More (Really) Stunning Desktop Wallpapers
Desktop wallpapers are always nice to look at and to draw inspiration from. They may provide with some fresh perspective and offer you some eye-candy for tedious coffee breaks. We are regularly hunting for free high-quality icons, fonts and wallpapers and present them to you, so you don’t need to search for them. As long as we find something beautiful, interesting or useful, we let you know in our posts. And now it’s time for some sweet wallpapers designer’s toolbox.
In this post we present more (really) stunning desktop wallpapers related to typography, photography, illustrations, HDR as well as some abstract and fantasy-related wallpapers. Hopefully, everybody will find something interesting for his or her desktop. All wallpapers can be downloaded for free.
You can also scan through the following posts:
- (Really) Stunning Desktop Wallpapers
- (Really) Stunning Pictures and Photos
- 35 Fantastic HDR Pictures
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Wallpapers
La Femme
An artwork by James White, available in resolutions 1900×1200px, 1680×1050px, 1440×900px and 1280×1024px as well as in an iPhone version.
The Minimalistic Sky
Available in resolutions 1680×1050px, 1440×900px and 1280×800px.
Summer wallpaper
Light, bright and beautiful; available in various resolutions.
Ethereal Bloom
A nebula wallpaper available in resolution 1600×1200px. Designed in Adobe Photoshop by Sam Mulqueen from New Zealand.
Preiades Star Cluster
A set of wallpapers from Crestock: together with 12 further wallpapers, this one is available in 8 resolutions. Both wide screen and full screen versions are available for free download.
Design is retro
Designed by Ankur Patar from Chandigarh, India. Resolution: only 1280×1024px.
Argyle Stylie
Impressive pattern with an Apple sticker on the left. Created by sunb1rd. High-resolution version should be available soon.
Grids Are Good For The Soul
A series of typographic wallpapers by Antonio Carusone from AisleOne. Don’t like the typeface below? Try Helvetica. Resolution: 1920×1200px.
CMYK Lovers
Designed by Guilherme Marconi and available in resolutions 1900×1200px, 1680×1050px, 1440×900px and 1280×1024px as well as an iPhone version.
365wallpapers
Gosquared offerse a variety of creative artistic wallpapers. The ones below are available in 9 desktop resolutions.
Nebulae Wallpaper
When it comes to beauty, nothing can beat nature.
Blue Dock
Available in the resolution 1900×1200px.
Apple & Co.
Retro Apple
Abstract
Smoke
“One flash at 1/2 power from the left, reflector on the right, black background. Rotated image and painted the smoke in Photoshop with brush in overlay mode.”
Angel Strom
Abstract work in Photoshop.
Swimming
“Swimming by *Thelma1 is a beautiful, flowing, delicate reminder that things often conjured from reality are fragile and ready to crumble at the touch. This is delicate work reminiscant of the marine life, that is sure to make a wonderfull backdrop to anyone’s desktop.”
Fiery Decent
To download the wallpaper you need to download the software provided by Desktoptopia. While this is definitely obtrusive, some wallpapers are just beautiful.
Blue Dynamic Background
Offered for free download by Crestock.com. 8 resolutions, both wide screen and full screen.
Solar System
“Space is one of the topics I find very inspiring to illustrate. Here is my vision of solar system. All proportions are very approximate!”
Clean Arrows
A series of abstract wallpapers, designed by Seventh Street Studio.
Photography
SocksOff Wallpapers
A high-quality collection of high-resolution wallpapers which are free for personal use only.
Dramatic Sky
“This shot shows the wonderful early autumn sky here at the French riviera. I shot this picture with a Nikon D80 with a Sigma 10-20mm lens. Put together as HDR in Dynamic Photo HDR.”
Lazy Days
Springtime is the best. Simple scene created in Vue.
A Beautiful Day
Available in resolutions 800×600, 1024×768, 1151×864, 1151×921, 1280×800, 1280×960, 1280×1024, 1400×1050, 1440×900, 1680×1050 and 1920×1200.
Desert Car Crash
Wide screen resolutions only. 1920×1200, 1680×1050, 1440×900, 1280×800.
Federal Territory Mosque, Malaysia
Eager Beaver
Only 1280×1024.
“Soft” Wallpaper Pack
This pack contains 48 various wallpapers in resolutions 1024×768, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1600×1200 and 1680×1050. Impressive photography.
Four Poles
A 30 second exposure taken just after sunset at Onehunga Harbour, Auckland. The photo is taken by Chris Gin.
