http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/ John's Adventures Forum » Recent Posts en Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:36:04 +0000 http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/topic.php?id=892#post-3728 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:46:44 +0000 Elliott 3728@http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/ <p>Today when I log in, the bandwidth display is shown correctly on top of the wallpaper (as expected). </p> http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/topic.php?id=888#post-3727 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:14:16 +0000 yonizaf 3727@http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/ <p>okay, i think i got your point, mostly. not much point discussing it further at this point. guess i'll just wait for the beta-testing to start and join the fun then.</p> <p>also, though i said this once, i'll say it again:<br /> Your software is very helpful to me, Thanks and keep up the good work!<br /> (hard-working developers deserve praise from time to time) </p> http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/topic.php?id=888#post-3726 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:42:56 +0000 John Conners 3726@http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/ <p>Please don't take offence, I'm just explaining what my thought process is when changing functionality and introducing new features. Bear in mind when I introduce a change that confuses people I'm the one who has to deal with the deluge of emails repeating the same thing over and over again until I realise that it's actually my fault for thinking something seemed logical to people but was actually logical to me but not others. It's a tricky balancing act and having people beta testing radical changes has opened my eyes over the years to what does and doesn't work.</p> <p>I did a large redesign for JBS 4.0 which took several years of feedback into what worked, what didn't and what was confusing to produce the UI you see now. I didn't just throw it together, a great deal of thought and usability testing went into it and if I seem like I'm being hard above it's because that's the level of scrutiny I apply to everything I do in JBS which hopefully results in it being a simple application to use.</p> <p>I wouldn't describe the current version as "hell to a new user" though - 3.6 maybe as I had a lot of feedback from people who didn't even know where to begin. I don't get that type of feedback any more so I'm happy it's easier for the first-time user to get up and running.</p> <p>Initially there was no picture mode per source-type option when I first put out JBS 4 beta and people were up in arms because quite a large number of people have the use case where they want Facebook pictures as a montage and Flickr as full screen (for example). So I do listen and I definitely don't get it right first time!</p> <p>Personally I'm not a fan of the "if you don't like the new version then go and use the old version" mantra if I can avoid it - that's how you alienate people and I'd rather produce the best software I can that the highest number of people can get use out of. Quite often by taking a step back and thinking about it I can come up with something that gives everybody what they want, but as I say to get to that point takes quite a lot of thinking, prototyping and hallway usability testing.</p> <p>And please don't feel I'm trying to shoot you down - I'm just trying to find edge cases and use the same thought process I go through with every feature.</p> <p>Ah yes, you are indeed on the list already - sorry about that! </p> http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/topic.php?id=888#post-3725 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:30:17 +0000 yonizaf 3725@http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/ <p>wait, aren't i already in your beta list? or is it a new list for each version? </p> http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/topic.php?id=888#post-3724 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:27:01 +0000 yonizaf 3724@http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/ <p>well, whatever. your software, your rules. I just hope you'll find way to implement it to your liking.</p> <p>that's said, i don't agree with your stance of "Don't change because people hate changes". (and here was supposed to come a long rant with examples to explain why, but i'll leave it for now)<br /> rather, JBS is so full of options to reserve the behavior people got used to, that it became hell to the new user. what it really need is full UI redesign and cleanup, and if someone likes the older version better, they can stay at it.</p> <p>same goes for the mode per source-type option. it added at least as much complication as groups/sets would have, while adding only a little freedom, helping only very specific cases. i would replace it, but no, some people might have got used to it.<br /> well, that option exist only for a short time anyway, so anyone who got used to it so quickly, will get used to the new one, especially if done right...</p> <p>(i should note, i don't really need these features. just trying to help. i'll be quiet now.) </p> http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/topic.php?id=888#post-3723 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:11:06 +0000 John Conners 3723@http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/ <p>If you're interested I'll add you to my beta testers list so you can have an early look at / influence on the next version when I start implementing it. Let me know! </p> http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/topic.php?id=888#post-3722 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:01:52 +0000 John Conners 3722@http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/ <p>Heh heh, the first rule of software development should be: any time you find yourself thinking "why would anybody want to do it this way? I'll change it to do it that way, it's much better" then stop because you're wrong! People really hate change and you have to be very careful with every layer of abstraction you add to a UI as it can over-complicate things for the vast majority of people who're not interested in that abstraction.