Is there a way to directly download webcam, map images that have static urls?

Am I be able to print?

Hi John,
You must be a busy guy but that's good.
You did not get around to make JBS able to set as a screensaver, which of course is not something one does overnight. There were some suggestions pointing to that request... some time now hehe:-)

But there's something new maybe.
I made some beatifull panorama pictures (if I can say so myself) and also found some great ones on the internet. It would be great if they could be implemented in the program/utility, meaning JBS would recognize it as a panorama ans spread it around available monitors. Could be a problem on one monitor I guess and I do not know at all how and what, but maybe you got an idea how to implement it in this great utility of yours ?!? Would be awesome.

Thanks,
Fred

I hope I'm not suggesting something that has been discussed before, but I couldn't find anything regarding the topic.

First, this is an excellent little utility. You've obviously put a lot of time into it.

Is there any chance per monitor settings will be added? A set of photos for each monitor for the wallpaper to be set with, and could be changed (shuffled, or just skipped) on each individual monitor?

Interesting. In Task manager it's also set by default to use all 4 CPUs under Affinity properties. Well done :)

I have same problem with clearing desktop and pausing. I'm not Neo, and need more time to do it than my boss to get to my desk. Is there a chance to add 'clear and pause' to try menu? Maybe also to add it as an option to activate this function on double-clicking on the icon?
Btw, I loooove this program! Just ask my boss :)

I love that JBS chooses a color to fill undrawn areas. ("Use an automatically chosen colour for picture borders" found under Settings->Picture Handling).

I would love to see an additional feature that generates two colors and uses them in a gradient in the background, angled to correspond with the colors in the image.

The algorithm could look something like this:

1) Apply a Gaussian blur with a width of 30% of the picture.
2) Sample all of the edge points, find the opposing edge points (i.e. NE vs SW) with the highest contrast
3) Use the color of the opposing edge points as the gradient's colors, and their position as the gradient's angle.

*Maybe* desaturate and darken the gradient colors slightly to improve contrast with text, icons and other things drawn on the desktop.

This only comes to mind for me because I see (and take) a number of photos like these which would benefit from a gradient background:

(first post, no preview feature, hope I'm not screwing up the markup or using too-large images)

So the first time you change to a colour it "should" pick up the desktop colour. Maybe it's getting confused and trying to choose an invalid colour and that's silently failing. Thanks for the information, I'll investigate and should be able to figure it out and fix it in the next version!

And glad you like it! :)

I was selecting black and pressing OK. Didn't work. Multiple times. I changed it to another colour and it worked. Now black works. Thanks for the quick reply :)

I can't recreate the problem now. Maybe it's something to do with using that option for the first time? And the colour not saving?

I love this program by the way, and recommend it to everyone.

Thanks again.

Hmmm. I can't reproduce it... What colour are you picking? Can you try something simple like red?

It might be simpler if you could send me your settings file then I can try and reproduce it and see what's happening. You can email me it directly. Feel free to strip any account details out of it - all I need to do is figure out what options you have enabled that might be making JBS trip over itself. Also, can you let me know how many monitors you have attached?

Yep, it works when I set it to automatic.

Can you confirm that if you change the picture border option back to automatic the no draw zones start working again?

No draw zones is definitely still enabled. It just doesn't work when I use custom border colours. I've tried adding extra no draw zones in different positions, and they don't work either. :\

So the 'no draw zones' use the same colour that's used for picture borders. This means if you set a specific colour as you've done the no draw zones will use that colour. I can't see any way that the no-draw zones would stop appearing unless you'd disabled it from the 'No Draw Zones' section of 'More Settings'. Can you confirm the option is definitely still on and that the zones are on valid monitors and valid positions?

Hi,
I'm having a problem when I turn on 'use custom colour for picture borders:' My no draw zone no longer works.
Anyone have the same problem or know how to fix it?

Thanks

Hey John,

I've sent you an email with appropriate attachments!

Yes I'm using XP which may also use JPGs as wallpaper (perhaps not as default) and I thought it would make a small difference, but... nevermind! :)
Although it is interesting for me to hear that JBS saves the wallpaper as JPG on Vista and Windows 7.

Thank you so much :)

So sets of picture sets is something that's been suggested before and is a good idea - so is definitely on my list for a future version!

There isn't a way to do it since you could potentially have an infinite list of pictures back from Flickr (as they can change every time JBS goes back to Flickr) meaning I'd have to keep track of a list that would never end. I will however have a think about it and see if I can come up with a compromise, like remembering the last 50 pictures shown or something.

Position, sure, I'll see what I can do. Colour is tricky as the colour JBS uses to draw the text is what I call 'all weather text' and so shows up well on all colours of backgrounds (thanks to extensive testing). Picking other random colours may not give such good results but I'll give it a go and see how it looks.

I'm not sure I understand the problem you're encountering. Can you send me a screenshot? Maybe a 'before' and 'after' one?

Very good idea! I'll add it to the list!

It's not 64bit, however it's set to target 'any CPU' so maybe that's why it's not being reported with the asterisk.

There is actually no difference at all in terms of using a JPG or a BMP - any space or memory saved would be negligible. I assume you're on XP since on Vista and Windows 7 JBS does indeed save the wallpaper as a JPG since these versions of Windows have better support for using them as wallpapers.

And thanks, glad you like JBS! :)

Hello John,

I don't know if this was mentioned earlier, but I would appreciate a way to not only specify folders and files but to organize them in different groups or albums, so you would be able to easily switch betwenn e.g. "private shots" and "landscapes" or such. This would be very useful in montage mode and perhaps could be also accessed via the system tray icon context menu.

Thanks from germany :)

John: Is there a way to avoid repeats with Flickr? I keep getting the same couple images over and over, even though the pool is quite large. Can JBS be set to go through Flickr images it hasn't displayed yet before repeating? (Sorry; I'm sure the answer is in the documentation somewhere, but I couldn't find it.)

Again, I love JBS. Thanks so much for it.

Thanks for replying :)

Can you add a feature (in the next version of course) to put the picture info in the top-center ? (not just the top-left of the screen).
And also the ability to set its color ?

Thank you,
Ron.

So for local pictures JBS will only choose from the file name, folder name or full path. Unfortunately it doesn't look at any meta data (well, EXIF information) to grab picture titles. It's on the list though!

Yeah, unfortunately it's currently hard-wired to appear in the top-right of your screen. Don't worry though, it's something I'll change in the next version!

Hello John,

I wish I had an option to let the Switcher calculate the new wallpaper using a fixed size, say 1900*1200 pixels.
Because every time a program changes the monitor resolution in the foreground and JBS calculates the next wallpaper in the background, the wallpaper will not have the default monitor resolution (but the modified one) which results in large tiles of duplicated wallpapers.

Perhaps this could be added as an option?

Thanks!

Thank you, Freshie,

I think, thats really enough. ;)

Or maybe an option to just not show really 'light' pictures at night. That would work too.

Idea: Do a quick analysis of the pictures, and set a value of 'dark' 'medium' and 'light' for each picture depending on it's overall 'brightness', and have an option to show 'light' pictures during the day, 'medium' pictures in the 6-9pm range, and dark ones later.

That way, I don't get a blazing tropical beach shot at 3am on my screen, etc, burning my eyeballs out, when I wake up to handle a page from work.

Just an idea.

Hello John, first I have to say you're doing a great job!

May I suggest an option to save the wallpaper as a JPG?
This would result in definitely smaller RAM usage.
Or perhaps, I am a bit old-fashioned in that way...

Best wishes from germany