
About this wallpaper
Fine parallel ripples run across a dark sandy surface. Subtle side lighting reveals the grain and shallow ridges in this understated monochrome texture.
Best use cases
- Phone lock screens and home screens, where a tall frame fills the display without much cropping.
- Tablets held in portrait, or a monitor rotated into a vertical stand.
- 4K monitors and TVs at native resolution; it also scales down cleanly to QHD and Full HD.
- Any other screen size: the Crop & Scale tool on this page exports the image at a custom resolution.
Resolution and display compatibility
This image is 4874 × 7311 pixels (2:3). The table shows what happens when it is scaled to fill common screens, calculated from those dimensions.
| Display | Resolution | Sharpness | Framing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Full HD (1080p), portrait | 1080 × 1920 | Sharp: scaled down to 26% of the original | Crops about 16% from the left and right |
| QHD (1440p), portrait | 1440 × 2560 | Sharp: scaled down to 35% of the original | Crops about 16% from the left and right |
| 4K UHD, portrait | 2160 × 3840 | Sharp: scaled down to 53% of the original | Crops about 16% from the left and right |
| 16:10 laptop (WUXGA), portrait | 1200 × 1920 | Sharp: scaled down to 26% of the original | Crops about 6% from the left and right |
| 16:10 QHD+, portrait | 1600 × 2560 | Sharp: scaled down to 35% of the original | Crops about 6% from the left and right |
| Ultrawide QHD (21:9), portrait | 1440 × 3440 | Sharp: scaled down to 47% of the original | Crops about 37% from the left and right |
Need a different shape? Use Crop & Scale to choose the framing yourself. See how aspect ratio affects wallpapers for more.
Download information
- The download is the original JPEG file, 4874 × 7311 pixels, 6.5 MB, with no recompression.
- The file is saved as
ripples-in-black-sand-4874x7311.jpg. - No account is needed to download.
Source and license
- Author: not specified for this wallpaper.
- Source: not specified for this wallpaper.
- License: no license has been recorded for this wallpaper.
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