Any good recommendations for downloading desktop backgrounds? I'm looking for pictures or artwork to use for my dual screen monitors. But I find it difficult to find high res downloads from safe sources.
I love to browse the website of the Library of Congress, it has a lot of expressive historical photographs and you can download the high-res scans of the original plates. Of course, I have to process the images in an editor a bit, but I love the process. Generally I like "crafting" my desktop backgrounds myself.
I also like to have photos I've taken as my background.
Ya, the Library of Congress collection is great, it’s practically the only place I’ve been able to find images of art that is at least 3840 pixels wide that doesn’t need to be upscaled for 4K monitors. Does anyone know any other sources of high resolution images of classic art? All of the photos on museum sites like the Louvre and the Rijksmuseum are really low quality.
You've been faster than me.
Great suggestion. There's tons of free and high quality backgrounds on there.
There are also apps for your favorite smartphone OS avaliable.
I really used to like https://interfacelift.com, but there hasn't been consistent uploads in about 2 years, though there are still a lot of great wallpapers on that site.
Maybe somewhat nostalgic, but I remember cycling through many artworks by digitalblasphemy [1] during the early-mid 2000s. Honestly surprised to see there's still new content!
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I also like to have photos I've taken as my background.
For example, the Rijksmuseum: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio
* https://www.reddit.com/r/catsinboxes/
* Wikimedia isn't bad https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Background_image...
* Wikipedia has tons of stunning hi-res artwork, as does...
* Wikiart! Example: Max Ernst https://www.wikiart.org/en/max-ernst/the-angel-of-the-home-o...
- find a saturation and brightness level that is pleasing to you
- now basically any hue you pick will be a pleasing color
- create a number of 5000x5000 PNG files in those colors
- use an image optimization tool (imgoptim etc.) and crush them to 1 KB files
- let your OS cycle through the folder
It has 1000s of high quality absolutely free images. You can even use them for commercial purposes for free legally.
https://unsplash.com/apps
It's great that you don't need to sign in or do captchas.
https://burst.shopify.com/
https://www.pexels.com/
http://justinmaller.com/
The best in the past couple years has definitely been https://unsplash.com .
In particular, I enjoy both the environmental concept art & design section and the matte painting sections:
- https://www.artstation.com/channels/environmental_concept_de...
- https://www.artstation.com/channels/matte_painting?sort_by=t...
[1] https://digitalblasphemy.com/
A bunch of wallpapers related to specific movies or Disney, with various variations or themes per movie/series.
[1]: <https://old.reddit.com/r/EarthPorn/>