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Changing Actions Wallpaper by Alex Beltechi

Oct 15th in News by Alex Beltechi

I've put together a wallpaper design free for all to download free. It illustrates various environments blended together in inside the 3D text "Actions," and serves to remind us that it's time to start Changing our Actions to avoid continued climate and environmental issues our world faces. This download is part of Blog Action Day, which this year is focused on "Climate Change." Learn more at the jump, and download this wallpaper!

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Author: Alex Beltechi

Digital Illustrator and graphic design student Alex Beltechi is based in Romania and currently writing tutorials based on personal projects. He also works as a freelancer, enjoys composing piano based music in his non-existent free time and thinks that talking about yourself in 3rd person narrative is pretty cheesy.

Blog Action Day 2009

This wallpaper design is part of Blog Action Day 2009, a worldwide initiative started by Envato founders Collis and Cyan Ta'eed, now being run by Change.org. Blog Action Day exists to change the conversation on the web for one day by uniting thousands of bloggers around one important issue - this year, Climate Change. It's not too late to register your blog and participate.

Free Wallpaper from Alex Beltechi

I've created an organic wallpaper design for you to download free. It illustrates the text "Changing Actions" by embedding various climate images inside the 3D text. Blending various climate images and related animals inside the word "Actions" shows how we need to start changing our actions now to preserve our environment and avoid continued global climate problems. You can see more of my work in my Behance Portfolio.

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Conceptual Development of this Design

Creating this typographic illustration for Blog Action Day has been a very exciting project. The words I use in this illustrations are mere excuses for practice most of the time, so it was a relief to have a well defined topic and to be a part of something so important.

The demand was for a positive and inspiring message, and after some art direction from Sean Hodge, we settled on the words "Changing Actions." I intended to not only show a rich and diverse natural environment, but also a different kinds of impact that man can have on the world. Instead of destruction and damage, the focus is on preservation and protection.

The way that this concept took form was by placing all the nature elements inside a clean and simple typographic layout. The letters became a haven for several ecosystems, which I blended seamlessly throughout the word "Actions." After creating the text in Cinema 4D, I scoured the web for nature stock photography and began to slice up the images in place. Throughout the process, I used a pen tablet to modify, recreate, and draw elements in place.

I hope this message finds its way to your desktop, and drives you take action!

Check out a section of detail in this design below (100% zoom).

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    mosi October 15th

    tanks
    very nice.

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      Melody October 15th

      Love the concept of this design and your attention to detail..

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    T1 Rex October 15th

    Absolutely outstanding graphics. Congratulations on a great job and a contribution to Blog Action Day

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    Jonas October 15th

    This looks really really nice!! Thanks for sharing
    I’d love to see a more detailed tutorial about this…… come on psdtuts!

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    MoonBoy October 15th

    Amasing

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    Modisana October 15th

    that is clean and beautiful

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  6. cool, It is now my background :D

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    T.Robert October 15th

    Awesome ideea

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    Mark Dijkstra October 15th

    Pretty cool!!

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    elephant woman October 15th

    Well, thanks for sharing.

    But wouldn’t that make a good tutorial?
    I start to forget why I should still visit this site, when there are no more tutorials, that are free AND useful. I mean this is your choice and your site. I know I can stop visiting, but I can’t imagine that this is what you want and I was actually enjoying this website too. But when you started purchasing money for your good tutorials, the rest of the site really lost its reason to exist.

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      jp October 16th

      @elephant woman +1

      This would make a GREAT tutorial !!! And more free tutorial would be great …
      Don’t forget it all started like this …

      regards

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    Luci October 15th

    Beautiful wallpaper, very clean and clear. Why did you choose the images you did for the inside of ‘Actions’ – they’re brilliant, but I was just wondering?

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    Michael Davis October 15th

    Wow this is so amaizing!

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    McH October 15th

    Beautiful. I would like to see a tutorial to build up a graphic like these on.

