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macOS Golden Gate Gets New Wallpaper

These look great to me. I may change from the dynamic screensavers I'm using on Sequoia.
 
Blackstick said:
Everyone who has been to the Bay Area with a proper camera has taken that shot at Marshalls/Baker beach. Those rocks might be photographed as much as the Eiffel tower or Cinderella castle.
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I just really wish San Francisco was promoted a little more heavily. No one on the internet ever talks about it!
 
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winxmac said:
They have been using wavy colors or abstract as the default since macOS 11 Big Sur. The last time they used a realistic photo was macOS 10.15 Catalina. And now we have this, but not as the default.
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Yeah, I remember. I wasn’t crazy about the Catalina wallpaper, but it was better than the abstracts. Mohave was pretty good (also my favorite version of macOS—it was rock solid), but I miss the Lion, Mountain Lion, Yosemite, and El Capitan wallpapers.
 
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I’m one of the longest serving members here and the fact this is exciting to people or even worthy of its own front page post is kind of crazy to me. I’d prefer to see bugs quashed then to have a pretty wallpaper that has likely been retouched and color graded out of reality.
 
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digitalrampage said:
I’d prefer to see bugs quashed then to have a pretty wallpaper that has likely been retouched and color graded out of reality.
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It’s nice to have both. Good aesthetics and a solid platform form the Apple experience, at its optimum. 😉
 
mansplains said:
This is ridiculous. Apple wastes all this effort taking beautiful photos when we can just generate our own wallpapers with Image Playground. No wonder memory is so expensive now… hope that photo shoot was worth it.
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It’s doubtful that a photo like that would’ve cost them much money at all. Besides, Apple likely has their own media budget for things like this. For all we know, it might even have been a free contribution volunteered by somebody within the company, or maybe they hold internal photo contests where employees freely contribute their own work.

It’s highly questionable that one would be able to come up with something at this level of detail and realism with Image Playground.
 
jchap said:
It’s doubtful that a photo like that would’ve cost them much money at all. Besides, Apple likely has their own media budget for things like this. For all we know, it might even have been a free contribution volunteered by somebody within the company, or maybe they hold internal photo contests where employees freely contribute their own work.

It’s highly questionable that one would be able to come up with something at this level of detail and realism with Image Playground.
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Exactly! What a waste of all that high-quality photography, especially if it’s fostering some kind of community too. Image Playground would’ve spared us the unnecessary artistic detail, kept people nicely isolated, and given us a perfectly mediocre result instead.
 
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mansplains said:
Exactly! What a waste of all that high-quality photography, especially if it’s fostering some kind of community too. Image Playground would’ve spared us the unnecessary artistic detail, kept people nicely isolated, and given us a perfectly mediocre result instead.
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I think you’re pulling our legs… 😅
 
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tomtad said:
Not good. These should be able to automatically flip when you go to dark mode
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Lol they should flip based on time of day. In fact they could just have a 24-hour capture ... that would be epic, but I think they are trying to reduce the size of the OS again.
 
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sw1tcher said:
9to5mac.com

macOS 27 Golden Gate adds these new wallpapers and screen savers to your Mac - 9to5Mac

Today’s macOS 27 Golden Gate beta 3 release includes two new wallpaper and screen saver options for your Mac. Both...
9to5mac.com 9to5mac.com


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This can't be the full quality? These are pretty soft even at their sub-4K resolution, nevermind trying to stretch them to a 5K or 6K monitor. Apple usually provides their backgrounds in the highest resolution standard they support, which is 6K at the moment.

EDIT: Seems the 9to5Mac links are just stills from one of the video backgrounds. I hope they offer proper still versions at 6K like they did for the Tahoe Beach backgrounds (technically under "Dynamic", but just four stills), but since Tahoe was the first time they did so for a photo background since Big Sur I'm not holding my breath.
 
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Though the wallpaper is probably the absolute least important part of any operating system, I will say that I wish they would just use these shots as wallpapers still instead of the incredibly generic abstracts we have been getting. GG is the worst one yet but they've been getting worse and worse for the last few releases. This is a nice image and the actual Tahoe one last year was excellent. Even the old space-themed wallpapers smoke the abstracts. So dull.
 
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It's not because the current one is bad and it's not a real photo, that this one is good for being a real photo. I am surprised with the amount of people who liked this. It looks like a photo that I took it myself. I do in fact prefer something more artistic like the abstract ones from the last OSs and will continue to use them or just upload one of the photos that I took of the bridge lol
 
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