How to: Desktop pictures for your Mac
The world is beautiful and there’s no better way to remind yourself of that than to put a little piece of it on your desktop. Moreover, being the utterly modern and advanced operating system that it is, OS X gives you plenty of ways to get images into and display them on your Macintosh.
Of course, you can just search Google for Mac desktop images. Nevertheless, there are people who for years have specialized in desktops for the rest of us.
Where to find ‘em
MacDesktops, the legend continues
The Apple Collection, a great collection
— Remember the iMac, G3, G4, etc girl craze?NASA – JSC Digital Image Collection, where they’ve boldly gone before
Bartelme Colorsplash Wallpaper Set, a new kind of beauty
Pixelgirl Presents, plenty of naughty here
And, a personal favorite of mine and a golden oldie that I haven’t
laid eyes on in years, Danger Girl:
— tucows
— MediaBox
— Get Free WallpapersTip: Browsing the Web and see an image you want on your desktop?
Right (Control) click it and select “Use Image as Desktop Picture”
And, you know what? Although you can use just about any picture or graphic as a desktop (ie bigger is better), our friends at Adobe have posted a tutorial for those that want to roll their own and do it right.
Icons?
There are other sources, but there is only one Icon Factory. Of course, you get icons and also CandyBar, which is the gold standard for managing—yes, Virginia, you can do that—your icons.
Oh, and the above IconFactory link is just for free stuff—there’s a ton of stuff for sale, too.
See also: Create sets of desktop images without duplication (Mac OS X Hints)
Got a favorite source of Mac desktop images and system customization swag? Share your good taste with us below…
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April 15th, 2009
I just started using MAC and was feeling like big n00b so started searching for some good mac tutorials. thanks for this, atleast i learned something new today
September 8th, 2009
i think make a special wallpaper is cool!
you can read this article to learn how to make wallpaper: http://www.imediacreator.com/mac-snow-leopard/how-to-make-desktop-wallpaper-on-snow-leopard.html#175