Welcome to Free Background Wallpapers
Free Desktop Pictures for PC & Mac

Photo Licensing Info

All of the photos on this site are available for commercial or personal licensing.
(A license just means i agree to let you use a photo - the type of use you intend defines the type of license)

The original photos are 8.2 million pixels, 3504x2336 pixels.
These are 4-5 meg JPG's or 23.5 meg Tiffs.
The JPGs and Tiffs are identical - the jpgs are saved on the highest quality setting in photoshop.

Royalty Free, non-exclusive license is $40 / £20.

(most people just need this license)
With this license you pay a one off fee to use the photo for promotional or personal use - Promo Posters, CD covers, DVD covers, web banners, educational projects, in magazines, newspapers, books or booklets, covers for books, flyers, TV-programmes, posters for yourself, etc etc.

The only restriction of this license is that you aren't allowed to re-sell the photo in it's original form. So you can't upload the original photo to a stock photography site or sell prints/posters/t-shirts/mugs etc of the unaltered original photo. Buying the high-resolution image (purchasing the license) does not transfer the copyright. You may not claim that the image is your own and you may not sell, license for use, or in any way distribute the original image for reuse.

Royalty Free, non- exclusive, Print Usage License $150 / £75

This license is for physical Items for Resale: includes the right to use the photos for t-shirts, postcards, greeting cards, mugs, mouse pads, posters, calendars, framed artwork that is to be sold to other customers. This includes web stuff like screen savers, templates and desktop wallpapers

If you require an exclusive license, then email with an offer.

If you want to use an image or you have any questions about fees or usage then please feel free to email me

All payments are by Paypal - I'll send you an email invoice which can be paid using any debit/credit card, you DON'T need to have your own Paypal account to pay the invoice.

Once payment is received i'll either email the JPG of the image or give you a web page address to download the Tiff version of the photo.