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Geek Out: What's Your Desktop Wallpaper?

Fri, 09/05/2008 - 1:43pm by geeksugar
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I love seeing the offices of design mavens because they inevitably have some fabulous desktop wallpaper on the screen for the photo op, always something that complements the rest of the design of the office.

Case in point: Making it Lovely's Nicole shared her office recently, and my eye gravitated immediately to her Mac and the art on her desktop, the colors of which coordinate with the dominant pinks and reds of her office space.

I too enjoy a pretty, serene wallpaper as the setting for the madness that takes place on top of it; right now I can't seem to shake the Kaiku Marimekko pattern. Other times, I want to see a family pic stretched across my monitor, and sometimes I crave a simple, solid color to calm me. And I am not opposed to a really high-res photo of a flower (shoot, I am a girl).

But I'm curious about everyone else, since I think your computer's desktop wallpaper says a lot about you; What's yours?

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  • psychobabble's picture
    psychobabble
    1

    A medium blue solid background with a wedding photo centered in the middle of the screen. Otherwise, I alternate between the XP florals and abstract designs.

    12 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • verily's picture
    verily
    2

    It rotates, but I get all of my pics from Pixelgirl Presents

    12 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • hex913's picture
    hex913
    3

    I usually get my wallpapers from Pixelgirl Presents, too. However, just today, I changed mine to one of my favorite online comics: Sheldon.

    12 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • Calekey's picture
    Calekey
    4

    For me, it really just depends on how I'm feeling or if I find a really new pretty one. Recently all the wallpapers I get are off of deviantART, but I'm a member there so it's convinent, plus, I now have a wide screen monitor and haven't gotten ps7 up and running yet on a new computer.

    12 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • chippyshero2066's picture
    chippyshero2066
    5

    My wallpaper is a cat dressed in a superman costume. The cat sort of looks like my cat Socks

    12 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • rachelspark's picture
    rachelspark
    6

    it's a really beautiful photograph of a flower with little vector bits. you can see it (in a scaled down version) here.

    12 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • Pallas Athena 's picture
    Pallas Athena
    8

    My dad lets us change the background on the computer to whatever we want. I'm usually the one that does it. It is usually from a television show or is an actor/actress. Right now it is a picture my dad took of my mom's name that is set up like a train. They both like it so I put it up for them. It must get annoying to see a random guy/woman on the computer every few weeks.

    12 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • macgirl's picture
    macgirl
    9

    I have a funny picture of my 8 month old. It is the total look of surprise and I imagine he is saying "wha wha wha what???" Eye-wink

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  • devils's picture
    devils
    10

    My laptop (since I don't use it much) is one of the nature default pictures from Apple (thanks apple!). But my computer that I am usually on, is one i made in photoshop a week ago.

    I really like the Marimekko....I may actually use that one myself!

    12 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • mayara's picture
    mayara
    12

    My desktop computer has a vintage photograph of a women in '20s underwear holding a cat in an adorable pose. I just recently changed my laptop wallpaper from a black and white photo from the Library of Congress Flickr feed of two young women and a (now vintage) car in winter to an image of cool-looking empty bottles from Steampunk Wallpaper. I have other images I use, but most are either vintage, probably public-domain photographs (usually sepia-toned, but possibly black and white) or something similar looking from Steampunk Wallpaper.

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  • CHUBSTAAA's picture
    CHUBSTAAA
    14

    My Mac desktop rocks a beach scene I will NEVER get rid of (it hasn't been changed in years!).

    My HP laptop is always something minimalistic in design.

    And my work desktop is the original blank background of windows classic... I don't like being distracted at work by wallpaper Sticking out tongue!

    12 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • jspeed's picture
    jspeed
    15

    Mine's a great pic of the Grand Canyon that motivated me before my vacation. Now I need to update with one I took myself!

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  • Madamesoybean's picture
    Madamesoybean
    19

    A photo of a young Black Flag Henry Rollins yelling his head off, neck veins a poppin'.

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  • aistea311's picture
    aistea311
    20

    Currently it is the default mac blue with the swirls because I just use my laptop on the bed so I cant enjoy the wallpaper or show off to anyone. Before it was this great shot I took of these fruits that grow on campus in macro in bright reds and greens. I loved it Smiling

    12 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • lynbird's picture
    lynbird
    22

    A needlepoint design from Veer, reading "Studio, Sweet Studio."

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  • hkdkat's picture
    hkdkat
    23

    When I had a pc, it was APOD, now on my mbp it just cycles through my photos.

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  • ewray4381's picture
    ewray4381
    25

    I usually have some funny picture that I've run across while surfing the internet. Right now it's a white rabbit with a huge piece of lettuce it it's mouth. It got the caption "I hath a letuth" (as if the rabbit were talking with it's mouth full - or lol-speak).

    12 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • gemsera's picture
    gemsera
    26

    I put my photography pictures up there... and rotate them like if I get a new one I like. At the moment its a beach/lake scene from near my dads house as I'm a tad homesick Smiling

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  • tvjunkie45's picture
    tvjunkie45
    27

    A picture of the space shuttle doing a back flip with earth below it.

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  • bigestivediscuit's picture
    bigestivediscuit
    28

    Mine is a photo I took last summer of different colored row-boats stacked next to each other on a beach in a small village near Normandy, France.

    12 weeks 3 days ago Report Comment
  • bigestivediscuit's picture
    bigestivediscuit
    29

    I don't think we're allowed to change our desktop wallpaper at work (it's currently just blue with our company and subsidiaries logos on it) but I have a feeling that if it was actually something pleasant to look at, it would improve my mood at work! Not that I'm not already happy there!

    12 weeks 3 days ago Report Comment
  • Pryanh's picture
    Pryanh
    30

    A row of beautiful, colorful, delicious french Macarons!!! Mmm!

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  • sparklestar's picture
    sparklestar
    31

    I have a kitty lying on it's back, looking FLUFFY.

    I use desklickr for the mac and it rotates desktops for me from flickr based on tag searches. I have mine set to "fluffy, cat, cute" or something and flip through some desktops whenever I feel like a change. Smiling

    12 weeks 3 days ago Report Comment
  • CoralAmber's picture
    CoralAmber
    34

    I just changed it to this time lapse lightning shot I found on Lifehacker. I like so many things, nature, cartoons, tv shows... I rotate it every month or so. My mom always has her favorite shot (she likes photographing wild birds) of the week.

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  • kia's picture
    kia
    35

    A pile of white Dia de Los Muertos sugar skulls on a white background.

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  • Sammi_784's picture
    Sammi_784
    37

    At the moment I have the default blue Mac wallpaper but I often use the photos I take as my desktop wallpaper.

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  • glam sugar's picture
    glam sugar
    40

    Right now it's a Daisy by Marc Jacobs wallpaper. I got it from the site, it's perfume bottles. I have a ton of others that I rotate weekly.

    12 weeks 3 days ago Report Comment
  • BostonChick's picture
    BostonChick
    42

    I made a wallpaper that has an older vintage look to it. On it has a picture of my dog who recently passed away with a quote and the day of his birth and death.

    Before that, though, was a picture on the sun setting at the beach.

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  • KHast's picture
    KHast
    44

    I actually had to double check before I commented here! My desktop background is a big heart drawn in sand. Simple, serene, and sweet.

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  • rabidmoon's picture
    rabidmoon
    45

    I change it a lot, I do the DeviantART thing as well and do some "mechanical" fractal art that I use sometimes for my own machine, or I might use a funny photo.

    Lately I have been into galactic/astronomical photos and nature shots, had some really pretty ones of the northern lights recently.

    12 weeks 2 days ago Report Comment