Here are a few sites to dress up that poor desktop of yours. You’ll definitely will find a background you like.
One day, you’re going to become bored with desktop, if you aren’t bored with it already; it’s inevitable. Fortunately, though, there are many great sites where you can find a desktop that suits your tastes.
These are the five wallpaper sites that I use the most; they usually have a broad selection of photographs or digitally created images. It’ll be difficult not to find something you enjoy. Heck, if you only enjoy the wallpaper for a day, it doesn’t take any effort to change it.
Here’s the list:
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Social Wallpapering
I absolutely love this site; it has clear layout and is simple to navigate. This site also has a feature which allows people to vote up the wallpapers they enjoy and vote down the ones they don’t. The highest rated wallpaper on their site that I found while writing this was +600; surprisingly, though, the lowest rated wallpaper was only -4, rather than something like -400. There is a large variety of absolutely stunning wallpapers here, and the unique (well, for a desktop site) up-vote/down-vote system works great.
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Wallpaper Database
This site was a recent discovery for me; the majority of the wallpapers I have seen were nature-oriented, but all of them were true photographs and not digital renderings. What I appreciate about this site is the (usually) very large selection of resolutions to fit nearly any screen, from a 1080p screen to an iPhone screen.
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DeviantArt
This site is likely to be one of the more well-known wallpaper galleries. DeviantArt has a thriving community of artists and as a result a near-endless supply of wallpaper. The number of categories this site has for its wallpaper submissions is very diverse; the main point of this site is for its members to share their artistic side, their creativity. There are a lot of categories/sub-categories, so I highly recommend checking out this site. It’d be quite surprising if you could not find something here.
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Desktop Nexus
Another intuitively designed, easy to use site. This site was the source of my current wallpaper: a beautiful shot of an Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione. This site does tend to be better for those looking for celebrity wallpapers and car wallpapers.
Don’t think it’s limited to just those categories, though; they, too, have quite a variety of cool wallpapers. -
Interfacelift
This site is not only a great resource for wallpapers, but also for icons and themes for both Windows and Mac. The wallpaper galleries are simple to navigate; it’s easy to look for the most popular wallpapers (by downloads, ratings, comments) as well as by resolution. Having sections for icons and themes, and then to have both Windows and Mac sections makes this a great site for those who have a computer, PC or Mac.
In all honesty, five sites is only a small fraction of all the desktop/wallpaper sites out there. These are the five I enjoy using the most, and share the same important qualities: an intuitive layout, a diverse wallpaper gallery, and a proper selection of resolutions, whether you’re on widescreen or fullscreen.
Now that you have the knowledge, go and swap out that uninteresting desktop background of yours into something more intriguing.
February 10th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
The link to http://interfacelift.com/ is broken. Please fix it.
February 10th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
Desktop Nexus is my favorite wallpaper site. Nice to see it included on your list.
February 10th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
You have got to throw jackrebel.com into that list, new site but they include the best from all of those sites!!
February 11th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
There’s so much crap (and by crap I mean bad art) to wade through on DeviantArt, I’d highly recommend cgsociety.org in lieu of DA.
February 13th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
digitalblasphemy.com is awesome
(i believe it’s .com)
February 18th, 2008 at 3:31 am
it’s useful
I just saw some like this on a dating site named —- http://tallmeet.com
February 18th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
how could you have missed mandolux.com and you call this the 5 best
February 18th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
http://WallpaperStock.net offers a great collection of fresh wallpapers. Check it out!
February 25th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Besides DeviantArt, all others are unworthy of this so called Top 5.
Check out this “updated daily, every wallpaper pixel-checked” website if you wish to find out my number one choice …
Wallpapers-room.com
March 1st, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Where is Webshots?
June 5th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
wallpapersurf.free.fr
July 15th, 2008 at 10:24 am
One of the best IMO for computer generated artwork.
http://www.digitalblasphemy.com
July 15th, 2009 at 8:43 am
Yeah, DB has great 3d digital images, but only a few of them is free.
Here is another great wallpaper site where all images is free and in HD resolutions.
http://www.3dwallpaperstudio.com
August 24th, 2009 at 2:04 am
All great sites. Also check out http://www.wallpaperloft.com