Colour spectrum in technical, are visible colours from red to violet that made up the white light. They are also the reason why rainbows are so interestingly beautiful. When they are correctly applied on the web, it too gives a pleasant look. MSNBC’s latest web header is a good example.

If your desktop wallpaper is looking a bit dull, perhaps it’s time to add a little spice, make it something more cheerful. Here’s some really Impressive Colour Spectrum and Rainbow Wallpapers we’ve found. We find it not only inspires, also brighten up the desktop.

Additional: For more wallpapers, check out our gallery.

 

Rainbow by dardan

Rainbowfest by manicho

4
wallpapers zipped, wide/full ratios for displays up to 30″/19″.

Colours of the Rainbow by mallorcaa

Rainbow Bolt Wallpaper Pack by SemanticOne

The Wack Twister by DJ-Takahashi

Rainbow by nathan

Wallpaper colorful by payalnic

Rainbow licks WP by SfinxMagnum

Colorful Desktop Candy by alsnd12

Colorful World 01 by mediablade

Rainbow by Dipschmidt

Spectrum by GRlMGOR

Radial Rainbow by skepnaden

The
wallpapers comes in 1600×1200 (4:3) and 1600×9000 (16:9) resolutions.

Accidents Happens 2 by iixo

Rainbow on a Evening Shower by Almighty-Bazaa

Rainbow by dewaynesmith

To-Be-Free-Wallpaper- by silwenk

Spektra & Spektra2 by hypoxic

Specktra widescreen wallpaper pack.

Specktra 2 widescreen wallpaper pack.

Colorful by souhail88

Razor by Kamikaze00X

Available in these following sizes: 2560×1600, 1920×1440, 1680×1050, 1440×900, 1280×800

Trippy by majinshadow

Rainbow Ocean by Thelma1

Rainbow Concepts by jugga-lizzle

Agony by ciokkolata

Rainbow Wave Length

via wikipedia

Tilt-shift photography is a method of photography that utilizes tilt-shift lenses to overcome the restrictions of depth of field and perspective that normal lenses provide. A tilt-shift lens allows for the rotation of lens against the image plane, as well as the movement of lens along the image plane. By applying Scheimpflug principle, tilt-shift photography is able to obtain a very shallow depth of field using tilt and a large aperture.

Tilt-shift miniature faking is one of the most popular application of tilt-shift photography. This is a process in which a photographer manipulate the angle of a tilt-shift lens to distort the focus of a scene to be captured by the camera, thereby creating an illusionary depth of field usually produced by macro lense. This makes the particular scenes appear smaller than it truly is.

Due to the popularity of tilt-shift miniature faking, it is often misunderstood to be synonymous with the tilt-shift photography method itself. There are other effects that can be achieved from this method. For instance, tilt-shifting is widely used to capture architectural scenes because of its unique ability to remove perspective in photo and manipulates the plane of focus.

We present here 60 cool examples of tilt-shift photography for your reference.

 

Tilt-Shift Photography

Nakayan’s tilt-shift Tokyo ??????
by pinboke_planet

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Eiffel Tilt-Shift II
by ArnarBi

Tikal Miniature
by roevin

Vatican Stairs
by Toshio

Oregon State Beavers Tilt-Shift Miniature
by wikipedia.com</p>

Mini-cars on a mini-street
by nahadef

Miniature living room
by countlazarus

Tilt-shift crossroads
by ochmonek

Tilt-shift house
by pernillep

School Walk
by hello hayley

Dirt bikes race start
by wakeboy

New York City Miniature
by Daniele Pesaresi

Real world in miniature: Construction site
by Super tourist

Street in Downtown LA
by CFrancisco

Small Worlds at the Technisches Museum Vienna
by bre pettis

Tilt Loader
by entropy462

Real Macro
by deMiguel

Landschaft30
by Matthias Focks

Mini Traffic
by Studio Skitz (Steven Hsieh)

Toy train
by rolohauck

Two-Bump
by cityshrinker

Kid’s store
by Stevo Arnold

Clock tower
by Rolo Hauck

Houses on a slope
by mcsixth

Bigrig
by Hamish D. Grant

Canal Grande
by jjjohn

River boat on the Mississippi
by djnekokittie

Tilt Shift – Puente del Inca, Mendoza, Argentina
by Al Zuwaga

Vegas mini six
by californiabirdy

Tilt-shift ? Jhongjhu Port
by Yueh-Hua 2009

old_city-hall_sheraton
by wvs

Peering into the Miniascape
by rawheadrex

The Corniche in Muscat Oman
by Eric Lafforgue

Southern Cross Station
by JamesDPhotography

Small houses
by H? Nim</p>

Small People
by ChristofferEngström

serralves 08
by ronyjux

Harvard Book Store – Tilt Shift
by Carmel Kozlov

Man in the woods
by Cheapshooter.com

 

