Free Desktop Wallpaper: Smoke On The Water

No this is not a tribute to the legendary rock band deep purple more of a play on words as the actual wallpaper resembles smoke on water! Catch ma drift? it also reminds me of those weird portal things in the Donnie Darko movie, Check the preview below.

wallpaper-preview

To create this wallpaper I actually followed a great tutorial by Fabio Sasso over at abduzeedo to create a realistic water effect in C4d, I took the idea a little further and added splashes and some crazy cool smoke textures by Caleb Kimbrough.

Download The Desktop Wallpaper

Sorry if I don’t have your resolution, if there’s enough people who want a certain resolution ill may make one.

Download iphone Version

Two versions for your iphone at 320×480

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If you’ve used this wallpaper on your computer or phone or any other device for that matter, feel free to post a link in the comments below.

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Author of this post: Max Stanworth

Iam the creator and editor of Design Shard, I created this blog to post my inspirations, work and free resources that I hope others find interesting too. See all posts by: Max Stanworth

30 Comments (Leave a Comment)

  1. Love it, open up the laptop with a little Deep Purple playing and my day is ready.
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  2. elegant…. brilliant… superb… this is awesome…

    great wallpaper..
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  3. Nice effects, thanks for sharing!
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  4. Hello !

    Thanks for sharing with us ! I like it :)
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  5. steve

    well done this site is one of the best and well presented sites around, i thankyou deeply mate. good job!

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  6. Jon

    could you possibly do a 1280 x 800?

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  7. I really like this! Think it looks especially cool when you put the two monitors together. Its really cool that you showed the different photo examples. Nice post.
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  8. It looks like flowing ice with vapors. Very cool.

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  9. hay this wallpaper is looking like a water effect not smoking :) but its lOoking Cool i have saved this pic on my background :)

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  10. cool, very interesting

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  11. Gimp doesn’t have quiet the 3d effects offered in Photoshop but a great editor nonetheless considering its free.

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  12. Hey this smoke on the water design is excellent. It’s good to see real designers at work. Cheers

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  13. Hello,
    GIMP is a good alternative to Photoshop. Have you tried creating desktop wallpaper using GIMP before?

    I know the learning curve is a bit steep but GIMP is a free software that does the job of Photoshop. Hope you can give us your thoughts. Thanks.

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  14. Nice, always on look out for styles that aren’t too bulky!

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  15. Sleek, stylish and functional. I hate bulky wallpapers when you cannot distinguish icons on your desktop. The Smoke On the Water is a great example of wallpaper design! Keep up the good job!

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  16. designshard, just always impress me, it´s really pretty cool!

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  17. Smokin’ hot! downloaded it! :)

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  18. Nice wallpaper. I just added it as the background on my laptop. Thanks!

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  19. Very nice! I really to block out some time and try Fabio tuts out! They really are amazing! Great work! Keep it up!

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  20. Very cool just added to my desktop, needed a change. It matches my chrome look. thx

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  21. @Creare – The water render was done in C4d, i cant think of a way to successfully recreate that in Photoshop, so no haha, the extra bits were added in photoshop tho like the smoke and splashes.

    @SJL – Cool thanks, if you get a chance it would be great to see a pic of it :)

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  22. Looks Good, If only I had a copy of Cinema 4D! Can you not do this in photoshop?

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  23. Great wallpaper, looks great on my 24″ imac. I like the name too!

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