Free Desktop Wallpaper - Impress Your Friends

Free desktop wallpapers are a usual way to improve the appearance of your computer desktop. Often times the default wallpaper that installs with a Windows operating system is plain and boring. A fast and basic method to improve the appearance of your monitor is by simply changing the desktop wallpaper, in some cases referred to as your desktop background. The best thing about this is that there are hundreds of websites that provide free wallpapers for viewing and download.

Desktop wallpapers are often in jpeg format, which allows high quality photos with compressed file size.  All latest computers have the ability to open and view jpeg files. The file extension of desktop wallpapers is therefore usually .jpg or .jpeg.

There are different file formats available for images, such as gif and png. Gif files are generally low quality and are not preferable when using for a photo as your desktop wallpaper, however they are fine if you intend to use a repeating background image.

Improved quality image formats for wallpapers such as png will end up in a larger file size, but the improvement in image quality over a jpeg is minor. That is why the most widely used format for desktop wallpapers is jpeg, as it meshes little filesize with a great quality image.

Depending on your monitor resolution you can download different sized pictures to use for your desktop background. You can stretch the image if it is too small and it will fill up your entire desktop. But some images with different dimensions to your screen resolution will look weird if they are stretched. The number one way to make sure a wallpaper fits well is to locate a picture with similar size to your screen resolution. Websites that provide free desktop wallpapers have the usual sizes to fit every screen resolutions and even if the wallpaper is stretched to occupy your background, it will still look super.

Free wallpapers come in so many flavours that there are sure to be many that appeal to everyone. Desktop wallpapers are made from photos, cartoon drawings, paintings, 3D rendering, celebrities, and also movie posters. General audiences may like nature photography with calming mountain scenes, soothing rivers or even animal wildlife. Children will undoubtedly select some sort of cartoon or game wallpaper. And when your friends come around to see how amazing your desktop looks, they will want to know where they can horde their own free desktop wallpapers.