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Hey everyone, I decided to take some screenshots from this past episode and up-scale them to 4k, as well as color correct them among other things for ya'll to use as wallpapers. Enjoy!
NOTE: I highly recommend you download the images from this flickr link. Imgur is known to heavily compress images, so i've included a flickr link to the uncompressed images for you to download.
[<strong>Flickr Album Link</strong>]
NOTE 2: If anyone wants another screenshot from this past episode, reply here and i'll be sure to add it later, I am working on episodes 1-16 so keep an eye out for that as well.
P.S I recommend ya'll download <strong>Johns Background Switcher</strong> it'll let you cycle through all pictures you have in a folder or many folders at once or even directly from my Flickr link, plus shits free yo.
Did this a little while ago- I can share my code in a bit
Edit: Here is a pastebin link
I have it set up to run once per day ~11am to download the top ~25 images, so after a few months I've amassed several thousand photos. I am using them primarily for a background switcher on windows.
A few notes:
- Written in python
- Change "WALLPAPER_PATH" to where you want the files saved
Enjoy!
That's awesome!
Ever since leaving Win for Linux I've been wanting to replace this wallpaper generator:
https://johnsad.ventures/software/backgroundswitcher/
It does an awesome job of filling the background with pics from specific folders. I especially love the 'postcards' option.
It would be amazing to combine these features.
> And I tend to just leave them on my hard drive and rarely look back to them.
Install Jon's Background Switcher and point it to your photos.
That way you get to enjoy your photos constantly as your wallpaper.
Thank you for sharing your bird pictures, OP! They are really quite well done. I use John's Background Switcher to swap my computer background every ten seconds, and a lot of your bird pictures are in my file of source pictures. I especially appreciate you sharing high-resolution images.
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https://johnsad.ventures/software/backgroundswitcher/windows/ - Wallpaper switcher for people that don't want to use Display Fusion or Windows.
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I used to use Wally and was happy with it until I got a NAS and it doesn't work well with network locations.
Since then John's Background Switcher has been my app of choice.
> but haven't really looked into how difficult that would be to do.
Someone wrote a thing for it, you just need to give it a .rss stream. I use reddit's submission stream as a feed, by appending .rss to the end of the URL of a subreddit.
https://johnsad.ventures/software/backgroundswitcher/
The best wallpaper switcher I have found, I use it on all my machines. Its free and has current updates. From the website: John’s Background Switcher puts beautiful full-screen photos and stunning montages on your desktop from places like your computer, Flickr, Facebook, Instagram and plenty more places.
Windows Wallpapers = John’s Background Switcher Just use the RSS feed feature to import RSS feeds from earthporn, carporn, roomporn.
https://johnsad.ventures/software/backgroundswitcher/ I like this. You can set it to show different backgrounds on each monitor. You can set it up to periodically switch your backgrounds from online sources or a directory of your own choosing. So I just stick a load of wallpapers in a folder and this nice little bit of software switches each monitor to a different wallpaper every half hour (or how ever often you want).
For wallpapers themselves just Google search them, there are lots of wallpaper websites out there.
http://www.wallpapercropper.com I also use this site which allows you to easily crop images into 21:9. The images need to be good enough quality though but as long as they are you can make a wallpaper out of anything really.
Download John's Background switcher
Copy the Rss of any subreddit (/r/EarthPorn) and plug it in.
???
Profit
I think this is the default setting on windows 10 and havent really found a way around it without using 3rd party software. Have a look at this though: https://johnsad.ventures/software/backgroundswitcher/windows/
Johns Background Switcher supposedly works with Win 11 too. Which gives you a way to collage google photos and other cloud collections. I havent tested it yet as I am keeping Win 11 minimal until I know for sure it is working okay on my puter, but its a great collage background software.
You need a third party wallpaper manager to do that. Many of them have this feature. I use John’s Background Switcher. It can set a different wallpaper on each monitor, randomized from your collection.
I've been using John's Background Switcher for years. Works great, regular updates, and completely free. Lots of settings for intervals between switching, etc.
WinDynamicDesktop may be the program you’re looking for. Another option is John’s Background Switcher. (And there are many more programs out there.)
>If you want static wallpapers I suggest you use window‘s built in option for that.
Precisely. I have found that John's Background Switcher is one of the best for this.
