That photo still stubbornly displays in portrait orientation, not landscape, so the subject is on its side. That works fine until it hits a photo that was captured in portrait orientation and that you rotated to landscape in Photos. So you pick one of Apple’s basic photo screen savers-my parents are not fond of the flippy, zippy ones where photos bounce frenetically-and configure it to display the images from a particular album. Why wouldn’t you use your iMac to shuffle through decades of family photos already stored on your computer? And there’s the trouble of managing albums and transferring them to a digital frame. (They’re special, but in this scenario, not unusual.) While digital picture frames are popular and ever larger-you can get affordable ones up to 15 inches-they still don’t compare to a 27-inch iMac. What’s the bug? Let’s imagine that you’re my parents. According to the author of ArtSaver, an independent macOS screen saver that offers many more options, Apple doesn’t allow third-party apps access to your Photos library. The big win of Apple’s photo screen savers is that they let you select photos from your Photos library or a folder. Apple’s Ken Burns screen saver, which pans and zooms through your photos, has been particularly popular, and the company has added numerous other photo-based screen savers to macOS over the years.īut therein lies the longstanding rub: an unresolved bug that spans many years.
If you want to refresh your visual memory of the core After Dark modules, see “ Revisit the Flying Toasters via CSS” (12 June 2015).īy the early 2000s, the world had moved on, which Apple helped by giving Mac OS X its own modular screen saver capabilities, with screen savers that display either pretty patterns or selections from your photos. Although the package was revived for Mac OS X, it never regained anything resembling its previous glory (see “ After Dark Returns for Mac OS X,” 9 June 2003). Sadly, After Dark-and its iconic flying toasters-never made the leap to Mac OS 9. After Dark was modular, supporting a fertile ecosystem of independent developers alongside licensed options from franchises like Star Trek, Disney, and Marvel Comics. In the days of After Dark, near the start of TidBITS in the early 1990s, screen savers were a big deal-they regularly made news. MacOS Photo Screen Savers Still Don’t Properly Display Rotated or Edited Images
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