Lilac Creative

This month's desktop is dual screen! Pretty spring flowers and colors flow seamlessly across the layout. One side has a linear calendar for April and the other features a stanza from Shelley's "The Sensitive Plant". Use one or the other, or if you have a dual-screen setup like me, use them together! Here's what it looks like on my setup (I actually cleaned my desk off for this shot!):

April Wallpaper - Right Side

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April Wallpaper - Left Side

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I've been having lots of fun makin' wallpapers lately! Here's another one for your enjoyment. This one's got a bit of steampunk inspiration to it: a rich and slightly grungy wood panel with a glass pane revealing the inner workings of gear-driven mechanism. Last but not least, some gold-leaf lettering across the glass reads "Clock Works". Enjoy!

Click here to download 1680 x 1050 version (widescreen).

Click here to download 1280 x 1024 version (fullscreen).

I've got a new desktop wallpaper for you! I have a personal project that I've been working on on and off for the past couple months, and it features watercolor-textured splatters in a wash of rainbow colors. I loved the effects I was coming up with so much that I decided to play with them on a wallpaper canvas, and here's the result. I'll give a step-by-step tutorial on what I did to achieve this look at a later date. Until then, you can grab a copy of this wallpaper for your laptop or desktop. Enjoy!

Click here to download 1680 x 1050 version (widescreen).

Click here to download 1280 x 1024 version (fullscreen).

I love deep winter nights, when the earth lies still and silent beneath a blanket of pristine white snow, and the stars shine brightly in the clear night sky. And if you live in northern climes, you might even catch a glimpse of the Northern Lights dancing across the sky. It was a picture of these things in my mind that inspired me to create this wallpaper, which you can download here for free. If you're a DIY kind of person, stay tuned: I'll have a tutorial up of how I created this wallpaper in a day or two!

Click here to download 1024 x 768 version.

Click here to download 1400 x 900 version.

Click here to download 1600 x 1200 version.

Click here to download 1680 x 1050 version.

Update: Check Out the Tutorial

You can find the tutorial on how to make this wallpaper in two parts:

Creating a Winter Night in Photoshop - Part 1

Creating a Winter Night in Photoshop - Part 2