Windows desktop background for windows 7

Windows: First, choose your wallpaper. Just below the image you’ll see a button that says “Download.” You will also see your screen’s resolution, which we have figured out for you. When you click the “download” button, the wallpaper image will be saved, most likely in your “downloads” folder. Find the image on your computer, right-click it and then click “set as desktop background.” Now the only thing left to do is enjoy your new wallpaper!

Mac: Find a wallpaper you love and click the blue “download” button just below. Then click Apple Menu > System Preferences > Desktop & Screen Saver > Desktop. On your computer, find the downloaded image and click on the photo. Now go back to your desktop and admire your new wallpaper!

iPhone/iPad: Select a beautiful wallpaper and click the yellow download button below the image. Then tap on the image and hold for a few seconds. Next choose “save image” from the options below, go to your Photos and find the image you just downloaded. Use the “share” button (looks like an arrow curving out of a box) and then select the “use as a wallpaper” button. Now you will able to crop or arrange the image to your liking; when it looks perfect, tap “set.” The only thing left to do is select whether you want the image to be your lock screen, home screen or both. . .and enjoy!

Android: Choose one of our many exquisite wallpapers and download it by clicking on the yellow “download” button just below the image. Then open your gallery/photos app and from there open the “download” folder, where you will see the image you just downloaded. Click on the image, then look to the upper right corner and click on the menu button (three vertical dots). From the menu options, choose “set as wallpaper.” Now decide whether you want to to use your new wallpaper as your home screen background, lock screen or both, and choose the appropriate option. You will be able to manipulate the image to your liking; when you’re one hundred percent happy with the way it looks, click “set as wallpaper,” go back to your home screen and be dazzled!

Android Devices

• 720 x 1280

• 1080 x 1920

• 1080 x 2160

• 1080 x 2400

• 1440 x 2560

From Windows Wallpaper Wiki

Windows 7
Year of release	2009
Default wallpaper	img0
Included image types	Wallpapers Sample pictures User account pictures
Notable artists	Chuck Anderson Erik Attkisson Will Austin Giovanni Simeone Theo Allofs
Agencies used	Getty Images Corbis SIMEPHOTO age fotostock Masterfile
Preceded by	Windows Vista (2006)
Succeeded by	Windows 8 (2012)

For pre-release wallpapers and pictures, see Windows 7 Beta.

Windows 7 is an operating system released by Microsoft in 2009. It is the successor of Windows Vista. Whereas Vista received criticism for its performance, 7 was more positively received and became more widely adopted by users. It was followed by Windows 8 in 2012.

Wallpapers

For Windows 7’s wallpapers, Microsoft licensed rights-managed images from Getty Images and Corbis, as with previous versions. Images were also licensed from other sources, such as SIME/4Corners Images, Photolibrary, and individual photographers’ PhotoShelters. While 7 continues the tradition of using photography, two new themes consisting of illustrations were added, to give 7 «a little bit of personality» according to Steven Sinofsky. The illustrators were found through the agency 72 and Sunny.^[1] They also worked with photographer Will Austin, who directly assisted Microsoft with selecting six wallpapers from his stock collection, as it wanted to incorporate photos from Seattle in 7’s themes, the city where its headquarters are located in.^[2][3] Austin described 7’s wallpapers as «a great example of Microsoft’s commitment to the user experience».

While Vista included a small set of 16:10 widescreen wallpapers, this is the first Windows version where all of the wallpapers are 1920×1200, as widescreen displays were more widespread by 2009. It is also the first version where the wallpapers are included as part of themes; while Vista’s wallpapers were split into categories, 7 sorts the wallpapers by themes instead, where selecting the theme will have the corresponding set of wallpapers being used as a slideshow.

The default wallpaper is Harmony, created by Chuck Anderson and Erik Attkisson. Whereas XP and Vista Starter editions have unique wallpaper sets, 7 only has one wallpaper for its Starter edition, which is an edited version of the regular default wallpaper.