</p> <p>I'm more convinced by creating collections of picture sets and be able to set the picture mode for each set. That way by default there's no set, so things are as they are now. But if you create a set (maybe you want to be able to switch between Summer and Winter sets) then you can create a new collection and that's fine. You can then set the picture mode for each collection.</p> <p>The trouble comes where you want to do something simpler. So somebody wants to choose from National Geographic photos from a Google search (and wants them full screen) and their friends Facebook photos (which they want as a postcard pile). Now if picture mode is set on a per-collection basis, then you've got to create 2 sets (Google and Facebook searches) and then 2 collections which seems over-complex - particularly if someone wants a set from each possible source and shown differently. It's a lot of extra work for no gain. Sure, I could then revert to picture modes per source (rather than collection) but that means the UI itself is changing depending on what you've got in the list and that really confuses people. You wouldn't believe how many people get confused when they switch from a single picture mode for all to a picture mode per source and they want to get back again, I don't want to make that worse.</p> <p>As I say though, I think collections definitely has potential. </p> http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/topic.php?id=888#post-3721 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:37:16 +0000 yonizaf 3721@http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/ <p>I'll try to answer your questions, per method (a either method has different answers).</p> <p>&gt;&gt;what happens when JBS switches your background?</p> <ul><strong>for groups/sets:</strong><br /> remember that you can do multiple random choices.<br /> so, choose random group, then if it has more than one source type, choose random source type.<br /> alternative: allow grouping of only same source type.<br /> (or you could implement handling multiple source types)</p> <p><strong>for modes:</strong><br /> choose random mode, then if it has more than one source type, choose random source type. (or implement handling multiple source types)<br /> random is a mode-group on it's own, so if random is chosen, another random choice is made. (i.e: which mode-group? rand()&gt;&gt;random. which mode to apply? rand()&gt;&gt;polaroid. etc.)</ul> <p>&gt;&gt;what when someone wants to have a picture mode per source?</p> <ul>why would anyone want that? groups are much better. especially when it comes to computer folders. folders can contain different types of images, e.g:<br /> i might want to have family pictures from facebook, picasa and a folder to crate a postcard pile, and landscape photos from flickr, google and a folder to full-screen background.<br /> there's no advantage in mode per source type, as same result can be achieved by groups/modes with a bit more work, and i assume people who want it are a minority anyway.</p> <p>that is, except for this one big case:</ul> <p>&gt;&gt;What happens when they upgrade and want the same behavior?</p> <ul>well, that's more of a problem, as people upgrading don't want to reconfigure anything. so:</p> <p><strong>for groups/sets:</strong><br /> when upgrading, create a group for each source type (with a similar name, but add some text i.e Group of facebook photos) and transfer the mode settings to that group, leading to seamless upgrade. then, when the user wants to add a source, they will get to know the new method.<br /> if even that's too much for the poor upgrading user, you can leave the old behavior by default, and add another option (one mode for all/mode per source type/mode per group), which will make the transition.</p> <p><strong>for modes:</strong><br /> most probably should add another option (one mode for all/mode per source type/sources per mode). transition between them should be simple, except for losing your settings when switching back an forth - unless you choose to keep them. but that problem exists in the current two-choice (one mode for all/mode per source type)</p> <p>if you don't want to add another option (seeing that settings is too cluttered already) then maybe i give up modes.</ul> <p>for UI presentation, I think I can make it work to please most people most of the time ;) I'll try to make some more mockups later to fill the blanks.</p> <p>p.s. just a little UI idea for now (that would also work for current ver.):<br /> when on mode-per-sourcetype (or group), add text to make it clear which mode each sourcetype uses.<br /> e.g Folders on your computer (Current mode: Postcard pile)</p> <p><img src="http://s.johnsadventures.com/pictures/2010/yonizaf-mockup3.png" /> </p> http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/topic.php?id=888#post-3720 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:20:50 +0000 John Conners 3720@http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/ <p>Thanks for your thoughts and the mockups!</p> <p>The trouble is that what happens when JBS switches your background? Does it choose a single 'picture source' or 'group' and select picture sets from there? If so that means it'll have to be able to handle choosing from multiple sources at a time (which it can't currently). That's ok as it's on my to-do list anyway.</p> <p>The main problem comes when someone wants to have the same as JBS currently allows - a picture mode per source (eg. Facebook photos are postcard piles, Flickr photos are scaled to fill the screen, etc.). What happens when they upgrade and want the same behaviour? No matter which way you look at it you (or rather I) have to make a decision about how you (the user) uses JBS and the simplest way to present that in the UI. It's the old line about not being able to please all the people all the time. However I'll definitely keep in mind what you're saying as I like the 'group / set' idea rather a lot! </p> http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/topic.php?id=888#post-3719 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:14:44 +0000 yonizaf 3719@http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/ <p>made a mockup to explain what i meant. i hope it's clear enough.