Personalize every screen with your own wallpaper.
Add a dash of personality to your desktop by designing custom wallpapers using your own photos and art. Or start creating wallpaper designs and patterns for others to buy or download.
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Work fluidly with artboards.
Design wallpapers for every type of screen size — from phones and mobile devices to computer monitors of different aspect ratios — using artboards.
Design with a pop.
Use vector art to create crisp icons, patterns, and illustrations that can scale to any screen size.
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Let your designs speak.
Browse thousands of fonts and add compelling typography to your desktop or phone wallpapers.
Let your colors flow.
Design with free-form color gradients for natural color blending in your desktop wallpaper designs.
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Explore versatile tools to create wallpapers.
See how the tools available in Adobe Creative Cloud can help you add something special to your computer wallpapers or phone backgrounds.
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Sync with Adobe Stock.
Find inspiration for your next wallpaper design while exploring templates, color palettes, and photos with Adobe Stock.
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Share your finished work.
Use your completed wallpaper designs anywhere by easily sharing your work across Adobe Creative Cloud Libraries.
How to create a custom wallpaper.
With some imagination and these simple steps, learn to create a beautiful new wallpaper for your phone or computer.
- Build it: Start by creating a new project in Illustrator. Set your dimensions to create an artboard.
- Color it: Set your background with the rectangle tool and use free-form gradients for natural color blending.
- Design it: Add typography, shapes, photos, or illustrations to create an eye-catching design.
- Save it: Export your wallpaper design as a PNG or JPG for easy use.
- Enjoy it: Set your wallpaper as the background on your desktop, iPhone, or Android device.
Perfect your wallpaper designs.
Ignite your imagination with these tutorials and improve your skills in Illustrator today.
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Design with your photos.
Apply photo effects to your favorite images in Adobe Photoshop, and then use these simple steps to import your photo into Illustrator.
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Turn your art into a pattern.
Create a repeating design that tiles seamlessly to add texture and interest to your computer wallpaper.
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Check out free-form color gradients.
Create a graduated blend of colors within a shape to help your wallpaper designs stand out.
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Master your artboards.
Explore the basics of working with artboards in Illustrator, and start crafting wallpapers for every screen.