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
Don’t forget: until 21th of May you can participate in Smashing Texture Contest, take a photo, send it to us and win a professional digital camera. We have received over 200 entries so far.
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.
Joefrey Mahusay
May 15th, 2008 8:36 amAwesome list. Thanks for sharing
psd2markup
May 15th, 2008 8:43 amCool list.. Can’t wait to change my wallpaper at work!
Majesticskull
May 15th, 2008 8:45 amAWESOME! THE BETTER COLECTION OF WALLPAPERS!
Mark
May 15th, 2008 8:51 amIf possible can you put thumbs in your RSS feed, kinda aggravating trying to scroll thru feeds while images are loading and popping feed reader back to your feed.
Just my little whine for today.
antani
May 15th, 2008 8:55 amWow, along with the other collection of wallpapers now I have a different one for each day of this month…. And maybe even for the next.
ferdinand
May 15th, 2008 8:59 amwow these are impressive, I especially like the ones in the “abstract” categorie. There’s even a tutorial on the “Travel” wallpaper. The first “fantasy landscape” design is great too. Well they all are. I just don’t understand why you’ve included the “Mac OS Blue” in the list. I’ve seen a lot better Apple orientated wallpaper than that one. It’s too simple to compete with all the others in my opinion.
Aikyrie
May 15th, 2008 9:25 am:O Wow this are amazing. Ty!
Lindsey
May 15th, 2008 9:29 amI second mark’s request. Is there a way for you to have your RSS auto scale down the thumbs. my feedreader hates this posts as much as I love them :)
moritzpeuser
May 15th, 2008 9:51 amGreat collection!
But who the hell said, that Apple is green? Apple pollutes the environment with their production methods. Don’t ever say that Apple is green!
freewally
May 15th, 2008 10:09 amthe third wp is made by KOL, the originals are here:
http://-kol.deviantart.com/art/Seasons-One-monitor-version-24476482
and are available in different sizes too.
i don’t know if the japanese website credited the creator.
busface
May 15th, 2008 10:21 amnice collection.
what are the “Preiades”?
Stryker
May 15th, 2008 10:56 amWOOOOOOOOOOOW
this is the best ever
man
smashing guys
you guys
you……………… you ……………….. you ………… you r ……….. I’m speachless
u r the only reason that makes me log in the net every day
I….. LOOOOVE you guys
thanx
cindy*staged4more
May 15th, 2008 11:10 ami love the lion :) he looks so happy for eating his trainer.
David Airey
May 15th, 2008 11:16 amNice collection, guys. Thanks for piecing it together.
Hope all’s well your side.
n3rd
May 15th, 2008 11:33 amNice collection… would like to see you guys do a post like this for people who have dual monitors.
Here’s the wallpaper I’m using know that I made out of a few other images I found online… Earth From Mars (Yes I know it’s not proportional)
Simon
May 15th, 2008 12:28 pmFantastic wallpapers…
Sadly I can’t use any of them; I’ve got dual screens at home and at work so 2560×1024… can you showcase anything for those?
Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz
May 15th, 2008 12:30 pm@Simon: thanks, we’ll see what we can do. ;-)
ne-design
May 15th, 2008 12:40 pmGreat new wallpapers for my desktop!
The 3rd wallpaper “Summer wallpaper” needs a little fix. Looking at the kanji that the website uses it seems to be a Chinese website. You could also check by clicking the English button on the top left.
As freewally said in the comment they don’t have the original author credited so it might better to have the link to the original author.
I hope you guys take a little more time to check. Keep up the good work!
Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz
May 15th, 2008 1:00 pm@ne-design: thank you, corrected.
sheeraz
May 15th, 2008 1:13 pmthis is the best collection of wallpapers of smashing mag….very coool…keep it up…
sheraz
April 1st, 2010 7:33 amhi dear how r u where from u my name is sheraz
Ben May
May 15th, 2008 1:32 pmHoly crap, that is a great list! How am I meant to choose just one!
It just kept going with more and more great images! LOVE IT
Amaiko
May 15th, 2008 2:22 pmAwesome
Thanks
Karol Adamczyk
May 15th, 2008 2:45 pmFinally some ACTUALLY stunning wallpapers!
K.S.
May 15th, 2008 2:49 pmWallCoo is not a Japanese site, it’s Chinese one. And very typical. :)
Greate list, by the way.
Matthew Hartman
May 15th, 2008 4:06 pmAwesome list!! Thanks again!
Kyle P.
May 15th, 2008 4:53 pmMore awesome work! Thanks so much!
WallCoo
May 15th, 2008 5:32 pmWallCoo is Chinese site !
