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Which Type of Wallpaper Do You Use?

Which Type of Wallpaper Do You Use?

I personally like wallpapers of photo landscapes, in particular places where I wish I was on vacation at.  There is such a wide variety of wallpapers out there such as photos, abstracts, 3D, etc.  that I often have a difficult time choosing ones to use. 

Is there a certain "type" of wallpaper that you use often, and if so, what are your favorite types?




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Reply #26 Top
I tend to like wallpapers that give feeling to my computer. This may be through landscapes, lots of colour or animation like with dreams. If I don't use dreams, I tend to use a program that changes my wallpaper every now and then, according to a preset list that I give it.
Reply #27 Top
I tend to use high contrast walls as they show off the transparent windowblinds skins I like to use.  
Reply #29 Top
I love Interfacelift as a HUGE source of wallpapers of just about every type. Another is http://www.sxc.hu/index.phtml (stock exchange).
Reply #30 Top
I wasn't so much interested in the source of wallpapers, as the "type" of wallpapers people use. 

 
Reply #31 Top
Just about anything by Philip Straub.


Very cool WOM, Thanks
Reply #32 Top
I use walls which go with the total package. Color is most important. It is also very important to me to be able to fit the rainys, widgets etc into the total scheme. I think of it as decorating a room. Seems like I mostly go with abstract type of walls. If done properly it's sort of an art form.
Reply #33 Top
I like abstract ones and some with an 'industrial' feeling to them.
Reply #34 Top
I probably change my wall twice a week or more so just about every type shows up sooner or later. Really depends on my mood. I've taken to using the completely transparent vista skins just my WB skin goes with whatever wall I'm using on any given day.
Reply #35 Top
I like all kinds of wallpaper,depends on my mood...but they have to be 1920x1200.Don't find to many of those.
Reply #36 Top
after much deliberation and research.......I have come to realize that the type of wallpaper I use is typically, rectangular with some sort of shapes on it, which can vary from resembling boats,cars,trees, to odd sphereical formations with lines.....
Reply #37 Top
Pictures of plants.
Reply #38 Top
wallpapers of photo landscapes, in particular places where I wish I was on vacation at.


Those are my faves; especially tropical or Mediterranean places. Then I like abstracts; anything with depth. I can't use walls with objects and such on them for too long; the perspective feels too closed in, like a small cramped space.

Reply #39 Top

Jafo uses the same as everyone else....when they're being honest.....porn...

Actually....an Aston Martin DBR9 belching flame under brakes .....lots of greys and greens....

Reply #40 Top
Peter koff has the most interesting strange animals that I have ever seen, they are funny and I just love his work, mostly I use landscapes and 3D stuff. Lately I have had (due to grandbaby) Mickey Mouse, Eeyore, Minny, Goofy, Horses, that we have been around and have taken pictures of. I change walls almost everyday, so you just never know what you will see when you move the mouse. I don't use screensavers, I set mine to blank after 5 minutes and always have. Hate Screensavers, they just seem to distract me from everything else going on in my house.
Reply #41 Top
Jafo uses the same as everyone else....when they're being honest.....porn..


Um, er....not here....Mrs starkers has her desk situated right next to mine and she can look over my shoulder without stretching her neck a lot/too much. Besides, my 75 yo mother lives with us....and I/we don't need the worry of her getting any funny ideas....as it is she's already a frequent stop-out, what with bingo and her older womens groups, etc

Reply #42 Top

I don't use screensavers, I set mine to blank after 5 minutes and always have. Hate Screensavers, they just seem to distract me from everything else going on in my house.

Same here, mschleisner ....though usually 10 minutes.

Sad part is....I do the lion's share of screensaver upload moderation...and since they are often installers, etc [at least executables...eg...'scr']...they MUST be checked in case they hold evil nasties.

So...I end up with squillions of screenies.....to subsequently delete/uninstall...

Reply #43 Top
Jafo uses the same as everyone else....when they're being honest.....porn...


Honestly, I can't picture seeing some lady spread legs each time I close windows. There are men so debased that they need to see it each minutes, but I am not among them.
Reply #45 Top

Honestly, I can't picture seeing some lady spread legs each time I close windows. There are men so debased that they need to see it each minutes, but I am not among them.


Me either....I could imagine that some teenage boys might enjoy/be titillated by porn as walls, but I'd have thought the majority of grown men would have grown out of it by now. Personally, I had grown out of that sort of thing by the time I was six.....by my seventh birthday I'd progressed to fast motorbikes, alcohol and cigarettes.

Also, a wall that I've been using quite a bit in recent times is 'Plasmatron Pipes' by our very own IR Brainiac....sometimes I'll go for walls with an industrial/factory feel.
Reply #46 Top
Wicker man is the one I like to use , you can view it here WWW Link
Reply #47 Top
I use something that matches the current skin I'm working on