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25 Web Designs with Full Page Background Photos

25 Web Designs with Full Page Background Photos
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June 05, 2018

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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

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CatScarf

CatScarf Full Screen Photo websitesPin

Molly & Me Pecans

Molly Me Pecans Full Screen Photo websitesPin

Simply Chocolate

Shop - Simply Chocolate Full Screen Photo websitesPin

Amy

Amy Websites That Use Background Music or SoundsPin

BJÖRN MEIER

BJÖRN MEIER Full Screen Photo websitesPin

Pivovarov

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Martina Sperl

Martina Sperl Full Screen Photo websitesPin

Pure Fix Cycles

City Bikes Full Screen Photo websitesPin

Written by Iggy

Iggy is a designer who loves experimenting with new web design techniques, collating creative website designs, and writing about the latest design trends, inspiration, design freebies, and more. You can follow him on Twitter

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  1. Tom McCracken says:

    Nice, here’s one more newevolutionwebsites.com

  2. Derek says:

    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.

    • Iggy says:

      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.

  3. adam says:

    some great examples, really love owl concept!

  4. Timmy says:

    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!

  5. Umer says:

    I was really looking for that.

  6. Houston Web Designer says:

    I feel that full background images are very dramatic, and should be used to make a statement.

  7. Vijay Gupta says:

    Awesome collection…so beutiful and inspiring. Thanks for sharing :)

  8. ball mill says:

    The style is different

  9. jaw crusher says:

    The ocean and sky is blue.

  10. mobile crusher says:

    The background photos are nice,thanks for sharing it.

  11. impact crusher says:

    We worked hard on this Flash-based version of the site to adapt nicely to many "reasonable" screen sizes

  12. trituradora says:

    Great list but you may want to add this one from Red Bull. Awesome parallax scrolling effect as well as huge background

  13. crusher says:

    Nice, but i have a problem , if you screen is very big, the background will distortion, isn’t it?

  14. mobile crusher says:

    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!

  15. coal crusher says:

    Thanks for featuring my site here Chris! Definitely worth mentioning the JQuery backstretch plugin, which makes this possible.

  16. JB Web Design says:

    This collection is awesome. Absolutely love the Twofold website. Inspiring stuff

  17. Ray says:

    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/

  18. HTML Codes Dude says:

    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/

  19. Nicolas says:

    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.

  20. Ken Adams says:

    There is a jQuery plugin to accomplish this:

    https://vegas.jaysalvat.com/

  21. mobile crusher says:

    Nice, but i have a problem , if you screen is very big, the background will distortion, isn't it?

  22. Antonea Nabors says:

    Nice one! Here is another one to add to the list.

    https://www.dixonbikes.com.au

  23. IFG Design says:

    Carfreaks is quite old website and is mentioned in 'big background' sites collections :) love it!

  24. 9miles says:

    Great collection again.

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

  25. web design hull says:

    Great collection, my favourites are the Mercedes House and Matthew Byrne sites… thanks for sharing

  26. Dan Moat says:

    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.

  27. Moise says:

    Amaizing !
    Could I have some links of tutorials on how to do this?

  28. Ben Nesvig says:

    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.

  29. Phil Readman says:

    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!!!

  30. Carmen Cardoza says:

    This is an inspiring collection, sparking great ideas.

    Thanks for the post :)

  31. Ann Porter says:

    I love this collection.

  32. Matt says:

    Room for a small one?

    https://danielhollandphotography.com

    Responsive too!

  33. Nebulas Website Design Essex says:

    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.

  34. Dzinepress says:

    really professional designs with best examples of background photos. thanks for inspiration

  35. Michael says:

    Nice collection!
    You may want to add http://www.spire.com in here.

  36. damienfaivre.fr says:

    I love this design ! Thanks for sharing Chris :)

  37. Mark Plunkett says:

    Great collection Chris thanks for sharing.

    My favourites have to be Alexarts and One Million Trees websites, whats yours?

  38. Federica Sibella says:

    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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