How to make your own screensavers.
Do you want to make your own screensavers?
Well here is how you can do just that. Simply download one of these software programs. |
Want to customize your screensavers even more?
View my guide on how to add your own clocks and calendars to the "Screensaver Factory" software. You can view my guide down below on this page. |
Screensaver Wonder (Get now)
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Screensaver Wonder is a screensaver software for personal, non-commercial use only. It includes essential features and allows creating non-commercial screensavers.
Screensaver Factory (Get now)
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Screensaver Factory is a much more powerful screensaver software designed for professional and commercial use. It can be used for creating advanced screensavers, marketing, brand advertising and for creating screensavers for sale. Also has an added feature that lets you add a clock, calenders and or RSS feeds to your screensavers.
Compare the difference between versions.
Standard |
Professional |
Enterprise |
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Make image, video and flash screensavers |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Create self-installing screensavers and CDs |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Create time and feature limited screensavers |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Royalty-free distribution rights |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Display image banner in settings window |
✓ |
✓ |
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Change default screensaver icon |
✓ |
✓ |
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✓ |
✓ |
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Multi-language support |
✓ |
✓ |
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Open web links from screensaver |
✓ |
✓ |
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Put clock and calendar on your screensaver "View My Tutorial Below To Learn How To Add Your Own Custom Clocks & Calendars To Screensaver Factory." |
✓ |
✓ |
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Create RSS screensavers |
✓ |
✓ |
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Display your logo on all images |
✓ |
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Display image popup on exit (can link to web) |
✓ |
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Create slideshow presentations in EXE format |
✓ |
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✓ |
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Build screensavers from command line |
✓ |
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Multi-monitor support (picture screensavers) |
up to 2 |
up to 3 |
up to 5 |
Use on one computer and one laptop only |
✓ |
✓ |
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Use on up to 3 computers |
✓ |
For "Screensaver Factory" users.
If you want to add your own custom clocks and calendar you can do-so.
If you want to add your own custom clocks and calendar you can do-so.
This is not an official feature, but if you're an advanced user and you like to experiment, you can do it like this:
On your Windows PC. go to the C:\Program Files , than go to the "Screensaver Factory" folder, than go to the "data" folder; than go to either the "clocks" folder or the "calendars" folder.
Here is an example path: C:\Program Files\Screensaver Factory 7\data\clocks
You will see folders like: 01, 02, 03, ... - just create a new folder (You can name it whatever you like), copy the files from an existing clock or calendar into that new folder, than Edit the "calendar.ini" or "sfclock.ini" file in that new folder
(See My Guide Below) and replace the .png files with the new .png files you want to use.
Note though that only 32-bit PNG images are properly supported. And for the images of the clocks and clock hands they will need to be = in width and height like 700px by 700px.
Doing this will let you add new clocks and calendars to the selection list in the "Screensaver Factory" software program when you go to create your screensavers.
Note if you upgrade your "Screensaver Factory" software then your custom added clocks and calendars way get deleted, so you should bake-up all the new clocks and calendars files you make so that you can re-add them after you install the new upgraded "Screensaver Factory" software.
On your Windows PC. go to the C:\Program Files , than go to the "Screensaver Factory" folder, than go to the "data" folder; than go to either the "clocks" folder or the "calendars" folder.
Here is an example path: C:\Program Files\Screensaver Factory 7\data\clocks
You will see folders like: 01, 02, 03, ... - just create a new folder (You can name it whatever you like), copy the files from an existing clock or calendar into that new folder, than Edit the "calendar.ini" or "sfclock.ini" file in that new folder
(See My Guide Below) and replace the .png files with the new .png files you want to use.
Note though that only 32-bit PNG images are properly supported. And for the images of the clocks and clock hands they will need to be = in width and height like 700px by 700px.
Doing this will let you add new clocks and calendars to the selection list in the "Screensaver Factory" software program when you go to create your screensavers.
Note if you upgrade your "Screensaver Factory" software then your custom added clocks and calendars way get deleted, so you should bake-up all the new clocks and calendars files you make so that you can re-add them after you install the new upgraded "Screensaver Factory" software.
For clocks: For the clocks you need to create a text file in the new folder and name the text file "sfclock.ini" and in the text file put this:
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than save the text file.
Now you need to create the images.
Note though that only 32-bit PNG images are properly supported.
And for the images of the clocks and clock hands they need to be = in width and height like 700px by 700px.
For the images you put into the new folder you created.
The image names need to be:
For the clocks face: face.png
For the clocks second hand: hand1-sek.png You don't have to have a seconds hand if you don't want to.
For the clocks minute hand: hand2-min.png
For the clocks hour hand: hand3-h.png
Now you need to create the images.
Note though that only 32-bit PNG images are properly supported.
And for the images of the clocks and clock hands they need to be = in width and height like 700px by 700px.
For the images you put into the new folder you created.
The image names need to be:
For the clocks face: face.png
For the clocks second hand: hand1-sek.png You don't have to have a seconds hand if you don't want to.
For the clocks minute hand: hand2-min.png
For the clocks hour hand: hand3-h.png
Here are some free clock face's and hand's that you can download and use: Click Here to get to the downloads page.
For calendars: For the calendars you need to create a new folder than a new text file in the new folder an name the text file "calendar.ini" and in the text file put this:
To make things easier, go to one of the existing calendar folders and copy the file named "calendar.ini" and past the file in the new calendars folder you made. Note the codes in the "calendar.ini" files are a little different to compensate for the different calendar images. This means you may need to edit the codes to compensate for the new calendar image you use. |
Now you need to create the calendar image.
Note though that only 32-bit PNG images are properly supported.
And for the image of the calendar it needs to be about 700px to 800px in width and height.
The image needs to go in the new folder you created.
The image name needs to be: face.png
And again you may need to edit the coding in the "calendar.ini" file to compensate for the placement of the date's on the new calendar image.
Note though that only 32-bit PNG images are properly supported.
And for the image of the calendar it needs to be about 700px to 800px in width and height.
The image needs to go in the new folder you created.
The image name needs to be: face.png
And again you may need to edit the coding in the "calendar.ini" file to compensate for the placement of the date's on the new calendar image.