Free iPad Wallpapers
Thursday, April 1, 2010 at 3:25PM I know its April first, but I assure you, I am deadly serious about this: Free ProLost wallpapers for your new iPad. Right-click to download the 1024x1024 originals one at a time, or download them all in a zip archive.
They’re square so they can work in both portrait and landscape modes—the iPad crops them on the fly. Some are definitely on the busy size, but you can set a different image as your lock screen, so maybe they have a place there.
All images were processed in the new Lightroom 3 Public Beta 2.
Since I don’t have an iPad yet, I don’t know which of these will work the best—please let me know in the comments which work out well for you this weekend!
These images are copyrighted, but free for you to use as wallpaper and lock screen images on your personal iPad. If you want to share them, please link to this page.
Reader Comments (43)
Big ups on the Rosie the Riveter seashore, Presidio and (I think) Urban Ore shots! Nicely done, Stu.
nice! I love the "politcians at window display" photo!
Nice wallpapers
Nice Stu,
I'll be hitting them Saturday
Now this makes me want to get 5Dmk2, and your eyes. ;-)
Hmm. The iPad has 1024x768 resolution, not 1024x1024. Depending on the algorithm used by the iPad, it might crop, or it might resize ugly. Sine wallpapers are only used in the vertical view, it might be a good idea to make them XGA rather than square pixels.
Thanks for sharing some of your awesome photos Stu!
Eugenia - The iPad will crop the edges off automatically - what is in the center of the image will remain there. So with any of these photos - when in landscape mode, the top and bottom will get trimmed off equally (128 pixels on either side), and when in portrait mode the sides will be trimmed off equally. These should work great.
wonderful set of photographs - really strong work with light and composition. however, i will not be buying an iFad, so can't give you feedback other than to echo that they are not the native display rez.
These are great Stu. The light paint, empty base, and barbed wire are the best! iPad here I come. Keep it up.
"Sine wallpapers are only used in the vertical view..."
Eugenia, this thing you do, where you write things as if you know them to be true, when in fact you don't, and they aren't? Please stop it.
Final warning.
Cool, my dusty tie fighter! No joke!
Only the finest sir!
Is that latte art a pour of your own? Very nice! (I'm finding a surprisingly large number of cross-over between photo nuts and coffee nuts -- me included!)
Killer work! I don't suppose it would be too much to ask for the full size versions? These would look very nice on my big monitor ;)
While I don't have an ipad, I will certainly use them on my ipod.
Thanks for sharing these!
These are very beautiful, thank you
These are great!
Mayhaps you could provide higher-res versions for desktop use?
These are so yummy! Gorgeous work. I do not have an iPad though :( , at least not yet. May these photos be used in any other way? If so, what kind of a license/credit would you like to receive? Thanks Stu.
Nice photos!
I notice a lot have vignetting. Is that so they'll blend in better around the edges with the iPad itself, or just the look you were going for?
I love the photos on that are shown. Could anyone suggest a good website where one can learn to improve ones pictures. For nice pictures for the ipad check out iFullscreen's website.
Glenn - the answer is both. I like vignetting in general, but remember that you'll never actually see the corners of these images, so I can get away with more.
Lovely stuff. are all of the bokeh 'in-camera' or do you use lenscare or something like that?
btw really disappointing to see your DSLR cinematography course is not running this term over at fxphd. was really hoping to sign up. is there any way to avail of/purchase the quicktimes?
All of these photos are beautiful. Can you or anyone else suggest a book or website where I can learn to process photos like those? Very much appreciated.
>Eugenia, this thing you do,
>where you write things as if you know them to be true,
>when in fact you don't, and they aren't?
I had the impression that the iPad is like the iPod, where wallpapers can only be used vertically, even if the device has a landscape mode. If that's not the case with the iPad, my mistake. An honest mistake that is.