Dy™
May 15th, 2008 5:57 pmwooww!!!
its really really awesome!
kereeen!
thanks for posting this :D
Ian J Cottee
May 15th, 2008 6:17 pmGreat list. By the way, there’s a link at the top of the Wallcoo site for an English version.
ncus
May 15th, 2008 6:53 pmWallcoo is not japanese, it’s Chinese website.
David
May 15th, 2008 7:38 pmGreat list!
PS, WallCoo is a Chinese website not Japanese.
Fath
May 15th, 2008 7:47 pmAwesome! Been looking for a new wallpaper for May. Thanks!
Evan Meagher
May 15th, 2008 7:48 pmThese are incredible. Quite possibly the best compilation yet. Thank you very much!
Eli
May 15th, 2008 7:58 pmNot that I don’t love all these wallpapers (even more so now I’ve upgraded to a 22″ widescreen), but I want to see Smashing Magazine mix up the articles a little more. Give us some more unique articles, not follow ups (note the “really”).
Still,
K.K.Shankar
May 15th, 2008 8:12 pmAwesome Collections Guy…..
U r smashing in day by day
Maurits
May 15th, 2008 10:51 pmWow! sooo nice! I love the pattern created by sunb1rd! Nice work! Thnks for sharing!
tom
May 15th, 2008 11:16 pmawesome collection of some great pieces !!
Igor Jovic
May 15th, 2008 11:21 pmVery nice!!
Modisana
May 15th, 2008 11:30 pmYou guys are freaking amazing…Beautiful wallpapers
Wow!
Im Speechless like Michael Jackson!
vinss
May 15th, 2008 11:31 pmThank you very much for sharing this list ! =)
Miguel
May 16th, 2008 12:13 amAmazing wallpapers. How do you keep some wallpapers that Desktoptopia rotates? I want to keep some! They’re beautiful!
momonov
May 16th, 2008 3:16 amsmashingwallpapers.com !!
John Thomas
May 16th, 2008 5:43 amThanks for this post. I’m always looking for great new wallpapers. May I suggest you consider http://freewidescreenwallpapers.blogspot.com/ in your next round. That guy is updating his site daily and the quality has remained high for months. Happy Friday!
ptamaro
May 16th, 2008 6:26 amWow, they just keep getting better, and better, and better… Thanks for another amazing smash-up!
Twila_Zoned
May 16th, 2008 6:52 amOutstanding!
kaitong
May 16th, 2008 7:40 amThey’re all amazing! Thanks
Bruno L.
May 16th, 2008 8:41 amHello. Good collection!
But the article needs a little correction. Adhemas Batista not is the autor of Abduzeedo wallpaper. The true autor is Fabio Sasso, inspired in Adhemas Batista’s work :)
Sorry for my broken English. :( Cya!
sosty
May 16th, 2008 12:03 pmawesome list :D
really so nice !!
Echilon
May 16th, 2008 12:29 pmGood wallpapers are something that pops up very rarely. Great collection!
bssn
May 17th, 2008 3:21 amso so so so so so so beautiful.
spawnrider
May 17th, 2008 6:23 amVery beautifull wallpapers !
Thanks
Rian
May 17th, 2008 7:31 amPleiades is a star cluster, named (if I remember correctly) after seven sisters, possibly daughters of the Greek god Zeus. You can find out more about them on Wikipedia.
PIXEAM
May 17th, 2008 8:17 amI really loved the Nebulae Wallpaper…Its So magical!!!!!
Zaigham
May 17th, 2008 11:02 amJust beautiful collection again! Thanks! :D
bloggersmosaic
May 17th, 2008 6:11 pmawesome
Mike the pcrobot
May 17th, 2008 7:45 pmI would say over 90% of those wallpapers are absolutely gorgeous! I’m a wallpaper freak (each week I search and search for the “perfect” wallpaper for that week). Thanks for the list!
n
May 17th, 2008 11:17 pmhelloooo tank s for your desktop pictures very very beautiful
James McDonald
May 18th, 2008 3:59 pmThe Argyle Wallpaper link doesnt work :(
Karl
May 18th, 2008 9:13 pmFantastic wallpapers…
Sadly I can’t use any of them; I’ve got dual screens at home and at work so 2560×1024… can you showcase anything for those?
Christian
May 19th, 2008 3:12 pmThe link for Argyle Style is broken . I found the creator’s page on DevianArt but it doesn’t have that wallpaper anymore. :-( Anyone has a version to send me?
Also, where are those high res versions?!
