I make my own backround most of the time, but sometimes ill take a random picture and somehow blur it, and it looks cool sometimes.
now that i learnd how i make all my own but they all still stink i dont know how to use brushes yet makeing your own is alot better than takeing them off pics from the web :lol:
I am completely against not making your own bgs, unless your work is specifically a true photomanip. Taking some wallpaper or screenshot off of the web falls under ripping imo. Do your own damn work. I'm tired of seeing people get praised for cropping screenshots and wallpapers with gaussian blur+lighten.
I do a little of both cuz every once in awhile i find sum really cool backround on the web and have to get it.
I do all my own backgrounds as well, unless im doing a photomanip then obviously its not my background.