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ANNOUNCING: DeskScapes is Now Available in Steam Early Access!

Wednesday, July 14, 2021 by Island Dog | Discussion: WinCustomize News

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

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Stardock released their popular desktop management application, DeskScapesinto 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 

DeskScapes is available in Early Access on Steam for a limited time special pricing of $2.99
The beta available through Stardock's Object Desktop 

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New Curtains Themes to Download from Danioc!

Monday, July 12, 2021 by Island Dog | Discussion: WinCustomize News

We are back from break and hope that everyone who celebrates July 4th had a fun and productive holiday. It seems like summer is halfway through, and it's certainly been a hot one so far!

Danioc has been remarkably busy over the past couple of weeks creating some new Curtains themes to share on WinCustomize! I wanted to take a few minutes and share what he's been working on.

Check out these and more in the Curtains gallery here.

Alpha 7

 

Eleven

 

Eleven Dark

 

Eleven Blue

Share Your July Desktops with the WinCustomize Community!

Monday, July 5, 2021 by Island Dog | Discussion: WinCustomize News

We hope you had a fun holiday weekend, and July continues to be a hot one! We love seeing your summer inspired desktop screenshots, so be sure to share with us what skins and themes you are using!

Post your desktops to the monthly thread here: https://forums.wincustomize.com/505719/

(This is a news thread and will be locked. Screenshot taken by DrJBHL)

 

Get Your Desktop Ready for the Fourth of July!

Tuesday, June 29, 2021 by Island Dog | Discussion: WinCustomize News

Independence Day is coming next week for us in the United States! As with many holidays it can also be a fun time to put some related content on your desktop. Fireworks are obviously a popular one, and we have quite a few of those in the animated wallpaper gallery. There's also a variety of other types of themes, and we'll highlight a few below!

Let us know what you're doing for July 4th this year!


American Flags

 

American Flag

 

Colorful Fireworks

 

USA Flag

 

American as Apple Pie

Save up to 50% on Stardock Software during our Summer Sale!

Thursday, June 24, 2021 by Tatiora | Discussion: WinCustomize News

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*Sale ends 07.08.21 at 1 PM ET. Prices may vary per distributor. Sale not valid for Ashampoo and Enterprise products.

New Galactic Civilizations IV Animated Wallpapers!

Monday, June 21, 2021 by Island Dog | Discussion: WinCustomize News

Galactic Civilizations IV was recently announced and is the newest installment of its award-winning space 4X strategy sandbox game series takes the best of what its predecessors had to offer and adds to it with many new and exciting features. As the all-powerful leader of a spacefaring civilization, the player must seek out new star systems and discover the exciting potential of the subspace realm. 

Learn more about the game here: https://www.galciv4.com/

To help celebrate the announcement, we've released several animated wallpapers for DeskScapes featuring video assets created for the game.

Galactic Civilizations IV Animated Logo

This is the animated logo for Galactic Civilizations IV that you can have right on your desktop.


Galactic Civilizations IV Background

This is one of the animated backgrounds for the game and makes for a really cool animated desktop!

 

Galactic Civilizations IV Announcement Trailer

We took the official announcement trailer and edited it a bit to make this animated wallpaper work on the desktop.

Here's the trailer:

 

 

New and Updated WindowBlinds Skins for June!

Monday, June 14, 2021 by Island Dog | Discussion: WinCustomize News

The WindowBlinds gallery has been updated with quite a few new and updated skins from some of our talented community skinners lately! I wanted to feature some of them in the news this week in case you might have missed them.

Download these and see many more in the WindowBlinds gallery here.

7 for 10

 

Windows Zero

 

Simple Gray

 

50s Style

 

DeskScapes 3 Beta 3 Released

Wednesday, June 9, 2021 by Island Dog | Discussion: WinCustomize News

Hello all,

Just a heads up that we released DeskScapes 11 Beta 3 today for Object Desktop subscribers and individual purchasers of DeskScapes 11.  You can see the changelog here:

https://forums.stardock.com/505115

Any feedback you may have can be posted there.

As always, thank you for your time and patronage. 

5 Summer Wallpapers for Your Desktop

Monday, June 7, 2021 by Island Dog | Discussion: WinCustomize News

As we close in on the first days of summer, it's always fun to pick and feature some of our favorite wallpapers that you can use on your desktop. Of course, there's no reason you can't download these and use them on your various mobile devices as well!

Here are five of our favorite summer wallpapers!

Seaside Relaxation

 

Canopy on the Beach

 

Rolling Wave

 

Tropical Beach from Above

 

Summer Countryside

 

Share Your June Desktops with the WC Community!

Tuesday, June 1, 2021 by Island Dog | Discussion: WinCustomize News

June is here and summer will be officially here soon! I think it's going to be a hot one, and I'm going to keep some beach and tropical themes on my desktop! With a new month brings a new desktop screenshot thread, so post your desktop screenshot in the forum and lets us know what skins you are using!

Post your desktops to the monthly thread here: https://forums.wincustomize.com/505165/

(This is a news thread and will be locked. Screenshot taken by Chasbo)




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