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Create your own OS X screensaver

Written by Mark Webster

Sunday, 01 September 2002

NZ Macguide Issue 5

Mac OS X provides images for its built-in screensavers, but if you get bored with outer space, the forest or beach you can create your own screensaver with your own images. Here's how...

Go to the Finder and select Home from the Go menu.

Picture folder Open the Pictures folder and make a new folder, giving it a descriptive title.

Drag your favoured images into this folder, open System Preferences from the Apple menu or by clicking on its icon in the dock, and click once on the blue Screensaver module in the top row.

Screensaver System Prefs

Click on the Screensavers tab at the top, and select Slide Show in the column to the left. Now, click the Configure button below the preview window and simply select your new images folder instead, and click Open.

Settings

Directory

Preview The next time your screensaver activates, it will the images from your Screensaver Images folder to slowly fade one into another - it's very fetching. And easy - this feature of OS X is so effective, I used it as a slide show on tour earlier this year with the Apple Roadshow, on a Titanium PowerBook - this was instead of mucking about with presentation software. It took me only a few minutes to set up. Ace.

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