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Selected Wallpapers For Your Desktop
September 21st, 2007 in Graphics | 132 Comments
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.
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Arpit Jacob (September 21st, 2007, 1:04 am)
As usual Great post and It will take me a while to look through all the links :)
Duke (September 21st, 2007, 1:05 am)
Awsome Wallpapers ! Thanks ;-)
Stephen (September 21st, 2007, 1:35 am)
I recommend you check out my list of 30 Kick ass Wallpapers which you can find Link [vision7.org]
uli (September 21st, 2007, 1:43 am)
makes me sure again to keep my desktop in nice, plain grey …
Jason A. (September 21st, 2007, 1:53 am)
Man, you guys are non-stop! Another wicked post! Thanks!
Starfeeder (September 21st, 2007, 1:55 am)
Kick-ass! Thanks for these links, needed to upgrade my wallpapers
Starfeeder (September 21st, 2007, 1:56 am)
WOW, thanks.. needed to upgraded my wallpapers collection
JZ (September 21st, 2007, 1:58 am)
Here’s one great resource that you missed:
Link [www.mandolux.com]
They are particularly useful if you have a dual-monitor setup offering right and left portions of many images.
RP10 (September 21st, 2007, 1:58 am)
I get all my wallpapers from Desktop Nexus - by far the best selection. Great list.
Thanks!
frnk1978 (September 21st, 2007, 2:14 am)
Great selection !
Link [www.ekosystem.org]:
Link [www.ekosystem.org]
joeyinteractive (September 21st, 2007, 2:38 am)
You forgot one of my favorites, though it’s Mac only… desktoptopia (http://www.desktoptopia.com).
ANGST (September 21st, 2007, 3:00 am)
Fantastic!
And what about the Screensavers… ????
mote (September 21st, 2007, 3:02 am)
Great collection. thanks
Mitch (September 21st, 2007, 3:29 am)
This is great! As always.
How about: Link [www.pixelgirlpresents.com] - she hosts some good stuff too.
Thanks.
Paul (September 21st, 2007, 5:04 am)
Awesome wallpapers. I have seen a few, but many of these are completely new to me. Thanks!
Jean Yves (September 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!!
Mike Panic (September 21st, 2007, 5:50 am)
Don’t forget or overlook Link [wallpaper.deviantart.com]
Matty (September 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!
jimbo_dk (September 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.
Photoshop Tutorials (September 21st, 2007, 9:59 am)
Awesome post, that would have been great if exact link to the wallpapers have been provided as well.
Amit (September 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.
chaoskaizer (September 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.
Brajeshwar (September 21st, 2007, 12:59 pm)
Well, a Mac desktop is best with a Wallpaper at all times.
Milos (September 21st, 2007, 1:25 pm)
Don’t forget Link [desktopography.customize.org]!
Tahir (September 21st, 2007, 1:48 pm)
no one knows about
Link [www.themexp.org]
bigcy (September 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 same
thanks guys
Mjuboy (September 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.
Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz (September 21st, 2007, 4:24 pm)
@bigcy: here you go — Link [www.wallpapers.ru].
Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz (September 21st, 2007, 4:27 pm)
Please notice that this list includes only those references which haven’t been covered in one of our previous articles - PixelGirl and DevianArt are included in the collections we’ve already put together few months ago.
Evangelist (September 21st, 2007, 5:01 pm)
Ah, theres nothin’ like a good wallpaper to warm yer heart! As usual, great article, thanks :)
blogmunch (September 21st, 2007, 5:40 pm)
*in awe* Super list as usual.
Where do you guys actually find these stuff? The fifth dimension or something?
Djurdjica Selec (September 21st, 2007, 6:15 pm)
Not only wallpapers, but great inspiration! Gracias!
Ahelg (September 21st, 2007, 7:39 pm)
Most of these wp galleries are a piece of shit. IMHO.
Matt (September 21st, 2007, 9:04 pm)
I’ve been using SpaceTelescope.org’s Hubble photographs as wallpapers.
Link [www.spacetelescope.org]
Lately I’ve been using this photograph of Link [www.spacetelescope.org].
I know people pump out 3D renderings of stuff like this all the time but it’s more impressive when it’s an actual photograph.
Anita (September 21st, 2007, 10:29 pm)
you guys are amazing! love that thing by vladstudio…!!!
you literally cheer me up every week :P
James Chapman (September 22nd, 2007, 6:47 am)
What an awesome collection of wallpaper sites!!
Thank you so much
Ehab (September 22nd, 2007, 1:56 pm)
I Love you guys ! no follow is ok - but damn - this is serious content everytime there is a post
Ngoc (September 22nd, 2007, 7:57 pm)
Can you please give me the direct link to picture:
Link [www.smashingmagazine.com] from
Link [wallpaperstock.net] ? Thanks
Razvan (September 22nd, 2007, 8:20 pm)
Good stuff, thanks!
Timothy Long (September 23rd, 2007, 7:41 am)
legit, guys. legit!
Fath (September 24th, 2007, 9:28 pm)
Super duper cool!!!! Thanks SM!
Kitkat (September 28th, 2007, 12:35 pm)
These wallpapers are absolutely stunning! Thanks.
ShereKhan (September 29th, 2007, 1:51 am)
Some of this are really cool.
Fipo (October 5th, 2007, 9:26 am)
Fantastic ;)
thanks a lot !
Alex (October 11th, 2007, 12:08 am)
Can you give me the link to full version of the image you’ve used for wallpapers.ru (http://www.smashingmagazine.com/images/wallpaper3/wallpapers_ru.jpg)?
Alex (October 11th, 2007, 12:11 am)
Already got it. Thanks!
Paco Guzman (October 15th, 2007, 6:38 pm)
More pages of wallpapers in
Link [guzmanear.wordpress.com]
Thanks, from Spain ;-)
Borns (October 17th, 2007, 11:11 pm)
For those asking for: Link [www.smashingmagazine.com]
Here you go: Link [wallpaperstock.net]
Himanshu Kapoor (October 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
Meie (November 8th, 2007, 3:38 am)
Wide collection of PSP wallpapers can be found at Link [www.pspwallpapers4free.com]
VagabondoDigitale (December 16th, 2007, 2:58 am)
Fantastic Collection. Very Great.
THX.
satish (January 20th, 2008, 6:41 am)
hi
Wallpapers (January 23rd, 2008, 2:36 pm)
I love these wallpapers :D :)
wallpapers (February 5th, 2008, 7:04 pm)
If you are looking for good wallpapers, there are many here great job!
Free Desktop Wallpapers (February 6th, 2008, 9:59 pm)
Nice list!
Also, Link [freewallpapers4u.com] has some desktop wallpapers on it.
Alb3rt1 (February 13th, 2008, 2:52 am)
Wait few time and i can put on my site my great collection of Link [www.tyvm.eu]
DKGAGRAPHICS.Com (February 29th, 2008, 2:42 pm)
Very nice work
Reginald (March 11th, 2008, 12:11 pm)
I actually got lost checking out these resources.
Loved the experience.
Vikki (April 10th, 2008, 1:00 pm)
Simply awesome man i havn’t seen walls like this!!!!!!!!!!!
Wallpapers (April 15th, 2008, 3:36 pm)
You forgot us ;) Link [www.desktopspies.com] 24,000 wallpapers and counting!
afg89 (April 20th, 2008, 1:29 pm)
I love these wallpapers. I created my own website Link [wallpapers.zxq.net]. It is new.
ana (May 12th, 2008, 3:54 am)
vlad is romanian not russian :)
Bollywood Wallpapers (May 12th, 2008, 5:01 am)
god wallpapers