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Wallpapers update

October 31, 2021 No Comments

Wallpapers update

The wallpapers section is still the most visited part of the blog, so let’s do another update there. I tend to take quite a lot of panoramas, so there still are many to choose from and share with you.

Don’t forget to check out other available wallpapers:

4K wallpapers – Single Screen – Surface, 21:9 and dual-screen – Super ultra-wide – Mobile wallpapers

New super ultra-wide walpapers

And as the super ultra-wide wallpapers are the most popular, here are 5 new ones for that category. A bit from all over the place today. Bratislava, Amsterdam, Prague, Nur-sultan and Barca de Alba to be exact. If you would like a wallpaper version of any of my photos, feel free to leave a comment. Will do so in the next update :)

Bratislava, Slovakia

Early Autumn sunset in Bratislava

October 23, 2021 No Comments

Early Autumn sunset in Bratislava

So after quite a long while, I went out to take some new photos. And I even had a great location and nice sunset. I really hoped to take more photos, especially wait for the blue hour, but it was not meant to be. A very strong wind picked up after sunset, that I just could not get a sharp photo. It was even hard to stand still. But what esle to expect from an eary autumn sunset. There is still next time :)

But I got a few nice shots, so let’s start with one. This is a two-shot panorama, each one from 5 exposures. For each side, I took one extra shot, with my hand in front of the sun, so I can remove the lens flares. If you don’t know what I mean, you can see my guide on this technique here: How to remove lens flares. Like this, I got a nice, lens-free photo.

And as this is again a nice wide panorama, here is a wallpaper version for you, in 5120×1440 for super ultra-wide monitors with 32:9 aspect. This one and all the other super ultra-wide wallpapers can be found here.

Early Autumn sunset in Bratislava 5120x1440px

Budapest, Hungary

The center of Budapest

April 4, 2021 No Comments

First edited on the MacBook

So this is the first photo I edited completely on the Macbook Pro M1. I did still use the non-M1 version of Photoshop, as there is no way to get custom plugins to work in the new one. I just can’t work without Raya Pro anymore. But surprisingly, I could no see a real performance difference between this and my old desktop which I used to edit before (i7, 32GB RAM, SSD drive, 1080 GTX). Maybe just that Photoshop opens a bit slower, but I think that’s due to it being a non-native program. The laptop is not warm, and I have not heard the fan. That’s quite impressive with a photo of this size.

Still, I’m not yet used to it, especially the shortcuts give me issues. I already switched Control and Command keys, but that only helps partially. Will take a while to get completely used to things.

The center of Budapest

I started with a panorama to check the performance. This one, from the center of Budapest, is a two-shot panorama each shot from 5 exposures. Both first blended together, and the photo merged into a panorama and finished.

Here are few details from this photo, as it’s hard to see in these big panoramas.

And for those that would like this one as wallpaper, here is a version in 5120×1440 for super ultra-wide monitors with 32:9 aspect.

France, Paris

Sparkling tower in the night

March 22, 2021 No Comments

New Laptop

Last week I got a new laptop, the Macbook Pro 13 M1, and I have to say, it’s really hard to relearn years of muscle memory. As I no longer remember most Photoshop shortcuts and just do them automatically, I can’t select almost anything on the mac without looking. It’s just so strange. But luckily one gets used to new things rather quickly, so I will see how it is in a week or two. But that the M1 Photoshop does not support extensions is a much bigger issue. One has a new processor but has to use an older software version just to get the whole functionality. Sometimes I don’t understand Adobe’s approach at all.

Today’s photo is not yet edited on the mac, but the next one probably will be.

Sparkling tower in the night

This photo is a bit darker for my style, but I wanted the Eiffel tower to stand out here. And with the surroundings not being so interesting anyway. This is of course not a new photo, as I don’t have any. It was one of those still taken while I used the Sony a7R. It’s a two-shot vertorama, each shot split into two and then merged back together in Photoshop.

AI-generated wallpapers

February 23, 2021 No Comments

AI generated wallpapers

I tried out to create AI-generated images, and after some tries, it became really addictive. Really fun for someone who can’t really paint to create something that one could only imagine before. And since I like them quite a lot, I thought I share some with you, in nice big resolutions, fit for use as wallpapers.

Don’t forget to check out other available wallpapers:

4K wallpapers – Single Screen – Surface, 21:9 and dual-screen – Super ultra-wide – Mobile – AI-generated

How were they created?

For all these AI-generated images, I used Midjourney v4, with different prompts. For instance one like:

solitary figure in steampunk diving suite, looking up an impossibly large Lovecraftian monster with tentacles, in a giant underwater cave, glowing walls, eldritch horror, hyper-realistic

Then I used Topaz Gigapixel to get a higher resolution and to clean them up. After that, I finished them up in Photoshop with a few final tweaks.

Mobile wallpapers

I created quite a few that are very suitable for mobile phone wallpapers, all 1:2 aspect ratio, 2000x4000px. Should be good enough for almost all phones available. They especially look good on OLED screens. Since there are quite a lot of them, I decided not to post them directly here, but in a separate gallery on my portfolio page. You can find them here.

21:9 AI-generated wallpapers

These are also mostly Lovecraft and steampunk inspired, as I have been reading many such books lately :). All in 3440×1440 resolution, suitable for ultrawide 34-inch monitors.

4K AI-generated wallpapers

And these are all in 3840×2160, exactly for a 4K monitor.