Cool screen saver in Mac OS X Leopard
Sat, 1 December 2007
There is a very cool mosaic screen saver built into the OS X Leopard, that will use your iPhoto library to create a mosaic of the photos from the folder or the album of your choice.
To activate it please follow these steps:
Open the System Preferences and click on Desktop and Screen Saver, then select Screen Saver tab. In the screen saver pane on the left, scroll down to Pictures and select an iPhoto folder or album. Your resulting picture will be a random one from this folder.
From Display Style options select Mosaic (the one on the right). The images in your entire iPhoto library will be indexed and then used as pieces to create your resulting mosaic picture.
You can configure the number of rows and the speed if you click Options button, and select the idle time after which to start your screen saver with the slider just below. Once you’ve done all this, press Test and enjoy.
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scwjunk said: Sun, 2 December 2007 at 16:06
but there’s no way to prevent it from using your ENTIRE iphoto library for the tiles… I have over 26K photos in there (some of which are not family-rated!) and this screen saver, while cool, is lacking in the “select an album from which to draw the tiles” department.
subcorpus said: Sat, 22 December 2007 at 20:42
26K photos … ???
god that would be a large collection … hehe …
yeah if we could select the folders or albums to use … that’d be nice …
still … its a kewl feature …