Most of the wallpapers on this site are Creative Commons Attribution - Noncommercial - Share Alike 3.0 licensed. Check each wallpaper for it's individual license; some are copyright their original owners (in the case of guest wallpapers or featured artists)
Gear brushes used in my pictures are from several people. Unfortunately, I've lost the credit file of who all of those people are.
However, one has found me!
Ewark made the brushes used in several posts.
Posted by Mousewrites on July 30, 2008
Title: Gaslamps
Description: Green walls with gaslamps.
Type: Fullscreen, 1280×1024
Credits: Based off the picture by the justified sinner. Creative Commons licensed derivative.
NOTE: If you want other colors of wallpaper on the background, comment and I’ll work on it.
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Title: Mechanic’s Badge
Description: This popped into my head on the way home tonight. I had originally thought of it as a steampunk doctor’s badge (my robot is broken! Help!), but the caduceus (the winged staff surrounded by snakes) is not actually the medical badge. So, instead, here is the badge of the Aeronaught.
Type: Fullscreen, 1280×1024
Credits: Based on lots of pictures:
Creative Commons licensed derivative.
Posted by Mousewrites on July 29, 2008
Title: The Secretary
Description: Whew. Lots of hand work in this one, and a lot of sources. I’m going to go to sleep before my hands drop off!
Type: Fullscreen, 1280×1024
Credits: Based off the following pictures:
Creative Commons licensed derivative. So. Tired.
Posted by Mousewrites on July 28, 2008
Title:A Second Clue
Description: By request, another paper in the style of Map to a Factory long Gone. This one’s widescreen, and a bit brighter in mood.
Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050
Credits: Based off the picture by Digimatt. Creative Commons licensed derivative.
Posted by Mousewrites on July 27, 2008
Title: Edgecrumb’s Flying Toasting Machine
Description: Dusted off my 3D skills for this one. 3DS Max, lots of Grunge textures, and a few hours of pounding my head into the desk. Homage to After Dark’s iconic Flying Toasters screensaver. The wings are based on da Vinci’s flying machine, though it’s hard to tell at this angle. Flying toasters of love, indeed!
Type: Fullscreen, 1280×1024
Credits: Handmade in 3DS Max and Photoshop. Released under a Creative Commons license. Idea seed planted by Four Naught Four on this BoingBoing post.
Posted by Mousewrites on July 26, 2008
Title:
Gearswoop 1
Description: Simple wallpaper, based on what I wanted my EEE desktop wallpaper to look like but was unable to get it to do. I may make a special “frekin’ weird” sized version of this for those of use with mini computers in our lives.
Type: Fullscreen, 1280×1024
Credits: Hand made in Photoshop with a gear brush and too much time on my hands. Creative Commons licensed wallpaper.
Posted by Mousewrites on July 25, 2008
Actually, this is just a test to see if the ‘post this at x time’ feature works. Disregard it entirely.
😀
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Title:Leftovers
Description: This one is almost entirely Balakov’s amazing photo, with only small stuff done by me. Balakov is amazing.
Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050
Credits: Based off the picture by Balakov. Creative Commons licensed derivative.
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Hey, all.
I’m working on something a bit more labor intensive than my normal wallpapers, which is why the last few have been so plain. Hopefully it will be done on Sunday, and I can let my poor processor rest a bit.
There, was that tantalizing?
Also, we’ve experienced a huge (and I do mean huge,) drop off in hits today. Not sure what happened, but I hope if people aren’t happy with the wallpapers they’d let me know. I swear I can take criticism!
Anyhow, back to torturing my processor!
Posted by Mousewrites on July 24, 2008
Title: Cog
Description: Macro shot of a cog. A simple paper.
Type: Fullscreen. 1280×1024
Credits: Based of the picture by Balakov. Creative Commons licensed derivative. (Balakov, sorry so much for forgetting the link! I swear, my head wasn’t screwed on right last night!)
Posted by Mousewrites on July 23, 2008
Two versions because I’m indecisive.
Title: Keys
Description: just a pile of keys
Type: Seamlessly tiling,
Credits: Based of the picture by MikeK. Creative Commons Licensed Derivative.
Title: Low contrast Keys
Description: just a pile of keys but dim enough you can still see your icons.
