NATURE BACKGROUND IMAGES
The background is the part of the overall scene. It’s behind the main subject of the photograph. Proper design and use is crucial to photographic success. Recent trends minimise backgrounds, where possible, to focus on the main subject. Designs try to reduce clutter and distraction to avoid drawing the eye from the subject.
Backgrounds have a long history of careful design. They can involve great artistry, grand constructions or be very simple. It’s best to keep the background and the subject consistent. Styling the subject and the theme with different contexts creates an artistic imbalance. This will lessen the impact of the subject and confuse viewers. When designing scene and lighting consider making the theme consistent and complete. Creating continuity throughout helps the viewer to see a more harmonious and aesthetic image rather than a discordant mess.
A background is normally considered secondary to the subject. This is by virtue of its relative importance compared to the main subject. The main emphasis is placed on the central subject. Nevertheless in landscape photography the background is considered an essential part of the main picture. Landscape photographers try to layer the landscape. They use a foreground, mid-ground and distance (background). Layers provide a feeling of depth. In landscapes the distance may also be the showcase of the shot. It’s both the background AND the main subject.
Many WordPress themes are now coming with full screen, parallax, and multiple backgrounds support. Due to this web design trend, one of our readers asked if we knew of resources to find high quality background images. In this article, we will share how to find free and beautiful background images to use on your WordPress site.
All images on the web are protected by copyright laws. Even when no copyright is mentioned, you should automatically assume that it is copyrighted.
There are several places online where you can find free images that you can legally use on your websites.
Since background images usually cover the entire screen, you need to find really large images. Now you can surely resize and make images larger, but this will result into some quality loss which is noticeable for large images.
Ideally, you should look for images at least 1920px wide and 1080 pixel in height. For better results, you should try even larger dimensions. Remember, resizing an image to make it smaller is a lot easier, and you can do it without quality loss.
If your WordPress theme recommend background image sizes, then you can ask your theme developer to learn what sizes they recommend to be used.
Having said that, lets take a look at some cool places to find free beautiful background images.
Shutterstock is not free, but it’s definitely worth a mention here. Their library of photos, vectors, and illustrations are just phenomenal.
We’re a paying customer of Shutterstock and can vouch for the quality of images.
We hope this article helped you find beautiful background images for your WordPress site. You may also want to see our guide on speeding up WordPress by saving images optimized for web.
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