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I downloaded several nice photos from Unsplash.com, resized them to 1920x1200 at Aconvert.com, then added the MX Logo overlay in GIMP. Unsplash has very generous licensing terms:

All photos published on Unsplash can be used for free. You can use them for commercial and noncommercial purposes. You do not need to ask permission from or provide credit to the photographer or Unsplash, although it is appreciated when possible.

More precisely, Unsplash grants you an irrevocable, nonexclusive, worldwide copyright license to download, copy, modify, distribute, perform, and use photos from Unsplash for free, including for commercial purposes, without permission from or attributing the photographer or Unsplash. This license does not include the right to compile photos from Unsplash to replicate a similar or competing service.

https://unsplash.com/license

The format goes:
Wallpaper's thumbnail (linked to the 1920x1200 image)
Wallpaper name
URL of the original photo
Information about the photo, provided by the photographer or by me in that order of preference
Photographer's name
(The last two are reversed for some wallpapers.)


Angel
https://unsplash.com/photos/2mjl2uvz9ic
Metal abstract, Based, Switzerland
Ricardo Gomez


Big_Sur
https://unsplash.com/photos/znekTMMoBrM
Big Sur, California, USA
Jesse Collins


Clouds
https://unsplash.com/photos/Yx0sVL2H8pA
Clouds at sunset
Zhao Chen


Godafoss_Iceland
https://unsplash.com/photos/R8OgEsHVOhA
Mahkeo


Landeyjahofn_Iceland
https://unsplash.com/photos/Ef7C4bPDL4A
Golden dust and light at an Icelandic beach
Mahkeo


Landmannalaugar_Iceland
https://unsplash.com/photos/t07FAEn9wAA
Eroded mountains in Iceland
Jon Flobrant


Lladdwyn_Island
https://unsplash.com/photos/pMvIjMu9HSM
Twr Mawr Lighthouse on Lladdwyn Island in North Wales at sunset
James Eades


Rhino
https://unsplash.com/photos/hcjjoTawInU
Captureson


Silver_Falls
https://unsplash.com/photos/oPikeDMH0gA
Silver Falls State Park, Silverton, Oregon, USA
Eric Muhr


Sonoran_Desert
https://unsplash.com/photos/em7gIbjEL0I
NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), US Government


Waves
https://unsplash.com/photos/OCzvgBqCJKY
Ocean waves
Silas Baisch

JayM, I know Unsplash has liberal terms of licence.

However, please still provide the specific Unsplash URL for each of the photos in the online form. That is to help us establish your source of photos, and I also like that the contributing artists' names can be seen from those links.

asqwerth wrote: Sun Aug 04, 2019 1:44 am JayM, I know Unsplash has liberal terms of licence.

However, please still provide the specific Unsplash URL for each of the photos in the online form. That is to help us establish your source of photos, and I also like that the contributing artists' names can be seen from those links.

I did that: posted the link to each individual photo when I submitted them to the MX website.. i also credited the photographers even though it isn't required, as I thought it would just be nice. I only quoted the license here in the forum and provided the link to it as that's a forum rule, to prove that the images aren't copyrighted and may be used. (I also pasted it in the License field on the wallpaper submission form.)

Ah so!

Nice selection, by the way.

Here are a bunch more. Animals this time.


Crocodile
https://unsplash.com/photos/3udd_NEmgDs
David Clode
A crocodile's head covered in duckweed, because who wouldn't love a nice leafy wallpaper with a big reptilian eye looking at you?


Cute Doggie
https://unsplash.com/photos/uezc4WxaG4E
Ryan Akins
A cute little doggie (no info given)


Dog 1
https://unsplash.com/photos/z0rOYhd70Mo
Roman Striga
Nice B&W portrait of a dog


Dog 2
https://unsplash.com/photos/_NdyDD-tZlM
Artsy Vibes
A grey dog by a lake (no info given)


Fat Cat
https://unsplash.com/photos/4fWlc-iW3ME
Rob Tol
A fat, fluffy orange and white cat on a post


Giraffes
https://unsplash.com/photos/o9Ek5Q5tnQQ
K. Mitch Hodge
Feeding time for the giraffes at the Belfast Zoo, Northern Ireland


Grey Tabby
https://unsplash.com/photos/qeeyFVkHy_U
Gijs Coolen


Jellyfish 1
https://unsplash.com/photos/VCmrke0qOr4
Robert Zunikoff
A jellyfish at the National Aquarium, Baltimore, Maryland, USA


Jellyfish 2
https://unsplash.com/photos/HNem8j1jpcE
Francis Taylor
A smack of jellyfish at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, California, USA


Joel
https://unsplash.com/photos/z6NZYyTjEd0
Adam Przeniewski
A young Devon Rex cat named Joel


Lemur
https://unsplash.com/photos/y1-fZn_icM4
Stephen Hickman
A lemur on a fence


Lion
https://unsplash.com/photos/2QolB3aMw14
Tobias Adam
Just a lion


Macaw
https://unsplash.com/photos/cQikP1grAgE
David Clode
Macaw, Kuranda Birdworld, Kuranda, Australia


Penguins
https://unsplash.com/photos/bZvdX5Ysm44
Hubert Neufeld
A rookery of penguins (because Linux)


Puppy
https://unsplash.com/photos/_eV65AZ-t4M
Gursimrat Ganda
A young puppy (no info given) *SQUEE!*


Red Fox
https://unsplash.com/photos/OVWn1sbGIYQ
Erik Mclean


Seal Pup
https://unsplash.com/photos/rHmn-CYiMlo
Shannon VanDenHeuvel
An inquisitive seal pup. "Who dat?"


