DesktopPaints Animated Screensaver Maker is a powerful desktop solution that gives you a rich toolset for animation design and screensaver building. Flexible and easy-to-use tools now let you create animated screensavers in an entirely new way.
As opposed to old-fashioned slideshow screensaver builders, with Animated Screensaver Maker you are able to turn your photos into live animated scenes with fire, water, or optical effects and then enliven them with flaring lightings, pouring rain, falling leaves and may other options. You can also import your own animated gif files. Then you can save the result as a screensaver in one click and easily share it with your friends and family. How It WorksWith Animated Screensaver Maker you don't need art or drawing skills to create a stunning screensaver.
Just load your photo, choose a transformation effect, add animated objects, and click a button to build a screensaver. Optionally you can adjust the properties of each screensaver animation. You can control the motion, appearance, and other features with a few mouse clicks. Key Features of Animated Screensaver Maker. Many animated objects such as swimming fish, swaying plants, rain, falling snow, and so on. Creating your own screensaver in less than a minute. An old-fashioned slideshow screensaver mode.
Options to save a screensaver in.SCR format or install it on your computer instantly. Support for animated gif and all other image formats (jpeg, bmp, tga, etc.). Many samples and useful articles (see Gallery and FAQ sections).
Sergey SmirnovScript programmer at iRidium mobileAn animated screensaver is in no way obligatory in a project. But it adds beauty and style. You can easily show to your client that the project was created personally for him or her, to suit his or her tastes and wishes. Thus, the client is happy to have a unique project. And you can put up the price of the project with account to creating an individual screensaver.In this post, I’ll describe how to make a screensaver of a slideshow of photos with the effect of falling snow in iRidium GUI Editor. It’s only one of the possible variants of animated screensavers.
But using the step by step instructions given below as the basis for your work you can create any animated screensaver.To make the screensaver you need:. software package installed on your PC;.
basic knowledge of (at the end of the post you’ll find a list of required editor components);. knowledge of scenarios;. images from the archive with a ready project. And unpack the archive.7 steps to make an animated screensaver:.Step 1.
Creating a screensaver page1.1. And name it bScreensaver with the help of Add Page button in Projects Overview panel.1.2. Open Project Properties and in the field ScreenSaver put a tick in On / Off. Select Screensaver from the dropdown menu in Page. Indicate the time in ms for the screensaver to appear in Interval (while working you can indicate the shortest possible interval – 5 ms).Step 2.
Adding a slide-show2.1. Add photos for the slide-show to the project. They can be photos to the house, its rooms or any other photos. You can also take images from the archive, that you’ve just downloaded (file SlideShow).Add two more images for the Lock / Unlock button to the project (file Buttons) in the same way.
We’ll need them in step 5.4.2.2. Create an item on Screensaver page with the help of Draw Item.Set its parameter and view in Object Properties / General and States.2.3. Add states to the item SlideShow with the help of Add State button in Object Properties / States. The number of states is determined by the number of photos for the slide-show in your project.There are 3 photos in the archive that you2.4. Select state 1 of the item in Object Properties / States.Open Gallery / Project Gallery drag and drop image 1 on the item. Select As image in the menu that appears.Then select Next State in Object Properties / States drag and drop the next image on the item. Repeat this until you fill in all states with images.(There are 3 states in the archived project) Step 3.
Creating the effect of falling snow3.1. Open Gallery / Graphics, create a new folder and name it Screensaver with the help of Add Folder button.3.2. Open a menu in the right column of Screensaver Folder with the right mouse button and select Import File.3.3. Select all images from the folder Snow in the window that appears.When importing several images, the Editor will offer to unite them into one item. Click Yes.Import all the other images from Effect folder the same way.
The created Effect item will be used in Step 5.3.4. Now we have item Snow in Screensaver folder. To add an item from the Gallery to the page as a new item, drag and drop it to the free working area of Screensaver page.3.5. Set the following parameters for item SnowFor the falling snow not to be too bright, select All States in Object Properties / States and input 100 in Opacity property.3.6. Create an item and name it Hide to create the darkening effect.Delete State 2 of the item with the help of delete state button.Change properties Opacity and Color Alpha Channel for State 1.Step 4. Adding date and time4.1. Create an item and name it DateDelete State 2 (as one state is enough for text) and set the view of the text: color, opacity, font, etc.Add connection with the date to the item.Open Project Device Panel open folder System Tokens / Date, select the variable MONTHDDYYYY and drag and drop it on the item.
The date will be displayed as text, that’s why select In Text in the window that appears.The created connection can be seen in Object Properties / Programming4.2. Create an item and name it TimeDelete State 2 and set the view.
In this tutorial I will show you how to not only create your own screensaver but how to set your screensaver as your desktop background. Yes the screensaver will run like normal in the background and your Mac can perform as if it’s a normal background image. You will need:, Magic Desktop1.
Create screensavers for business or fun The most popular screensaver softwareCreate stunning professional screensavers within minutes.Create screensavers for yourself, for marketing or unlimitedroyalty-free commercial distribution. Make screensavers from images,video and swf flash, add background music andsmooth sprite and transition effects.
