Wallpaper Slideshow Pro

Automatically change your desktop background wallpaper

Wallpaper Slideshow Pro is the evolution of Wallpaper Slideshow LT, it has been improved by adding lots of new features to better handle image resize, overlay captions on the wallpapers and much more.

Try it free for 30 days !

Wallpaper Slideshow Pro is a wallpaper changer utility. It's the perfect program for displaying your favorite photos as desktop wallpaper. Wallpaper Slideshow offers you complete control of your wallpapers collection. It has lots of options that allows you to customize the way wallpapers are created, for example for each image you can decide whether it must be automatically resized to fit the screen, centered, tiled or spanned across your multiple monitors. It is also possible to overlay a calendar, text or info taken from exif/iptc/xmp fields on your wallpapers. A new wallpaper can be set on windows startup, at regular intervals or manually when you press a hotkey or double click on its icon. Wallpaper Slideshow is simple to use, intuitive and complete with full context-sensitive help.

Key features include:

User friendly interface with full context-sensitive help
Displays an unlimited number of images
Displays images randomly or sequentially
Supports JPG, GIF, PNG, TIF, BMP file formats.
Can change wallpaper automatically after a specified time period (e.g. every 60 minutes)
Can change wallpaper on every Windows startup
Automatically resizes images to fit your screen size, it has advanced options to limit resize of small images or to fill the screen without distorting images.
Automatically displays frames around your images
High quality image resize (bicubic interpolation)
Easy subdirectory selection and files exclusion
Easy image filtering by keyword or rating
Display images randomly or in a sorted sequence (by file name or by file date)
Can use a different background color for each wallpaper
Use a system tray icon for an easy control of the software
Ability to hide your Windows desktop icons
Display a preview of selected wallpapers
Multi monitor support. Each monitor can have a different wallpaper or a single wallpaper can be spanned on all monitors.
Smooth wallpaper change using a dissolve transition effect
Scrapbook mode. When Scrapbook is enabled wallpaper is composed by a background image and several smaller overlapped pictures. Click here to see an example
With RssFeeds plugin WallpaperSS can download photos from most online photo galleries such as Flickr, Picasa, Panoramio, Tumblr, Smugmug and others. In addition it is possible to display news from RSS feeds over the desktop wallpaper.
Full Flickr integration ! The Flickr plugins allows to download public and private photos from Flickr Photostreams, Groups and Sets (click to see how to use WallpaperSS as Flickr Wallpaper Changer).
Can display custom captions with Exif,IPTC,XMP metadata support
Can overlay on wallpapers a monthly calendar
Can save/restore desktop icons positions
Hotkeys to quickly change wallpaper or start the screen saver
Images can be assigned to groups to easily and quickly switch from one set of images to another one. For example a set of images to be used when in office and another one to use when at home.
Color Management. Wallpaper Slideshow can read and use embedded ICC color profiles and AdobeRGB exif tag
PlugIns support
Easy install/uninstall

Still not convinced to try Wallpaper Slideshow Pro ? Take a look at the Wallpaper Slideshow tutorial and see how easy is to configure it and how many features are available !

What's new:

Version 3.4.0

New: Added comparison operators to the rating based filters
Fixed: Hotkeys for some keys like PageUp or PageDown can't be set correctly
Fixed: Sometimes when a game exits from full screen mode and restores the previous screen size the change is not detected

Version 3.3.0

New: Added an option to always choose the pictures for the secondary monitors from the same folder selected for the primary one.
New: Added 5 configurable external tools, they can be used to mark photos or to edit them with your preferred program
New: Added more hotkeys

Version 3.2.0

New: Now it is possible to set different filters for files displayed as background and files displayed as scrapbook
New: Improved the change & exit option, now it is possible to configure WallpaperSS to change wallpaper only if the scheduled time elapsed
New: Added a button to clear cached file list and reset the slideshow
New: Added more hotkeys
New: Added a menu item to rebuild current wallpaper by reloading original files
New: Improved Plugins window

Version 3.1.3

Fixed: On windows 7 and 8 when Large Text (150%) is used wallpaper may be created with a wrong size

Version 3.1.2

Fixed: GSP coordinates are always displayed in the format degrees minute seconds

Version 3.1.1

Fixed: On Windows 8 text overlaid on images is not displayed correctly when antialias option is not enabled

Version 3.1.0

Fixed: On windows 7 when taskbar is set to autohide it flashes briefly when changing wallpaper using smooth transitions
Fixed: Improved compatibility with Windows 8

Version 3.0.1

Fixed: Navigation in the history doesn't work correctly
Fixed: On Windows XP removing an item from images list displays some error windows
Fixed: When Scrapbook is enabled filters on rating and keyword always exclude all pictures

Version 3.0.0

New: Scrapbook mode. Wallpaper is composed by a background image and several smaller overlapped pictures
New: Added another randomization option. When this option is selected WallpaperSS will choose the first file randomly, then subsequent files will be picked-up randomly in the same folder until when they are finished
New: Added an option to first display newly added pictures in random mode
New: It is now possible to sort automatically added files by exif date/time
New: Drag&Drop to reorder items in the wallpapers list and other user interface improvements
New: It is now possible to add files and folder by dragging them with windows explorer
New: Added options to filter images for their size (width or height)
New: Added tray menu items:
Open original wallpaper file with the associated program
Open containing folder with windows explorer
New: Set Windows Aero Color with current wallpaper colors
New: Added more options for automatic color calculation for wallpaper background and frame
New: Now WallpaperSS can display the same picture on all monitors
New: Options to combine stretch and crop to fit images to screen
New: Stop wallpaper change timer when automatic pause is active
New: Automatically pause wallpaper change when specified programs are running or when the computer is running with battery (laptops only)