Digital Blasphemy is a commercial website for computer wallpaper

Computer wallpaper

Wallpaper is an image used as a background of a graphical user interface on a computer screen or mobile communications device. On a computer it is usually for the desktop, while for a mobile phone it is usually the background for the 'home' or 'idle' screen...

s designed and created by independent artist Ryan Bliss

Ryan Bliss

Ryan Bliss is the creator of Digital Blasphemy, a website known for its computer desktop wallpapers.-Life:Ryan Bliss spent a good portion of his early teenage years either reading fiction or writing fiction while he dreamed of being a writer when he grew up. He chose to attend the University of...

, an English and Computer Science graduate from the University of Iowa

University of Iowa

The University of Iowa is a public state-supported research university located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. It is the oldest public university in the state. The university is organized into eleven colleges granting undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees...

. The name Digital Blasphemy was chosen because of the "Godlike" feeling Bliss experienced when creating worlds through artwork.

The site is subscription-based, but a free gallery is available to non-members. Images in the free gallery are rotated regularly with fresh images, and are presented in various screen resolutions

Display resolution

The display resolution of a digital television or display device is the number of distinct pixels in each dimension that can be displayed. It can be an ambiguous term especially as the displayed resolution is controlled by all different factors in cathode ray tube , flat panel or projection...

. In addition, the free gallery provides multi-monitor samples and mobile device images for BlackBerry

BlackBerry

BlackBerry is a line of mobile email and smartphone devices developed and designed by Canadian company Research In Motion since 1999.BlackBerry devices are smartphones, designed to function as personal digital assistants, portable media players, internet browsers, gaming devices, and much more...

, iPhone

IPhone

The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007...

, and Palm

Palm OS

Palm OS is a mobile operating system initially developed by Palm, Inc., for personal digital assistants in 1996. Palm OS is designed for ease of use with a touchscreen-based graphical user interface. It is provided with a suite of basic applications for personal information management...

. The member gallery includes all available artwork numbering over 660.

Some images that have alternate forms are in a section known as the "Picklejar". This provides, variously, the same image in different color presentations or a similar image with removed, added, or changed content or elements. At times, the original image ends up in the Picklejar section and the updated and improved image takes its place on the main page..

Designs

Typical designs include day and evening landscapes, cityscapes, space imagery, planetscapes, seascapes, underwater scenes, abstracts, fractals, and images celebrating seasonal events, special occasions, and holidays such as Halloween, Christmas, and Valentine's Day. Some of the program to create these images include Lightwave 3D, Digi-Element World Builder, E-on Vue and Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems Incorporated.Adobe's 2003 "Creative Suite" rebranding led to Adobe Photoshop 8's renaming to Adobe Photoshop CS. Thus, Adobe Photoshop CS5 is the 12th major release of Adobe Photoshop...

.

Many of the wallpapers are available in widescreen and multi-monitor formats to accommodate various monitor configurations. In practice, however, there can be difficulty with color

Color

Color or colour is the visual perceptual property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, green, blue and others. Color derives from the spectrum of light interacting in the eye with the spectral sensitivities of the light receptors...

 matching between different types of monitors. As of July 2007, many wallpapers were converted to display on mobile devices and the first 1080p

1080p

1080p is the shorthand identification for a set of HDTV high-definition video modes that are characterized by 1080 horizontal lines of resolution and progressive scan, meaning the image is not interlaced as is the case with the 1080i display standard....

 animated wallpaper was created.

Digital Blasphemy wallpapers were used in Stardock

Stardock

Stardock Corporation is a software development company founded in 1991 and incorporated in 1993 as Stardock Systems. Stardock initially developed for the OS/2 platform, but was forced to switch to Windows due to the collapse of the OS/2 software market between 1997 and 1998...

's weather product, The Natural Desktop.

Reception

• On the G4TV television show The Screen Savers
  The Screen Savers
  The Screen Savers was a live American TV show on TechTV. The show launched concurrently with the channel ZDTV on May 11, 1998. The Screen Savers originally centered around computers, new technologies, and their adaptations in the world...
  
  , Megan Morrone
  Megan Morrone
  Megan Morrone is an American writer and former television personality. She is best known for her role on the technology-related television show The Screen Savers on TechTV – a cable and satellite channel which has since been taken over by G4...
  
  mentions it as one of the six essential school supplies available online.