Perhaps, with full confidence today it can be argued that the times when users of computers and mobile devices downloaded pictures to install as a screensaver on the main screen, and even paid money for it, went into oblivion. Modern software allows you to create a picture in two accounts or install your favorite photo on your computer’s “desktop” or phone screen. We will talk about how to make a screen saver using the simplest methods in an article. But right away we’ll dwell on the options for installing images using specialized settings that are available in any operating system, including both stationary and mobile.
How to make a screensaver on the "Desktop": personalization settings
Despite the fact that outdated versions of Windows still enjoy some popularity among users (for example, the same XP), we will build on the latest modifications. In them, as is known, along with the classical methods of installing images on the screen, more advanced methods appeared.
First, let's see how to make a screen saver for a computer.
To do this, through PCM on the free part of the "Desktop", you need to go to the personalization point, and then in the background section simply select a picture from the standard set present in any version and system assembly, or use the browse button to specify the location of the image stored on the computer. Apparently, everyone knows about this. Along the way, you should select the parameters of the image location on the screen from the list and apply the changes made.
Quick background setting
However, this method, so to speak, looks too cumbersome or, if you like, "grandfather". In recent versions of Windows, accessing the above options is optional.
Simply select the desired image, and then through the PCM menu on the file go to the installation item as the main background of the “Desktop”. It should be borne in mind that the picture will be installed in full screen, so if the proportions of the image itself and the screen (or resolution) do not match, some distortions may be observed, but they, in principle, can be corrected with the help of many programs called graphic editors.
How to make a screensaver on a computer yourself?
As already clear from the above, both methods, although simple to use, however, look somewhat inconvenient. Since here the main problem is the size and resolution of the picture, which according to the parameters may not be suitable for the screen settings. How to make a splash screen in this case? There is nothing easier than using the most primitive Paint graphics processing program included in the standard set of pre-installed software in Windows.
You just need to open the picture and crop it, taking into account the coefficient of the necessary proportions of the screen of a laptop or computer monitor. Actually, even when resizing, one can note the point of maintaining proportions, after which the picture can either be reduced or enlarged.
However, this is far from the most effective method. But how to make a screensaver yourself? To do this, it is better to use more advanced editors. If you know at least the initial basics of working with the Photoshop package, creating an image using your own imagination is not so difficult (especially since the program itself has a fairly large number of all kinds of templates).
Create screensavers for mobile devices
Phone screensavers can also be created using the simplest editors. In the same Paint, however, it will be necessary to take into account the screen resolution of the mobile device and set exactly the sizes for the picture that are supported by the screen of the phone or tablet.
After that, it remains to copy the image to the device and set it as the background of the main screen through the standard settings.
Setting any image as a screensaver for a smartphone or tablet
Again, not all screensavers for the phone, even adapted to the size, are installed on the screens correctly. Such problems can be detected on many devices. The image sizes and the resolution of the screen itself seem to be the same, but for some reason the picture is set not in full screen, but in the center. Here you will have to delve into the settings for installing images. But on some smartphones, such functions are not available. How to make a splash screen in such a situation?
In order not to depend on the size of the picture or even its format, it is best to download the free Image2Wallpaper application, launch the applet, select the desired image, set its position on the screen, if necessary, reduce or enlarge it, and upon completion of the preparatory steps, simply press the screen saver setup button, which is located a little below and to the right of the image selection and adjustment area.
But other programs should not be neglected, especially since so many have been released for mobile devices today that you are simply amazed. Yes, take at least such a popular applet like Picasa. Using it, creating a picture of your own work will not be absolutely anything. After that, it remains to set it as the main image using the standard parameters of the mobile operating system.
Brief summary
Here is a brief summary of everything regarding the creation and installation of screensavers on screens of computer monitors, laptops and mobile devices. Of course, these are far from all available methods, but only some of them (not to mention software), but they are the simplest and most accessible to any most unprepared user.