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Beautiful Halloween Wallpapers And Halloween DIY-Tutorials

By Vailancio Rodrigues, October 27th, 2008 in Graphics | 112 Comments | Forum

The Halloween is around the corner and the atmosphere is filled with pumpkins, skeletons, bonfires, horror movies and other scary things spread across the houses, stores and, of course, web sites. Just the right time to spice up your desktop and your designs with an appropriate Halloween spirit. And for this purpose you may use Halloween Photoshop Vectors or Halloween Icons (even more Halloween icons). Alternatively, you can change your desktop wallpaper and prepare some traditional pumpkin carvings.

In this post we present some beautiful Halloween wallpapers, art works, recipes and tutorials for your scary Halloween party. All these screenshots are linked to their source.

You may also want to take a look at our Halloween Special from last year to get some more ideas for Halloween costumes, recipes and DIY-tutorials and related posts:

Original Halloween Wallpapers

Think Halloween
Only 1280× 960px. Designed by Zefhar.

Ghosts
800×600, 1024×768, 1280×1024, 1600×1200.

Halloween Night Wallpaper
1024×768, 1152×864, 1280×960 and 1600×1200.

Crucial Design
Wallpapers for iPhone, 1024×768, 1280×960, 1600×1200, 1920×1200.

A Spider
1280×1024.

Pacman Halloween
800×600, 1024×768, 1280×1024, 1600×1200.

Tombstone and Witch
320×480 (iPhone), 1600×1200, 2560×1600.

Haunted Hotel
A Halloween desktop wallpaper and 12 Halloween desktop icons. For Windows and Mac.

Horror, Scary Wallpapers

Eye Horror
1600×1200.

The Butterfly
1900×1200.

The Knife
1600×1200.

Mother V: Blood
1152×864.

Skin Walkers
1024×768, 1152×864, 1280×1024 and 1600×1200.

The Bloody USB-Stick
1600×1200.

Poze Horror Desktop Wallpaper
1600×1200.

Classic Wallpapers: Pumpkins!

The Halloween Spirit
This widescreen wallpaper features a spirit not quite ready to give up on trick-or-treating yet. This free Halloween desktop download features 5 computer wallpapers for desktops using 1600×1200, 1280×1024, 1280×960, 1024×768 or 1400×1050 resolutions.

The Scarecrow
Only 800×600 and 1024×768.

Halloween - Boo
800×600, 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×1024 and 1600×1200.

Halloween Pumpkin Wallpaper
1440×900.

Soooo many pumpkins!
800×600, 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×1024 and 1600×1200.

Halloween Lights
Pumpkin and gourd lanterns represent a more artistic side of All Hallow’s Eve. 640×480, 800×600, 1024×768, 1280×1024, 1600×1200.

White Chocolate Pumpkin
This white pumpkin decorated with brown and orange graphics looks good enough to eat. 640×480, 800×600, 1024×768, 1280×1024, 1600×1200.

Wallcoo Halloween Haunts
Over 50 beautiful Halloween wallpapers in various resolutions, at most 1920×1200.

Spooky Halloween
1024×768.

Paci Tubes Halloween Wallpapers
7 Halloween wallpapers in the resolution 1280×1024.

Pumpkins
1280×1024.

Pendemonium
Only 1024×768.

Dangerous Mask
1600×1200.

Halloween In The Midnight Forest
800×600, 1024×768, 1280×1024, 1600×1200.

Halloween Pumpkins
800×600, 1024×768, 1152×864, 1280×1024, 1600×1200.

Halloween Art Design
Only 1024×768.

The Two And The Nightmare
800×600, 1024×768, 1280×1024, 1600×1200.

iPhone Halloween Wallpaper

Creative Pumpkin Art

During the Halloween pumpkins are almost everywhere. The tradition to use pumpkins as Halloween lanterns was born in 1840s in American tradition. Now this tradition is turning into creative masterpieces.

Death Star

Worm Infested Pumpkin

Cheshire Cat

Predator Halloween Pumpkin

Halloween Dinner Table

Fantasy Pumpkin

Creative Halloween Face Painting

Halloween How-To

Halloween Decoration: Spiderwebs

Halloween Head Wreath

Halloween Craft: Victorian Pumpkins

Mini-Treat Bags and Tree

Halloween Art

Further Resources

Area for further articles and related resources.

Halloween Wallpapers
A collection of beautiful wide-screen Halloween wallpapers.
Vladstudio Halloween Wallpapers
20 Wallpapers for Halloween
Alldesktop.ru: Halloween Wallpapers
Scary Wallpapers
Halloween for kids
Creative Halloween Costumes, Cooking, And Crafts For Kids On Halloween.
Fantasy Pumpkins
A collection of beautiful pumpkin carvings.
54 Absolutely Stunning 3D Pumpkin Carvings
Some awesome 3D carving on the Food Network Challenge show.
Flickr:Disney Halloween
Photos from a Disney themepark during their Halloween events, Disney Halloween merchandising, etc.
The 23 Best Horror Games
Celebrate Halloween Eve by sitting down with some of the scariest video games ever created.

You may also want to take a look at our Halloween Special from last year to get some more ideas for Halloween costumes, recipes and DIY-tutorials and related posts:

Published in Graphics, October 27th, 2008
Tags: art, Halloween, inspiration, showcases, wallpapers

1.

Phobios (October 27th, 2008, 2:53 pm)

Lots of inspiration, thanks!
2.

