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The Best of the Best Anonymous
tl;dr: Post the very best, and your favorite wallpapers of all time

I don't know about you guys, but when I find a wallpaper that I like, it usually stays at my wallpaper for a long, long time. Something like Several months. I don't switch them out often at all, as you can tell.

For years I had used 1024x768 and I have grown accustomed to it, but now that I have this stupid widescreen monitor it's set for 1440x900, and unfortunately, it's not a very popular resolution, nowhere near as 1024x768.

The funny thing is, it FEELS like 1024x768, but the difference is apparent when you put a 1024 wallpaper on it.

And now, i'm stuck looking for a wallpaper. There have been several candidates, but nothing strikes my fancy.

I mean, don't get me wrong, pics like this one here are GREAT, but there's...just something missing...that makes it THE wallpaper to use...i think it's because of the resolution of the wallpaper, or certain colors here and there, or the general color of the whole wallpaper (i prefer black wallpapers)...but there's always something that bothers me about a good wallpaper that makes me keep on searching..

I can't quite put my finger on it *exactly*, but when I find a wallpaper that I like, I instantly set it the second I see it, and it feels just perfect, you know?

It's like when I find the right wallpaper, "The One" , It's set and that's it - no second thoughts or anything - I look at it for a few seconds on my desktop, then i just go do whatever it is i do normally.
>> Anonymous
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I'll show you guys my absolute favorite wallpaper of all time, the one I have liked the most out of 5 years.

This one I had used for probably 6-9 months.

Even though my preference is for black, or really really dark wallpapers, this one...this one is just so awesome. I have no idea what it is about it (no , it's not the lolis) , but alot of times I had switched wallpapers, stayed with them for like a day or 2, and ended up just switching back to this one.

It's a mystery to me, something about this wallpaper just really, really makes me like it alot.

Shit, just looking at it makes me want to set it again, but I know it's gonna look horrendous stretched out to my current resolution
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>>311120
hmmm now that I look back at it, i didn't realize that it was such a large resolution.

Hmm. it actually looks better at this resolution than it did at 1024. Interesting.

This is another wallpaper I had used for about a month or 2.
>> Anonymous
Its a little disturbing ... the way u talk about wallpapers ...
But hey at least Im not the only one who thinks this way :)
>> Anonymous
>>311119
I seen this wallpaper before, and I like it , but what bothers me is that maroon or whatever color that is that surrounds her.

it would be nice if there was a way to make it all black without ruining the the picture (since her hair is pitch black)
>> Anonymous
>>311120
oh yeah and another thing, this one isn't actually a wallpaper, it's just a pic i saw in the folder of some guy's artwork, but i ended up using it as a wallpaper anyway.
>> Anonymous
>>311122
it's annoying that I can't find a wallpaper that I like - I wish I could just be satisfied easily and any wallpaper would do - but whenever I set a wallpaper that's O.K or good. there's just so many things that bother me when looking at it after it's set as my wallpaper.

Like the first pic in the thread, when i set it as my wallpaper, my eyes are like freaking glued to the maroon part of the pic, like a magnet, and i can't tear them away.

I have a 2.38 gig torrent of wallpapers and 1,073 wallpapers saved from this board and still nothing is satisfying with this new retarded resolution.
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...though I mostly use scenery or simplistic pictures as wallpapers...don't know why but animes rarely turn up on my wallpaper rotation.
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>>311141
oooh i like this one alot
>> Anonymous !gVHL/wF1qE
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>> Anonymous
>>311194
>>311185
>>311184
wow these have alot more brightness than i'd like, but these are very beautiful indeed.

>>311145
this one makes me depressed :(

>>311144
is creepy and pretty at the same time
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>>311197
the final boss
>> Anonymous
>>311203
..of the internet?
>> sabaku_lotus
I have too many damn wallpapers on my pc

still so many that I have never seen before x.x;
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This is the awesomest wall ever. I love kino.
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>>311124
>>311136
Pick a color, and I'll fix it for you.
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>>311355
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>>311352
>>311350
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>>311347
wowzers

what're you using to edit?
>> Anonymous
>>311350
this one looks really nice

good job
>> Anonymous
>>311361
ACDSee tools, and about 20 minutes on the original edit to clean up all artifacts in the image. Being a simple background color change, I can handle it. Anything more than that, and I have to ask for help.
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I used this one for like 9 months... couldn't stop using it.
>> Anonymous
>>311400
heh i can see why. who is she?
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>>311373
seriously you suck, there fukken pixels everywhere
>> Anonymous
>>311406
also.. just 5 minutes of work
>> Anonymous
>>311406
hey i got a simple little challenge/request:

make the 2nd color almost black, or actually make it black but keep her hair visible/seperable from the "background" color without ruining the picture
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>>311409
liek diz?
>> Anonymous
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Why didn't you just do this, OP?
>> Anonymous
>>311410
FUCK YEAH, YOU ARE THE BEST ANON EVER
>> Anonymous
>>311410
hey wow that's actually pretty good!