	Name	Category	Licensed from	Originates from	Photographer/artist	Notes
	img0	Windows	N/A	commissioned by Microsoft	Chuck Anderson and Erik Attkisson	Default wallpaper The version featured in Starter is different, featuring a white logo and less details; it is also the only available wallpaper
	img1	Nature	Corbis	zefa	Pete Leonard
	img2	Nature	Corbis	Corbis	Mark Bolton
	img3	Nature	Rob Tilley’s PhotoShelter	Rob Tilley’s PhotoShelter	Rob Tilley
	img4	Nature	Will Austin’s PhotoShelter	Will Austin’s PhotoShelter	Will Austin
	img5	Nature	Will Austin’s PhotoShelter	Will Austin’s PhotoShelter	Will Austin
	img6	Nature	Will Austin’s PhotoShelter	Will Austin’s PhotoShelter	Will Austin
	img7	Landscapes	Getty Images	Getty Images	Martin Rügner
	img8	Landscapes	Getty Images	Minden Pictures	Carr Clifton
	img9	Landscapes	Getty Images	Minden Pictures	Tim Fitzharris
	img10	Landscapes	Photolibrary	Photolibrary	Stuart Westmorland
	img11	Landscapes	SIME/4Corners Images	SIME/4Corners Images	Giovanni Simeone
	img12	Landscapes	Getty Images	Getty Images	Cornelia Doerr
	img13	Architecture	Will Austin’s PhotoShelter	Will Austin’s PhotoShelter	Will Austin
	img14	Architecture	Will Austin’s PhotoShelter	Will Austin’s PhotoShelter	Will Austin
	img15	Architecture	Corbis	zefa	Gregor Schuster
	img16	Architecture	Will Austin’s PhotoShelter	Will Austin’s PhotoShelter	Will Austin
	img17	Architecture	Getty Images	Getty Images	Andreas Stirnberg	A building has been removed, while the cloud has been moved
	img18	Architecture	Corbis	Arcaid Images	John Gollings	Buildings have been blurred out
	img19	Characters	N/A	commissioned by Microsoft	Yuko Kondo
	img20	Characters	N/A	commissioned by Microsoft	Katharina Leuzinger
	img21	Characters	N/A	commissioned by Microsoft	Osmand Nosse
	img22	Characters	N/A	commissioned by Microsoft	Klaus Haapaniemi
	img23	Characters	N/A	commissioned by Microsoft	Red Nose Studios
	img24	Characters	N/A	commissioned by Microsoft	Punga
	img25	Scenes	N/A	commissioned by Microsoft	Pomme Chan
	img26	Scenes	N/A	commissioned by Microsoft	Kustaa Saksi
	img27	Scenes	N/A	commissioned by Microsoft	Nanospore
	img28	Scenes	N/A	commissioned by Microsoft	Adhemas Batista
	img29	Scenes	N/A	commissioned by Microsoft	Kai and Sunny
	img30	Scenes	N/A	commissioned by Microsoft	Hvass Hannibal

Regional

Windows 7 features regional themes for 20 countries, similar to XP Starter Edition featuring 3-6 wallpapers for each country. The team behind these themes licensed images from a wide range of stock photo agencies, including Getty Images, Corbis, SIME/4Corners Images, Masterfile, age fotostock and JupiterImages (which was acquired by Getty during 7’s development). Jennifer Shepherd, who produced the regional themes, also hosted a worldwide photo contest where Microsoft employees worldwide were able to submit photos that represent their country. Employees of each country voted on the best wallpapers for their theme, including both stock photos and winning images from the contest.^[4]

As well as built-in themes for each of the 20 countries, the team also produced downloadable themes of the same countries that were available from Microsoft’s site after 7 was released. The team produced a total of 40 themes, two for each country, totalling 240 regional wallpapers. 20 of these are included in 7, while the other 20 were available for download as soon as 7 was released. From 7 onwards, themes have the wallpapers set as a slideshow, while XP-era themes had one default wallpaper often with a few extra options.

Right now this page only lists the built-in ones, but it is possible that the downloadable ones will be documented on a separate page in the future.

