Dynamic Collage Wallpaper, does this exist?

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    I have a large ultrawide monitor and I would love the ability to set a directory of images and have a wallpaper that swaps them in and out dynamically. Does this exist? I can't believe that I'm the first person to want it but my googling just takes me to tutorials on how to create a collage.

    Does this make sense? Is this technically feasible in Windows?
     
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    Paladin said:
    That is built into Windows. You can just tell it the folder to use for wallpaper and how often to change it. It's not a 'collage' like multiple images at once, you can have it sort of stretch them to fit, tile or whatever.
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    I can change them, sure but I want something more than that. Closer to the old Mac screen saver that would add pictures in. A single image stretched to an ultrawide is terrible. I can make a bunch of collages and switch between them but that's a lot of work.
     
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    There are tons of free applications and online services to generate the collage images for you, most in a fairly decent way. If you are willing to accept a randomized collage generated without your input for a wallpaper switcher, it should be about the same results from a few minutes of work to grab some images at random and make collages and then set them as the wallpaper for Windows.

    For a fully automated option, I don't know of any. There are screensavers like that but not desktop background generators.
     
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    Sad to think Prompt Engineer being a real job demanding more money then actual programing because some moron will hype it up so much.

    But Like the 3rd link of what i typed in came up with this which sounds like what you want.
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    John’s Background Switcher for Windows

    News! John’s Background Switcher 5.8 has been released! Read all about it here! I can’t stand plain, boring backgrounds. John’s Background Switcher (or JBS for short) periodically…
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    Of course not built into windows. But at least it is automated.
     
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    Good find! I tried it and it should work though it can take a good while to make a collage from a folder of a lot of large files. I thought it was crashed or something for a while but after a few minutes it finally kicked in and made an image.

    So yeah, it worked... though I have to say that I prefer making the images myself. The results I got were not really enjoyable, just a mess of pictures that would normally be nice for a wallpaper but now shrunk down to way too small to see properly and all jumbled up. Instead, I made some of my own 'collages' of classic and beautiful movie posters and promotional images stacked side by side for a wide screen, dual screen layout. Works great, though it took an hour or so getting them stitched together the way I wanted.
     
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    Paladin said:
    Good find! I tried it and it should work though it can take a good while to make a collage from a folder of a lot of large files. I thought it was crashed or something for a while but after a few minutes it finally kicked in and made an image.

    So yeah, it worked... though I have to say that I prefer making the images myself. The results I got were not really enjoyable, just a mess of pictures that would normally be nice for a wallpaper but now shrunk down to way too small to see properly and all jumbled up. Instead, I made some of my own 'collages' of classic and beautiful movie posters and promotional images stacked side by side for a wide screen, dual screen layout. Works great, though it took an hour or so getting them stitched together the way I wanted.
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    I'm going to try it today. I may hate it but I like to see a variety of images and I have a lot of screen real estate to work with. I may just realize the background is always covered by windows anyway.
     
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    Paladin said:
    Yes to that last bit as well. Mine is always full of windows but I find it a good stress reducer to simply click that bottom right corner now and then and see something nice once everything flies away. :D
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    Yes very much that. I do photography as a hobby and I like to see my images to remind myself that life isn't just toiling away at my computer...
     
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