However, judging from your comment, I see that you have baggage against me (and I believe that's what ticked you). I don't speak out of my a$$, even if we might not agree sometimes on some technical stuff. Neither I'm trolling to your blog, or hating you, or anything like that. In fact, I OWE my video hobby to YOU, because of your amazing book. I'm grateful for it, and you always had my respect for that. But for some reason, every time I open my mouth here or elsewhere (about anything really, video-related or not), you always take it the wrong way. While my English might sound "assertive" or even "abrasive" sometimes (a trait of the Greek language, which is how my brain thinks and writes), my intentions were always the best.
>Please stop it. Final warning.
No problem. I won't be replying anymore.
Best of luck with your projects (honest). I still hope for a second edition of your book btw as I mentioned a few months back.
Stu, these are terrific, a great reminder of your old post about Fact, Moment, Light. Hmm, there's a book idea: a photography book from the mind of a VFX master!
Of course, as a Bay Area local, I'm trying to figure out where a lot of these were taken. Any chance of geotagging (or just writing about the locales) for some of these shots? Some are obvious -- the Oakland cranes! Some are subtle -- Urban Ore's window junkyard! And the Gundam shot just makes me envy you for going to Tokyo.
By the way, I listened to your interview on Red Centre #57; a great summation of your enthusiasm for 24p, and of the limits of Reelsmart et al. I used that info in a lecture for my After Effects class last week; once again, your generosity makes me look much cleverer than I am.
One last thing: That thing you did? Where you asked us all to look at the iPad as a home for filmmaking tools, instead of a toy? Working on it now. Thanks for the inspiration.
Damn Stu fantastic photos! Just lovely, I don't have an iPad, probably won't until next generation. I'm going to put my money towards the new iPhone that pretty much a lock for this June. My first gen iPhone is scratched up, vibrate mode incapable, and a bit dented. In other words... it's dying for an upgrade. I shall save these photos for when I do get an iPad. Again great images and thanks for the blog exposure, much appreciated.
Cheers!
Can someone post a pic with one of these screens on their iPad?
My iPad unboxing, including installation of two photos from above on the lock screen and the wallpaper.
...and I have a little poke at Stu too. Enjoy Stu, hope we can convince you to come to NAB.
http://vimeo.com/10658228
Carey
You found the batcave!
Better get these WP's over a land line connection =)
Nice photos, Stu!
Yeah, sorry about that -- if your connection times out on the images, it might be faster to just download the lot as a zip.
I was actually jokingly referring to the reported weak WiFi of the ipad :)
Aha, I get it now, thanks. Fortunately, I have not experienced this reported weakness.
The graffiti on the brooklyn wall is by a friend of mine from Sheffield UK called Kid Acne..check out more of his stuff here:
http://www.kidacne.com/blog/
Wow, sometimes I love the internet! Thanks for the heads up Yorkshire!
Hi Stu, great pics and I see that you have a new smugmug account :-). Do you use any plugin to upload to smugmug from Lightroom? (The jefferey plugin?)
Do let me know.
wow, some very nice photos there
yeah great walls, got them on my phone. but i would loveeee to have them on the background of my mac!! any additional sizes available Stu?
stunning images, great use of light and very good composition !
congrats
antonio
Thanks for the wallpapers they are really great.
I have made a page that will be updated weekly with photo wallpapers for the iPad (and iPhone) in native iPad resolution. http://ipadwallpapersbybay.com
Stu --- there are so many things to love about this site. Helpful tips, opening new threads of thought, and your tutorials.
I know you are a fan of Lightroom. If you ever have a chance to throw on a mic when you are working on one of your photos, it would be great to see your work-flow. From analyzing the picture through fine work in the Develop module.
Anyone of the great wallpapers here would be a great basis for an example.
Thanks stu. This is the first page I went to on my new iPad. And downloaded your images set to my home and lock screen. Also my first bookmark. And to top it off I am replying to this on my iPad.
Stu, these are AWESOME. Thanks for sharing some great pix. Just got me a 3G iPad and am digging it. Taking it to Iceland this Summer and going to try to write a screenplay on it. Hopefully Final Draft will come soon. Thanks for the free pix.
Quick crop on some to 960x640 and they are AMAZING iPhone 4 wallpapers.