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HOW DO I DISPLAY MY OWN IMAGES?

It's easy! Put all the jpg, gif and bmp files you want to display in a folder somewhere on your PC and remember where you put them.

Now go to the screensaver settings as explained above.

Once on the settings screen for 3D Desktop Jigsaw Puzzle Screensaver, set the Puzzle Image option to "Load a Random Image" and then click the big button below "Path To Load Puzzle Images From".

A dialog box will open up that lets you select a folder. Find the folder with your images in and select it. Then click OK.

And that's it. If you have selected a folder with the correct type of images in it (jpg, gif or bmp) the screensaver will now display them. You can now set the other options to whatever you like!

I usually don't listen to my friends or family when it comes to screensaver ideas, but don't tell them I said that. When a sentence starts with "what about a screensaver with..." I usually stick my fingers in my ears and start singing the Richmond Football Club song to drown out their silly ideas. I used to listen, but then I realised they were mostly silly, so I no longer bother. I'm not very nice these days...

Anyway, a while back now a friend of mine blurted out an idea so quickly that I didn't have time to stick my fingers in my ears. "What about a jigsaw puzzle?" he said, and when I thought about it, it was a pretty good idea indeed. That was all the details I got, and all that I needed to come up with something, and I think the result is really cool.

It took me a while to make all the 3D puzzle pieces, and then write a program that cut the picture up accordingly, and then told the pieces which other pieces they could connect to. I did it all in stages, and the result wasn't really what I had in mind at all. This result is so much better, that I'm glad it didn't work the way I expected.

So you can now have your desktop, or any other image, broken up into a jigsaw puzzle. The pieces fly around in 3D and seek out other pieces they can connect to, then they go off together seeking other pieces, and so on and so forth until the entire image is complete. Then it starts again.

I love it.

Enjoy!

v1.0 - 7th November, 2006 - Original Release
You desktop, or any other image, breaks up in 3D puzzle pieces which then slowly connect together to re-form the picture.