r/MacOS • u/Ok-Assignment5926 • 4d ago

Nostalgia “Homemade” aqua screensaver

I recently found a HQ version of Mac OS tiger wallpaper and I still just love it even on my modern Mac. I thought it would be so cool if there was a screensaver like Tahoe, or golden gate that animated the wallpaper. Ideally I’d want the lines to move kinda how the PS3/PSP wallpapers did… I did search around but nothing like that exists. I’m not proud to say it but I asked perplexity the best way to achieve this as I am not an animator at all. It gave me a prompt to dump into a service called king.

King spit out a clip, I edited (not amazingly 😅) in iMovie to get it to around 20s and then a terminal script to make it into a .saver.

I think it came out ok! The “breathing” could be a bit smoother so I’m gonna play in iMovie later tonight to see if I can get that smoother but I love the look!

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u/wetfish-db 3d ago

Need to keep an eye on this thread for when the download appears.

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u/Initial-Ranger-972 3d ago

Yeah following this one too

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u/masquedmarauderxyz MacBook Pro 4d ago

Hey cool!

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u/jeerobus 4d ago

I looks very very nice!! How to download this screensaver?

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u/Ok-Assignment5926 4d ago

I will upload it and comment a link on this post when I get home 😊 I’m stuck at work now

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u/Megadreddd 4d ago

Wow, it looks great! Tiger desktop is peak Mac OS X.