</p> <p><img src="http://s.johnsadventures.com/pictures/2010/yonizaf-mockup1.png" /></p> <p>basically, grouping by modes replaces grouping by source type. you can add the same source to different modes, enabling you to make it two-mode random, or you can add a source to the real random mode. also you can join different source types for a montage etc. (not sure if that's a good idea)</p> <p>of course, that's not all of it. i have a picture in my head how it all works out, more or less, just too tired to make mockups to everything.</p> <p>a second method would be to use groups, added by the user:</p> <p><img src="http://s.johnsadventures.com/pictures/2010/yonizaf-mockup2.png" /></p> <p>not too complicated, the user can create their own groups (or sets) that contain multiple sources, so you can configure a group at once, and not lots of individual sources. less of a radical change than the first one, but still helps in using different mode for the same source type.</p> <p>sorry for interfering, hope it helps some.;) </p> http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/topic.php?id=888#post-3718 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:20:46 +0000 yonizaf 3718@http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/ <p>maybe it would be better to let the user choose sources per mode,<br /> rather than mode for each source.</p> <p>(kinda hard to explain what i mean, maybe i should do mockup too) </p> http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/topic.php?id=894#post-3717 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:27:21 +0000 John Conners 3717@http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/ <p>That's on my list for the next version (full control of what's included and excluded), however you can actually suppress the mosaic from selection by checking 'Exclude thumbnails from random display mode' on the 'Picture Sources' section of 'More Settings' and that'll do exactly what you're after! </p> http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/topic.php?id=894#post-3716 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:32:39 +0000 sqlsamurai 3716@http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/ <p>I would like to be able to exclude picture modes. I have my picture mode on random but would like to be able to exclude picture mosaic from the random list.</p> <p>Thanks! LOVE the program. </p> http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/topic.php?id=893#post-3715 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:01:11 +0000 tarrkid 3715@http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/ <p>Sweet! </p> http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/topic.php?id=893#post-3714 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:49:42 +0000 John Conners 3714@http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/ <p>What the?! You must be a mind reader as I'm literally in the process of implementing a gaussian blur background effect into the next version! I like the idea of adding shadows too so will add that to the list - thanks! </p> http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/topic.php?id=893#post-3713 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:45:33 +0000 tarrkid 3713@http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/ <p>I'd like to see you add "blur" to the background effect. It would have the appearance of the background truly being **behind** the photo pile.</p> <p>If you wanted to get seriously funky with it (and you know you do), allow the photopile images to cast a shadow down onto the blurred photo -- not making the shadow BLACK, but just a bit darker.</p> <p>I see a possibility of people wanting more control over a blur, though - just how much blur to apply? How much shadow? What direction for the shadow?!?! And also, blur shouldn't prevent some of the other effects from being possible (why not desaturate AND blur?). Basically, I could see this creating two classes of distortion for the background effect - color distortion (grayscale/sepia/desaturate/soften), of which you can pick one, and pixel distortion (blur).</p> <p>Just doing my part to help bloat your software. :P</p> <p>Thanks...</p> <p>...Rob </p> http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/topic.php?id=892#post-3712 Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:42:34 +0000 John Conners 3712@http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/ <p>Ok, Windows only supports a single image on your background at a time so I expect the tool you're using draws itself on top of the background. There's no notion in Windows of different apps "owning" different parts of the desktop background - there's on picture you can set and that's it. When JBS changes the background the tool doesn't realise so doesn't try to draw itself again.</p> <p>What you can do is trigger the tool's redrawing by setting a post-switching task from the 'Switching' section of 'More Settings'. I'd hope the tool you're using support command line arguments so you could call that from then. Let me know how you get on. </p> http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/topic.php?id=892#post-3711 Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:22:14 +0000 Elliott 3711@http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/ <p>I have a 'bandwidth monitor' that shows the broadband download/upload speed. It displays a circa 150x100 graphic on the desktop. Since downloading and running Background Switcher, the graphic is no longer there, but the process is still running in Task Manager. I tried to define a No Draw zone in the relevant place but to no avail. Perhaps this isn't what No Draw is for?