20 creative wallpapers for mobiles and desktops (& 10 tutorials to design your own)

Whether it is for your smartphone, the desktop at home, a laptop or tablet, we are always in the search of cool backgrounds. A nicely done background has the capacity to embellish your screen, to make you feel at ease with your most important workspace. We offer in this post examples of some of the most beautiful wallpapers – at least for our taste – for the creative user who enjoys only the best compositions.

Have you got more examples? Please let us know about them in the comments section, we really love amazing backgrounds.

10 creative wallpapers for your mobile

It only takes a glimpse to realise how amazing these backgrounds are! To know if they are a perfect fit for you we have specified the maximum size advised for each.

War fire Mobile Wallpaper

Designer: MobilesWall.com
Style: Composition
Maximum size: 640px × 960px

© MobilesWall.com

Flying gravity Mobile Wallpaper

Designer: MobilesWall.com
Style: Composition
Maximum size: 640px × 960px

© MobilesWall.com

Fire Earth nowing Mobile Wallpaper

Designer: MobilesWall.com
Style: Composition
Maximum size: 640px × 960px

© MobilesWall.com

Fantasy Art Mobile Wallpaper

Designer: MobilesWall.com
Style: Illustration
Maximum size: 640px × 960px

© MobilesWall.com

Lion Mobile Wallpaper

Designer: MobilesWall.com
Style: Illustration
Maximum size: 640px × 960px

© MobilesWall.com

Paintings clouds dark Mobile Wallpaper

Designer: MobilesWall.com
Style: Illustration
Maximum size: 640px × 960px

© MobilesWall.com

Leaves Plants Mobile Wallpaper

Designer: MobilesWall.com
Style: Foto-effect
Maximum size: 640px × 960px

© MobilesWall.com

Nature Trees Autumn Mobile Wallpaper

Designer: MobilesWall.com
Style: Illustration
Maximum size: 640px × 960px

© MobilesWall.com

Outer Space Mobile Wallpaper

Designer: MobilesWall.com
Style: Illustration
Maximum size: 640px × 960px

© MobilesWall.com

Shop Store Mobile Wallpaper

Designer: MobilesWall.com
Style: Illustration
Maximum size: 640px × 960px

© MobilesWall.com

10 Creative wallpapers for your Desktop

Desktops require of bigger backgrounds, and often screens have very different resolutions. As such, we also give you the ideal sizes for these incredible wallpapers.

Wallpaper Contest Finals „Top 20“ – Platz 04

Designer: Benn Mendelsohn
Style: Collage
Maximum size: 1.280px × 800px

© Benn Mendelsohn

Fight For Alpha

Designer: Tomin Vladimir
Style: Illustration
Maximum size: 1.920px × 1.200px

© Tomin Vladimir

Memoir

Designer: Jeff J.Y Huang
Style: Illustration
Maximum size: 1.600px × 1.200px

© Jeff J.Y Huang

It’s Time

Designer: Olli-Pekka Jauhiainen
Style: Composition
Maximum size: 1.280px × 800px

© Olli-Pekka Jauhiainen

No place

Designer: Kode
Style: Composition
Maximum size: 1.920px × 1.200px

© Kode

The Dopeshow

Designer: Rik Oostenbroek
Style: Collage
Maximum size: 1.240px × 877px

© Rik Oostenbroek

Pure Symphony

Designer: Archan Nair
Style: Illustration
Maximum size: 1.152px × 864px

© Archan Nair

Colorama

Designer: Alexander
Style: Illustration
Maximum size: 1.280px × 800px

© Alexander

Noemí Jiménez – Noemiji

Designer: Noemí Jiménez
Style: Composition
Maximum size: 1.920px × 1.200px

© Noemí Jiménez

Aethlet Reprise

Designer: Archan Nair
Style: Illustration
Maximum size: 1.152px × 704px

© Archan Nair

10 step-by-step instructions to design your own amazing wallpaper

In the following links you will be able to access Photoshop tutorials that will guide you through the design of astonishing wallpapers. Let your creativity run wild and get yourself an unique wallpaper for all your devices.

Vector-Wallpaper Tutorial

Designer: Tamilia
Style: Illustration

© Tamilia

Calculations And Colorization

Designer: pshero.com
Style: Color-effect

© pshero.com

How to Create Brilliant Light Streaks in Photoshop

Designer: Henry
Style: Light-effect

© Henry

Hexagon Bokeh Effect in Photoshop

Designer: Abduzeedo
Style: Color-effect

© Abduzeedo

Creating an Ecological Fairy Tale Wallpaper

Designer: Aaron Chua
Style: Composition

© Aaron Chua

Create a Floating Island Scene Similar to James Cameron’s Avatar

Designer: Michael Vincent Manalo
Style: Composition

© Michael Vincent Manalo

Creating an Abstract Watercolor Wallpaper

Designer: Aaron Chua
Style: Water colours

© Aaron Chua

Awesome digital bokeh effect in Photoshop

Designer: Abduzeedo
Style: Color-effect

© Abduzeedo

Create Fantasy Wallpaper in Photoshop

Designer: ART-D
Style: Collage

© ART-D

Design a Surreal Desert Scene in Photoshop

Designer: Ciursă Ionuţ
Style: Composition

© Ciursă Ionuţ