Upload guidelines
Last updated July 25, 2026
This is a template written for this site’s specific setup. It has not been reviewed by a lawyer. Have a solicitor check it before you rely on it, particularly the liability and copyright sections.
These are the standards a moderator applies when reviewing the queue. Following them is the difference between an upload going live in an hour and being rejected.
Rights
- Upload only work you made or clearly hold the rights to. Screenshots from games and films, frames from anime, and images taken from ArtStation, Pinterest or Reddit are not yours to share.
- “I found it on Google” is not a licence. If you cannot name where it came from, don’t upload it.
- Repeated copyright infringement may result in a permanent ban. See Copyright & DMCA.
Quality
- Minimum resolution is 1280 × 720, though we strongly recommend 1920 × 1080 or higher. Most people are on 1080p or 4K displays.
- No upscaling.Enlarging a low-resolution image doesn’t create new detail, it only makes it blurrier. Moderators can usually tell when an image has been artificially upscaled.
- No heavy compression artefacts. If you can see blocking around edges, find a better source.
- No watermarks, logos or borders, including your own. Your name goes on your profile, not across the image.
- Your wallpaper should work well as a desktop background. Something with a busy centre and no quiet area makes desktop icons unreadable.
Content
- Nothing sexually explicit.
- Nothing hateful, harassing, or promoting violence against a group or person.
- Nothing illegal, and nothing depicting real harm.
- No advertising. A wallpaper that exists to promote a product is spam.
Titles and tags
- Describe what it actually is. “Fog over pine forest at dawn” beats “wallpaper HD 4K best free”.
- Tag honestly, five to ten tags. Keyword stuffing gets uploads rejected. It makes search worse for everyone, including you.
- Mark your upload as AI-generated if you used AI to create it. Plenty of people want AI art; plenty want to filter it out. Both are fine, being dishonest is not.
Spam
- Don’t upload the same wallpaper multiple times with only minor edits.
- Mass-uploading low-quality or unrelated images may result in account restrictions.
Duplicates
Every upload is fingerprinted. Re-uploading something already here, even resized, recompressed or slightly cropped, will be detected and rejected automatically.