<br /> Does BS suppress other apps? </p> http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/topic.php?id=891#post-3710 Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:24:43 +0000 John Conners 3710@http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/ <p>Cool, glad it's sorted out! As I say it should pick up your current time zone correctly but doesn't seem to realise when it's changed while it's running - I've added it to the list for the next version to investigate. And you're welcome! </p> http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/topic.php?id=888#post-3709 Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:23:39 +0000 John Conners 3709@http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/ <p>First thing is that mockup infers that you're only choosing your background from a single folder at a time. So if you had one folder showing a postcard pile and the other scaling to fit the screen, then that doesn't work, so you can only have a single folder at a time.</p> <p>The main problem though is that people get confused very easily when the UI radically changes and is inconsistent across those changes (believe me, that's why I dropping letting you change each individual picture's display mode when I made 4.0 - it was a huge cause of confusion). So take for example what happens when a user wants to use a single picture mode across all sources. Now the background is no longer restricted to choosing from a single set at a time as it would be above, but there's no way for them to know that by looking at the dialog - so they'll not necessarily get what they expect. Also, the UI will look completely different as they don't have the drop-down list by each picture set.</p> <p>Next, as soon as you have loads of picture sets people will want to be able to set them all at once - which means cluttering up the UI even more.</p> <p>As I've mentioned before on other posts, I'd rather put more effort into making JBS smart enough to size the pictures accordingly rather than making you define them all yourself. JBS knows how big your screens are, how big the picture is and what the orientation is, so if it can look at each one individually and figure out the optimal way to show it, then that makes the UI nice and simple as it is today and you don't even have to think about it because JBS will always make the right choice for you. </p> http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/topic.php?id=888#post-3708 Sun, 07 Mar 2010 03:03:18 +0000 mneimeyer 3708@http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/ <p>What about something like this when set to use individual modes... (A quick mockup)</p> <p><img src="http://s.johnsadventures.com/pictures/2010/mneimeyer-screenshot.gif" alt="" /> </p> http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/topic.php?id=891#post-3707 Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:25:22 +0000 das 3707@http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/ <p>It's fixed now, I was sure that I had rebooted my PC and restarted JBS to try to figure out the problem, but I just restarted JBS and it went away.<br /> I was updating my background every 10 minutes, or when playing with images from google/bing it was set to 30 seconds so it wasn't a "once a day" issue.<br /> It is a new install of XP, 7RC expired and I missed the background changer in 7. I must have set the timezone after I had restarted the PC and installed JBS, I don't remember doing that, but I could have, I tried 2 or 3 time sync apps about the time I installed JBS.</p> <p>JBS is so cool that I will use it even after I move to windows 7, it is so much better than the native themes, although I did miss the ability to select the images I wanted to use and save them as a group in 7 (even though it can be VERY clunky in 7 if you install a lot of themes). The "never show again" can work out pretty well to get the same effect I guess.</p> <p>Thanks so much for JBS.</p> <p>-David </p> http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/topic.php?id=891#post-3706 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:45:09 +0000 John Conners 3706@http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/ <p>Ah, now I look at the code it will be redraw after midnight. So that leads me back to checking if you changed the timezone while JBS was running - that's about all I can think of that would cause it. I've tested using a different timezone here and can't reproduce what you're seeing... </p> http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/topic.php?id=891#post-3705 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:42:42 +0000 John Conners 3705@http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/ <p>Have you changed the timezone while JBS is running? If you have then if you re-start JBS and change the background does the current day match?</p> <p>The calendar is only updated when the background actually changes so if you only change it every 24 hours and happen to change it at 6am each day then the calendar will be incorrect for 6 hours a day. Could that explain what's going on? </p> http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/topic.php?id=891#post-3704 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:18:41 +0000 das 3704@http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/ <p>The current day marker, the colored oval behind the current day in the calender, switches to the next day some time after noon but way before midnight, is that what it is expected to do?</p> <p>I am not sure exactly when in switches.</p> <p>My timezone is set to EST (GMT -5), the calender is set to Sun-Sat but switching to Mon-Sun didn't change the behavior.