Brad Blogging.com - Personal Blog Tips And Blog Help (October 27th, 2008, 2:55 pm)

Now theres no reason why I can’t do something awesome this Halloween. :)
3.

Audrey Drake (October 27th, 2008, 3:27 pm)

WOW!
4.

ZeroD (October 27th, 2008, 3:33 pm)

one of the best articles ever. Very fun and creative
here are 2 more halloween wallpapers
Link [www.wallpaperstop.com]
Link [www.wallpaperstop.com]
5.

Lily (October 27th, 2008, 3:36 pm)

These were really neat :]
6.

Nunofos (October 27th, 2008, 4:52 pm)

Really nice collection.

Thanks!
7.

rybaxs (October 27th, 2008, 5:26 pm)

I can’t stop scrolling.. ghost <- really great! so nice!
8.

Mike Smith (October 27th, 2008, 5:27 pm)

Awesome round up for my favorite holiday :) and thanks for including the link to my 54 amazing 3d pumpkin carvings post, I appreciate it.
9.

goma (October 27th, 2008, 5:27 pm)

Gonna grab one of those Halloween wallpapers! Bwahahaha!
10.

john (October 27th, 2008, 5:57 pm)

Thanks for putting my wallpaper up with all this amazing artwork and thanks for everyone that clicked through to my site.

Link [cruciald.com]
11.

FBrushes.com (October 27th, 2008, 5:57 pm)

Great Halloween designs. love them all!
12.

aaron (October 27th, 2008, 7:12 pm)

i like
13.

eddiedesigns (October 27th, 2008, 7:25 pm)

great halloween inspirations!
14.

StickersAndDonuts (October 27th, 2008, 7:27 pm)

The USB with blood! So funny.
15.

Conny (October 27th, 2008, 9:55 pm)

Wow. Great article.
16.

Curt Simon Harlinghausen (October 27th, 2008, 9:56 pm)

Wonderful article. Interesting pics.
Genius preparation for halloween.

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17.

Shuuun (October 27th, 2008, 11:25 pm)

amazing ones!! i love the pumpkin with the tooth!

just love it! real art
18.

speedcu (October 27th, 2008, 11:43 pm)

wow! absolutely great collection!
19.

Malcolm (October 28th, 2008, 12:08 am)

Thanks and a very Happy Halloween to you too :)
20.

Manuel (October 28th, 2008, 12:22 am)

Nice halloween collection! Great job…
21.

Angelie (October 28th, 2008, 2:27 am)

You missed out the top pumpking artist, with absolutely fantastic skills when it comes to pumpking sculptures: Link [pumpkingutter.com]

Let me know what you think!
22.

linh (October 28th, 2008, 2:36 am)

damn, am@zing images
23.

Tom (October 28th, 2008, 2:50 am)

this post is 1 week too late. this isnpiration was needed 2 weeks ago, now our decoration seems boring :)
but for the next year its perfect, very nice pictures, thx sm and artists!
24.

Patareco (October 28th, 2008, 4:10 am)

Thanks, I downloaded some!
Great Inspiration too!
25.

Daniel (October 28th, 2008, 6:15 am)

Great set of resources!

I’ve just done a tutorial on some JavaScript for Halloween. Link [www.protongun.com]
26.

rainwebs (October 28th, 2008, 8:07 am)

Even better than last years list. Wow.

Here’s more free stuff to have a look at: Link [halloween.jigetiser.com], based on our 3D artwork.
27.

Silvia (October 28th, 2008, 9:29 am)

Link [lolita-art.deviantart.com]

This has always been my favorite Halloween wallpaper… even if it was not meant to be a wallpaper hahaha
28.

Kostas (October 28th, 2008, 12:57 pm)

Wow, great article! As said: lots of inspiration.

Thank you.
29.

GazDenA (October 28th, 2008, 1:18 pm)

Halloween is my favourite time of year. Unfortunately, we don’t do it as well as you guys in the US but some of us do try!

Lots of great work here and some awesome art!
30.

delikatissen (October 29th, 2008, 1:04 am)

great collection!
31.

Celina Gomes (October 29th, 2008, 2:26 am)

superb collection! Fantastic themes i have ever seen. I like that predator halloween pumpkin.
32.

chris (October 29th, 2008, 2:52 am)

space invader pumpkin ftw
33.

Ylloh (October 30th, 2008, 7:36 am)

amazing wallpapers!

just an other amazing halloween wallpaper:
Link [www.photoshop-cafe.de]
34.

John (October 30th, 2008, 10:30 am)

Is it legal to post ‘Juice Drops’ as free wallpaper? I dont think they would like that very much!

Link [www.digitaljuice.com]
35.

Michelle San (October 30th, 2008, 5:20 pm)

would smashingmagazine release desktop calendar for november?
36.

suia (November 2nd, 2008, 9:12 am)

kkkk
37.

elLyn (November 4th, 2008, 11:19 pm)

woW…
it’s sO very2 fAntaStic……..
i Like it sO mUch……..
i wiLL see tHe oTHer…….
38.

im niid (February 18th, 2009, 11:23 am)

picture’ badjuzzzz benudzzz…

im verii like it

pii bidcaa gg??
uwad wallpaper di fs?????????
39.

GARID (March 22nd, 2009, 5:38 am)

awesome :)
40.

Ravent (June 7th, 2009, 9:26 am)

WOW… thank you so much !!! i love it