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.

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"

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.

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 made it with AI.

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

source

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

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

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:

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Home screen:

Lock screen:

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

Can't upload images for some reason :/

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

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

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

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:

wallpaper.

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

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:

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

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.

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

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 use Doodle Android: Live Wallpaper to make animated backgounds.

I honestly don't remember where I found it.