Fantasy
The Falls
Illustrations and Artwork
20 Cool Car Wallpapers
A selection of car wallpapers by YouTheDesigner.com. Below is the VW Beetle Sport Concept.
Airplane Art Painting – Art Air Combat
A huge collection of wallpapers related to airplane art painting.
Graphic Design of Hybrid
These ones look tasty. Simple but incredible.
Best of Wallpapers Made in Russia
Abduzeedo wallpaper
Adhemas Batista mixes photos and vectors.
Wide screen wallpapers
This wide screen wallpapers pack contains 20 wallpapers in a variety of resolutions.
Resources
- 18×18 Excellent Wallpapers
A remarkable collection of desktop wallpapers from various sources and in various resolutions. - HDRwalls
HDRWalls offers 349 desktop backgrounds in widescreen and standard format. High Dynamic Range only. - WallCoo
ThisJapaneseChinese site has numerous collection of artistic high-quality desktop wallpapers. In various resolution. Problem: you need to follow the links blindly in order to find wallpapers you are looking for.
Kuris Kuris
January 26th, 2009 4:23 pmthese wallpapers are extremely beautiful! great job to the artists behind this piece of work. :)
Mariana
January 29th, 2009 12:35 pmExtremely beautiful! This is amazing. congratulations and great job!!!!!
Praveen
February 5th, 2009 11:37 pmWow, they was great pictures
jackie
February 9th, 2009 5:55 pmjust omg just like i LOVE them!!!
Melina
February 10th, 2009 2:08 pmThanks so much, I love every wallpaper on this list!!! I can’t even choose which one I want, they’re all so entertaining and pretty. I am truly grateful for the person who takes the time to put this together.
LT
February 13th, 2009 5:10 amMan this is fantastic, best wall paper i have ever seen before! This is the fabulous, great, and full of life. Amazing I’m shocked. This is just too fantastic.
kasi
February 25th, 2009 8:27 amwhats guyies this is great i love this web site thing lol ttyl peace…
lynn
March 4th, 2009 6:39 pmhow can i download them?
Natasha
March 8th, 2009 5:08 pmthere was a tiger wallpaper that I had as my desktop for the longest time but I ended up resetting it by accident. I got the picture from this website – it was a tiger standing in a wall that had been broken (the wall was separating a forest and an indoor area) with leaves flying all around. does anyone know where I can find it? thanks!
abdusfauzi
March 16th, 2009 10:10 pmloves the compilation!
Mac Dog- Detroit
March 30th, 2009 8:52 amdog these r pimpin!
thx a mil’
keep producin dog!
peace…..
Lady J
April 18th, 2009 4:13 pmMAN Great Job Solid pics man Ten thumbs up
Nan Htike
May 9th, 2009 7:34 pmAwesome Great………….
Please add more things on.
I am really fancinated in photoshop design…..i can learn alot..
Thanks anyway!….
amar shukla
May 14th, 2009 9:34 pmi liked “The Minimalistic Sky” but unfortunately when clicked on link it gives 404 error :(
Kinou
May 19th, 2009 2:27 amWallco has got an amazing selection. To avoid clicking blindly on the links try this:
http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&js=n&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wallcoo.com%2F&sl=auto&tl=en&history_state0=
Thexscha
June 20th, 2009 10:54 amGreat list, but could you provide a link for the Argyle one? ‘Cause I love it, but can’t find it :(
Rohfun
July 5th, 2009 5:47 amthanks for share
saulo
July 18th, 2009 3:55 amhaha pictures
Akki
July 30th, 2009 9:31 pmreallyyyyyyyyy Great work mannnnnnnnnn………….u r awsomeeeee…..
lahcen
August 14th, 2009 7:44 amthey are soooooooooooo wonderful and nice
berni
September 6th, 2009 7:29 amgenial! thanks
Harrison Tonne
October 22nd, 2009 6:32 pmNice Selection
creativebrain
November 2nd, 2009 2:51 amamazing list of wallpapers.. very likes this…
febriola
November 8th, 2009 2:09 amThnx… this is very amazing.!!
i hope this will happen my inspiration.
kapil
December 4th, 2009 8:18 amnice pic. of all tipe subject
lacey
December 15th, 2009 5:46 amthanks man!!!
jignesh
January 7th, 2010 12:10 amwel-come
mehmoona alam
January 25th, 2010 12:47 pmvery nice excellant keep it up…….
Yannick
February 3rd, 2010 4:26 amJust too GOOD!!!
umar
February 8th, 2010 3:32 amnot best wallpapers
Chafic
February 18th, 2010 8:59 amYou’ve got quite a beautiful taste, this is one of the best collections I’ve seen so far. However, it needs a little manga and a lot more fantasy, don’t you think?
