What is your current wallpaper? Where did you find it?

Found on reddit one day and I love it.

It's somebody's cat pic they posted to Reddit a couple years ago. This cat is my spirit animal.

This one. I think I found it on a wallpaper subreddit, back at the time, before the fire nation attacked.

This is my phone one. I'm pretty sure I got it from the Amoled wallpapers subreddit a few years back.

My laptop wallpaper is a picture my wife took of me walking in the park holding hands with one of my kids. It's taken from behind and it looks like I'm guiding her on a journey, which of course I am. :)

I wasn't going to post it but there's nothing overly dox-y in it so here is a heavily scaled down version:

This is an extreme close up of a painting I liked in the National Portrait Gallery in DC.

I have a steam summer sale 2021 picture right now, i think it looks nice. I sort of forgot it was from a game a while.

I just thought this was cute

I don’t think this needs any clarification.

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Shot I took at a local park

Picture from a ski holiday in the Dolomites in Italy. The weather made for bad skiing but great photos. They built a restaurant on that view a few years back unfortunately.

Found it on Lemmy:

(Thanks for the cool wallpaper.)

Edit: I upscaled it for you

It is a shot from one of my favourite anime. Plus, I love how the cherry blossoms look even in black and white.

My cat:

Found it on Lemmy, I think, actually.

Was into Dogecoin for the meme in high school, haven't touched crypto in years but now I've become too attached to my background to change it.

I generated it using Midjourney. I like the flowers :)

Oh and the wallpaper on my work laptop:

Russian warship, go fuck yourself.

My PC desktop is a slideshow of some of my own wildlife photos. My favorite one features this fuzzy friend:

Mine's a phone. Because it's a phone. Had it so long I don't remember where it came from.

I can't remember where I found this one, I've had it for a while, probably by searching "Oled phone wallpaper".

Closeup picture of one of our hens. They have such cool patterns and colors.

Bonus:

Shot them myself.

I got it from reddit a few years ago. I think it was the infrared veiw of the center of our galaxy, rotated

Mine is the derpiest of deeps. I love her more than everything.

No clue where it came from. I’ve been using this for about four years now.

Lock screen

Home screen (i applied a black tint since i had trouble reading white text against it)

I got them from lurking r/wallpaper though I wish i knew more of their original sources

Mine is a shot of our yard in the dark

From https://lemmy.ca/c/wallpapers

I drew it, cuz I like pokeymans.

A picture I took from the heights of Pretty River Valley Provincial Park, Ontario, on a rainy Friday afternoon last August, as the clouds rolled across the sky and into the forest

It's a photo I took while out on a walk. A hoverfly on a sunflower.

I try to post interesting shots to mastodon and c/pics and help grow Lemmy and the fediverse.

It's a photo i took of one of those big ass beams where boats "park" on a foggy but very blue early morning, during a time in my life i was leaving at night on little "suicide walks" with my camera.

It's not a very great or visual photograph, i put a teal filter over it as it's my wife's favorite color and photography sort of saved me while my wife saved me the first time i got lost in this suicidal rut.

Covid really screwed us over (it wasn't just covid, right before we tried to buy a house after years of saving with the help of friends we trusted but shouldn't have), no income, no house, no safety net...just a backpack and a fresh start during the worst possible time ever.

I got so lost in having no faith left that the job interview i did manage to land, i needed someone to pick me up halfway and take me there...i just collapsed and believed i wouldn't get out of this hole. I never got that job but being at the bottom of the pit only leaves you with one direction to go: up.

And up we went...eventually, very slowly.

I'm not sharing the image as it's mine and mine alone, it's my pain, my struggle, my lesson and my strength.

I might actually have it printed and on my wall someday.

I've been using a bunch of abstract backgrounds I generated using Midjourney a while ago. This is my current use one.

Procedurally generated by an app called Tapet.

I use the blue one for my wallpaper, and the red one for my lock screen.

It's a closeup view of the glass on my wood stove. I ran it through a couple filters. The green one is on my lock screen. Then it's the red one when I unlock.

