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The use of full screen background images isn’t particularly new in the world of web design, but designers are continuously thinking up new and cool ways of implementing some kind of full size photo into the design of their sites. Sometimes the photo will set the scene and introduce the topic of the site, whereas other times an inspirational photo is used to set the mood and to draw the user in. This post rounds up 25 examples of great uses of full screen background photos in website designs across the web.

Matchstic

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Swiss Side

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7 Diamonds

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TwoFold Creative

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Mercedes House

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Lula Designs

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August

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Papercutart

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Keystone Logistics

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DesignlabCPH

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Jessica Hische

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Christian Woo

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Finely Sliced

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Matthew Byrne

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Outside the Wire

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Givers

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One Million Trees

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Relax, we are the good guys

Relax, we are the good guys Websites That Use Background Music or Sounds

CatScarf

CatScarf Full Screen Photo websites

Molly & Me Pecans

Molly Me Pecans Full Screen Photo websites

Simply Chocolate

Shop - Simply Chocolate Full Screen Photo websites

Amy

Amy Websites That Use Background Music or Sounds

BJÖRN MEIER

BJÖRN MEIER Full Screen Photo websites

Pivovarov

 Background Music website Artem Pivovarov

Martina Sperl

Martina Sperl Full Screen Photo websites

Pure Fix Cycles

City Bikes Full Screen Photo websites

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42 thoughts on “25 Web Designs with Full Page Background Photos”

  1. just an fyi, if you’re going to repost this link on twitter (how i got here) you may want to take another pass through these sites, as a good chunk of them have changed / aren’t even online anymore.

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    • Thanks, Derek. I believe any site that doesn’t work doesn’t have any link to it but only a name and screen shot. If a site has changed in content, that doesn’t take away from the screen shots and the inspiration. Websites change constantly, so please look at this post as inspiration only.

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  2. They may be great, yes, but I don't understand how they are making them fit all screen types and furthermore, full-sized background images must be a pain to load!

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  3. We worked hard on this Flash-based version of the site to adapt nicely to many "reasonable" screen sizes, but the next version (under construction: html5, no more Flash) will be fully responsive of course!

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  4. Thanks for featuring my site here Chris! Definitely worth mentioning the JQuery backstretch plugin, which makes this possible. https://srobbin.com/blog/jquery-plugins/jquery-backstretch/

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  5. Great list but you may want to add this one from Red Bull. Awesome parallax scrolling effect as well as huge background image.
    https://www.artofflightmovie.com/

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  6. Very nice list – some amazing designs in there!

    We use the same idea on our site, with a nice sliding transition to move to the next background image:
    https://walkingmen.com

    We worked hard on this Flash-based version of the site to adapt nicely to many "reasonable" screen sizes, but the next version (under construction: html5, no more Flash) will be fully responsive of course!

    Thanks again for the inspiring selection.

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  7. Great collection again.

    Alexarts has an interesting concept with the speech bubbles coming out of the different 'objects' in the city picture.

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  8. I guess it's because it has a wide fixed width, but 7 Diamonds could really do with being responsive. While I do have dual 24" monitors I don't always have the browser big and wide, meaning most of the photos loaded with half of a person. I like that I could scroll-wheel through them though.

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  9. I just did this with my personal page: https://whois.bennesvig.com

    Love all the minimalism in the designs and photos. Definitely shows that less can have more of an impact.

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  10. Couple aren't full scale images, by that I mean if you view them on a 27" screen they dont fill the screen via css :)

    still all great sites though!!!

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  11. Some amazing examples.

    In the past this would never have been possible as the page would have taken so long to downoad with such a large image but thanks to the advances in CSS this is now possible and it works really well.

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  12. I love this collection: I think that if you have a great photo to work with it is worth to use it (wisely) as a background, because it gives the whole website a deep sense of reality

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