Make a Screen Saver Out of Your Own Images in Mac OS X
You can make a nice screensaver out of your own images within Mac OS X very easily, here’s the basics:
* Create a new folder, let’s call it ‘My ScreenSaver’
* Gather images from your photo albums and drop them into ‘My Screensaver’ folder
* Launch System Preferences
* Click on Desktop & Screensaver
* Click the Screensaver tab
* Select the + button near the bottom of the screensaver list
* Select “Add Folder of Pictures”
* Navigate to the “My ScreenSaver” pictures folder you created earlier
* That’s it!
You can now select various effects for the screensaver by clicking the tiled icons and Options, to determine how the images are displayed, if they’re faded in and out, cropped, etc.
This process of making your own screensaver is even easier if you use iPhoto, because iPhoto automatically hooks up to the ScreenSaver preference pane, you simply select the iPhoto album you want displayed and the rest is the same.
UHH, WOW, trick for my Grandma..
my grandma can barely figure out how to write an email, the last thing I want her doing is digging around in system preferences even if she’s trying to make a screensaver. I think she just needs an ipad.
Doesn’t work.
Nope does not work!
Sad…
Hi,
doesn’t work for me either. When I do this, pressing “Choose” silently closes the dialog. No changes, no success or error message, just plain nothing. In particular, no screensaver. Coming from Windows and Linux – is this Apples famous usability (this is not the first place I stumble). And the solution seems to be complicated enough so that there is no solution for half a year now…
Regards, ibon
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It works perfectly and has always worked for me with any version of OsX that support this feature.
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