More Photos

Can’t get enough of these amazing tilt-shift photographs? Here are more:

• 50 beautiful examples of tilt-shift photography
• 41 Amazing Tilt-shift miniature faking photographs
• Tilt/Shift Photography Links

Tilt-shift lenses (D.I.Y)

Not surprisingly, tilt-shift lenses can be quite expensive, costing $1000 and above. Here are some alternative methods you can go for:

• Build A Tilt-Shift Lens for Your SLR for Cheap
• Build a Tilt-Shift Camera Lens for Peanuts

Tilt-Shift With Adobe Photoshop

If tilt-shift lens is not within your budget at this time, how about some Photoshopping to get your photo to look really tilt-shifted.

• Tilt-Shift Photography Photoshop Tutorial
• Fake Model Photography
• How to Make Fake Miniature Scenes
• Tilt-Shift Miniature Fake Technique in Photoshop CS
• Tilt-Shift tutorial

Further Readings

Here are some other articles and links about tilf-shifting photography you might be interested in:

• Introduction to Tilt Photography
• Using a tilt shift lens. A short video on using tilt-shift lenses by renowned photographer Tony Sweet.
• Focus on tilt shift lens. A comprehensive PDF article explaining how tilt-shifting actually works from David Summerhayes.
• View Camera Movements: Why Tilt and Shift? Another well-illustrated article on tilt-shifting.
• Using tilt shift lense to Control Perspective & Control Dept of Field.
• Tilt, Shift Lenses, Tilting At Windmills

For six years, Wired magazine’s Found page has shown our best guess at what lies over the horizon, from touchscreen windshields to organ farming. Now, we’re inviting readers to help create Found pages: What do you think our world will look like in 10, 20 or 100 years?

Each month, we’ll propose a scenario, and present some initial ideas and concepts. Then it’s up you: Sketch out your vision, and upload your ideas (below). We’ll use the best suggestions as inspiration for a future Found page, giving kudos to contributors. We’ll add our favorite submission to this story.

This week’s assignment: Imagine the Grow-a-Frog of the future. Remember the kit that let you grow a wee tadpole into a mighty frog? It came with everything you needed — mini-aquarium, food and a mail-in coupon for one baby African clawed frog. The company’s tadpoles were first sent out in 1979 and they’re still arriving on the doorsteps of young science geeks across America (although the frogs are now banned as invasive species in at least 11 states). Surely the kids of tomorrow will be growing a lot more than frogs. In the future, what sorts of lab-bred life forms will come in a box?

You can write your ideas, but we’re keen on getting visual entries. These CC-licensed photos on Flickr may fire your imagination, and give you some fodder for remixing your own predictions:

Grow-a-Frog box
Aquarium
Sea-Monkeys Ad
Bird cage
Dinosaur egg
Dinosaur-like lizard
Dodo
Honey bee
Polar bear
Red Slender Loris

Use the Reddit widget below to submit your best idea and vote for your favorite. The image must be your own — submitting it gives us permission to use it on Wired.com and in Wired magazine. Please submit relatively large images (ideal size is 800 to 1,200 pixels, or larger on the longest side). Include a description of your idea and how you made it.

We don’t host the images, so upload it somewhere else and submit a link to it. If you’re using Flickr, Picasa or another photo-sharing site to host your image, provide a link to the image, not to the photo page where it’s displayed. If your photo doesn’t show up, it’s because the URL you have entered is incorrect. Make sure it ends with the image file name (xxxxxxx.jpg).

Check this page over the next few weeks to vote on new submissions, and look for an update announcing our favorite.

Vote on Found ideas submitted by other readers.

You had to expect it.

The personage who writes the Bing blog and column for Fortune is “moderately outraged” by Microsoft’s use of his pen name as the name of its latest search engine.

Gil Schwartz, the executive vice president and chief communications officer of CBS Corporation (which owns ZDNet), writes screeds about inanities about life at the top of American corporations. He does so under the pen name Stanley Bing. His latest book? “Executricks,” about enjoying the perks of executive live, while working only as much as absolutely essential.

