Photo screen saver

I'm trying to figure out how to control which photos go to the screen saver on the apple tv. Not the photo stream, but my albums. I would like it to play multiple albums at the same time, and yet current downloaded photos do not appear. Help

Welcome to the Apple Community.
You can only select a single album to use with the screensaver. You can make that choice in settings > screensaver.

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Photos screen saver crashes most of the time when I move the mouse to exit.
Round circle, this application is not responding etc.
This is pc upgraded from Vista

Hi sven253,
Is there any third party screen saver software installed? If so, please uninstall it and see if the issue occurs.
As Magon mentioned, Clean Boot is a good method to check if the issue is related to third party software and services. If the issue disappears in the Clean Boot environment, we can use a 50/50 approach to quickly narrow down which entry is causing the issue.
Also, please test the Sample Pictures came with Windows 7 and see if the issue exists:
1.     Right click on the Desktop and then click Personalize.
2.     Click Screen Saver.
3.     Select Photos and then click Settings…
4.     Browse the folder to C:\Users\Public\Pictures\Sample Pictures
5.     Click Save.
6.     Click OK.
What is the result? If the issue persists, please test if the issue occurs using other screen saver, such as 3D Text or Bubbles. However, if the issue does not occur using Sample Pictures, could you please provide the following information for further research?
·          What is the file types you are using? Are they .jpg file or .bmp files?
·          What are the file size of each photo?
·          How many files are there in photo folder?
·          When did the issue first occur? Did it occur after installing certain software or changing some hardware?
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Linda

Photo Screen Saver weird random images appear

When the photo screen saver runs, I get random icons pictures appear on top of good photos. Pictures of Country flags, tiki masks, guitars, and other iconic like pictures show up on hi-res photos. It randomly happens, and I do not have these other pictures stored anywhere on the mac... I know it sounds a little crazy, but does anybody else have this problem?

This is not isolated to Leopard 10.5.X only.
I had the same weirdness with 10.4.X.
The Pictures folder inside your home directory is the root of all your iPhoto pictures database, iChat icons and what ever pictures you put in there.
If in Screen Saver you chose your Pictures folder then Screen Saver has access to every single picture within that folder. That includes iChat icons and your iPhoto folder.
Some of the weird pictures I saw came from the iChat icon folder. The pixelated and vertical pictures that you see comes from the iPhoto folder. The pixelated ones are the cashed iPhoto icons and the vertical ones are the original unmodified iPhoto photos. Yes rotating a picture is a modified one.
Before iPhoto 2008 the contents of the iPhoto folder was viewable by anyone. With iPhoto 2008 the folder looks like a single file. That was most likely to stop inexperienced users from wrecking havoc to there iPhoto database and then complaining about iPhoto.
I do not remember if the database of iPhoto 2006 is closed or opened and I do not know Screen Saver will have access to the contents of the now closed iPhoto 2008 data file.
You might still have weird iChat icons, that look like flags, if you chose the Pictures folder.. if default link iChat icons is still there.
I do not personally use the Screen Saver but I am pretty sure that by choosing an iPhoto folder will fix the weirdness permanently.
Hope this helps

Photo screen saver pixellated after Leopard installation???

Did an archive and install of Leopard (past experience tells me to NEVER do an upgrade to a new OS), and everything seems great, except for my screen saver. I am set up for a slideshow screen saver, and now, half the images in the screen saver come out pixellated in the screen saver. The original images in iPhoto are perfectly fine, just when they're viewed through screen saver.

Hi Brad.
I tried installing Onyx (version 1.8.3) and got a message saying it wouldn't run with my version of the OS. I am running 10.5.1 (Leopard). Which version of Onyx did you use?
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I have the same issue.
Try this. I think this has worked for me. Only time will tell.
This solved my question by dominic23 on Oct 22, 2014 4:33 PM
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Hold the option key down and click the "Go" menu in the Finder menubar.
Select "Library" from the dropdown, then "Preferences" folder.
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com.apple.desktop.plist
com.apple.systempreferences.plist
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Is google photo screen saver incompatiblwe with the new Firefox 4? It worked fine till I downloaded the new FF 4. Any fixes?

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How to Slow Down Classic Photo Screen Saver?

I had found, through an internet search, a parameter that could be modified to set the duration that each image is on the screen. After the upgrade to Mavericks, though, the structure of the files and parameter names seems to have changed, and I can't figure out how to accomplish this. Help?