Been driving this one for a while. (iirc found it on Reddit)

As for PC - black screen

My current and previous wallpapers on my 21:9 screen were generated by Midjourney:

Current: "looking up at the surface of the shallow sea in the style of van gogh, light blue and sunlight --ar 7:3 --v 6.0"

Previous: "a deserted island, white sand, palm trees, clear ocean, sun, creepy, spooky, horror, single small white skull in the sand. slr photography --ar 16:10"

Forehead-slapping moment: After broswing this thread and trying to figure out the weird aspect ratios, I realised that you guys are using custom wallpapers on your mobile phones.

I got promo wallpaper inspired by game SUPERHOT from the gaming news website.

My lockscreen is a photo I snapped at Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts a few years ago. On the one hand it represents a very personal memory. On the other I just find it aesthetically pleasing, so maybe someone else might as well? Thanks for posting your favorites, by the way!

edit: this version isn't cropped right, sorry, but if you take the middle part it should fit nicely on a phone.

Bioshock inifnite, one of my favorite games. Can’t remember what I even had on my phone before this

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html

Found it on tumblr, actually. Back when Android first introduced adaptive colours all through the OS, I was looking for something that gave me nice ones, and this one stuck.

I'm using the KDE "Mountain" wallpaper on my desktop, which seems to be based on an image of the Annapurna massif in Nepal by Daniel Leone on Unsplash

My phone wallpaper is this mountain one from Alex Rainer on Unsplash (I like dark wallpapers like this for OLED screens):

Unsplash and pixabay can be good for finding high-res images to use as wallpapers
Sidenote: if anyone wants I can share the high res KDE wallpaper image, it disappeared from my system when I tried out a plasma 6 RC and I had to extract it from a different system to get it back

Home screen:

Lock screen:

I just searched "space phone wallpaper" and picked those.

Someone took and uploaded this photo to an analog photography subreddit ages ago, it’s been my background for 4 or 5 phones now. I just love the image, I’m not entirely sure why.

source

Edit: What the hell, reddit. That dumb banner is not on the version I use, obviously.

Pure black because it saves battery and lifespan with an OLED screen.

I think this was from the pixel art sub. I've been using it for a few years, with I could find some similar ones.

My solution is a bit eccentric: I wrote a webserver I call Wallpaper Garden that let's you define crops of tour collection at different aspect ratios and then serves them via a random endpoint or RSS feed. Then I consume the random endpoint from a Tasker script on my phone and watch and the RSS feeds from John's Background Switcher on my PC.

My collection is made up mostly of game press kit images (Destiny, Blizzard, Skyrim, Nintendo, etc.) but also some default OS stuff, random high-res images from Reddit, astronomy photos/collages by A. James McCarthy, and some other random stuff

Current set:

I made it with AI.

Found on r/space ages ago. Plane flying through someone shot of a ring nebula.

I've been using this for years> .

It's part of my phone's overall aesthetic of lock screen, home screen and keyboard.

As for where I found it, I believe somewhere on Reddit 5 or so years ago that I changed to my phone screen resolution. I also made a version with animated twinkling stars and moving waves but ithe waves were less pretty so I dropped it eventually.

The only silly thing is that all my friends and my partner all have eachother as our lock screens in a cute way, but I am too committed to my lock screen to change.

This one I use on my pc, it's from Fallout New Vegas.

I use this one on my phone, it's a mix up of adventure time and bloodborne. I found them both on reddit some time ago, but don't know the exact subreddits.

Can't upload images for some reason :/

Desktop https://www.artstation.com/artwork/6Az0r

Mobile https://www.artstation.com/artwork/8zPbG

I use a live wallpaper. Day and night. Shows an ever moving pastoral scene. It changes depending on the time of day and the weather

I tend to use screenshots from games that I'm playing, especially pretty games like Jedi: Survivor or Cyberpunk. Currently I have this Cyberpunk screenshot:

Mammon reading the business section, a comic cover from Black Monday Murders. Because I work in accounting and just love this image and the whole idea. I do own these in print. Just image searched on Google.

