After Apple showed off its new Snow Leopard artwork and packaging, I immediately wanted to update my previous wallpaper, which was based on the first artwork Apple had made for it. However, I had a lot of other things to do during and after WWDC. Now, finally, after a few weeks of picking away at this during night hours, I present you new Snow Leopard wallpapers. There’s even a Server edition.

By popular demand, versions have also been included without the giant ‘X’.

Snow Leopard Wallpapers – 3.9 MB

It goes without saying that this wallpaper is intended for personal usage and desktop customization only. I cannot guarantee your safety if you use it on cars, nuclear devices, and other things that are obviously not your desktop. Mac OS X 10.6 ‘Snow Leopard’ is © 2009, Apple Inc.

In anticipation of Apple’s next iteration of Mac OS X, Snow Leopard, I created this wallpaper based on the artwork of Apple’s Snow Leopard website.

While I’m unaware of the new wallpaper and UI changes in Snow Leopard, this should last you until more is revealed!

Snow Leopard Wallpaper – 588 KB

This wallpaper is intended for personal usage and desktop customization only. Mac OS X 10.6 ‘Snow Leopard’ is © 2009, Apple Inc.

Now that I’m releasing a wallpaper, I might as well add another one that was also requested when I posted images of my desk on flickr. It’s a series, with varying grades of subtlety. They all come in 2560×1600 resolution, so scale it down and crop it to accomodate your resolution. Add a little sharpening after resizing for extra effect!

Galaxies Wallpaper Set – 7.1 MB

Please respect my work by using this only as a computer wallpaper, and not in your projects, be it commercial or otherwise.

A while back I also previewed a wallpaper made out of a personal experiment where I recreated Leopard’s awesome System Preferences icon at 2 by 2 meters. Since the detail is sufficient, people requested the wallpaper-sized version. It’s too busy as a wallpaper to my tastes, but with the older aluminium Macs, it’s fun to fullscreen it and create a really big System Preferences icon :)

Grab it here:

System Preferences Wallpaper – 900 KB

And yes, it also serves as a great first test of my inline blog download button!