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 | February 6, 2010
Title:Snowmobile Trail by KyleDescription: Kyle is back! YAY! Here’s a lovely subtly steampunky wallpaper you could get away with in a corporate invrio; Oh, look, a nice snow scene… wait, what crossing?Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050, Fullscreen, 1280×1024Credits: Licensed as Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial. Based on this:http://www.flickr.com/photos/ezioman/456991220/
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 | January 5, 2010
Title:Tan RemixDescription: Some of our long-time viewers may remember this wallpaper. I decided to play with it a bit.Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050, Fullscreen, 1280×1024Credits: PS work with a texture from Lost and Taken.
Mousewrites | December 12, 2009
Hey, all. Thank you for your patience as we work through things. Theme is still odd; we’re working on it. At least it’s not erroring out now, yes? I give you a simple wallpaper in penance; my desktop is so full of icons from hunting down the bugs that I needed something non-distracting. Enjoy! Title:Simple […]
Mousewrites | November 16, 2009
Title: Steam Punk Wallpaper by Rob KleemanDescription: Rob was kind enough to let us post this. Isn’t it awesome? I love the watercolor look, as if some inventor was scribling on his blotter and grabbed a brush to quickly rough in his designs. Nice job, Rob!Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050Credits: Created by Rob Kleemen, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share […]
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”
Kyle | October 16, 2009
Title: Boiler room, part 3Description: Exhaust steam from computation engine enters from the pipe on the left, and proceeds to the smokebox, whereby the pressure is directed in an upwards direction through the smokestack and out into the atmosphere with ample velocity. This drafts the fire, in accordance with the air-less space vacuum state this […]
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)