To get a regional theme to display in the Personalization Control Panel:

1. Close any opening Personalization Control Panel, if any.
2. From Control Panel:
   • If you’re viewing as Category: Navigate to Clock, Language, and Region → Region and Language.
   • If you’re viewing as Large/small icons: Click Region and Language.
3. Go to the Location tab, choose any region listed below (depending on the language version, for example: the English version came with regional themes for Australia, Canada, South Africa, United Kingdom, and United States), then click Apply.
4. Open the Personalization Control Panel and check if the regional theme showed up in the «Aero Themes» section.

	Name	Region	Licensed from	Originates from	Photographer/artist	Notes
	AU-wp1	Australia	Corbis	Corbis	Theo Allofs
	AU-wp2	Australia	SIME/4Corners Images	SIME/4Corners Images	Damm Fridmar
	AU-wp3	Australia	age fotostock	Pixtal	Martin Rügner
	AU-wp4	Australia	Corbis	Corbis	Jose Fuste Raga
	AU-wp5	Australia	Getty Images	Getty Images	Philip Kramer
	AU-wp6	Australia	Corbis	Corbis	Theo Allofs
	BR-wp1	Brazil	Corbis	Corbis	Herve Collart
	BR-wp2	Brazil	Corbis	Corbis	Theo Allofs
	BR-wp3	Brazil	N/A	Microsoft	Leandro Cruz de Paula
	BR-wp4	Brazil	Getty Images	robertharding	Marco Simoni
	BR-wp5	Brazil	Corbis	Corbis	Theo Allofs
	BR-wp6	Brazil	Getty Images	Minden Pictures	Tui De Roy
	CA-wp1	Canada	Masterfile	Masterfile	Roy Ooms
	CA-wp2	Canada	age fotostock	All Canada Photos	David Nunuk
	CA-wp3	Canada	SIME/4Corners Images	SIME/4Corners Images	Reinhard Schmid
	CA-wp4	Canada	Masterfile	Masterfile	J. A. Kraulis
	CA-wp5	Canada	Masterfile	Masterfile	J. David Andrews	Flipped horizontally
	CA-wp6	Canada	Masterfile	Masterfile	Miles Ertman
	CN-wp1	China	Corbis	Brand X Pictures	Steve Allen
	CN-wp2	China	Corbis	Corbis	Liu Liqun
	CN-wp3	China	Corbis	Corbis	Frank Lukasseck
	CN-wp4	China	Getty Images	China Span	Keren Su
	CN-wp5	China	Corbis	Grand Tour Collection	Aldo Pavan
	CN-wp6	China	Corbis	Corbis	Xiaoyang Liu
	DE-wp1	Germany	Getty Images	MedioImages	unknown (credited on Getty to Medioimages)	Later reused in Microsoft’s downloadable Blue Water theme
	DE-wp2	Germany	Getty Images	MedioImages	unknown (credited on Getty to Medioimages)
	DE-wp3	Germany	Getty Images	Westend61	Dieter Heinemann	Later reused in Microsoft’s downloadable Blue Water theme
	DE-wp4	Germany	Getty Images	Westend61	unknown (credited on Getty to Westend61)
	DE-wp5	Germany	Getty Images	unknown	Frank Krahmer	Later reused in Microsoft’s downloadable Blue Water theme
	DE-wp6	Germany	N/A	Microsoft	Holger Gawrisch
	ES-wp1	Spain	Corbis	Corbis	Jose Fuste Raga
