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DESCRIPTION
Photo Desktop allows you to put photos on your desktop, instead of having to choose one photo to use as your wallpaper, you can now add as many little pictures to your desktop as you want.
Photo Desktop 2 adds too much to the previous version to describe, below you'll find a summary of some of the more significant changes and additions.
Multiple photosets
- With Photo Desktop 2 you're no longer bound to a single composition, with an unlimited amount of photosets you can create different desktops for different moments.
- Use Smart photosets to let Photo Desktop create and update Photosets for you, based on a folder you point out or on the iPhoto album of your choice.
- Use the changer the automatically switch between different photosets. You can also use the changer to shuffle the Photosets, including Smart photosets, so your Desktop will never look the same.
iSight support
- Photo Desktop 2 now comes with built-in iSight support. Allow you to create photos in the PhotoChooser simply as one of the many photo collections you have.
- Use the snapshot feature to instantly create a photo using your iSight camera and add it to your desktop.
- Also new is the Photo Desktop Spy, the Spy can automatically create snapshots and add them to your current desktop or a designated other photoset.
Core Image Quality & Animation
- Photo Desktop 2 is built utilizing Apple's Core-Image technology. For Photo Desktop 2 this means that your resulting Desktop will have a far greater quality than before. Also this means that fun effects could be added to the Editor.
- With a new engine powering Photo Desktop 2, a screensaver has been added to complete the Photo Desktop package. The Photo Desktop Saver makes your desktop come to live by animating the photos off your current photoset.
- Utilizing your videocards power also enables the 'Live-updates' feature, when turned on your Desktop gets updated instantly without the delay you saw in Photo Desktop 1.
Much more customization - Photo Desktop 2 add many other functions to further customize your photos. The photo info panel has been extended with frame-shape, shadow, effect and additional options.
- Existing functionality like the caption functionality has been further extended to allow for caption on the photo as well as using shadow or 3D effects.
- The Photo Desktop preferences have also been further extended to adjust the application to your wishes.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.3:
New:
Added support for iPhoto '09 Faces & Places
Now create Smart-Photosets with more than one source collection
Re-designed the Photo-chooser to improve navigation
Create Backups of Smart-photosets (Photoset menu)
Create Wallpapers out of Smart-photosets (Photoset menu)
Add custom collections to the Photo-chooser
Updates:
- Improved 'little menu-item' responsiveness during 'smart-update'
- Updated photo desktop caches, to require less disk-space
- Increased maximum zoom
- Minor interface tweaks
Fixes:
- Fixed issues with responsiveness after taking a snapshot
- Fixed issues with background when creating a wallpaper
- Fixed issue where the Editor wouldn't draw correctly after a reshape
- Fixed issue with screen saver fader
- Fixed image resolution when exporting wallpaper to 2560 x 1600
- Added measurements to prevent desktop corruption on Leopard
- Reduced memory usage
- Improved license key input
- Many Stability & Performance updates
REQUIREMENTS
PowerPC G4+1.5 Ghz+, Mac OS X 10.4.9 or later, Core-Image capable videocard with 64MB memory.
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SCREENSHOT
| Developer: | Alwin Troost |
| Downloads: | 36,206 |
| - Version d/l: | 1,483 |
| Utilities: | Desktop |
| License: | Shareware |
| Date: | 01 Apr 2009 |
| Platform: | PPC/Intel |
| Price: | $13.00 |
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| Photo Desktop User Reviews (37 posts) | Write A Review |
 | May 23 2009 |
TANKKNIGHT I used to love showing my friends the various pics on my Mac thanks to PD. Then late last year it went completely unusable. I missed it, but I just turned to Adobe Illustrator and made jpg desktops. Last month an update came out and I thought great that PD is being supported again. Well the short version of the disaster is that it either all 4 cpus on my quad G5 pegged, G5 crashed, PD beach balled and had to force quit or PD just suddenly quit after starting.
(Version 2.3) | |
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 | Jun 5 2008 |
FEVIDA When I try to add a new photo all I see is a spinning beachball..... Can't use it at all. Wish it would work, could be a nice app.
(Version 2.2.2) | |
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| Jun 17 2007 |
JAMES BROCHIN I want to delete/remove the Photo Desktop application. It won't let me because it says the program is open, even after I force quit. | |
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| Sep 15 2007 |
ALCABET Even after you quit the editor, Photo Desktop is still running. The only way I have found to quit it is to go to Activity Monitor, find the process called "Photo Desktop," and quit it. Then you should be able to delete/move to trash/do whatever you want with the Photo Desktop app.
(Version 2.1.1) | |
 | Jun 2 2007 |
REVIEWER The editor stops immediately after starting it. Could be a nice app. I run Mac OS 10.4.9.
(Version 2.0.1) | |
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| May 16 2007 |
PURDUEBOILER87 Does not work. I have a 12.8 MP camera and my picture file sizes are bigger. Every time I try to add a picture, it blows up.
(Version 2.0.1) | |
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| May 16 2007 |
WERNER FREYTAG This is an absolutely great application! Easy and fun to use and creates very beautiful desktop wallpapers! A must-have!
(Version 2.0.1) | |
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| May 16 2007 |
LEO SPILL An interesting idea but when I am using my Mac it's nearly always covered with app and FInder windows so rarely do I ever see the desktop. Maybe if you have a 30" display and have a single browser window open... It's really just useless eye candy or something to amuse the kids for a few minutes but seems near pointless to have this eating your CPU. Try 'PhotoStickies' which does a lot of what this does and more - yet has been around for a few years and is a couple of dollars less expensive.
(Version 2.0.1) | |
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| May 12 2007 |
MIKEEVANGELIST What a lovely little utility. Makes it so easy to layout my current favorites photos on the desktop, much like the old days of pinning them to the cork board. I especially love being able to switch sets on a whim using the menu.
(Version 2.0.1) | |
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| May 6 2007 |
DARRINSDEN I love this app, though am waiting till it has support for aperture libraries.
(Version 2.0) | |
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| Apr 28 2007 |
FLOUNDER The original Photo Desktop was great, allowed me to do what I wanted with out a single photo taking up the entire desktop. PD2 is even better with the many new options such as picture type it lets you select from standard, widescreen, portriat, etc. Also the idea behind photosets that allows you change groups of photos on the fly depending on your mood is also great. After being a fan of the original for so long I was excited to see a new version come out. Although the old version was free I feel like the cost is justified for the new version which is why I forked over my cold hard cash within 10 min of trying out the new version. I hope the dev keeps up the good work.
(Version 2.0) | |
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