Type: Seamlessly tiling,
Credits: Based of the picture by MikeK. Creative Commons Licensed Derivative.
Posted by Mousewrites on July 22, 2008
What’s this? A new type of post? Do tell!
A few people have given me permission to post a wallpaper they have made. Some of these make my eyeballs drop out of my head they’re so beautiful. FlameRaven was the first, so here’s her lovely paper.
Artists! If you’d like to be featured on SteampunkWallpaper.com, drop me a comment. I promise I won’t sell your email addresses to villain-types.
Title: Steampunk Wallpaper
Description: This is an AMAZING wallpaper by FlameRaven. Abstract gears, flaking rust, and black veins. Beautiful! Check out her gallery; it’s full of awesome illustrations.
Type: Widescreen, 1280×800
Credits: Copyright FlameRaven. (FlameRaven, if you are releasing this as creative commons, let me know. For now, it’s labeled as Copyrighted.)
Posted by Mousewrites on
Hey, all. Working on some things with the theme, so there may be a few hicups over the next few hours.
Thanks for your patience!
M
Posted by Mousewrites on July 21, 2008
Title: Broken Window
Description: This one suggested by someone (I’m trying to find your post! if it was you, please comment!), but it’s the first one I’ve not liked so far. I’ll redo it at some point, but I must sleep tonight. Le Sigh. I guess I’m not going to make a winner every time.
Type: Fullscreen, 1280×1024
Credits: Based of the picture by Killbox. Creative Commons licensed directive. (Name corrected. Sorry about that, Killbox!)
Posted by Mousewrites on July 20, 2008
Title: In Remembrance of Steam
Description: Do sleeping machines dream?
Type: Fullscreen, 1280×1024
Credits: Another amazing picture from Sonya (her picture was the base for Map for a Factory Long Gone. Beautiful photography. Go check her Flickr stream.) Creative Commons Licensed derivative.
Posted by Mousewrites on July 19, 2008
Title: A Gentleman’s umbrella
Description: I think a losing an umbrella stand every month or so is worth this particular umbrella.
Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050
Credits: Based of the picture by Greg E, and the clock by krazydad/jbum. Creative Commons licensed derivative.
Posted by Mousewrites on July 18, 2008
Hey, all.
First of all, I upgraded to WordPress 2.6. Let me know if you have any issues with it.
Second: I’m adding 16:9 and 4:3 to the tags to make things easier to find.
Third, you may have noticed that all the wallpapers this week are 16:9. I had a bunch of requests for widescreen papers, so I dedicated this week to catch up. But according to my stat widget thingy, most people who are visiting this site are at 1280×1024.
A few of the 4:3 papers I’ve done were at 1280×960, which (at the time) I thought was more standard than the 1024. (I know the math is wrong. Just roll with it for now. ) Obviously I was incorrect
I’m going to TRY to make a variety of sizes for the wallpapers. As a designer, I’m not satisfied by just cropping a 16:9 image into a 4:3 one, (though, if you choose ‘center’ in your desktops display properties, some 16:9 papers will look OK on a 4:3 monitor), so it’ll take me a while to catch up. In the meantime, you 16:9 people can gloat that you have Robot Calling and Mary’s First Invention, and the 4:3s flip you off with Steamyfox and Map to a Factory Long Gone.
I’ll be putting up a poll at some point so that I can keep an eye on what aspect ratio you guys prefer, but you can drop me a comment now, if you’d like!
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Title: Old Ideas
Description: I knew if I kept looking I’d find something in one of these old books…
Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050
Credits: Based of the picture by Paul Garland, with some help from Jon’s machinery brushes. Creative Commons licensed derivative.
Posted by Mousewrites on July 17, 2008
Title: Robot Calling
Description: Who’s at the door, honey?
Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050
Credits: Based of the picture by $Y. Creative Commons licensed derivative.
Posted by Mousewrites on July 16, 2008
Title: Forgotten Photograph
Description: I think this is my great, great, great grandfather, holding the cross-axle of the machine he invented. I found it in the bottom of a steamer trunk.
Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050
Credits: Based of the picture by an unknown artist. Library of Congress image found again though Pingnews. No known restrictions on publication for the base picture, but elements in this picture from Hugovk.