	ES-wp2	Spain	Corbis	Corbis	John and Lisa Merrill
	ES-wp3	Spain	Corbis	zefa	Guenter Rossenbach
	ES-wp4	Spain	Corbis	Corbis	Fransesc Muntada
	ES-wp5	Spain	SIME/4Corners Images	SIME/4Corners Images	Ripani Massimo
	ES-wp6	Spain	N/A	Microsoft	Roberto Barrios Sanchez
	FR-wp1	France	Masterfile	Masterfile	Miles Ertman
	FR-wp2	France	Getty Images	Photonica	B.SCHMID
	FR-wp3	France	Corbis	Corbis	Doug Pearson
	FR-wp4	France	Masterfile	Masterfile	Frank Krahmer
	FR-wp5	France	Corbis	Corbis	Christophe Boisvieux
	FR-wp6	France	Getty Images	Getty Images	David Noton
	GB-wp1	United Kingdom	Getty Images	Getty Images	Philip Kramer
	GB-wp2	United Kingdom	Getty Images	Getty Images	Travelpix Ltd
	GB-wp3	United Kingdom	Getty Images	Getty Images	Peter Adams
	GB-wp4	United Kingdom	Corbis	Corbis	Richard Cummins
	GB-wp5	United Kingdom	SIME/4Corners Images	SIME/4Corners Images	Giovanni Simeone
	GB-wp6	United Kingdom	SIME/4Corners Images	SIME/4Corners Images	Olimpio Fantuz
	IN-wp1	India	N/A	Microsoft	Medha Jain
	IN-wp2	India	age fotostock	age fotostock	Stuart Westmorland
	IN-wp3	India	SIME/4Corners Images	SIME/4Corners Images	Spila Riccardo
	IN-wp4	India	Getty Images	Getty Images	Eric Meola
	IN-wp5	India	N/A	Microsoft	Pareekshit Singh
	IN-wp6	India	Corbis	epa	unknown (credited on Corbis to epa)
	IT-wp1	Italy	Getty Images	Getty Images	Darrell Gulin
	IT-wp2	Italy	Corbis	Grand Tour Collection	unknown (credited on Corbis to Grand Tour Collection)
	IT-wp3	Italy	Corbis	Corbis	Sergio Pitamitz
	IT-wp4	Italy	N/A	Microsoft	Marco Carrubba
	IT-wp5	Italy	Corbis	Atlantide Phototravel	Guido Cozzi
	IT-wp6	Italy	Corbis	Corbis	Hubert Stadler
	JP-wp1	Japan	Getty Images	Sebun Photo	Hideaki Tanaka
	JP-wp2	Japan	Corbis	Corbis	unknown (credited on Corbis to Image Plan)
	JP-wp3	Japan	N/A	Microsoft	Shinobu Takahashi
	JP-wp4	Japan	Masterfile	Masterfile	Jeremy Woodhouse
	JP-wp5	Japan	Corbis	Corbis	Robert Essel
	JP-wp6	Japan	Getty Images	Getty Images	unknown (credited on Getty to Tohoku Color Agency)
	KR-wp1	Korea	Getty Images	DAJ	unknown (credited on Getty to DAJ)
	KR-wp2	Korea	age fotostock	age fotostock	Matz Sjöberg
	KR-wp3	Korea	Corbis	Corbis	Christophe Boisvieux
	KR-wp4	Korea	Jupiterimages	Jupiterimages	unknown (credited on Getty to Jupiterimages)
	KR-wp5	Korea	Jupiterimages	TongRo Images	unknown (credited on Jupiterimages to TongRo Image Stock)
	KR-wp6	Korea	Getty Images	DAJ	unknown (credited on Getty to DAJ)
	MX-wp1	Mexico	Getty Images	Getty Images	Stuart Dee
	MX-wp2	Mexico	Masterfile	Masterfile	Freeman Patterson
	MX-wp3	Mexico	Corbis	Westlight	George H. H. Huey