So it might not be a good fit to use Stanley as a spokesman for Bing in Microsoft’s upcoming $100 million on behalf of a search engine that it hopes will set a new standard in tireless and effective pinpointing, retrieval and presentation of information.

But, hey, do you really expect this latest Microsoft campaign to show as much wit or creativity as the ongoing Mac vs. PC campaign from Apple?

 

Here’s a quick summary of plans from the Wall Street Journal, which hosts the All Things D: conference where Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer showed off Bing yesterday:

Microsoft’s ads for Bing are expected to take a swipe at Google without mentioning its rival by name, a continuation of Microsoft’s aggressive marketing tactics, according to people familiar with them. Its recent “Laptop Hunter” ad campaign dings Apple Inc.’s Macintosh computers as too expensive.

The premise of Bing’s ad push will be to highlight search overload. One of the humorous TV spots shows a woman asking her friend a question but her pal is unable to answer and begins to babble uncontrollably — a symptom of being exposed to too many search results, according to a person familiar with the matter.

In conjunction with the 30- and 60-second ads, the campaign will offer a heavy dose of nontraditional marketing, including a special campaign on video site Hulu.com, which will include a phone-a-thon for a fictitious illness caused by too many irrelevant search results, according to people familiar with the matter. The ad campaign was created by JWT, a unit of WPP Group PLC.

As suggested by one commenter on Bing’s blog, Microsoft might be snarky enough to give Stanley a cameo in this “onslaught of commercials.” You know, something like Bing versus the Cool Apple guy.

Only Google is the relevant competitor. And it doesn’t have a cool or uncool guy of any sort doing any commercials anywhere for its engine.

So maybe Microsoft should follow up what Stanley calls its “incredible act of branding sagacity” and perform an incredible act of marketing sagacity.

Put the $100 million back into raising Bing to a level where it is an order of magnitude better than Google’s engine.

Then people will switch. And Bing the Author (and his friends) can comment on how “massively well-optimized” Bing the Search Engine is, for further fun.

IMAGE SOURCE: Bing Blog

Maybe it works, but seeing ads on Google for Microsoft’s new Bing search engine just doesn’t seem to send quite the right message. Plus, the ads link to a nearly blank landing page, since Bing hasn’t launched yet.

Microsoft is rumored to be spending up to $100 million to advertise the Bing launch. I wonder how much of that Google will end up getting…

There are also ads pointing to a Ning site called BingHub. I can’t imagine why whoever created it is spending cold hard cash to promote that, either.

Thanks for the tip, Gur.

Update: Bing ads on Yahoo, too:

 

Microsoft Corp. introduced a search engine with enhanced shopping, travel and sorting features, an effort to show that Google Inc. can’t do everything.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled the service, called Bing, at a technology conference Thursday in Carlsbad, Calif. The program will be available over the next several days, accompanied by the company’s first broad advertising campaign promoting a search engine.

Microsoft, the world’s largest software maker, has an eighth of Google’s U.S. market share in Internet searches, forcing it to find specific niches to exploit. The company is seeking areas where Google doesn’t deliver exactly what users want, said Mike Nichols, Microsoft’s general manager for search products.

“We don’t have any illusion that people will wholesale change their behavior in a massive way,” Nichols said.

A shopping feature, for instance, lets users find product thumbnail photos and reviews. By clicking on one of the listings, users can view a table with pricing and shipping information from various sellers. A bar on the left side summarizes the main features mentioned in reviews and how well they scored.

Searching for a flight route — say, Seattle to New York’s JFK airport — will return predictions on whether fares will rise. The software will list the best deal and let customers book travel and hotels. That feature relies on software from Microsoft’s 2008 acquisition of Farecast Inc.

When customers search on a term, Bing gives them a “best match” on the top of the screen. Searching for a company like United Parcel Service Inc. would list the shipping company’s customer-service number and provide a box where users can enter a tracking number to locate their package.

 

Google welcomes the new competition, said spokesman Gabriel Stricker. “Having great competitors is a huge benefit to us and everyone in the search space,” he said. “It makes us all work harder, and at the end of the day, our users benefit from that.”

Microsoft has lost market share since its first home-grown search engine debuted in 2004. Before that, it offered a program from Yahoo. Bing is the third brand the company has used for its search software.