</p> <p>-David </p> http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/topic.php?id=890#post-3703 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:09:29 +0000 John Conners 3703@http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/ <p>Yeah, Flickr sometimes do the same thing so I'm guessing as you suspected SmugMug went into maintenance mode. </p> http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/topic.php?id=890#post-3702 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:56:44 +0000 DisneysMagic 3702@http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/ <p>Looks like the problem resolved itself. SmugMug may have been doing some kind of maintenance and had their system locked to read-only mode. </p> http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/topic.php?id=890#post-3701 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:36:01 +0000 DisneysMagic 3701@http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>Started encountering an error message on both my laptop and my desktop when trying to read from SmugMug once again. It just started doing this over the past day or so (I think, as I was out of town last weekend). I know it was fine last week. Message being received back is "read-only mode". Thanks for the help in advance. Version in use is 4.1.0.19 </p> http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/topic.php?id=889#post-3697 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:08:27 +0000 John Conners 3697@http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/ <p>As I mentioned above, it looks pretty awful with the borders - the only way I could make it work is to get the mosaic to no longer be laid out in a uniform grid, which is certainly an interesting idea. </p> http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/topic.php?id=889#post-3696 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:39:40 +0000 DownSouth 3696@http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/ <p>Addendum: It would be nicer if mosaics were made without cropping.<br /> Perhaps selecting only portrait, or only landscape photos. </p> http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/topic.php?id=889#post-3695 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:37:02 +0000 John Conners 3695@http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/ <p>Ok, the mosaic maximum size is currently set so small because sites like Flickr have thumbnails of 75x75 pixels so to stretch them up to 300 pixels would look terrible. Now instead of getting the thumbnails I could get larger images but that would mean getting potentially 200 of these pictures just to generate a single background if the user uses the smallest size picture which would be a lot of bandwidth and take rather a long time to render. I could then look at using larger thumbnails for larger tile sizes but that means caching multiple sizes of thumbnails which reduces the effectiveness of the caching somewhat (the idea is JBS will cache thumbnails for a period of time to try to cut down on network bandwidth). So you can see it's not just a simple case of me upping the limit in the UI. However I'll see what I can do.</p> <p>Next, I'm not entirely sure I follow what you mean. If you're using the postcard mode then the only picture I can assume you're referring to is the full-screen background. In mosaic then you mean each mosaic tile? In which case each mosaic would have borders on it and having tried that before I can assure you it looks terrible! If you're meaning the full-screen background I'll add it to the list.</p> <p>Out of curiosity what effect are you trying to achieve with JBS? There may be a better way of giving you what you want if I can understand what you're expecting to see. </p> http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/topic.php?id=889#post-3694 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:26:26 +0000 DownSouth 3694@http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/ <p>I'd like to see tiling by increasing the mosaic max size to 300. </p> <p>I'd like to see automatic mode selection(mosaic, montage, polaroid, or postcard; whichever was selected in a separate area)if photos were under a selectable size(perhaps 300-800 or by % of screen size) and automatically scaled down to fit the screen if over the screen resolution. NOT cropped.</p> <p>The max mosaic size would probably have to be smaller or equal to the minimum mode selection size to avoid conflicts. </p> http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/topic.php?id=888#post-3693 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:58:00 +0000 John Conners 3693@http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/ <p>It's a tricky one. Back in version 3.6 you could choose the size mode for each individual picture and that was great if you only used locally sourced pictures. If you also used folders and Flickr photos then that started to become horribly confusing, particularly now that you can have lots of different pictures sets all at once.</p> <p>So if you could choose the size mode for each folder then what does that mean for the 'Picture mode' drop down list (or if you're setting a different picture mode for each source then that dialog)? Suddenly the UI starts to get more cluttered and less clear about what's going on so that users get confused.</p> <p>Of course that's not your problem to solve it's mine! Giving more finely-tuned control is something I want to do it's just I've not figured out a nice way to do it as yet. However I'll do my best! :)</p> <p>And you're most welcome! </p> http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/topic.php?id=879#post-3692 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:16:06 +0000 yossef07 3692@http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/ <p>are you Serious?<br /> and again...<br /> shabat shalom from tel aviv Beautiful israel ! </p> http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/topic.php?id=888#post-3691 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:40:54 +0000 mneimeyer 3691@http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/ <p>In the thread at <a href="http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/topic.php?id=860" rel="nofollow">http://www.johnsadventures.com/forum/topic.php?id=860</a> the original poster was wanting to have nature photos cropped one way and people cropped another. You rightfully pointed out that JBS can't tell if it's a picture of a person.</p> <p>Personally I want to be able to have nature photos full screen and people montaged. </p> <p>Could both possibly be handled by allowing each folder to have its own picture mode? (Unless I'm missing something... all "Folder" entries share a picture mode) Then C:\Wallpapers\Nature could be set to "Scale and Crop" and C:\Wallpapers\FamilyPhotos to "Create a Polaroid Pile" and C:\Wallpapers\Celebs to "Vignette"</p> <p>Just a thought/wish... Thanks for the AWESOME program!</p> <p>Matt </p>