	MX-wp4	Mexico	age fotostock	age fotostock	Martin Siepmann
	MX-wp5	Mexico	Corbis	Westlight	Randy Faris
	MX-wp6	Mexico	age fotostock	hemis	Hervé Hugues
	NL-wp1	Netherlands	Getty Images	The Image Bank	Frans Lemmens
	NL-wp2	Netherlands	Getty Images	Getty Images	Betsie van der Meer
	NL-wp3	Netherlands	age fotostock	age fotostock	René van der Meer
	NL-wp4	Netherlands	Getty Images	Tony Stone Images	Tony Craddock
	NL-wp5	Netherlands	Corbis	Corbis	Keren Su
	NL-wp6	Netherlands	SIME/4Corners Images	SIME/4Corners Images	Gaudenzio Luciano
	PL-wp1	Poland	age fotostock	age fotostock	César Lucas Abreu
	PL-wp2	Poland	age fotostock	age fotostock	Henryk T. Kaiser
	PL-wp3	Poland	Corbis	zefa	Manfred Mehlig
	PL-wp4	Poland	age fotostock	age fotostock	Henryk T. Kaiser
	PL-wp5	Poland	age fotostock	age fotostock	Piotr Ciesla
	PL-wp6	Poland	Corbis	Corbis	Eastcott Momatiuk
	RU-wp1	Russia	age fotostock	age fotostock	Eric Baccega
	RU-wp2	Russia	age fotostock	age fotostock	Wojtek Buss
	RU-wp3	Russia	Corbis	ITAR-TASS	Alexander Kolbasov
	RU-wp4	Russia	SIME/4Corners Images	SIME/4Corners Images	Gräfenhain Günter
	RU-wp5	Russia	SIME/4Corners Images	SIME/4Corners Images	Alexander Petrosyan
	RU-wp6	Russia	Getty Images	Minden Pictures	Konrad Wothe
	TR-wp1	Turkey	Corbis	Jon Arnold Images	Michele Falzone
	TR-wp2	Turkey	Corbis	robertharding	Adam Woolfitt
	TR-wp3	Turkey	Getty Images	The Image Bank	Derek Berwin
	TR-wp4	Turkey	Getty Images	The Image Bank	Mahaux Photography
	TR-wp5	Turkey	Getty Images	Lonely Planet	Dallas Stribley
	TR-wp6	Turkey	Getty Images	The Image Bank	Marc Romanelli
	TW-wp1	Taiwan	N/A	Microsoft	Kenny Chen
	TW-wp2	Taiwan	age fotostock	age fotostock	Vidler Steve
	TW-wp3	Taiwan	age fotostock	Cretas	unknown (credited on age fotostock to Cretas)
	TW-wp4	Taiwan	N/A	Microsoft	Perry Lu
	TW-wp5	Taiwan	age fotostock	age fotostock	Sylvain Grandadam
	TW-wp6	Taiwan	N/A	Microsoft	Sam Shih
	US-wp1	United States	age fotostock	age fotostock	Alan Majchrowicz
	US-wp2	United States	Getty Images	Getty Images	Ron and Patty Thomas
	US-wp3	United States	SIME/4Corners Images	SIME/4Corners Images	Giovanni Simeone
	US-wp4	United States	N/A	Microsoft	Shek Lun Ho
	US-wp5	United States	Corbis	robertharding	Lee Frost
	US-wp6	United States	Getty Images	Getty Images	Steve Bly
	ZA-wp1	South Africa	Corbis	Corbis	Andy Rouse
	ZA-wp2	South Africa	Masterfile	Masterfile	Daryl Benson
	ZA-wp3	South Africa	Masterfile	Masterfile	Freeman Patterson
	ZA-wp4	South Africa	Corbis	Corbis	Jon Hicks
	ZA-wp5	South Africa	SIME/4Corners Images	SIME/4Corners Images	Ripani Massimo
	ZA-wp6	South Africa	N/A	Microsoft	Keith D. Smith

