Is there a way to do this?

On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 23:56:39 -0400, wrote:

Sorry, I couldn’t think of another sunject.

Okay, I found what is to me a very nice wallpaper for my computer. I’m into space and astronomy so I really like this picture. Here is a link to it:
http://www.folkusa.org/pleiades.jpg

My question, or challenge if anyone wants to take it up, is there any way of making stars (not all of them, that would take forever, and not necessarily the big ones in the center) twinkle in this picture, and then still be able to use it as wallpaper? My first thought was to do an animated GIF file, and randomly black out, then restore stars in the pic. Tedious, to be sure, but would that work? And since it would then be a GIF file, would it still work as wallpaper in Windows 7? Or is there possibly another way of making stars twinkle? Thanks for reading and for any suggestions.

I am sure there is a way to do what you want to do because I just checked out a screensaver that has twinkling stars at
http://www.screensavers-themes.com/twinkling_stars_screensav er.html

If you go there and download this screensaver to see what it does, when you go to install it, it asks you if you want to install a bunch of other junk…..just click on No….like I did. It does have lots of twinkling stars, so there must be some way to do it…but from what I’ve read so far, it seems you may need to use Adobe’s After Effects or Flash to make it.

Talker

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On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 23:56:39 -0400, wrote:

Sorry, I couldn’t think of another sunject.

Okay, I found what is to me a very nice wallpaper for my computer. I’m into
space and astronomy so I really like this picture. Here is a link to it:
http://www.folkusa.org/pleiades.jpg

My question, or challenge if anyone wants to take it up, is there any way of
making stars (not all of them, that would take forever, and not necessarily the
big ones in the center) twinkle in this picture, and then still be able to use
it as wallpaper? My first thought was to do an animated GIF file, and randomly
black out, then restore stars in the pic. Tedious, to be sure, but would that
work? And since it would then be a GIF file, would it still work as wallpaper in
Windows 7? Or is there possibly another way of making stars twinkle? Thanks for
reading and for any suggestions.

I am sure there is a way to do what you want to do because I just checked out a screensaver that has twinkling stars at
http://www.screensavers-themes.com/twinkling_stars_screensav er.html
If you go there and download this screensaver to see what it does, when you go to install it, it asks you if you want to install a bunch of other junk…..just click on No….like I did. It does have lots of twinkling stars, so there must be some way to do it…but from what I’ve read so far, it seems you may need to use Adobe’s After Effects or Flash to make it.

Talker

I am not an expert, and someone will probably tell me this, and I am wrong, but I don’t think it can be done as wallpaper. A screensaver, if you made a flash or animated gif (though it would have to be pretty big and might lose detail) and used a flash (animated) screensaver maker. I have downloaded trials of these, and played around with them. But wallpaper is just that, wallpaper. I’ve never seen anything set as wallpaper (that wasn’t a screensaver) that moved or did anything.
I suppose you could google it, like "animated wallpaper" and see what comes up.

I agree with Carrie,

Another Simple soulution could be:.

1. Why don’t you create a new layer.
2. On the top layer create some twinkling stars or whatever you want to add to the photo.

I would either use Flash or Fireworks, with probably a brush effect using stars.

You could randomly fade IN and OUT as many layers as you want to make it look realistic.

You could even try different coloured layers, which would look amazing, with the Fade IN / OUT effect.

Try it, and post what your results are, even if it looks rubbish

Thats the way to learn 🙂

On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 23:56:39 -0400, wrote:

Sorry, I couldn’t think of another sunject.

Okay, I found what is to me a very nice wallpaper for my computer. I’m into space and astronomy so I really like this picture. Here is a link to it:
http://www.folkusa.org/pleiades.jpg

My question, or challenge if anyone wants to take it up, is there any way of making stars (not all of them, that would take forever, and not necessarily the big ones in the center) twinkle in this picture, and then still be able to use it as wallpaper? My first thought was to do an animated GIF file, and randomly black out, then restore stars in the pic. Tedious, to be sure, but would that work? And since it would then be a GIF file, would it still work as wallpaper in Windows 7? Or is there possibly another way of making stars twinkle? Thanks for reading and for any suggestions.

Life is Good !!!

Desktop animated wallpaper…

It actually sorta works:
http://artdigitaldesign.com/
http://www.artdigitaldesign.com/desktop-animated-wallpaper/? multimedia/animated-wallpapers/ http://www.wallpapers.com/

It’s a nice idea BUT

I don’t even have a picture as a desktop background because it does slow "loading" the desktop.
I’m a believer that nothing should go on a desktop except shortcuts. My Docs isn’t actually on the desktop

In Photoshop open the star-field.jpg and crop the image to the size of the desktop. I would then duplicate it and paint titanium white on certain stars to brighten them. Duplicate the original and darken certain stars to subdue them. Save the three images. Then go here and see if it’ll work with big ones: http://picasion.com/ Gifs basically cycle through images, so the three star images played as a fast slideshow should "twinkle". If you have a hotrod computer/graphics, it could work.

