Wild animal wallpapers

Close-up animal portraits were some of the most shared images on the old site: a lion's face, a gorilla, a bison in the snow, a fennec fox with its huge ears, a cobra ready to strike. Those were wildlife photographers' pictures and they aren't ours to use. The colors of those animals belong to nature, though, and they make excellent wallpapers.

The default preset is the savanna at the end of the day: layered ridges in lion gold, ochre and dark earth. Change the style to minimal lines with orange, black and pale gold for tiger stripes. A soft mesh in rust, cream and white reads like a fox's coat, and deep green with olive and a touch of yellow gives you the scales of a jungle snake. The Fireflies preset in the Animals collection turns the same idea into a warm night in the grass.

Natural palettes like these are calm to work in front of. Earth tones don't compete with bright app colors, and the lighter ridges at the top of the mountain style leave a clean area for desktop icons.

If you photograph animals yourself, your own shot will always mean more. For everything else, generate one here, keep the seed number if you like it, and download it at your exact size.