You guys should take a peek.
thanks from animepaper.
- 21September 21st, 2007 12:59 pm
Well, a Mac desktop is best with a Wallpaper at all times.
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- 24September 21st, 2007 3:28 pm
hi all
Excellent collection guys . keep it up.
Can u plz give me the direct link of the wallpaper.ru website ?
( the girl wallpaper) Im not good at russion; not able to find the samethanks guys
- 25September 21st, 2007 3:34 pm
Thanks a lot, thats a great list!
I think I’m going to spend all afternoon going through the wallpapers.
- 27September 21st, 2007 5:01 pm
Ah, theres nothin’ like a good wallpaper to warm yer heart! As usual, great article, thanks :)
- 28September 21st, 2007 5:40 pm
*in awe* Super list as usual.
Where do you guys actually find these stuff? The fifth dimension or something? - 29September 21st, 2007 6:15 pm
Not only wallpapers, but great inspiration! Gracias!
- 30September 21st, 2007 7:39 pm
Most of these wp galleries are a piece of shit. IMHO.
- 31September 21st, 2007 10:29 pm
you guys are amazing! love that thing by vladstudio…!!!
you literally cheer me up every week :P
- 32September 21st, 2007 10:53 am
Hi Guys, thanks so much for an amazing compilation of wallpapers.
Great job done. time now for me to spice up my desktop.
- 33September 22nd, 2007 6:47 am
What an awesome collection of wallpaper sites!!
Thank you so much
- 34September 22nd, 2007 1:56 pm
I Love you guys ! no follow is ok – but damn – this is serious content everytime there is a post
- 35September 22nd, 2007 7:57 pm
Can you please give me the direct link to picture:
http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/images/wallpaper3/stock1.jpg from
http://wallpaperstock.net ? Thanks - 36September 22nd, 2007 8:20 pm
Good stuff, thanks!
- 37September 23rd, 2007 7:41 am
legit, guys. legit!
- 38September 24th, 2007 9:28 pm
Super duper cool!!!! Thanks SM!
- 39September 28th, 2007 12:35 pm
These wallpapers are absolutely stunning! Thanks.
- 40September 29th, 2007 1:51 am
Some of this are really cool.
- 41October 5th, 2007 9:26 am
Fantastic ;)
thanks a lot ! - 42October 11th, 2007 12:08 am
Can you give me the link to full version of the image you’ve used for wallpapers.ru (http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/images/wallpaper3/wallpapers_ru.jpg)?
- 43October 11th, 2007 12:11 am
Already got it. Thanks!
- 44October 17th, 2007 11:11 pm
For those asking for: http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/images/wallpaper3/stock1.jpg
Here you go: http://wallpaperstock.net/seasons—autumn-wallpapers_w1143.html
- 45October 20th, 2007 11:35 pm
It’s been a month sice this feature appeared and now I have downloaded somewhat around 2500 wallpapers in my graphic library. Thanks Smashing magazine
- 46November 8th, 2007 3:38 am
Wide collection of PSP wallpapers can be found at http://www.pspwallpapers4free.com
- 47December 16th, 2007 2:58 am
Fantastic Collection. Very Great.
THX. - 48January 20th, 2008 6:41 am
hi
- 49January 23rd, 2008 2:36 pm
I love these wallpapers :D :)
- 50February 5th, 2008 7:04 pm
If you are looking for good wallpapers, there are many here great job!
- 51February 6th, 2008 9:59 pm
Nice list!
Also, http://freewallpapers4u.com has some desktop wallpapers on it.
- 52February 13th, 2008 2:52 am
Wait few time and i can put on my site my great collection of wallpaper’s girl !!!
- 53February 29th, 2008 2:42 pm
Very nice work
- 54March 11th, 2008 12:11 pm
I actually got lost checking out these resources.
Loved the experience.
- 55April 10th, 2008 1:00 pm
Simply awesome man i havn’t seen walls like this!!!!!!!!!!!
- 56April 15th, 2008 3:36 pm
You forgot us ;) http://www.desktopspies.com 24,000 wallpapers and counting!
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- 58May 12th, 2008 3:54 am
vlad is romanian not russian :)
- 59May 12th, 2008 5:01 am
god wallpapers
- 60June 11th, 2008 4:05 pm
just try hentaiplus.tk
- 61July 9th, 2008 2:31 am
hai super wallpapers very nise
- 62July 11th, 2008 4:16 pm
Wow! these are really cool! thanks for the wicked photos
- 63July 17th, 2008 12:45 am
This is Superb Images;
Thanxxxxxxxx a lot from my side….. - 64August 8th, 2008 10:49 am
awwwwww.how cute all these wallpapers
- 65August 9th, 2008 1:51 am
super
- 66September 22nd, 2008 11:47 pm
Great list as usual! Thanks so much!
- 67February 28th, 2009 2:55 am
this picture is very beautiful. i love every pictures.
- 68March 1st, 2009 8:05 pm
well thabk yoiu vebry mugh
- 69August 12th, 2009 12:26 am
great :)
- 70August 15th, 2009 12:35 am
Great ! so thankssssssssssssssssss
- 71August 27th, 2009 8:42 pm
Bari Gathya Pics Hai
- 72August 31st, 2009 7:54 am
wow fantastic
beautiful - 73August 31st, 2009 1:28 pm
hi all pic very good I Hamid U.T 18years old Frome IRAN & bay
- 74September 25th, 2009 3:57 am
Good Quality Wallpapers!!! Thank you for sharing. I too have some
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page wallpapercuber.com This site
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As usual Great post and It will take me a while to look through all the links :)