As Apple selects photos for wallpaper in iOS and OS X

I have always wondered at what Apple chooses criteria for standard sets of photo wallpapers in their OS. They are so well-matched that perfectly calm can only do them. users Quora asking the same question, and here's what they found out.

If it is good to delve into the depths of OS X, you can find something interesting. Here on this path /System / Library / Frameworks / ScreenSaver. Framework / Versions / A / Resources / Default Collections/ Contains four folders, which point to the key themes of Apple desktop wallpaper:
• National Geographic
• Aerial
• Cosmos
• Nature Patterns

About 40% of photos of these folders are made by photographers National Geographic. In fact, more of them: if the images use the search at Google, many of the standard wallpaper and will lead to National Geographic. For example, This one Texture sheet Nature Patterns folder.

Using this trick, you can trace the origin of the Cosmos photo folder. I think nobody will be surprised to learn that many of them trail leads to the official website of NASA. Here is one example,

my favorite space wallpaper from OS X. Most likely, the majority of these photos (if not all) are from the NASA archives.

If you are interested in pictures of independent photographers, then, a little Googling, you can find out that at least two of them have been doing business with Apple. it Jimmy Chin and Keegan Gibbs. Gibbs even wrote a blog post about how Apple conducted talks with him about the licensing of one of his photos to iPhone, iPad and iPod.

In his experience, Apple has a special department of decoration (Art Department), which selects photo to use as wallpaper, and also communicates with the photographers or web sites on the licensing.

That's what this says Gibbs in his blog:

Two months ago, lying in bed, I analyzed the spam in your email and almost deleted accidentally fell into the spam mail. Opening it, I realized it was from someone from the department of art Apple design. The letter was one of my pictures, which they found on my website. I asked if my license its interests. In general, my photo is now part of the standard set of wallpapers from iOS 7. If you upgrade the operating system or buy a new iPhone, you can install it on your desktop.