Sample pictures

Windows 7 has eight sample pictures. Half of them are royalty free Corbis images; the other half were taken by Microsoft employees. Like with Windows Vista’s sample pictures, they are all at a resolution of 1024×768.

User account pictures

Most of Windows 7’s user account pictures come from Getty Images and use a mixture of royalty free and rights-managed licenses, with a few coming from Corbis, hired artists that worked on 7’s wallpapers, and one Microsoft employee. As with Vista’s, they are at 128×128.

	Name	Licensed from	Originates from	Photographer/artist	Notes
	guest	N/A	Microsoft/Iconfactory	unknown	Reused from Vista
	user	N/A	Microsoft/Iconfactory	unknown
	usertile10	Getty Images	PhotoDisc	Donovan Reese
	usertile11	Corbis	Corbis	unknown (credited on Corbis to Spirit Value RF)
	usertile12	N/A	commissioned by Microsoft	Punga
	usertile13	Getty Images	Getty Images	Steven Errico
	usertile14	Getty Images	Getty Images	Tetsuo Morita
	usertile15	Getty Images	PhotoAlto	Laurent Hamels
	usertile16	Getty Images	Getty Images	GK Hart/Vikki Hart
	usertile17	Getty Images	Getty Images	Dave Zubraski
	usertile18	Getty Images	Getty Images	Marco Simoni
	usertile19	N/A	commissioned by Microsoft	Adhemas Bastista
	usertile20	Getty Images	Aurora	Whit Richardson
	usertile21	Getty Images	Getty Images	Rob Atkins
	usertile22	Getty Images	Digital Vision	unknown (credited on Getty to Digital Zoo)
	usertile23	Getty Images	Getty Images	Jeffrey Hamilton
	usertile24	Getty Images	Johner	unknown (credited on Getty to Johner)
	usertile25	Getty Images	Getty Images	Jeffrey Coolidge
	usertile26	Getty Images	Getty Images	Livia Corona
	usertile27	Getty Images	PhotoDisc	Ryan McVay
	usertile28	Getty Images	Getty Images	Joseph Clark
	usertile29	N/A	Microsoft	Gary Spradling
	usertile30	Corbis	Corbis	David Selman
	usertile31	Getty Images	robertharding	Robert Harding
	usertile32	Getty Images	imagewerks	unknown (credited on Getty to imagewerks)
	usertile33	Getty Images	Getty Images	Georgette Douwma
	usertile34	Getty Images	robertharding	James Hager
	usertile35	N/A	commissioned by Microsoft	Kat Leuzinger
	usertile36	Getty Images	robertharding	Sakis Papadopoulos
	usertile37	Getty Images	Getty Images	Vincenzo Lombardo	The version used in Windows 7 has a light blue background and grass in front of the soccer ball added
	usertile38	Getty Images	Getty Images	Martin Child
	usertile39	Getty Images	Getty Images	Jeffrey Coolidge
	usertile40	Getty Images	unknown	Alberto Coto
	usertile41	Getty Images	Getty Images	Martin Child
	usertile42	Getty Images	SuperStock/Purestock	James Urbach
	usertile43	Getty Images	WIN-Initiative	unknown (credited on Getty to WIN-Initiative)
	usertile44	Getty Images	Tony Stone Images	Chad Ehlers

Logon backgrounds

The logon background is similar to the default desktop wallpaper, being designed by Chuck Anderson and Erik Attkisson too. The image itself is pretty minimalistic ― it depicts a sky blue background with several stripes and grass blades on it, and a bird near the leaves of one of the plants. This background is also used for the post-install OOBE. Like with Vista’s logon background, it is included in a range of resolutions ranging from 1024×768 to 1920×1200.

The Embedded versions feature a completely different logon background, consisting of a dark blue radial gradient, and a line of rounded squares placed in line across the background. It is very similar to the branding wallpapers featured in the Embedded 2009 versions of Windows XP, albeit with duller shades of blue and more opaque squares. Like in regular Windows 7 editions, this background is also used for post-install OOBE and is included in various resolutions.

• 

  The regular logon background.

• 

  The Embedded logon background.

Setup backgrounds

The setup background is in BMP format and 1024×768, like with Vista. It can be seen during installation and in the recovery boot menu. It can be found in various places on the Windows 7 DVD as background_cli (i.e. in the /sources/ folder). It looks very similar to the logon background, although featuring a darker blue background colour, white clouds added on top, and some lines near the center shortened or made more transparent.

The Embedded versions also feature a different setup background. It is very similar to the logon background, although the line of squares is slightly further down and the colors are in a slightly different order. It can be found on the Windows 7 DVD as background_emb.

• 

  The regular setup background.

• 

  A comparison of the logon and setup backgrounds.

• 

  The Embedded setup background.

Trivia

• Including all of the built in regional wallpapers, Windows 7 has a total of 151 wallpapers, the highest number of wallpapers built into a version of Windows. If the downloadable regional ones that were made available upon 7’s release are also included, the count goes up to 271.

References

External links

• Windows Vista and 7 HD Wallpaper Pack