30 Beautiful Web Designs That Use Photos as Backgrounds

Using large photographs as the background of a website’s layout can be a quick and easy way to make it unforgettable. In this web design showcase aimed to get your creative juices flowing, you’ll discover some gorgeous sites that use photos of people, landscapes, objects and more as their backgrounds.

1. The Papermill

2. SALT SURF

3. FiftyThree

4. Twenty8Twelve

5. The Kitchen Community

6. Circles

7. Jason Miller Studio

8. Encandle

9. A Book of Beards

10. Archikon

11. Healing Histories

12. The Old Barber Shop

13. Mathias Sterner

14. Spring/Summer

15. Blind Barber

16. Beg Bicycles

17. Banger’s

18. Epic Discovery

19. Hiut Denim

20. Whitmans

21. Onside Sports Agency

22. Locals Apparel

23. Minerva

24. Friendly Gents

25. The NoMad Hotel

26. Fueld Films

27. Pure Pleasure Design

28. Royale

29. Whiteboard

30. Cappellos

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Jacob Gube is the Founder and Chief Editor of Six Revisions. He’s also a web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and also a book author. If you’d like to connect with him, head on over to the contact page and follow him on Twitter: @sixrevisions.