Using a gif wallpaper app I found to use apply this as the background. Definitely not the best for battery but I like it!

Recorded from this p5js art I made

Mine is a scrolling city gif,I got it from reddit and I use gif live wallpaper from fdroid to use it

wallpaper.

edit of original image which is probably some type of edit itself. no idea from which castle this is sourced.

It's the famous 'Featured art' of the day, from the Muzei wallpaper changer app.

The artwork details are,

Broek in Waterland

Jan Toorop, 1889

Created a program to generate mandelbrot fractals long before I had a smartphone. I've regenerated this one in different resolutions for each phone I've had.

Most of my desktop wallpapers come from r/earthporn on Reddit, on mobile I like to use stuff I found on r/art. Here's a few that I'm using right now.

But I have a rather large collection of wallpapers sourced from all over the place like Reddit, various artboards, different operating systems, archived websites etc..

My Pixel phone comes with a feature called Emoji Workshop, allowing me to make custom emoji wallpapers.

This one is my lockscreen:

From an app called Retrowave Wallpapers. It is constantly moving towards the horizon too. I like it.

From Flickr: https://flickr.com/photos/50785054@N03

I honestly don't remember where I found it.

Eye of Terror from W40k. Searched for it on Duckduckgo image section, just had to tilt it to fit my phone screen 🤷

I use Doodle Android: Live Wallpaper to make animated backgounds.

Home (just a default wallpaper):

Lock (found here):

For desktop I have 20+ wallpapers but this is one my favorites (don't remember where I found it):

I have auto dark mode on, and use Dual wallpaper. Dont know where i found these.

On light mode, even though it is cut off:

Dark mode:

On my PC, three screenshots from Disco Elysium: the Martinaise, the church with Dolores Dei's painting, and the main menu's background

My phone is currently solid black.

Phone wallpaper is a picture of my wife. Desktop wallpaper is a picture of us sailing our boat.

Torment: tides of numenera art showing the changing god looking out at the planet from his satellite base before the game story starts. It looks almost like it parallaxes as you slide left/right

My lock/home screen combo is very calming. Makes me happy.

All my wallpapers are custom furry art I commissioned. And I have several of them that I rotate around. Here are a few examples.

I don't remember where I found it though x3, probably Reddit. If I remember right it's a screenshot from a game I've never played lol, but I liked the colors and I like space and I like the sort of surreal spaceman aesthetics

Mine rotate through photos I've taken (using Peristyle). I used to have a Tasker profile that rotated through Google Earth View images, but Google unsurprisingly shut down the site. My images are all landscape and I was concerned they wouldn't look great on the vertical screen of my phone, but almost all of them look fantastic.

This has been my background for a bit. It's from an artist whose work I've followed for a while. https://ko-fi.com/asmeesh/

My lock screen is the living universe animated wallpaper of the moon and its current phase.

I have a koenigsegg jesko wallpaper from koenigsegg official instagram

Standard Plasma 6 Wallpaper. It looks very cool.

I think I might have gotten this one from somewhere on the site that shall not be named, but its been so long I really don't even know.

I've had wallpapers of the latest McLaren F1 cars for the last few years. In my case this is from the official McLaren website but sometimes the official ones are a bit pants.

My lock screen image is cropped from a collection of James Webb Space Telescope pictures of the month. I love the surreal orange-y photonegative effect, the hexagonal focus lines, and the black circles where the stars overloaded the sensors. If you’re looking for backgrounds, that currently my main resource for beautiful and mind-bending images.

One that particularly stands out in my mind is the image they released highlighting one single galaxy cluster that appears in 3 different spots, because its light got deflected by a couple of massive gravitational sources along the way - the 3 different spots vary by about 1000 years in the time elapsed since emission, it’s wild

Some default BS that came with my phone until this thread. Thank you!

"Don't Panic" in large, friendly letters. On my main phone, anyway. Others differ.

