License

What you can do with these images.

A plain-language summary of usage rights.

Every image on PixelScape is sourced from a public photography platform and credited on its detail page. The dominant source for our current collection is documented in the site footer and in our public README. We do not relicense the photographs ourselves; the original photographer's terms apply.

What you can do with most images on this site: use them as personal desktop or device wallpapers, share them on social media with photographer credit, and use them as visual reference in your own creative work. Most of the photographs in this collection are released under a license that permits these uses without payment.

What requires permission from the original photographer: commercial redistribution, training datasets for machine learning models, sale of merchandise that reproduces the image, and any use that suggests the photographer endorses your product or service. If you are unsure, follow the credit link on the detail page to the original source and read the photographer's stated terms.

Attribution. If you use one of these images in a context where attribution is appropriate (a blog post, a slide deck, a video), please credit the photographer by name and link back to either the original source or to the wallpaper's detail page on PixelScape. This costs you nothing and matters a great deal to the people who actually made the photographs.

What we own: the design of this site, the editorial selection, the written essays on each detail page, and our brand assets (the PixelScape name, logo, and visual identity). The photographs themselves are owned by the photographers credited on each page.

If you believe an image on this site is being used in a way the original photographer did not intend, please reach out via our contact page. We respond to legitimate takedown requests promptly.