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    mr wiggle October 15th

    too small, my monitor’s native res is 2048 wide

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      spiderm0nkey October 15th

      So extend it? It’s a near white background and this is a bloody photoshop tutorials site lol. Use photoshop. Make a new document that fits your screen resolution. Paste this image into the document. Pick the white colour from the document and use the paint bucket to fill the rest of the canvas. For the texture, grab the clone tool and clone some of the dark patches so that you fill the whole canvas. It’s really not that difficult mate.

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        Simon October 16th

        lol, spiderm0nkey your post made me chuckle – too true!

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        Omer October 16th

        lol yea he just likes to whine, some people would cry no matter what the content is.

        very nice walpaper!

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        spiderm0nkey October 17th

        Haha. It had to be said. I mean… really…. -.-’

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    g3niuz October 15th

    looks fresh…
    changed my wallpaper :D

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    Ionut Ciursa October 15th

    Great work, Alex! I like it very much. This is a wallpaper that will stay on my desktop for a long time.

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    Marshall October 15th

    Well done!

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    Luke October 15th

    Awesome! Where is the tut for that!!!

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    Aevion October 15th

    Beautiful!

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    ehab October 15th

    how i download this tutorial

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      lawrence77 October 15th

      This is not a tutorial, this is wallpaper only :(

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    Jake October 15th

    Dang thats amazing!

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    2mnyshp October 15th

    a real changing action wallpaper would be plain black.

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    Smiffy October 15th

    I must say, I really find the end result creative, never really seen anything like it. great work

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    loswl October 15th

    This is some seriously good work, would love to see a Tut :)

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    Lyle October 15th

    Man, you have to do a Tut for this design. Brilliant concept! 5 Stars.

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    Brent Nelson October 15th

    Excellent design.

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    Brent Nelson October 15th

    Animals actually KILL each other. Someone has to stop this!

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    Symon October 15th

    Sweeeeeeeet. Many thanks.

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    kelly October 15th

    I think it’s gorgeous.

    The only thing is that my eyes keep trying to find a reason why the “C” in “changing” isn’t falling down. Doesn’t appear anchored to anything while the rest of the text appears solidly grounded.

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    Matthew booth October 15th

    Wow… I LOVE how the word “ACTION” starts as 2-D and progressively becomes deeper and more 3-Dimensional. I think global warming is a sham
    http://www.nowpublic.com/environment/scientists-increasingly-dissent-global-warming-proponents

    However, I am still totally for a cleaner Earth and “greener” ways of living and respecting the planet.

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      Brent Nelson October 16th

      Totally. :)

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    Darshana October 16th

    Thanx & Nic e work, how do it, pls load this tutorial like,
    THNX

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    elephant woman October 16th

    pretty smart move not unlocking my negative comment… it kinda reminds me of china…

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      elephant woman October 19th

      ok, i take it back. sry for bein an ass.

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        Sean Hodge October 20th

        Sometimes it takes a little while for comments to get moderated.

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    Alex October 16th

    Did he use Photoshop?

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    Giallo October 17th

    Wow amazing!!!

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    mokin October 18th

    Very nice for graphic, cool idea

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  35. Very nice for graphic, cool idea

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    Redstage Magento October 19th

    Nice concept. I really enjoy how it turned out.

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    James October 20th

    Man, I love this!

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    Chykalophia October 25th

    It’s a great artwork :)

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    vanbasten October 25th

    Wow this is so amaizing!

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  40. Congrats ! so beautiful !

    Added on tutorials I like !

    http://crimzprod.blogspot.com/search/label/Tutorials

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    kaiser November 2nd

    SIMPLY WOW!

    a lot of tuts just repeate some kind of look or use the same technics used for other tuts or are just low level and have a medium result, BUT THIS WALLPAPER: WOW AND WOW! especially “from earth to water to the north pole” and what impresses me pretty much too is the color-balance of every part of hte digital nature. deeply impressed… gratulation

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