Wallpaper Question

Are the photos public domain? Is there a link to any info of how the photos can be used? Are the walls simply unmodified photos?

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Yes, the photos are public domain. No I didn't see any links about use, but on all government sites I've looked for that information, they've all said that their photos can be used freely unless stated otherwise. Yes, the walls are unmodified photos (aside from resizing and cropping). I'll touch them up and stuff if necessary, but I feel that they easily stand on their own. Take a look at what I linked to, they most definitely aren't your normal hubble shots

Then they'll probably won't be accepted.

Although they are probably very nice, we like that people upload what they made themselves.  If you wanted to use them as a starting ground for a wallpaper of your own, then it would be ok.

Ok that's pretty much what I expected, no harm in asking though. It's probably more of a deviantart thing anyway.

Don't misunderstand that. Wincustomize loves nice walls.

But - why the heck would You submit some unmodified NASA pictures ?

Morphium, have you gone to the link, clicked on the images, and looked at them? They're quite good, and if the bottom one had been abstract art (which the photo essentially is) produced by a graphics program instead of by God, it would probably rate an 8.

I don't think they look all that great........ they look like filter frenzies to me. But you're probably right abot the 8 rating.

Those pictures are just photographies. They are green because the sun's light is too intense to photograph it, so they photograph them with a filter, where the intense parts are green (red, blue, yellow whatever) and the unintense parts are black.

I made a wallpaper from a HubblePhoto in public domain, and it was rejected. The moderators said they still "belonged" to NASA.

This is the copyright notice for all hubble pictures:

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