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What is a good website for desktop backgrounds?

Desktop Backgrounds

  • Cool desktop backgrounds: everyone's got 'em, but where do they come from? In other words, I want to know where you get the eye candy you keep underneath all those icons. (Not saying a word about what's inside, but you can probably guess...) Every once in a blue moon, I stumble across one of those ephemereal sites which are well designed and have at least a few dozen kickass background images, often in multiple resolutions. Problem is, A) I don't always bookmark them, and more importantly B) you simply cannot Google for such sites. Any search term which would lead you to places like http://www.digitalblasphemy.com or http://www.cognitivedistortion.com--"wallpapers" or "desktop backgrounds"--is going to turn up hundreds of those crappy, ad-filled sites for every one gem, if any. A related and minor gripe is how many of the places I have found, like the above, want you to pay for the content (although that's often because they have content they make themselves, which is understandable). I'd prefer places which are free or which offer public-domain type stuff. So, where do you get your backgrounds from? The only other place I can think of is http://www.deviantart.com, but they aren't the be-all and end-all of desktop fashion!

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    Oh, almost forgot--extra kudos to places which have space-based or fantastic landscape type imagery, as that's what I'm in the mood for these days.

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I'm fond of http://www.desktopimage.com/, m'self.

frykitty

If you like photo-backgrounds, check out a project I started last week at http://deskphotos.com/ -- there's only 12 photos now in various desktop sizes, but more coming soon.

jenett

I second APOD.

mischief

Oddly enough, the http://www.cia.gov/ is great for keeping a world-perspective. Get the PDF http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/docs/refmaps.html and you can scale them any way you want. Particularly nice if you have a very high resolution display, and the conventional 1024x768 backgrounds just won't cut it. On a side note, the maps are nicely designed. Open them up in illustrator, and there are lots of sub-objects. So it isn't very hard to do lots of interesting and custom things with them.

Kwantsar

As a crappy sub-amateur photographer, I'm fond of taking extreme close-ups of interesting subjects with a narrow depth of field: Nuts, bolts, a corner of my keyboard, a bamboo leaf. I've found that some of those, particularly those with fairly neutral and even color, make for really pleasant desktop backgrounds.

majick

The http://www.irtc.org has some good stuff.

Jimbob

jeb

My favorite is National Geographic's http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/pod/. Great photos from around the world, and they have a huge archive too. Downside is that they max out at 1024x768.

smackfu

Here's http://www.gridface.com/desktops/ of mostly photographic desktops.

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