You can look for a collection of macOS and iOS wallpapers somewhere on Google Photos (ugh, I wish it was hosted somewhere else), since on my desktop, I use the default wallpaper from macOS Big Sur (the abstract one, not the landscape one), and on my phone, it's the default iOS 13 thing (blue), both dark mode.

Yeah I may hate Apple but I love their wallpapers.

Lock: (found on tumblr)

Home: (oc)

I got an SFW image I like from a certain NSFW site for my current phone background. Can't upload it directly here because I get an error. No idea whether it's lemm.ee or Voyager causing the problem. I also don't wanna link the image from the site because I don't know the rules on linking to those sites here, even if it's an SFW image.

And for my laptop I took a screenshot from this video. I wanted to just use the thumbnail, but I couldn't get more than something like maybe 480 size or some other small size that wouldn't have looked as good as 720 size. I currently use it, and 3 other versions of the screenshot where I just did quick hue/colour changes in krita.

I don't like having detail in my phone bg, and ocean picks are always just the right level of uniform color.

I don’t know how to access my wallpapers as standalone files so here they are as screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/5HlHDXn

They’re both over a decade old.

The lock screen is a photo I took of an abstract painting at an art exhibit in Boston, at that museum that’s over by the coast in Medford.

The home screen background is a pair of bricks that I noticed one day, that have perfectly symmetrical texturing, meaning they must have been forged together then stayed together all the way up until they were installed.

The bricks are in a sidewalk (or were around 2010) in Cambridge somewhere near Kendall Square. Those are my feet at the bottom.

The animated live wallpaper version of this:

It's preinstalled on Pixels but you can sideload it on non-Pixels

Just image searched for a Blade Runner 2049 mobile wallpaper and found this one. Was on this site but not sure if it's the original source.

Can anyone on Lemmy please recommend good ways to find matching wallpapers for dual monitors where one is portrait and the other landscape? My monitors are 1440x2560p and 2560x1440p.

https://files.catbox.moe/dtq01l.png

just searched space wallpapers

Every now and then I pick randomly one from here: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html

Current background on my phone, used to save OLED backgrounds from the reddit sub back in the day, and now I have like a hundred on my phone. Switch about once per year.

https://t.me/astrovas for much more by them

For my phone I use an app called Tapet which generates wallpapers on device from patterns and colour combinations. On my PC I use the Bing wallpaper app.

I've had this one since December 2020, I saw it on the Genshin Impact subreddit a few months after release :)

(Also, can anyone tell me how to have images in comments without the URL there, just the image being fully loaded right away?)

my current phone wallpaper is the album art of one of Keygen Church's albums.

I always use astrophotography photos that were posted by regular users on sites like lemmy or reddit. Currently my phone's is this one. And the one on my laptop is this one.

Phone background: solid black

Phone lock screen: a picture I took of turtles sun bathing on some rocks at a lake in a nearby park

Desktop/laptop: solid dark blue.

by Umbreeunix on DeviantArt

I adore Nier, and i love Cyberpunk in general since playing Shadowrun back in the 90s. Wallpaper Engine Scene, found here, original art (NSFW because Android Butt) from NIXEU:

I got it on the play store. And it's called day & night

This is from the minecraft mod pack I am working on. This is what the surface nether looks like atm. It isnt finished but this is generally what I use as a wallpaper for it atm.

My current wallpaper, found on pixiv

I have over 300 wallpapers in my folder on the computer. I have told windows to change them every 10 minutes I recall. They are about games, friends, all sorts of characters, movies and horror at least.

My laptop has the default wallpaper - it has had it since from the beginning. My phone...I don't remember where I got it.

Commenting so I can find this later, I would love a print off this.

I use the Muzei app to get a new one every 12 hours

I googled "backdrops", then saw something interesting and refined that to "4k backdrops". Then I just picked out some images I liked - Mandelbrots, scenery, some fantasy etc. I might have switched to Images view at some point but it was a while ago now and I can't remember exactly.

I don't have custom wallpapers on my computers for some reason.

Whatever came with the device I happen to be on. Staring at wallpaper is for teenagers when their dad walks in.