   Wallpaper designers are stupid.
  Why is it that every desktop wallpaper designer makes some beautiful image, then does one or more of three equally stupid things:1) Saves it as a .jpg2) Saves it as a .gif3) Sticks a giant watermark on itIf it's your wallpaper it's not like you are going to have 10000 1024x768 images where you would need .jpg or .gif! Then the watermark completely takes away from the beauty of the image.Arg!Does anyone know where I can get some nice wallpapers saved as .bmp files with actual quality and no watermarks?   
Quote:Original post by RalothWhy is it that every desktop wallpaper designer makes some beautiful image, then does one or more of three equally stupid things:1) Saves it as a .jpg2) Saves it as a .gif3) Sticks a giant watermark on itIf it's your wallpaper it's not like you are going to have 10000 1024x768 images where you would need .jpg or .gif! Then the watermark completely takes away from the beauty of the image.Arg!Does anyone know where I can get some nice wallpapers saved as .bmp files with actual quality and no watermarks?The watermarks are actually quite necessary; I have a lot of skinning/artist friends who do a lot of stuff for the desktop mod'ing community, and you'd be surprised how common wallpaper "theft" really is. People just take the wallpaper, and call it their own quite often.   ;  Actually, take a look at www.visualparadox.com.That guy is brilliant, his JPG files aren't crappy AND his watermark doesn't cover a big part of the wallpaper. How about making your own wallpaper, don't watermark it and save it as BMP. Let's see how fast it'll take before we find a JPG version on the web, with a watermark on it.Toolmaker   ;Quote:Original post by RalothIf it's your wallpaper it's not like you are going to have 10000 1024x768 images where you would need .jpg or .gif!You only need one, but the people distributing them probably have quite a few.  And they distribute them to quite a few people.  Going from BMP to JPG cuts bandwidth by astronomical amounts.  PNG would probably be a better choice in terms of quality, but Windows doesn't support PNG backgrounds yet.CM   ;  I just use my own wallpapers, taken with my digital camera.  I usually have either a timelapse of a waterfall, taken in Seathwaite after dark, lovely.  Or the really bizarre one that I took by accident while trying to upload some photos.  It looks computer generated, but is really just my desktop(the Windows one) smeared across the photo.  Still it looks cool. :)   ;  www.mikebonnell.com   ;Quote:Original post by Conner McCloudWindows doesn't support PNG backgrounds yet.I'm using a PNG for my background right now.   ;  This is my all-time favourite wallpaper:You should see the looks I get at school with it on my laptop. =PAnime Wallpapers is pretty good, and as you can see, their watermark isn't every large.   ;  The watermarks are always behind my start bar.I usually have no problem with *.jpg, I've never seen a .jpg wallpaper with unreasonable quality... .gif sucks for a wallpaper of course (256 colors...).   ;  IMHO best wallpapers can be found at cgnetworks. Beautiful images.   