Quote from: gman1001 on 29-January-07, 06:24:40
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Another question for you. Earlier you had directed me to go into the BIOS and "LOAD BIOS OPTIMISED DEFAULT"
I cannot find this option... I can find an option for setting Defaults. Do you think its the same thing?
Do you see any issues with my other bios settings?
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"I cannot find this option... I can find an option for setting Defaults. Do you think its the same thing?"
yes
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I tried to make a smaller facebook photo more visible by trying to make it my screen saver and now i do not know how to get rid of. it always shows up on screen when i open my computer but is still small

== Issue
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I have another kind of problem with Firefox
== Description
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i tried to make a smaller facebook photo more distinct by hitting something to make it screen saver. it now shows up each time i open my computer but still is small. i cannot determined how to get rid of?
<blockquote>Edited by moderator to remove all caps. Please don't yell. -T</blockquote>
== This happened
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Every time Firefox opened
== i tried to make a small facebook photo screen saver
==
== Firefox version
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false
== Operating system
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Windows XP
== User Agent
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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100315 Firefox URIAPRO[]
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*Shockwave Flash 9.0 r28
*The QuickTime Plugin allows you to view a wide variety of multimedia content in Web pages. For more information, visit the QuickTime Web site.
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*6.0.12.1040
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Touchsmart Envy 23 screen saver locks with photos

Screen freezes when trying to exit photo screen saver. Screen saver works fine with pictures rotating, but locks up when I try to get out of it. Changed back to bubbles and other generic windows screen savers and it works fine. Only when in photo mode does it do this...?????

I understand the PC freezes when exiting the photo screensaver.
Try this Microsoft FixIt and let me know what happens.
http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9726338&entrypointid=MATSKB
It does seem to be related to something that is in the photos library/folder since other screensavers work fine.
What is the product number of the PC? This can be found in the same area of the serial number.
NOTE: Do NOT provide the serial number.
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Now that Mobile Me is gone, how can i get my iPhoto images to run as my screen saver in Apple TV?

Since the demile of Mobile Me my Photos screen saver on Apple TV gives me the options of Neo Geo, Amimals, Flowers, Flickr, Photo Stream and Album Artwork. Can i get my iPhoto albums to reappear somehow?

Welcome to the Apple Community.
Share your photos in iPhoto with the Apple TV using the Advanced menu in iTunes, then select the album of your choice to use as a screensaver in the screensaver settings on the Apple TV.

Screen Saver - can't use any iPhoto images

I know that there have been reports of the mosaic screen saver with iPhoto not working, but I can't get any type of photo screen saver working with iPhoto. If I click on an iPhoto event, album or just iPhoto, I get the spinning ball for about 30 minutes before System Preferences crashes.
Has anyone else seen this? I am using the latest version of iPhoto. All the photos in my iPhoto library are actually stored in an Aperture library.

My guess is that ILMediaBrowser is referring to the iLife Media Browser. You might run Software Update and see if you somehow missed an update to it. However, if it worked with a new iPhoto Library I think the iLife Media Browser is probably OK, but there is something funky in the innards of your original iPhoto Library that is crashing the Media Browser.
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"Ken Burns" and other photo screen savers scramble my display

I have a three-display Mac Pro which I have just upgraded to Mavericks. My rightmost display is a Dell P2012H rotated 90º, and every time a photo-based screen saver activates, that display gets scrambled. While the screen saver is running it looks like one of those tile-shifting puzzles being randomized, except instead of a single image it's a combination of the desktop and whatever screensaver image was being displayed. When the screensaver deactivates, the display stays in whatever state it was last in while the screen saver was running, making that display completely useless. In order to reset it I have to switch resolutions and then switch back.
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“...not use Ken Burns with vertically oriented photos...” -- WHAT!?!?!?!?!?! You’re kidding, right?
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...So, can you tell me if the Ken Burns Effect has been fixed in the latest iLife 11 version of iMovie to treat ALL photos equally?

I figured out how to put photos onto the Apple TV Screen-Saver

I was having trouble using photos with the Apple TV screen saver.
I got as far as putting them into the photo stream, but some photos were crooked, with no way of editing them.
I called Apple, they didn't know what to do.
I am submitting this after calling Tech Support at Apple, wanting to give them the information...don't know if they really took it to heart. I figured this out myself with the help of my son.
I want to share it with others.
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I clicked onto "iCloud Photos"
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Settings:
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Click on "Photos"
Click on "iCloud Photos"
Click on the file you named on your PC.
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When done, go to your "Camera Roll" and delete these photos.

This issue is resolved, through the generous advice of folks on this page.
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