Screensaver Factory is very easy to use,and it enables you to make self-installing screensaver filesand CDs for easy setup and distribution. Screensaver Factory is thesoftware of its kind. General.
Create picture, video and flash screensavers. Easy screensaver wizard. Great sample projectsContent options. All popular image filesJPG, PNG, BMP, GIF and more.
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Transparent GIF and PNG. SWF Flash animation. All popular video formatsAVI, MPEG, WMV and more. Dynamic content from RSS feedsDeployment.
Create self-installing packagesstandalone, easy to distribute setup files. Create screensaver CDs.
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Create standalone SCR files. Digital signature support. Silent-install support. Easy testingwith instant preview and installation.
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Auto-update mechanismcreate auto-updateable screensavers. Sales features. Create trial versionstime or feature limited. Registration keyssingle or per-customer. Create trial screento facilitate the sale of your screensaverMarketing features.
Open website upon exit. Open website upon keypress. Display image popupupon screensaver close. Show banner in settings window.
Add your logo to all imagesOther. Wide-screen support. Multi-monitor support. Self-contained project fileseasy to share and manage. Built-in compression.
Great compatibilityscreensavers work on XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10.
The 'duh' momentBefore we get started, I should point out the obvious. Using an animated desktop on a laptop, older computer, or even a newer one with lower-end specs is probably not the best idea if you are concerned with battery life and graphics performance. There is no doubt that in using such a setup you could tax your system just to make it look fancy.Of course, if you are running a high-end rig with CPU and GPU cycles to spare, there is nothing wrong with doing this trick. Indeed, I am running it on two Core i5 desktop systems (Intel Skylake) with plenty of RAM and two rather high-end GPUs (an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 and 970, to be precise).If you want a more accurate estimate having an animated desktop will consume between 6-9% of CPU with an average of around 7 percent.
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Although that is not terrible, it could constrain your setup if on an older rig. The good news is not only can you pause your animated desktop you can quickly just switch to a static image at any time saving your precious CPU for when you need it. Why the tutorial?Besides just explaining the basics there is one other issue. DeskScapes 8 gets its name because it is made for Windows 8 systems. It can run on Windows 10 however if you just try to install it you are going to get an error message. This impediment is very easy to get around, and I'll show you how to get it going. That said, the reason this is not meant for Windows 10 is the app is not optimized for the newer OS and, as such, Stardock cannot guarantee performance or any issues.
So do this at your own risk.Let's get started! Animated desktops in Windows 10Before we being, you need to download the DeskScapes 8 installer. The app has a free 30-day trial and costs $9.99 for a single license. Having 30 days to try this app is more than enough for you to decide if you want to justify the $10 price tag.Besides the preinstalled animated desktops within the app, you can also create your own or navigate to the site to download ones the community has made. There are quite a few, so you should find something to pique your interest. DownloadHead to Stardocks' site and grab the installer.
Agree to use the 30-day trial and download. You now have DeskScapes 8 installed on Windows 10. Here are a couple of other tidbits:. You can pause DeskScapes 8 at any time by right-clicking on the desktop and selecting Pause DeskScapes. For multi-monitor setups, you can run DeskScapes on all windows or choose one for each display.
For instance, you could have an animated main display with a secondary (and tertiary) monitor running a static image. Likewise, you could put a different animated wallpaper on each monitor. The choice is yours!.
Grab new backgrounds from the site WinCustomize. Just find the image/animation you want and download to your computer. Double clicking on the download enables it through the app, and you can create a directory to add more. While DeskScapes is running, you may have trouble moving files or folders on the desktop. You can always choose a regular wallpaper through Windows Settings Personalization and then re-arrange your files or folders, then re-enable DeskScapes.
Those files or folders are accessible so you can launch apps and open the folders you just cannot re-arrange them when the app is running. Logging off and on again seems to fix the issue.
Deskscapes has quite a few options in it including transparency for your desktop icons, which is an added neat effect that I recommend. If you have a Windows Insider watermark on your desktop, you can read our for a cleaner look. If the app does not enable an animated wallpaper, and you have just a black background, try to log off and back on again then re-launch DeskScapes 8.
If running multiple Windows 10 computers, you may want to head into Settings Accounts Individual sync settings and disable Theme. This action prevents Windows 10 from trying to sync your DeskScapes to your other Windows 10 computers, which obviously does not work. DeskScapes 8 can auto-pause when AC power is disconnected meaning you can use this on a laptop with little impactFor those who want the new Windows 10 login screen with the fancy Windows logo and lasers, you can find it on WinCustomize (link below). The theme is made by AzDude, who is one of the most prolific creators on that site. The version I use is although he has a few variations out there, so try them all and use what you think looks best.
Overall, DeskScapes is running rather well on my PC, and I have no issues or complaints. This program is a rather high-end way to customize your PC, but there is little denying that it has a certain wow appeal to it. Whether you will like it and want to pay the $10 is up to you, but at least you now know how to get it on your PC.There is no word if a Windows 10 version is on the way, but we'll keep you posted if we hear anything.
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More ResourcesRemember that we have many other articles on Windows 10, if you need help you always check these other resources:.