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DeskScapes, personalize your desktop background with animated pictures and video

DeskScapes · published 14 Jul 2021, 17:27 UTC

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DeskScapes is Now Available in Steam Early Access

Stardock’s popular desktop background management application brings animated background creation, cloud wallpaper library integration, and more to Windows Users

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1027220

Stardock released their popular desktop management application, DeskScapes, into Early Access on Steam today. DeskScapes brings a host of desktop background features to Windows, including animated wallpapers, advanced background customization, and more.

The newest version, DeskScapes, builds on the successes of all the versions that came before it and adds several highly desired features, including seamless cloud integration for downloading and sharing backgrounds, cycling playlists, and many new special effects.

“The new version of DeskScapes is compelling both for animated and standard wallpapers,” said Brad Wardell, CEO of Stardock. “For fans of animated wallpapers, we include DreamMaker Pro, which is both powerful and easy to use for creating or enhancing desktop backgrounds. We also added seamless integration to cloud-based services for finding desktop backgrounds.”

DeskScapes is designed to extend the Windows built-in desktop background manager to support features such as adding custom directories for backgrounds, fast searching, timed playlists, playing videos as backgrounds, online cloud integration, similar background search, additional scaling and sizing options, advanced multi-monitor customization, colorization, wallpaper filters, scheduling and more.

The included DreamMaker Pro tool makes it easy to create animated backgrounds. It includes dozens of different effects, drawing tools, brushes, logos, particle effects, and much more.

With DeskScapes, users will be able to:

Create animated backgrounds using pictures and video
Explore different customization options including drawing tools, brushes, logos, and particle effects
Customize backgrounds with dozens of special effects
Share creations easily via seamless cloud integration
Browse thousands of backgrounds from within the app
Add backgrounds to a cycling playlist
Display system resources or add a clock directly to the desktop background

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Game update14 Sep 2023DeskScapes 11 Minor UpdateA minor update for DeskScapes 11 has been pushed to Steam. No version change; rather, some minor tweaks and changes to how DeskScapes is managed on Steam. Sean Drohan Stardock Product Lifecycle Manager Community28 Jun 2023Now Available: DeskScapes 11Popular desktop background management application brings animated background creation, cloud wallpaper library integration, and more. Stardock released DeskScapes 11 today. DeskScapes adds a host of desktop background features to Windows, including animated wallpapers, advanced background customization, and much more. DeskScapes 11 adds a powerful design tool for creating animated wallpapers, a…Game update20 Dec 2021Update notes for December 20, 2021This release includes enhancements to improve interoperability between Stardock products for additional updates in the future.