Wallpaper
| Synonyms: | desktop, computer background |
| See also: | Fanart, Banner |
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Wallpaper in fandom terminology generally refers to an image or piece of art used as a computer desktop background. It may be a photograph, a screencap, photo manipulation (manip), an image created with a video game enigine, a drawing, painting, comic, chibi, collage or other traditional or digital fan art. Subjects may include a favourite character, pairing or group, a canon scene or object, landscape, portrait or still life.
Wallpapers may be created for a particular fansite, fanfic or fanwork, or for a challenge or fest. Canon creators may offer wallpapers for fans to download from official sites.
(Needs: wallpaper examples, types and attitudes in different fandoms, technical requirements - eg offering resolutions for different screen sizes, controversies - "does it count as fanart?", sites that will host it - see Fanart#Photo_Manipulations for some material.)
Technical Requirements
For Forever Knight fandom's long-running Kickstart the Knight campaign, wallpapers were created depicting different characters; but each had to be offered in (a) three different sizes (640x480, 800x600, 1024x768), and (b) for Windows and Mac, i.e. six versions of each design.
Gallery
Example wallpapers on Fanlore:
Ares/Gabrielle, early 2000s
Dragon Age wallpaper from the official website
Hanson, 2008
Supernatural RPF, 2008
Supernatural, 2007
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