Ulead Gif Animator is good… it can create a transition between images, speed control, so gifs play smooth; $$ but maybe the trial isn’t watermarked. And what is this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_GIF_Animator

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On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 23:56:39 -0400, wrote:

Sorry, I couldn’t think of another sunject.

Okay, I found what is to me a very nice wallpaper for my computer. I’m into
space and astronomy so I really like this picture. Here is a link to it:
http://www.folkusa.org/pleiades.jpg

My question, or challenge if anyone wants to take it up, is there any way of
making stars (not all of them, that would take forever, and not necessarily the
big ones in the center) twinkle in this picture, and then still be able to use
it as wallpaper? My first thought was to do an animated GIF file, and randomly
black out, then restore stars in the pic. Tedious, to be sure, but would that
work? And since it would then be a GIF file, would it still work as wallpaper in
Windows 7? Or is there possibly another way of making stars twinkle? Thanks for
reading and for any suggestions.

I am sure there is a way to do what you want to do because I just checked out a screensaver that has twinkling stars at
http://www.screensavers-themes.com/twinkling_stars_screensav er.html
If you go there and download this screensaver to see what it does, when you go to install it, it asks you if you want to install a bunch of other junk…..just click on No….like I did. It does have lots of twinkling stars, so there must be some way to do it…but from what I’ve read so far, it seems you may need to use Adobe’s After Effects or Flash to make it.

Talker

Okay, there’s something I had (before reinstalling Windows a few months back) that would let you set an animation or movie as desktop. It would play the movie full screen on the desktop. I tried it a few times, after reading about how to do it (setting). I even think there were movies you could use from the program, like get online. I remember putting an animated waterfall on mine to try it. Looked it up VLC Media Player. Just remembered this, trying to think how it works. Think you start the movie and set it to full screen or desk top, and it comes on the desktop, showing under your links-whatever on it and plays. Thus you could watch the movie (or whatever) while doing other things. This was distracting to me and I have too much ON my desktop (on top of the picture). Also, I have 2 monitors so can watch a movie on the 2nd one while doing other things on the main one. But it might be something to look into. If you made a flash movie of flashing stars, or gif (though I don’t know how big you can make an animated gif and have it look good/clear)
Coffee Cup has "Firestarter" not sure if it would make something like that, I once bought the program (when it came out it was offered half price and looked like fun) but never got into it or figured it out, and have been on-going trying to learn Adobe Flash since it was Macromedia and I had version 5 (I’m up to CS3 now) But, Firestarter is supposed to be an easy way to make animations and effects and they give a free trial (last I knew) But, I am thinking the VLC Media player will do what you want. You’d have to make your own movie for it (somehow) or maybe they have one with sparkling stars. Wish I could remember more of the details but I had the program (to play DVDs) and read about using it for full screen animations on the desktop and tried it a few times. It would set the movie (from wherever) on the desktop behind whatever you had on it. Though, of course, you’d have to have the program running to get it like that, I don’t know if you could permanently set it to stay on. Maybe…

On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 08:52:58 -0400, "Carrie"
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Okay, there’s something I had (before reinstalling Windows a few months back) that would let you set an animation or movie as desktop. It would play the movie full screen on the desktop. I tried it a few times, after reading about how to do it (setting). I even think there were movies you could use from the program, like get online. I remember putting an animated waterfall on mine to try it.

And some people wonder how viruses and trojans get spread while Dipshit here gives proof how it happens. How fucking often do you have to reinstall your OS because you’ve fucked it up beyond recovery, two, three times a year?

I didn’t think WinDer(s) would use GIF(s) as Annimated Background Wallpaper(s) ???
…. guess I’d better google: "animated GIF files as background wallpaper in Windows 7", eh ???

10/4 M.D.

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Sorry, I couldn’t think of another sunject.

Okay, I found what is to me a very nice wallpaper for my computer. I’m

into

space and astronomy so I really like this picture. Here is a link to it:
http://www.folkusa.org/pleiades.jpg

My question, or challenge if anyone wants to take it up, is there any way

of

making stars (not all of them, that would take forever, and not

necessarily the

big ones in the center) twinkle in this picture, and then still be able to

use

it as wallpaper? My first thought was to do an animated GIF file, and

randomly

black out, then restore stars in the pic. Tedious, to be sure, but would

that

work? And since it would then be a GIF file, would it still work as

wallpaper in

Windows 7? Or is there possibly another way of making stars twinkle?

Thanks for

reading and for any suggestions.