Maneesh Panwar
March 16th, 2010 6:44 amCool stuff !!
William
March 22nd, 2010 5:22 amawsome wallpaper
CHOCLATE THUNDER
March 22nd, 2010 5:24 ami did agree they could do better
CHOCLATE THUNDER
March 22nd, 2010 5:27 amim just saying i dis agree
CHOCLATE THUNDER
March 22nd, 2010 5:23 amthey could do better but its alright get some moving wall paper
William
March 22nd, 2010 8:23 amI know once I had some moving wallpaper
CHOCLATE THUNDER
March 22nd, 2010 5:26 amwho is this william anyway
William
March 22nd, 2010 5:29 amI’m william ok and that all u need to know choclate thunder and what kind of name is that anyway
William
March 22nd, 2010 5:26 amyour wrong u have know tast
William
March 22nd, 2010 5:27 amwho is this choclate thunder
William
March 22nd, 2010 5:28 amu have no tast
William
March 22nd, 2010 5:28 amoh and it william that’s who this is
EWALLPAPERSTOCK
March 28th, 2010 4:50 amwonderful collection.
10x
Sushie
April 14th, 2010 1:00 pmThanks for sharing these very inspirng wallpapers, i love fantasy ones, it really make me want to fly… <3
sanjay
April 25th, 2010 1:28 amthese are the miracles in wallpapers………………………..
sir
April 25th, 2010 10:51 amdoes someone know the author to desert car crash?
i would like permission to use the picture.
thank you.
Ashok
June 11th, 2010 8:40 amStunnig…….Awesome!!!!!!!………Nothing more!
ante
June 14th, 2010 10:15 amgreat selection
Tess
June 25th, 2010 3:57 amReally awesome wallpapers. Imagine them in HD and on a big screen … heaven. Propably would make you wanna jump right into them.
There are so many that I like. Why must you always come up with such amazing and huge collections guys ;)
In case somebody got inspired and is now looking for some other beautiful wallpapers then check out our free Twitter Backgrounds on http://viuu.co.uk . If you do not wanna use them for your Twitter account you could always use them as desktop wallpapers.
Natasya Zambri
June 28th, 2010 10:46 amWOW, I’m so impressed !!
ALIF FARISHTA
August 3rd, 2010 3:47 amGR8 VERY GR8
IM LOVING IT
SHYAMAL DEBNATH
August 28th, 2010 3:36 amYour collection its very nice…… I relly love your site.
john
October 26th, 2010 2:11 amits so fantastic i very happy to see those picture!
rIcK
October 26th, 2010 6:11 pmquite a collection, great stuff, it’s always good to see things like this
Mohammad Elsheimy
November 14th, 2010 4:36 amThis is an amazing list, WOOOOOOOOOW :D
M.Salaar Khan
November 30th, 2010 1:02 amgreat,good,nice,beautifull & and so good choice
M.Salaar Khan
November 30th, 2010 1:03 amsupereb wallpapers
ganesh
December 11th, 2010 10:28 pmso cool
Riddlesticks
December 14th, 2010 1:51 pmGreat collection! I love the CMYK Lovers wallpaper. If anyone is still looking for more there are 3 awesome free wallpapers here: http://www.zoomcreates.com/wrap.
rogue
February 1st, 2011 3:36 amlove everything, my lunch hour passes way too quickly when i’m on this site. really refreshes me
Fadli
February 24th, 2011 12:15 amWOW.. i like the Russian’s …
ayaan khan
March 23rd, 2011 9:00 pmnice…:)
SaN
May 19th, 2011 5:00 amThanks…
Naren
May 26th, 2011 8:34 pmVery nice collection!
sara sherkyan
May 30th, 2011 7:01 amAmazing!!!
Anjali
June 1st, 2011 3:03 amI love this . Nice Collection !
Different from other site
atluri
May 30th, 2011 8:09 pmcannot take off our eyes from seeing these wallpapers
pranjal
June 28th, 2011 10:37 amSimply Awesome….
FaZaL eLaHi
July 3rd, 2011 9:32 pmwaooo…. this is one opf the best file of wallpapers … i like it so much……!!!!!
maman
July 25th, 2011 1:32 amwoooooooooooow.its amazing i am so happy oh my god………..
hilaryehna
August 8th, 2011 3:58 ami love all of them…hot one!!!
Georgie
October 20th, 2011 10:36 pmtheese are sooooooooooooooooooooo cool