Stardock DeskScapes: Animate Your Desktop Easily

Want to animate and personalize your Windows desktop? Stardock DeskScapes is here to help! This innovative tool lets you use images, videos, or included animated wallpapers to create a dynamic desktop experience. Customize your wallpapers with over 40 special effects, or even use dreams as screensavers.

Perfect for adding a unique touch to your PC, Stardock DeskScapes transforms your desktop into a vibrant, animated space.

Ready to liven up your desktop? Download and install Stardock DeskScapes today. After testing it, let me know how my review helped you—or if I missed any features. Start customizing your desktop now!

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Features of Stardock DeskScapes

Animate
Animate your Windows desktop
Use WMV and Dream files with DeskScapes to apply animated video wallpapers to your desktop. The .Dream format, which DeskScapes uses, has been specially designed to contain content used to animate wallpapers. You can also apply any dream as your PC screensaver!

Easily add motion to static wallpapers
Use DreamMaker (included with DeskScapes) to design your own creations! Save videos or hybrid .Dream files with a wallpaper and video elements.

Stylize
Add cool effects to your wallpaper
Choose from over 40 effects to apply to any wallpaper. Effects include: black and white, blur, canvas texture, inverted, night vision, pop art, sepia, animated snow and many more!

Stylize Recolor
Recolor your existing wallpapers
Using a simple slider DeskScapes helps you apply new colors to wallpapers. Color customization can be applied to an entire image or only to select colors.

Multiple monitor support
DeskScapes capabilities give you the option to have different wallpaper on each of your monitors or stretch video and static wallpapers over multiple monitors.

Create
Easy-to-use configuration dialog
The user interface is intuitive and so easy to use that you can create a great looking custom desktop design in just a few minutes. An always present preview helps you see what your desktop will look like before applying effects to your new wallpaper.

Find more Dreams!
WinCustomize is a website that provides content for users to customize Microsoft Windows. There are hundreds of wallpapers and dreams to choose from.