Where Do You Go For Wallpapers?

Pretty pictures on the desktop

Published on October 17, 2007 By Zoomba In WinCustomize News

Wallpapers are an often overlooked piece of the user experience, as they're often covered by application windows, folders and icons. But there's something to be said about finding the wallpaper that perfectly matches your skin and icon set, making for the ultimate theme.

Here at WinCustomize, we have a wallpaper gallery with thousands of wallpapers submitted over the years, some of them are absolutely fantastic too. But we know we're not THE destination on the net for wallpapers, there are dozens of sites out there with a better selection. This is an issue we're going to be working hard to rectify in the future.

So, what I'm wondering is where do YOU go when you need to find a killer wallpaper? What are your favorite sites that have the best selection of what you're looking for? Toss a comment in on your favorite sites, and what your preferred type of wallpaper is (abstract, nature, photo etc).

While you ponder, here are a few of my all-time favorites from the wallpaper gallery here at WC:

Comments (Page 3)

mike b1954

on Oct 17, 2007

It would be great if the Wallpapers were also organised, as others have said, BY SIZE .. Pretty Please .. I use 1440x900 ..

Philly0381 :

The thing to remember is that most people make walls that work with or fit their systems needs. I would have to conclude that by the absence of 1440x900 walls is that most peoples systems aren't set up to run at that resolution.

DrJ0622:

Because WC doesn't help those with 1440x900, I go to http://www.interfacelift.com
Great Walls.....too bad the folks at WC don't do 1440x900.

I have to use sites like this quite often , too . . .

Imzadi

on Oct 17, 2007

I'd say I make my own first, whether it's a photograph or Photoshop. Secondly I look here, thirdly I probably would look at DeviantArt, then maybe just search the web for some keywords depending on what I was looking for. It's rare I can't find something with those four choices.

waxplay3r

on Oct 17, 2007

Besides getting most of my wallpapers here at WC, I once in a while go hereWWW Link

Bebi Bulma

on Oct 17, 2007

Aqua-Soft/deviantART.

iBookChick

on Oct 17, 2007

It would be great if the Wallpapers were also organised, as others have said, BY SIZE .. Pretty Please .. I use 1440x900 ..

Philly0381 :

The thing to remember is that most people make walls that work with or fit their systems needs. I would have to conclude that by the absence of 1440x900 walls is that most peoples systems aren't set up to run at that resolution.

DrJ0622:
Because WC doesn't help those with 1440x900, I go to http://www.interfacelift.com
Great Walls.....too bad the folks at WC don't do 1440x900.

I have to use sites like this quite often , too . . .

I so agree. For Valentines Day, my beloved gave me many beautiful gifts, one being a 1440x900 LCD. My 'ol CRT favored DA and Customize, my new screen prefers InterfaceLIFT for Resolution and DA for Organization.

ogman

on Oct 17, 2007

VladStudio, WC, DeviantArt...pretty much in that order.

Philly0381

on Oct 17, 2007

Not to make anyone upset, and I apologize before hand if I do, but it seems that all the folks that are asking for 1440x900 walls don't or atleast didn't identify that they make wallpapers. Doesn't really have anything to do with whether or not widescreen walls are in the library or not.

Now I'm sure I've seen some 1440x900 wallpapers show up, so as mike b1954 pointed out in reply #31 possible someway to sort wall by resolution would be good.

Timoleon5

on Oct 17, 2007

Anything by Nuvem is unbelievably good. Check him out here and at DeviantArt --- I'm stunned by the magnitude of his talent

TYCUS

on Oct 17, 2007

sry., but i preffer deviantart.com as a place to find good wallpapers

JaminThorns

on Oct 17, 2007

Well, I'd have to say that deviantart has some pretty nice wallpapers and a wider selection as well. My preffered style of a wallpaper is always some kind of landscape or something that you could just walk into and really open.

ALMonty

on Oct 17, 2007

DesktopMachine WWW Link has Cars,Motorcycles,Movies & Celebrities. Every picture's resolution is :

1024x768
1152x864
1280x960
1280x1024
1600x1200
1280x800
1440x900
1680x1050
1920x1200

Frankief

on Oct 17, 2007

I like Caedes.net and Deviant Art if I can't find what I want here. I like really unique nature shots, usually with water but my favorite are snow scenes, but good ones are hard to find. I do abstract because it is what I excel at! I do use a lot of my own stuff.

SkagGully

on Oct 18, 2007

Mainly deviantART, and then InterfaceLift and Vladstudio. I would include WC in my routine wallpaper browse if there was a way to browse or search for wallpapers of specific desktop resolutions because I don't wanna waste my time looking through everything on my quest for the rather rare 2560x1600 walls my 30" monitor requires. =p

Mackintosh

on Oct 18, 2007

Interfacelift and Vladstudio, Interfacelift purely because they allow me to search via a specific resolution, whereas the system at WC makes finding the right resolution a royal PITA. I occasionally get some from DA as well, but DA's mostly hit and miss. I have to admit that in all my years on WC, I've only ever grabbed a handful of wallpapers from here.

Erk.

on Oct 18, 2007

I use a mixture of some, or all of the above.

Picked up a few [previously] unknown [to me] links too...

Thanks, all, for your contributions to this thread ...keep 'em coming!

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