During the tedious work with the computer, one of the things that leaves the greatest satisfaction is surely being able to look at a nice wallpaper on the PC desktop. There is no office where employees or consultants do not, once in a while, search for the best wallpapers to find the favorite one to put as wallpaper on the desktop and show it to other colleagues. Even at home, when you buy a PC, the first thing you customize and change is the background of the PC screen, so as to make it pleasant to the eye when we start it or when we return the desktop after a long work session. Clearly there will be those who prefer to put a photograph they are fond of as desktop wallpaper however, if you were looking for beautiful images online, we have collected in this guide the best sites to download high definition desktop wallpapers for PC in both HD and 4K ( the new resolution that is catching on).
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There are thousands of sites that provide wallpapers for the PC desktop but, not being able to list them all, we only try to select the sites that offer the best, the most artistic the most beautiful, so much so that if they were printed, you could do an exhibition in an art gallery.
Above all, the following sites offer HD wallpapers for PC to download for free that you can use on any computer, be it Windows, Linux or Mac.
1) DeviantArt
The best site and one of the most visited in the world is undoubtedly DeviantArt . This site is a real artistic showcase for all those who want to share their photos or drawings.
Of course, there is absolutely no way to reduce DeviantArt as a site to download wallpapers for the computer because its web space is available for every type of artistic image and it is a real and it is the most important site in the world where you can find beautiful and which, designers can show their skills. Returning to the backgrounds, to find the ones in high resolution, you can navigate on the left menu and go on the path "Customization -> Wallpaper". Every 8 hours there are new ones and you are really spoiled for choice.
2) Wallpaperfusion
Wallpaperfusion, on the other hand, is a site that only deals with desktop wallpapers and you can find them for free to download for any type of display and monitor; the site can be reached from here -> Wallpaperfusion .
They range from cell phones with a smartphone or tablet resolution screen up to high and very high quality resolutions, for widescreen and 16/9 monitors and for those who use dual monitors. The backgrounds can be browsed through the pages of the site by viewing their preview even before downloading them and can be searched by selecting the various categories made available.
3) Wallhaven
Wallhaven is a site done very well with a collection of wallpapers for all tastes ; we can reach it from here -> Wallhaven .
Lovers of anime, cars, science and technology, art and any other theme can find themed wallpapers to beautify their desktops. Wallhaven has a very simple and clean interface, without unnecessary additions and allows you to view previews as thumbnails so you can only choose the image we are interested in. You can sort the images according to a variety of filters, by categories or by resolution, so you can immediately view the images suitable for PC monitors.
4) Splashify
Splashify is a program for Windows and Mac that contains some of the best HD desktop backgrounds that you can download to your computer; the program can be downloaded from here -> Splashify .
The program is open source, safe, without viruses or hidden traps and allows you to browse any image for free, we just have to select the one we like and set it as a background.
5) Wallcoo.net
Wallcoo.net presents a web page completely dedicated to downloading desktop wallpapers, with over 60 thousand images to choose for free. The division is done by resolution and, even here, there are for any monitor, from small cell phones to large HD or 4K screens.
6) SocWall
SocWall is a very elegant site that presents high quality images and photography for all video resolutions, even the highest ones (HD, FullHD and 4K).
In Socwall every image is voted by the users so we will always display the most appreciated and voted photos at the top, so as to always have very beautiful images.
7) Worldview Wallpaper
Worldview Wallpaper is an extension for Google Chrome to automatically download wallpapers of cities and landscapes from around the world, even with photos in real time (with realistic timetables and weather conditions); we can download the extension here -> Worldview Wallpaper .
In this way we will be able to obtain the most beautiful photos of the various cities of the world in high definition and with different weather and time conditions, to make our desktop unique. The extension shows wallpapers within the Google Chrome browser, but you can import your favorite wallpaper for use on Windows or Mac without problems.
8) PsiuPuxa
PsiuPuxa is perhaps the best site on the web where to download HD wallpapers for PC with a spatial setting and can be reached from here -> PsiuPuxa.
On this site we can find photos of planets, stars, the whole universe, taken by satellites and telescopes and freely usable as backgrounds.
9) HD Wallpapers.net
HD Wallpapers.net is truly a site of graphics to rub your eyes, with images and backgrounds of the highest quality, with high resolution and definition and with stunning pictures to say the least!
We can access the site from here -> HD Wallpapers.net .
There are several categories of images including those of famous actors and actresses, nature, sports, computer and electronics and travel photographs.
10) EWallpapers
The EWallpapers site divides its collection into categories according to the subject you want to use; we can access the site from here -> EWallpapers .
We can therefore find photos and images of motorcycles, cars, images of nature, sea and mountains, women and models, cartoons and manga, sports, airplanes, images of the sky or space and so on.
Other sites to download desktop wallpapers for PC in high definition
In addition to the sites that we recommended above, we can also find other photos and images to use as a desktop background on the following sites:
1) VladStudio is a different site with backgrounds created by the authors and very nice, with a very particular style.
They are not photographs but colorful and nice, high-definition drawings, very suitable for putting in a good mood.
2) Desktop Nexus presents another magnificent collection of images adapted as a backdrop for computer monitors. The wallpapers are sorted by image categories and are sorted not only by date but also by the votes given by users by site and by number of downloads.
3) For those looking for simple backgrounds, without images but beautiful with soft and delicate colors that do not bother, I indicate the SimpleDesktops site which contains many wallpapers with different colors and gradients.
4) Wallpaperez, with few categories and many backgrounds with photos of beautiful girls.
5) Pexels : excellent site to find wallpapers of any type with 4K resolution.
6) WallpaperUP : another site where you can find UltraHD 4K images to be used as wallpaper on your PC.
The list goes on with the best sites to download images for your computer wallpaper .
I remember that in another article, we had seen the best hypnotic and surreal wallpapers and the Earth with the weather conditions as a desktop wallpaper.
After downloading many beautiful images or if you use your own photos, it can be nice to run them to see a different one every day with programs that change the desktop backgrounds automatically.