>>311412
you mean resizing it? I dunno how, all i have is paint and it always ruins the picture ¯\(º_o)/¯
>> Anonymous
>>311412
oh hay you cut off her legs lawl
>> Anonymous
>>311406
Lawl. At least I made it different. That ugly maroon background has been floating around forever and no one had the bawls to change it.
>> Anonymous
>>311417
Well gee wizz, who cares? Resizing the entire picture would have been massive fail.
>> Anonymous
>>311406
Win
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hereby i poast sum color
personally I like this moar
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>>311417
>>311423
would this be better?
>> Anonymous
>>311431
oh i wasn't being picky or anything, it's just something i noticed
>> Anonymous
>>311431
hey i just noticed, this version you made, even though you cut off the head and everything, i noticed that it's alot darker, and it has a nice brightness to it.

pretty nice
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had this up for a few months now, theres a blue one just like it
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Not sure if this qualifies as SFW...
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This..
>> Anonymous
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..and this
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>> Anonymous
ooh ! magna carta! I love the way that guy draws, his style is awesome. Very very nice!

As for NSFW i don't care, but i know the mods outside of /b/ are nazis
>> Anonymous
>>311541

Magna Carta is a Korean RPG game that came out for PC...not an artist's name. (same company that made War of Genesis which was damn popular in Korea)
>> Anonymous
Aye, I've got a few other wallpapers by the artist responsible for that style, related to the games etc, don't remembers his name (though I think /cgl/ knows it..)

the wallpaper's cumulative effect unfortunately is simply to make me wish I could read Korean and play those RPGs...
>> Anonymous
>>311549

Game was not that bad...but you prob. didn't miss much. This is only big RPG ever came out for Korea and that's it. No game company makes RPGs anymore becuase they don't make profit out of it(everyone can pirate it and so on). That's why MMORPG became so popular. People have to pay montly fees if they wanted to play MMORPGs so. haha
>> Anonymous
>>311545
i know it's a game, a friend even showed it to me like a year or something, not sure, after i saw some of those pics (couldn't tell at the time if it was a game or anime or whatever)

but yeah, i don't know who the guy is either.

i think my friend told me his name but i already forgot it.

but yeah, his style is awesome
>> Anonymous
OP IS GOD.
>> Anonymous
>>311574
lol y do u say that?
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another "long use wall"

>>311195
I was using it for long time too
>> Anonymous
>>311582
looking at this makes me go :( too
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>>311662
such an odd looking wall in that wallpaper
>> Anonymous
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had this for like 8 months
in b4 1440x900
>> Anonymous
>>311730
in after 1440x900
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Been using this since... forever.
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>>311775
blarg the whites burn me eyes! who is that character anyway? looks kinda familiar

>>311778
ohhh this one is real pretty. i like the way the guy did the shadowing of the leaves
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anyone have any 'epic' eureka seven walls?
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Custom dual screen

2 years of GITS and a year stitched with Yotsuba
>> Anonymous
>>311829
you should be shot.
>> Anonymous
>>311830

Why? Because one of my screens is bigger than the other?
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>> HerrHATO !.5BD/wHb8k
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I ended up using this wall for about a month before I changed it.
Looks fine when centered on a 16:10 monitor.
>> Anonymous
>>311838
lol thx, this is my 1,000th wallpaper
>> Anonymous
>>311833
yes
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Shooped and resized and cleaned up a bit.

1650/1050 i r bored.
>> Anonymous
>>311847

I have the original if you want - it's a wall I've made myself. I have it in different versions and at different resolutions.
>> Anonymous
I wanted to post a psd file with the original but I'm sure as hell not linking to my website and I'm not going to fuck about with rs. Got email?
>> Anonymous
>>311859
lol wut ?(º_?)/¯
>> Anonymous
>>311811
Where this one from? Seems interesting.
>> Anonymous
>>311864

Yuki from Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. The episode with the school festival. I find the fact I know that creepy.
>> Anonymous
>(...)1440x900, and unfortunately, it's not a very popular resolution(...)

Do you realize that you can simply resize any 1600x1000/1680x1050/1920x1200 with no quality loss/cropping whatsoever?

16:10 wallpapers are all over the net.
>> Anonymous
http://rapidshare.com/files/55969024/gits44chan.psd.html

the 9MB original PSD file, feel free to abuse it. It's got lots of layers to play with.
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I've seem to have made a couple of variants
>> Anonymous
>>311869
Duly Noted, good sir.
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Finally, found the source: if anyone has got more time and talent I'd love to have it walled.
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one more :P
>> Anonymous
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Some more original content. Never before left my PC.
>> HerrHATO !.5BD/wHb8k
>>311884
Did you make a .PSD for your wall there?

With just a few edits I believe that an even greater wallpaper can be made from it.
>> Anonymous
>>311885

Yeah, I've got layered as well. Wait a sec and I'll rs it too.
>> Anonymous
http://rapidshare.com/files/55974970/seras44chan.psd.html

victoria on layers
>> Anonymous
>>311878

I've just realised that's not the real source - the real source is a 3000x2500 scan from the GITS soundtrack 2 which is funny because it's monochromatic and I ended up using very similar colours as the one they did there.
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Got it, had to connect my disk array to find it.
>> HerrHATO !.5BD/wHb8k
>>311888
Thanks anon. I'll see what I can do.
>> Anonymous
>>311857
Maybe for others, as for me im pretty happy with this one :D

thnkx again
>> Anonymous
>>311847
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>>311894

anyone intrest on this with some better quality?
>> Anonymous
>>311960

Yes :3
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>>311978
what 'bout this? is it better? do I need to touch up more?
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>>311985
oh fuck I fail @ saving images, forgot to turn on the layers
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>>311987
blue kitty is less blue
>> Anonymous
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>>311989

Thank you for the work you have done on it. Don't know about the other anons but I think it's great.
>> Anonymous
>>311823

eek. cancer eureka.
>> Anonymous
>>311989

Yeah, good job. Should serve well for two more years. I was hoping you'd sort out the hair though.