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.
Mousewrites | January 24, 2010
Title:Industrial – metal wall with posterDescription: More industrial stuff. Found the poster on the web, and then again at the Arizona Gold Rush page. I am 99% sure it’s genuine… of course, the 1% is gonna bite my ass, you watch.Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050, Fullscreen, 1280×1024Credits: Base texture from a filter from Filterforge, but I dinked with it […]
Mousewrites | January 18, 2010
Title:Industrial – Metal PlateDescription: I’ve been asked for some more grunge/industrial wallpapers, so i’ll be going slightly off-topic for a few posts. This one is a rusted to hell diamond-plate, with some mood lighting.Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050, Fullscreen, 1280×1024Credits: Base texture from a filter made by Crapadilla, with Filterforge.
Mousewrites | October 31, 2009
Title:Nanowrimo Wallpaper 2Description:More wallpaper for Nanowrimo. The daily numbers are the wordcount goal. Nanawrimo is National Novel Writing Month! One day till the madness takes us!Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050, Fullscreen, 1280×1024Credits: mostly straight PS work, with some textures overlayed from Lost and Taken. Again.
Mousewrites | October 24, 2009
Title: Nanowrimo Wallpaper 1Description: A somber, brown wallpaper for Nanowrimo. The daily numbers are the wordcount goal. Nanawrimo is National Novel Writing Month, where a bunch of us go insane and each write a 50,000 word novel in a month. Sound like fun? Join us! (pretend that last part isn’t spoken like I’m a zombie, will you?)Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050, Fullscreen, […]
Mousewrites | October 17, 2009
Title: Steamtrain, leaving the stationDescription: Minor manipulations and tone/color washing, but the train and steam are genuine. I fell in love with this picture when I came across it on Flickr.Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050, Fullscreen, 1280×1024Credits: Creative Commons Licensed derivative of infomatique‘s beautiful picture “Steam Train – Leaving Connolly Station”
Mousewrites | October 11, 2009
Title: Spelunk!Description: Made to be a low contrast “movie poster” wallpaper, so that icons show up well.Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050Credits: Based off the picture by magikstock. She has neat stuff.
Kyle | October 9, 2009
Title: Boiler room, part 2 Description: Well, I suppose the pipes probably go there…but where else? grungetextures.com/gallery/pic.php?id=626(by-nc when previously available) www.flickr.com/photos/chibijosh/67266910/(by-nc at the time of writing) www.flickr.com/photos/redcritter86/3916858951/(by-nc-sa at the time of writing) www.flickr.com/photos/broughturner/2330342519/(by-nc at the time of writing) www.flickr.com/photos/helzerman/2543318402/(by-sa at the time of writing) www.flickr.com/photos/joeross/2498377434/(by-nc at the time of writing) License: Creative Commons Attribution, Non-Commercial, […]
Kyle | October 2, 2009
Title: Boiler room, part 1Description: I wonder where that pipe goes? Based off of these: [link](by-nc as of 2009-06-21) [link](by as of 2011-10-27) [link](by-nc as of 2011-10-27) Licensed as Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial *EDIT* Made with Adobe Photoshop
Mousewrites | September 27, 2009
Title: TophatDescription: A chapeau for those with discriminating tastes…Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050, Fullscreen, 1280×1024Credits: Textures from Lost and Taken. Tophat source from rattified.
Kyle | September 25, 2009
Title: The Docks Description: Better calibrate your monitors for this one – it’s pretty dark. Based off of these: [link](by-nc as of 2011-10-30) [link](by-nc-sa as of 2011-10-30) [link](by-nc as of 2011-10-30) Licensed as Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike *EDIT* Made with Adobe Photoshop
Mousewrites | September 23, 2009
Title: Walls2Description: Exciting name, isn’t it?Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050, Fullscreen, 1280×1024Credits: Textures from Lost and Taken as well as Grunge and Filter Forge.
Kyle | September 19, 2009
Title: CatchDescription: Ahoy, lads and lasses! Here be a holiday wallpaper for ‘ye. Think ye be fast enough to catch me present? (Originally posted September 19, 2009 – Talk Like a Pirate Day. Not in chronological order like the rest up to this point have been. Revised later to include another size.) Based off of […]
Kyle | September 17, 2009
Title: Under Pressure Description: Light retouching. Credits: Photo by Les Chatfield License: Creative Commons Attribution
Kyle | September 7, 2009
Title: The Best Manfg. Co. Description: Gotta love the old abbreviations! Minimal cropping and resizing from the original. Notes: Please leave comments to let us know what you like/dislike about this. Type: Fullscreen, 1280×1024, Widescreen, 1680×1050 Credits:Excellent photo by Gregory P. Smith License: Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Share-alike
Kyle | August 9, 2009
Title: Hot Water Balloon Description: Steam is lighter than air, isn’t it? www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/10509303/(by-sa at the time of writing) www.flickr.com/photos/dazzling_expresso/2266936562/(by-nc-sa at the time of writing) www.flickr.com/photos/grumpypants/2820036715/(by-nc at the time of writing) www.flickr.com/photos/ezioman/2095465978/(by at the time of writing) www.flickr.com/photos/wwarby/2405208706/(by at the time of writing)
Kyle | May 22, 2009
Title: Steam OrganDescription: …otherwise known as a calliope.Type: Fullscreen, 1280×1024, Widescreen, 1680×1050Credits: Original by Nick Trebyhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/biggleswadeblue/3071236476/License: Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Share-alike Notes: Sorry, folks, for not posting in a while. I was out of town for about a week, and felt like I was getting into a rut, so I thought I’d take a breather for […]
Kyle | May 3, 2009
Title: Absinthe LabDescription: Here at J.M. Smythe Absinthe Co., we take pride in our product. “Experimentation is the key to the perfect taste!”Type: Fullscreen, 1280×1024Credits: [link](by as of 2011-10-27) [link](by-nc as of 2011-10-27) [link](by as of 2011-10-27) [link](by-nc-sa as of 2011-10-27) [link](by-nc-sa as of 2011-10-27) License: Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Share-alikeNotes: There are no electric […]
Kyle | May 1, 2009
Title: Steam Train GearsDescription: That was its original title. A close-up shot of some Walschaerts valve gear on a steam locomotive. Valve gear is (fittingly enough) what drives the valves, to offset the valve movement from that of the piston, and controls whether the engine runs forward or backward.Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050, Fullscreen, 1280×1024Credits: Again, by […]
Kyle | April 29, 2009
Title: Inner WorkingsDescription: No idea what this thing is, but it’s cool! Cropped, resized, and minor retouching.Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050, Fullscreen, 1280×1024Credits: Another wonderful original by Curious Expeditionshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/curiousexpeditions/632777127/License: Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Share-alike
Kyle | April 27, 2009
Title: Disused gearDescription: Nice shot of an old gear, rotated, cropped, and resized.Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050, Fullscreen, 1280×1024Credits: Original by Stef Lewandowskihttp://www.flickr.com/photos/aeioux/107522319/License: Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial
