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High Quality Nature Landscape Images Download

Sep 29, 2013 7:08PM PDT

Our mother nature is indeed amazing, natural landscape can be quiet, magnificent or inspiring. Personally, I love to have nature landscape pictures as computer wallpaper, and to change it brings me a fresh new mood. However, it is sometimes hard to find a suitable pictures site, wondering if anyone can recommend me such websites, it has to enable free download without registration, and make sure the photos are in good quality.

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Re: good quality
Sep 29, 2013 7:26PM PDT

What do you mean with "good quality"?

On a computer screen, I've never needed the 3000x2000 pixel resolution a camera image has. Everybody who makes pictures meant to be viewed on a screen (that includes all pics shown on websites) knows to make the quality "just good enough" which makes the file smaller.
For example, Irfanview (a well known picture viewing and editing program) has a nice add-on called "safe for web". That makes the picture even smaller while preserving the visual quality.

Kees

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Actually, some of the nicest I've seen lately
Sep 29, 2013 11:06PM PDT

have been offered for download within some Linux distributions. They appear to be just regular folks with good cameras who got lucky and are willing to give away their shots. They will come in jpg format. I've not tried searching for them with my Windows PC but you might try a google search for these Linux offerings. A great deal of this wallpaper also appears to be Linux themed user artwork and you may need to sift through that to get what you want.