The wallpapers are split into six categories: Black and White consisting of monochrome photos, Textures consisting of close-up shots, Paintings, Vistas consisting of travel/landscape photos, Light Auras consisting of subtle designs, and Widescreen which is a selection of 1920x1200 versions of wallpapers in the Textures and Vistas categories. On top of that, she gave Microsoft employees an opportunity to submit their own images, while the Light Auras theme was created by Microsoft's own graphic designers. She also art-directed a professional photographer on a shoot in Santa Barbara and NYC, which is most likely Haber, however he only has one wallpaper in Vista. Although he took around 6000 shots, only two of them made it on Vista. She brought in Flickr photographer Darwish and sent him on a commissioned photo shoot in Oregon, USA.
During the selection process she analyzed around 50GB worth of low-resolution images. Jenny Lam served as the creative director of Vista. It is worth noting that the widescreen wallpapers appear to have been cropped from their 1920x1440 counterparts, as opposed to recropping the original image. They are mostly at 1920x1440, while the widescreen ones are at 1920x1200, which would become the resolution of wallpapers in later Windows versions. Whereas Windows XP's wallpapers predominantly came from Corbis and Microsoft themselves, most of Vista's wallpapers are licensed stock photos from Getty Images which use a rights-managed license, with a few also originating from Corbis, Microsoft employees, amateur photographer Hamad Darwish and one from professional freelancer Michael Haber. Sample pictures and user account pictures are also the same across all editions, including Starter. The wallpaper set is the same across all editions, except Starter which has a unique wallpaper set, with no wallpapers shared between the other editions. Although Vista introduced many technological and visual improvements, it was poorly received due to its performance on most computers at the time, although its design and aesthetic, including the wallpapers, were well received.
Windows Vista, codenamed Longhorn, is an operating system released by Microsoft in 2006 to manufacturing, and to general availability in 2007. For pre-release wallpapers and pictures, see Longhorn.
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