Lawrence
May 20th, 2008 1:46 amthanks man ! a stunning collection……
friends sms START TIRUNELVELI to 09845398453 to get cool sms’s……………..
Max
May 20th, 2008 9:41 pmNice collection… just thought I should mention that wallcoo.com actually has an option for english language. Upper left corner…
Jenny
May 21st, 2008 7:20 pmThose are really awesome.
Amir
May 22nd, 2008 2:53 amWooow!
I have never ever seen such great collection of wallpapers.
They are really b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l .
Thanks
Angelfire
May 22nd, 2008 7:41 pmOMG, these wallpapers are amazing!!!!
Great, so much thanks.
Carla
May 23rd, 2008 9:37 pmSweet! Thank you. :)
jamie
May 24th, 2008 2:36 amThank you for the wallpapers, I bookmarked this page and I use the wallpapers here for my office desktop.
Jamie Carter
May 24th, 2008 8:07 amAmazing!
greven
May 25th, 2008 10:24 pmReally nice compilation. :)
I’ve made a personal compilation too on my blog. 49 Wallpapers, hope you find it usefull too.
http://www.paintbits.com/2008/05/26/49-amazing-wallpapers/
Imran
May 25th, 2008 10:33 pmWoooooooooooooooooooooooow Men !!
Mindblowing work…
Vicfred
May 26th, 2008 6:58 pmluv these wallpapers
Angie
May 27th, 2008 11:01 amWow this is amazing art work. Thank you so much for sharing it.
sweetcorrosion
May 27th, 2008 3:08 pmThese are gorgeous…..using the ladybug…..really love it.
beni
May 29th, 2008 6:51 amawesome, just like usual
vinoth
May 29th, 2008 11:05 pmAmazing………something different! good job!!!!
thank u
ps
June 2nd, 2008 6:14 amsweet!!
was really nice collection
OLEG
June 3rd, 2008 10:55 amRUSSIA!!!!! SUPER!)
Rohit Dassani
June 4th, 2008 4:31 amNever seen such amazing wallpapers!!!
Mandy James
June 11th, 2008 4:06 pmhentaiplus.tk rulls baby
sri
June 25th, 2008 9:52 pmAmazing wallpapers. Good collection.
koyl
July 12th, 2008 3:59 amgr8 collection ! thanks )
Mane69
July 12th, 2008 9:36 pmMagnificos, muchas gracias.
Saludos desde México, jeje.
Fab
July 16th, 2008 2:13 amIt seems Desert Car Crash wallpaper link is dead. Is it possible to fix it, please ?
Thx
Renee D. Miller
July 21st, 2008 5:51 amthe photos that you have made are lovely my husband and daughter love them as much as i do.keep up the good work. From Renee
aaa
July 31st, 2008 9:41 pmamazing collections,i am tired of saving these beatiful images now,they are awesome.thanks a lot.
Frank
August 25th, 2008 6:19 pmthank you for the great wallpapers , may abudance go your way .
Andrew DK
September 2nd, 2008 6:01 am…….really good…….!
susan parks
October 15th, 2008 3:47 amthese pics suck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
m@ik
October 22nd, 2008 1:13 pmAwesome! Thank a lot. :-)
udappk
November 8th, 2008 2:40 am::: Actually this the best web site i have ever seen in ma life. it has all the thing members and viewers want. Thanks for the owner and Admins. A greate work. :::
mohammad rafiq
August 25th, 2010 9:37 amsalam may frend
Muhammad Usman
November 12th, 2008 12:53 amthanks for sharing
trancuong
November 14th, 2008 12:10 amWonderful. Thanks for sharing
Najib Hassan
November 15th, 2008 12:15 amdamn!!! it so wonderfull!!!! thanks for sharing again.!!
Kristine.:3
November 23rd, 2008 6:28 amAwesum :O very beautiful and artistic photos , amazing. Loved.
Yojo
December 1st, 2008 5:09 amI loved those desktop backgrounds. It was really useful. Thank you very VERY MUCH!!!
faezeh
December 6th, 2008 7:50 amvery beautiful wallpapers.
Thanks.
john
December 12th, 2008 1:42 amwelldone !!!!!i got ashtonished eve have done a great job its just marvellous, fantastic,words cant explain it wow keep it up guys
Mohsin Shafiq
December 16th, 2008 3:02 amThis is very bad wallpapers….
Emii
December 22nd, 2008 2:03 amGreat list, Wonderful wallpapers ;) tranks for sharing
Elz
January 19th, 2009 9:47 amWOW!! There wicked!! How did u get them? i will b using these r 4 my wallpapers !! :) Thanx!!