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Where Do You Go For Wallpapers?

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Where Do You Go For Wallpapers?

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https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.aspx?libid=8
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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:

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Reply #27 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I get most of mine at Caedes.net and Webshots.com...but I also do google searches just to see what pops up.
Sins of a Solar Empire II
Reply #28 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Mostly, but not all from the Internet.

Can't get more specific than that....would take about 3 hours longer than forever....

Reply #30 from WinCustomize Forums Top
The absolute FIRST site I go to lately is WC.Then there's Deviant Art. But I'm not a DA member,yet,because I'm still infatuated with WC seeing as I posted my very first couple of walls here, with good results...THANXS GUYS!
Reply #31 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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.
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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.
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I have to use sites like this quite often , too . . .  





Reply #32 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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.
Reply #33 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Besides getting most of my wallpapers here at WC, I once in a while go hereWWW Link
Reply #35 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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 . . .
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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.
Reply #37 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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.   

Reply #38 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Anything by Nuvem is unbelievably good. Check him out here and at DeviantArt --- I'm stunned by the magnitude of his talent
Reply #39 from WinCustomize Forums Top
sry., but i preffer deviantart.com as a place to find good wallpapers  
Reply #40 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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.
Reply #41 from WinCustomize Forums Top
DesktopMachine WWW Link has Cars,Motorcycles,Movies & Celebrities. Every picture's resolution is :

1024x768
1152x864
1280x960
1280x1024
1600x1200
1280x800
1440x900
1680x1050
1920x1200
Reply #42 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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.
Reply #43 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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
Reply #44 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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.
Reply #45 from WinCustomize Forums Top

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!

Reply #46 from WinCustomize Forums Top
(Heh - one of mine in your selection there Zoomba! I'm honoured. Thanks.)
Reply #47 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I get 99% of mine here.

http://www.philipstraub.com/

Resize to fit my monitors as they are not really wallpapers.

Reply #48 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I have been coming in and out of Wincustomize for nearly six years. During that time I have seen the quality drop here plus the variation. There is a manner in the uploading process that deters wallpaper artists from uploading here. That is the fickle and unprofessional manner with which wallpapers are selected for upload by mods here. No other site I know of has the same procedure. Look at it from the artists point of view. They spend considerable time putting together a zip file with several sizes to get it rejected by some person in a mods position here who puts himself or herself in the position of deciding whether the end user is going to like it or not. How egotistical is that? Frankly I stopped uploading here a while back because I got sick and tired of mods allowing work through that clearly was their buddies work and rejecting my work. I am not saying I am the worlds best artist but nowhere else has my work been rejected....only here. And that does not mean that Wincustomize has the BEST walls because of its process. It is the opposite. The end result of the current process has been to reduce the number of uploads and to deter the artists. Counterproductive when you think that the applications sold by Stardock are enhanced by and go hand in hand with wallpapers. I would like to see Wincustomize change its attitude. I used to get my walls from DeviantART but gave up on that site and I now use Renderosity.com. Huge selection of some of the best quality work found anywhere on the net. My gallery is now there and I have never had an image rejected and all my work recieves five stars. It is Wincustomizes loss and its customers loss when it maintains the upload process it does.I would suggest Wincustomize thinks seriously about whether it is going to serve its own self interested clicques or its customers and end users, without which it would not be here nor will it survive if it continues in this manner. Wincustomize in one sense is shooting itself in the foot with its current policy and reducing its own potential to grow.
Reply #49 from WinCustomize Forums Top
MountainHawk you are definately allowed to your opinion. There well maybe others who have the same opinion.

Having said that, there are alot of wallpapers in the library here at WinCustomize created by many different people. If you go through the forum here you will see that all wallpapers don't get accepted and those are questioned why. Even if rejected, if the skinner has set up their personal page here that's where it will go. Yes it's not in the main gallery, but if I'm looking for wallpapers, especially by a know skinner, I not only check the main gallery I go to their home page.

I don't think wallpapers get rejected because the mods here are fickle and definately not because they are unprofessional or because they only accept walls from the buddies. Don't really think Stardock would allow that.

Now this is my own opinion. Have a good evening.

Reply #50 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I enjoy going to a site called Interfacelift WWW Link. They have a great selection of widescreen wallpapers which is my preference due to the fact that I purchased a nice widescreen LCD monitor earlier this year: Flatron Wide by LG electronics, so I tend to try to get widescreen as much as possible. As far as what I prefer for the content on my wallpapers, there's a number of different things that agree with me but I guess my favorite would have to be abstract art. It seems to go well with most WindowBlind themes, however I believe photography, and in particular nature photography seems to suit any Vista based themes best, IMHO.

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