Wallpaper Generator by Joris Kalz
Came across this fun little program. You point it at a folder with pictures in it and it will throw all the pictures on the screen so that it looks like a bunch of photos scattered on a table. You can then move, rotate, enlarge the photos. When everything its how you like it you can save the whole layout as a picture and then set it as your desktop wallpaper. I suppose big fans of recursion could make a bunch of wallpaper photos and then load those photos in the tool.
It uses the new Microsoft presentation framework (WPF) which is how I originally came across it. It’d be kinda cool to make something like this using silverlight.
Comments after using the program:
- You can only have it load entire directories of photo’s. It’d be nice to be able to select the photos individually to load. This can sort of be worked around if your using Vista by just setting up a saved search folder, but even that has its limitations.
- It’d be nice to be able to remove a photo after it’s loaded.
- Rotating and resizing is not that fluid. It might just be awkward because I’m on my laptop with a touchpad, but that’s a big maybe.
- The photos seem to load pretty small. I’m not sure if that because of the number of photo’s I’m trying to load on a single screen.
- If the number of photos to load is higher than the number of photos in the directory then it will load duplicates. This is kind of annoying as I don’t really want to see duplicates.
