The 10.4 wallpaper brings back some nostalgia for me. It was the first time I could afford to buy a new laptop and I splurged on the 06 core duo macbook pro.
Every default macOS wallpaper
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#152I wish more OSes would work with independent photographers to compile a set of beautiful wallpapers. It used to feel easy to find good wallpaper online, but nowadays, especially with macOS's hiDPI settings and my personal desire for #000 true black wallpapers to hide notches and camera holes, it can feel very difficult. Search engines don't yield good results for 4k or 5k images, and a lot of the hi-res wallpaper sub…
Your comment took me back. 20 years ago the best place for this was InterfaceLIFT. I'm amazed to find they're still online today: https://interfacelift.com/wallpaper/downloads/date/any/
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#153I'm obsessed with having a clean desktop, and beautiful wallpapers. Until recently, I used a neat little app for MacOS called Artdiario [1] that would update my wallpaper every day with a beautiful piece of art and I LOVED it. "Used to" because it looks it's not updated anymore since around 2 months :( Was thinking of re-creating the same "open-source" version of it, that would pick and show art from museums around t…
Yo I would love the help to maintain/curate. A combination of the holidays and a really aggressive start to the new year at work made me fall off the update wagon. Email me and we can setup a time to chat. Edit: This was really nice to see/hear. Thank you for appreciating this publicly!
I've sent out an e-mail :)
And yes I LOVE it! I've installed on at least ~4 different machines of friends as well!
Re: Every default macOS wallpaper
#154I wish more OSes would work with independent photographers to compile a set of beautiful wallpapers. It used to feel easy to find good wallpaper online, but nowadays, especially with macOS's hiDPI settings and my personal desire for #000 true black wallpapers to hide notches and camera holes, it can feel very difficult. Search engines don't yield good results for 4k or 5k images, and a lot of the hi-res wallpaper sub…
It's infuriating finding an excellent wallpaper, only to find that it's 900 pixels wide or "4k" with so much compression it looks worse than uncompressed 720p. That and the grotesque photoshops that fill the results when looking for space wallpapers. On the plus side, Tineye can be quite helpful for finding things in their original size. And I only use 1080p!
> That and the grotesque photoshops that fill the results when looking for space wallpapers
Use the HST and JWST pages for space wallpaper sources[1][2]. Make sure to check only the 'observation' checkbox; this filters out all the infographics, 'artist's impressions', simulations, etc.
I suggest downloading the TIFF, opening this in some photo post-processing program (Lightroom, Darktable, RawTherapee, etc), and applying mild tone and colour adjustments, and then cropping to the exact resolution of your display.
I get much better results this way.
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#155Don't forget the OS 9 wallpapers: https://512pixels.net/projects/mac-os-9-5k-wallpapers My favorites among these are the gradient-rich desktops that dropped in Mac OS 8.5 back in '98, like those UFO ones. That's when the OS gained support for icons with 24-bit color and 8-bit masks, which are the direct ancestors to today's 1024x1024 32-bit app icons. Perhaps to commemorate this full leveling up of the classic Mac de…
Speaking as an outsider that has no emotional attachment to those wallpapers: wow, they’re really awful (except maybe the first one)
I mean one of them is bright green and red? The holy grail of what not to set as a background, as well as one of the most awful color combinations (unless it’s Christmas)
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Debatable. They're visually too busy and noisy to see all the time.
I agree completely. The best wallpaper is pure black. I haven't used anything other than black in ~20 years.
50% gray is the way to go. I've been doing it since we had to simulate gray by dithering black and white pixels.
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Jokes on you, I give my terminals a slight opacity so I can see the wallpaper all the time. Sometimes I'll keep an empty workspace up just to declutter and focus on something on the other monitor.
Same - I always keep some opacity on my windows and I use gaps on i3 It's not necessary, I could as well set black wallpaper and no gaps, but I like it so it's good enough excuse ;)
It just feels good, like soft, indirect, amber lighting.
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Yo I would love the help to maintain/curate. A combination of the holidays and a really aggressive start to the new year at work made me fall off the update wagon. Email me and we can setup a time to chat. Edit: This was really nice to see/hear. Thank you for appreciating this publicly!
I've sent out an e-mail :) And yes I LOVE it! I've installed on at least ~4 different machines of friends as well!
email sent from erazal (backwards).rossillon[at].gmail.com
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#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree completely. The best wallpaper is pure black. I haven't used anything other than black in ~20 years.
black wallpaper will be awesome for battery life once OLED laptop screens come out
I mean I guess if your primary use of your laptop is sitting on the desktop with no windows open, just staring at it?