Sea Turtle
https://unsplash.com/photos/IBEXUZBmlXg
Tanguy Sauvin


Squirrel
https://unsplash.com/photos/VJtr6V6US7M
Zdeněk Macháček
A squirrel(?), Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic


Startled Kitten
https://unsplash.com/photos/-81lVsfM4gQ
Tran Mau Tri Tam
A startled kitten. I didn't upload this one to the website but I included it here in case anyone wants it.


Three Graceful Horses
https://unsplash.com/photos/A81818EFqGQ
Fabian Burghardt


Two Cute Kittens
https://unsplash.com/photos/cs3tf8kDKEc
René Peters
Bailey and Bella, 8 week old Scottish Highland kittens.


Viking Horses
https://unsplash.com/photos/M7Qzh_PD2mM
Doruk Yemenici
Viking horses at Akureyri, Iceland. They're genetically horses though they look like ponies.


Wild Horses
https://unsplash.com/photos/FwK07kj-mTc
Daniel Vnoutchkov
A horse herd in Cappadocia, Turkey


Zebras
https://unsplash.com/photos/wvO5tPfTpug
George Brits
Mountain Zebra National Park, South Africa

Some great selections here. Especially like Landeyjahofn beach, waves, and zebras.

Buildings, as requested:


Cevahir City skyline, Skopje, Macedonia
Original at https://unsplash.com/photos/qkJ8sTSg0hk
Credit: Boban Simonovski


EPCOT ball, Orlando Florida, USA
Original: https://unsplash.com/photos/ekxdbewWKwc
Credit: Robert Horvick


Salesforce Transit Center, San Fransisco California, USA
Original: https://unsplash.com/photos/mfllI-eRFDg
Credit: Denys Nevozhai


Tuletorget, Sundbyberg, Sweden
Original: https://unsplash.com/photos/Sc5RKXLBjGg
Credit: Anders Jildén

Thanks, JayM.

By the way, your resized and logo-fied animal/scenery images were displayed in XFCE desktop settings manager in vertical orientation. It could be that the online resizing tool that you used, embedded some metadata into the pics. That tends to result in pics that have vertical thumbnails.

For the animal/scenery pics that I selected to be uploaded to the gallery, I had to download a clean copy of the image from the original source and resize them again, using GIMP, in order to have them display in normal orientation.

asqwerth wrote: Tue Aug 20, 2019 7:08 am Thanks, JayM.

By the way, your resized and logo-fied animal/scenery images were displayed in XFCE desktop settings manager in vertical orientation. It could be that the online resizing tool that you used, embedded some metadata into the pics. That tends to result in pics that have vertical thumbnails.

For the animal/scenery pics that I selected to be uploaded to the gallery, I had to download a clean copy of the image from the original source and resize them again, using GIMP, in order to have them display in normal orientation.

Hmm, that could well be the case. Tell me, when you resized the originals using GIMP were they proportioned correctly without looking squished or stretched? The reason I've been using aconvert.com to resize them to 1920x1200 is that I've experienced some image distortion like that if I resized them myself whether with GIMP or Pinta, possibly because (I think but I'm not sure) 1920x1200 isn't a standard image size like 1920x1080 is. I'll look into it tomorrow or the next day. Thanks for the heads-up.

I just use Nomacs

I didn't know Nomacs could even edit and resize images, I usually use Mirage for viewing them. Thanks, Jerry!

Question for the artwork team: is 1920x1200 a "carved in stone" requirement for wallpaper sizes or an approximation? Because the Unsplash images tend to resize to around 1920x1280 when height and width are constrained. Would that be close enough to be acceptable?

JayM wrote: Tue Aug 20, 2019 8:30 am ...Question for the artwork team: is 1920x1200 a "carved in stone" requirement for wallpaper sizes or an approximation? Because the Unsplash images tend to resize to around 1920x1280 when height and width are constrained. Would that be close enough to be acceptable?

We do accept 1920x1080 (16:9 aspect ratio), if really necessary, since this is a popular modern ratio aspect for widescreen displays.

Our preference for the moment however is 1920x1200 (16:10) since that used to be the most popular widescreen ratio before 16:9 became more popular. Since people still use MX with older hardware, e.g netbooks, we chose to go with that for now. This may change in the future.

1920x1280 (3:2) is not our preference since that is even less widescreen and more square-like.

see:
https://www.digitalcitizen.life/what-sc ... 1080p-mean

Originally "widescreen" referred to anything wider than the typical 4:3 display, but it quickly came to mean a 16:10 ratio and later 16:9. Nowadays, nearly all computer monitors and TVs are only available in widescreen, and TV broadcasts and web pages have adapted to match.

Until 2010, 16:10 was the most popular aspect ratio for widescreen computer displays. However, with the rise in popularity of high definition televisions, which were using high definition resolutions such as 720p and 1080p and made these terms synonyms with high-definition, 16:9 has become the high-definition standard aspect ratio