Animated Screensaver Maker

If you find a neat aquarium screensaver, you will be disappointed when you will learn that you have to pay for it if you want more fish. If you don't like paying for something as simple as a screensaver, you can use Animated Screensaver Maker to create your own. The software provides you with various tools to transform any plain picture into a neatly animated screensaver.

Animated Screensaver Maker is free to try without any serious restrictions. It works on all modern Windows platforms and it doesn't take long to install it. The application is not too demanding in terms of hardware requirements and it doesn't ask for any supplementary tools or drivers.

Mastering the controls on the application's user interface is not a challenging task. You can preview your screensaver in the central region of the interface and import new slides, import soundtracks, set up delays, add effects and tweak them, all around the preview area. When you are done, you can export your screensaver as a file on the hard drive or install it directly as your default screensaver.

The principle behind Animated Screensaver Maker is simple and particularly enjoying. After importing an image, you can browse through a wide range of preset effects on a separate window and apply one or more effects without any effort. The available effects bring some motion to your static image. For example, you can add falling leafs and grass being blown by the wind to a forest scenery. Applied effects are listed on the right side of the interface, where you can also tweak them through a series of sliders.

Besides adding moving objects over a picture, you can also make parts of the picture itself move, by using a series of special brushes. You can find the brushes among the aforementioned effects and insert and tweak them the same way. Once you insert a brush, you only need to select it and start clicking and dragging over the image. The results will be rippling water, trees being blown by the wind and so on.