Thursday, April 3, 2008

I was cleaning up my MacPro, removing desktop images I wasn't using anymore, archiving project files, etc. and stumbled upon something I hadn't seen or even heard about before.

In OS X Leopard, if you go to your Screen Saver Preferences panel, below the Apple-provided savers, you'll have Pictures (some Apple provided, the rest from iPhoto, etc.) Now, below the image Preview window you'll see 3 view types.

Fade (Ken Burns), Zoom spin and drop individual photographs, and photo mosaic.

Photo mosaic is actually stunning... you've seen those poster images of an image that is actually made up of tons of smaller photos... this screen saver view duplicates that, but it zooms all the time (except a brief pause to show you the original photograph that was re-created).

The zoom spin and drop is pretty elegant too.

I haven't heard anything about these different views, give them a shot. Although when they are running you'll be impressing others, its good to know when your machine isn't being used and almost sleeping, its still beautiful. AND you can display a clock on top of all those photographs during the animations.

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