I think you can do what you want with John's Background Switcher.
Use : https://johnsad.ventures/software/backgroundswitcher/ http://windowbox.me/multiwall/ & http://www.twohandapps.com/desktop-wallpaper-sync
You can even use it to make a slideshow of the top wallpapers from r/wallpapers or r/multiwall.
Also has the option to cycle through ones on your PC.
I have 1,000+ wallpapers in a specific directory and I use John's Background Switcher to swap them out automatically every midnight. I'm always pleased to see what it's got for me when I start work in the morning.
Not a website: John’s Background Switcher can create a slideshow of wallpaper from website sources based on popular images or specific tags or random (Flickr, DeviantArt, Unsplash, etc)
I use a tool called John's Background Switcher. Pretty powerful especially if you have your wallpapers organized well. If I recall it allows you to do a slideshow on different screens (though it doesn't allow you to choose a different folder for each screen). https://johnsad.ventures/software/backgroundswitcher/windows/
Ever since moving to Ubuntu I've wished there was a replacement utility for this wallpaper tool: https://johnsad.ventures/software/backgroundswitcher/windows/
https://johnconners.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/lastfmpostcardpile.jpg
It can be setup to cycle through your photo collection (cloud and local).
Does Superpaper allow for add-ins/extensions that would make this possible?
FYI for anyone else coming here, I stumbled onto Johns Background Switcher whilst looking at DisplayFusion. Also works a charm: https://johnsad.ventures/software/backgroundswitcher/windows/
We use a PC attached to our TV as our main media center.
The wallpaper for the TV is a randomly generated montage of a half dozen photos randmloy chosen from our (huge) photo directory.
The backdrop is regenerated every 5 minutes.
This means that every time we turn the TV on, or between shows, we see a half dozen random photos that never fail to draw us in and go browse a past memory for 5 minutes or so before moving on.
We love it.
We use John's Background Switcher, which is free.
Use John's Background Switcher. I have found it works really well. One problem is that sometimes it looses the setting file for some reason. So sometimes you need to reset your settings.
Which is fine if you don't want it to only look in one folder and no subdirectories. If you want more control, I'd recommend using John's Background Switcher.
Well I thought of it as more of I don't really see the monitor all that much for wallpaper engine to be of use to me.
And my idle times are just music on while reading or something. Both my monitors have different wallpapers on cycle about every 15 seconds or so, which pretty much takes care of cycling through nearly all 6000 wallpapers I have saved using John's Background Switcher
And before WE was even a thing, I used Rainmeter for so long I just grew tired of the gimmick I guess.
Not wallpapers, per se, but if you'd like to use your photos or other photo sets as wallpaper, then a weirdly-named software, John's Adventures (https://johnsad.ventures/software/backgroundswitcher/) is my recommendation. I've used it for better than 12 years. It works flawlessly.
I've been using John's Background Switcher for a while. It has a ton of features, cloud support and yes, does collages on the fly. Only thing it doesn't do that I hope he introduces, is different sources for different monitors. https://johnsad.ventures/software/backgroundswitcher/
I'm sorry, I just checked my VM and you are completely right. I suggest using third party software, I found this https://johnsad.ventures/software/backgroundswitcher/windows/ recommended on a forum, it should let you put the same image on all 3 screens during a slideshow.
i use the John's Background Switcher (https://johnsad.ventures/software/backgroundswitcher/windows), but dont think it can be scheduled to an exact time. you may want to use some command-line tool and run the different changes through Task Scheduler. See https://www.windows-commandline.com/change-windows-wallpaper-command-line
Not sure if it'll still matter from the other answers, but I've been using https://johnsad.ventures/software/backgroundswitcher/ for a year or two now. Pretty customizable auto wallpaper changer, supports multiple screens, takes pictures from online feeds you can choose and filter from, and it's light on resources.
I use John's Background Switcher for that. Can cycle through folders and subfolders recursively (which means you can finally sort your wallpaper collection into folders based on what they're from), get images from some online services including RSS feeds., and choose the correct image based on each monitor's orientation (portrait/landscape). The only thing I haven't found it able to do is split a dual-screen wallpaper into two and display that on both monitors.
It's still a third party program but probably more lightweight than display fusion considering that one also comes with a bunch of other stuff not related to wallpapers.