Spending about eight hours a day staring at a screen you cannot stand in front of a sad image like the standard one of Windows or Linux, you must absolutely set a background that is pleasing to the eye and mind. On Mac, Windows and Linux computers, one of the simplest operations is to change the desktop background and, through some simple tools it is also possible to automatically rotate different images as a desktop background.
Certainly many people use personal photos that portray moments of vacation or family people but it may be better to use an image that, in addition to being high quality and beautiful to look at, is also set with the right size for your screen.
Searching for quality images and desktop backgrounds is not a very simple thing because, often, you end up browsing deceptive sites, web pages full of malware and portals that allow you to download images only by paying.
Instead, there are wonderful websites from which you can download for free any kind of image that can be the background of your computer work.
After seeing several sites with desktop wallpapers and high definition wallpapers, we see, in this second episode, 12 other best websites from which to download free images and backgrounds to use on the computer screen .
1) Wikipedia is not only an online encyclopedia but it is also a site from which you can download free multimedia content, including videos, sounds and photos.
In the section dedicated to computer backgrounds there is a large gallery of images including photographs, sketches and paintings.
When you find the one you like, you must download the full resolution version and not the smaller preview.
2) Flickr!, the Yahoo site is the best site for sharing images and photographs and is used by professional photographers to showcase their best photo retouches and creations.
Everything is free and you can download the photos to use them as backgrounds.
Since not all images are the right size for desktops and monitors, to search for wallpapers on Flickr it is better to use the Wallpapr site which only lists those already adapted.
They also have an iPhone version that you can use.
3) DualMonitor Backgrounds is a site that presents images dedicated to those who use the dual monitor .
All the wallpapers on the site are 2, 560x1, 024 or 3, 840x1, 200. One of the best features on the Dual Monitor site is the ability to set the resolution of your screen by clicking on the link above. All the results will then be filtered and customized according to the self-set size. There are a lot of categories to choose from, you can click on the preview to see the previews before downloading the full resolution image and saving it on the desktop.
4) Space is the site where fans of Space, astronomy and science fiction must go. There are photographed images and also digital creations by artists.
5) Space and universe backgrounds are also on the NASA website. There are images of the most remote corners of space with strange photographs of galaxies taken by space telescopes and satellites. To find the images, click on the Gallery link and scroll through the previews. The download link is in the right panel, with a variety of formats to choose from.
6) Beautiful backgrounds and wallpapers of the highest quality that come from professional photographs of natural and inaccessible places come from the National Geographic website.
They are all wallpapers for free download of natural, wild landscapes, erupting volcanoes, hurricanes, northern lights, cloudy skies, cities and metropolitan landscapes and small villages, animals and many photographs of innovative technologies.
7) Bing beats Google as a search engine for quality images and desktop wallpapers.
8) Connected to Bing there is also the web page of the official Microsoft themes dedicated to Windows 7.
9) Windows7themes.net is instead the best unofficial portal where to download wallpapers and images dedicated to Windows operating systems.
10) WallpapersWide is one of the most complete sites specializing in desktop backgrounds, with many classic images and perfect landscapes for a computer.
The list continues on another page where there are other sites to download 10 sites with more beautiful desktop backgrounds for free.
