Automatic Wallpaper Changer 4.5.35

Automatic Wallpaper Changer 4.5.35 helps you to display images as your desktop wallpaper. You can simply display your photos on your desktop or create spectacular wallpapers by merging your images with the background of your choice using powerful alpha-blended fades.

Just select one or more directories containing picture files and AWC will create a list of all the images contained in them, randomly select one and format it using a combination of the many available options. In version 4.5 you can save your current settings and image folders to a file as a Theme. This lets you create image themes which can be quickly loaded later. You can also now put a frame around the displayed image.

AWC's timer automatically changes the desktop to display your pictures in the way that you want to see them. Just select one or more directories containing picture files and AWC will create a list of all the images contained in them, randomly select one and format it using a combination of the many available options. Added in V4.3 is the option to display a different image on each monitor if you have more than one attached to your computer.

The displayed image can be resized for the best fit to the screen, optionally maintaining its aspect ratio, or displayed at its actual size. There is a number of resizing methods available so you can choose the one the gives the best quality and performance for your system. 

Major Features:

1. Select files from multiple directories and their subdirectories if required
2. Multiple resizing options: Full Screen, Best Fit and Worst Fit
3. When resizing you can pick the method that gives your pictures the best result (Catmull-Rom and Lanczos supported)
4. Alpha blended fade effects for seamless merging of the wallpaper and background
5. Multi-monitor systems can display the image properly resized on all monitors or display a different image on each monitor
6. Tile a background image onto the screen before displaying the wallpaper on top of it
7. Save you current preferences to a file as a theme to be reloaded later
8. Enhance brightness, contrast and gamma correction independently from your monitor settings
9. Change wallpaper at user defined intervals or once at startup
10. The AWC screen saver shows your wallpapers in all their glory by removing the windows and icons
11. Apply various graphic effects when displaying such as invert and emboss
12. Use hotkeys to change the desktop on demand
13. Automatically check your image directories to see if any new files have been downloaded and add them to the display list
14. Ensure that each image in the list is displayed only once, even across Windows sessions
15. Virtually unlimited number of images can be displayed
16. Use EXIF orientation flag in photographs to automatically rotate images
17. Display the file name on the image
18. Filter the files to display by age, date and minimum size
19. Multiple tiling options
20. Image formats supported are BMP, JPG, JPEG, GIF, PNG, PCX, TGA, RLE.

Enhancements:

• Save your current settings and image folders to a file as a Theme. This lets you create image themes which can be quickly loaded later
• You can now put a frame around the displayed image
• Swap images around on multi-monitor displays (Edit/Rotate)
• Tray icon text now shows full path info to displayed files with ellipsis if too long to fit
• New users are prompted for the image directory to use at start-up
• Default settings set to what is most commonly required.