Are you still using that default Mac wallpaper? Don’t you get bored of it? Of course, you do. But like many of us, you gave up on hunting awesome wallpapers, curating a collection and remembering to cycle through them.
Interested in finding a beautiful new desktop wallpaper for the holiday period? I’ve collected a selection of thirty vivid photo wallpapers, all available in a huge resolution for your 30″ monitor! Daily Wallpaper Bing Edition for Mac A free program for mac Daily Wallpaper Bing Edition is a free program for Mac that belongs to the category Utilities-tools, and has been developed by Chunlei Yang.
You did that when you had all the time in the world. You don’t now. All you want to do is get to the Mac and start working.
But having an awesome wallpaper greet you now and then isn’t such a bad thing. And you’ll be happy to know that there are awesome apps that deliver hand curated, spectacular art right to your desktop every day or so. And you don’t even need to pay for most of them. Just download the app, and forget about it.
Unsplash Wallpaper When we did our, Unsplash came on top. Unsplash is a website that features 10 new images every 10 days. And trust me, they’re awesome. They’re well above full HD, Retina compatible and most of them make for beautiful backgrounds. You could just browse the website and manually get the wallpapers. Or install their.
It’s a free menu bar utility that will cycle new wallpapers every 12 hours or when you ask it to. You can also save wallpapers. The app has the ability to automatically change the menu bar theme to dark mode when the wallpaper is dark as well. If you want beautiful wallpapers delivered to you every single day without you having to lift so much as a finger, install Unsplash. Padbury Clock Screen saver is a classic.
It’s great for people with. Install this screen saver and after the set time, the monitor will show the current time in big bold beautiful letters. Here’s how you install new screen savers. Just download the zip file.
Unzip it and you’ll see a.saver file. Double-click it and you’ll be asked to install it. Then find it in Desktop & Screen Saver option in System Preferences. In Padbury Clock’s case, you can change some settings like switch to dark mode, enable time separators, use red fonts at night and more.
Our wallpaper collection: Here are Guiding Tech, we curate wallpapers of all sorts. Check out our roundups,. Dribbble Screensaver This one’s for all the designers around. Is like design porn. Will bring all that beautiful and flat design inspiration right to your monitor when it’s been idle for more than your set time.
Wallpaper by Behance is where creative professionals of all sorts share their work. This includes everyone from designers to photographers. And a lot of the art featured at Behance makes for amazing, breathtaking wallpapers. Is a menu bar utility that lets you browse wallpapers from the drop-down menu. You can directly add an image as a wallpaper or appreciate it on Behance. The app can also automatically change wallpapers daily/weekly/monthly. Kuvva Wallpapers is the only paid app on this list.
It costs $4.99 because the Kuvva site itself believes in paying designers and photographers for their art. This means when you pay for Kuvva, you get some of the top art out there. The stuff from designers that they wouldn’t put out for free. I encourage you go to Kuvva,. They’ve got some of the most spectacular polygonal and minimal art wallpapers I’ve ever seen. What’s Your Current Wallpaper?
What wallpaper are you rocking right now? Share with us in the forum section below. Last updated on 8 Feb, 2018.
Before we begin please note that this feature will consume additional system resources compared to leaving your wallpaper set to a single image. This shouldn’t be a problem for any relatively new Mac, but if you’re running an older Mac you may see a bit of a slow down with this feature enabled. If so, just repeat the steps to turn the feature off.
Change Your Mac’s Wallpaper The options for desktop wallpaper in macOS are located in System Preferences. To launch system preferences, select it from the Apple drop-down menu at the top-left of your screen, or click the gray gear icon in your dock.
When the System Preferences window opens, select Desktop & Screen Saver. Make sure you’re on the “Desktop” tab at the top of the window. You’ll see a list of wallpaper sources on the left side of the window and a preview of any wallpaper images those sources contain on the right. The Apple “Desktop Pictures” section is just what that sounds like—images provided by Apple for your wallpaper-viewing pleasure. So you can click that to choose it as your source (or even “Solid Colors” if you’re into the whole monochromatic thing). The two sections below that, though—“Photos” and “Folders”—are handy if you want to use your own pictures as your wallpaper. If you’d like to add a folder full of images to use, just click the plus button at the bottom-left of the window to do so; if you want to access your library from here instead, though, start by clicking a triangle next to any item to expand it.
So in this case, I expanded the “Photos” section and then “Years,” and if I then scroll down to 2018, I can pick that as my wallpaper source. Apparently 2018 needs a lot of redaction. Automatically Change Your Mac’s Wallpaper Whatever source you choose, the key is picking one that contains multiple images (after all, you need more than one image to automatically cycle through!). Once you have your source selected, check the box at the bottom of the window labeled Change Picture. With the option checked, you can use the drop-down menu to select your desired interval. Choices include as often as every five seconds, as seldom as once per day, or when you log in or wake the Mac from sleep.
As I noted at the start of this article, the shorter increments will take more system resources, so avoid choosing “Every 5 seconds” here if you’re using a Mac from 2009 or something. Or don’t blame me when takes longer to open, at least! In any case, you can also select the Random order checkbox if you don’t want the images to display in the same order every time, but once you’ve got everything set, you can just close the System Preferences window. And you’re done! Your Desktop wallpaper will change automatically according to the conditions you set. Of course, if you get tired of your rotating wallpaper selection, you can return to System Preferences and choose a new image source or revert back to a single image.
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