Photo Slideshow Screensaver_
Your photos stay on your device
Eight looks
Keyboard & touch
Guide — your own photos as a fullscreen slideshow
Add photos, pick a look, set the pace and go fullscreen. Everything stays in your browser.Press Choose photos or Choose a folder, drop files or a whole folder on the page, or paste an image. Nothing is uploaded: the photos stay in this tab’s memory. No photos at hand? Try sample scenes plays eleven generated landscapes.
Click a look or press 1 to 8: Ken Burns, Crossfade, Slide, Polaroid table, Mosaic wall, Split, Filmstrip or Postcard. Each look sets a fitting transition time that you can change afterwards.
Choose 3 to 120 seconds per photo, the order (shuffle, by name or by date taken) and how photos are fitted: smart crop, contain or blurred backdrop. Add a caption, a clock, film grain or a night dim.
Space holds on a photo, ← → or a swipe move between photos, H marks a favourite and V plays favourites only, Delete drops a photo from this session and G opens the thumbnail strip.
Click the slideshow, press F or choose Enter fullscreen. Controls and cursor hide after a few seconds, and the page asks the browser to keep the screen awake where Screen Wake Lock is supported. Copy link keeps your settings, never your photos.
What is in here
- 1 Ken Burns
- Slow pan and zoom toward the detail
- 2 Crossfade
- Still photos, long dissolves
- 3 Slide
- Push sideways, drag with a finger
- 4 Polaroid
- Prints that land on a table
- 5 Mosaic
- Tile-by-tile reveals on a wall
- 6 Split
- Two staggered panels
- 7 Filmstrip
- Enlarged frame on a moving strip
- 8 Postcard
- Border, tape, handwriting
- Smart crop
- Fills the screen and pans toward the most detailed region; falls back to the blurred backdrop when too much would be cut off
- Contain
- The whole photo, nothing cut, bars where the shapes differ
- Blurred backdrop
- The whole photo over a blurred copy of itself, never stretched
- Grade
- None, sepia, black and white, vintage, warm, plus brightness and contrast
- Source
- Files you choose, drop or paste from your own device
- Upload
- None: they are read and decoded in your browser
- Memory
- Only photos near the current one stay decoded, at about screen size
- Saved
- Settings only. Photos are gone when you close the tab
- Caption
- File name and, for JPEGs, the date the photo was taken
- Clock
- Big time and date, 12 or 24 hour
- Night dim
- Dims the screen after the hour you choose
- Idle start
- Fills the window after 1 to 10 quiet minutes
- Save PNG
- Keeps the current frame as an image
Photo slideshow screensaver and digital photo frame, explained
What this page does
This page turns photos from your own phone, laptop or memory card into a fullscreen slideshow that runs like a screensaver or a digital photo frame. Pick photos or a whole folder, choose one of eight looks, press play and go fullscreen on a TV, tablet or monitor. It is inspired by the picture slideshow screensavers that desktop operating systems have long included, rebuilt for the browser: it works in current browsers on Windows, Mac, Linux, ChromeOS, Android, iPhone and iPad, needs no account or install, and shows generated sample scenes when you have no photos at hand.
Are my photos uploaded anywhere?
No. The photos come only from files you choose, drop or paste from your own device. The page reads them with the browser’s File API and decodes them into memory; it makes no network request with them and has no server to send them to. The page itself loads a font and a cookie-free page-view counter (Simple Analytics), and neither ever sees a photo. Your settings are kept in your browser’s local storage under the key pg2; the photos are not. Reloading or closing the tab clears them, so add them again next time. Copy link puts your settings into the address, never your photos.
Eight looks
- Ken Burns: a slow pan and zoom over each photo, moving toward the most detailed part of the picture.
- Crossfade: a still photo and a long dissolve, the calmest look and the easiest on a bedroom or living-room screen.
- Slide: the next photo pushes the old one out sideways; on a touch screen it follows your finger.
- Polaroid table: instant-print style frames with a handwritten-style caption land on a table at slightly different angles and settle. The oldest print fades when a new one arrives.
- Mosaic wall: a grid of tiles in which a few new photos appear at a time, so a large collection scrolls past quickly.
- Split: two photos side by side (stacked on a tall screen); each panel is wiped over in turn.
- Filmstrip: a strip of film frames with the focused one enlarged and its colours blurred into the background.
- Postcard: a tilted card with a white border, tape and a caption in a handwriting-style system font.
Smart crop, contain and the blurred backdrop
Photos and screens rarely have the same shape. Smart crop fills the screen and decides where to crop with a cheap estimate made on a small copy of the photo: it looks at edges, contrast and colour, and moves the frame toward the busiest region. It does not recognise faces or objects. If cropping would show less than about 60 % of the photo, for example a portrait on a wide TV, it switches to the blurred backdrop instead: the whole photo, never stretched, over a blurred copy of itself. Contain always shows the whole photo with plain bars, and Blurred backdrop always uses the blur.
Captions, dates and the clock
The caption is the file name without its extension. For JPEG photos the page also reads the EXIF header itself, in the browser and without a library, and shows the date from the DateTimeOriginal tag (the moment the shutter was pressed) when the camera wrote one. Photos without that tag simply show no date. Order by date uses the same date, or the file’s modified date when there is none. The optional clock shows the time and date in 12 or 24-hour format from your device’s clock.
File formats and HEIC photos
Any image your browser can decode works: JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF (shown as a still), BMP and, in newer browsers, AVIF. HEIC photos from iPhones are different: Safari can decode them, but most other browsers cannot. The page checks each HEIC file and, if it cannot be shown, leaves it out with a clear note instead of an error; convert those photos first with the free HEIC to JPG converter. Files that are not pictures, or that cannot be read, are skipped and counted, and photos you add twice are ignored.
Large folders and memory
Photos are decoded on demand, not all at once. The page decodes the current photo and the next ones, scales them down to about the size of your screen, keeps only about five full-size copies plus some small ones in memory, and drops the rest as you move on. The file list itself stays cheap, so folders with hundreds of photos should not fill the memory of a tablet. Very large photos can still take a moment to decode on an old device.
Use it as a screensaver, photo frame or TV display
Open the page on the device, add your photos, choose a longer time per photo (10 to 30 seconds suits a calm frame) and press F or click the slideshow. In fullscreen the controls and the cursor hide after a few seconds, and the page requests the browser’s Screen Wake Lock where it is supported so the display does not dim; if it is not, set the device’s sleep timer to never. A web page cannot register itself as your operating system’s screensaver. Windows and macOS can show a photo folder as their own screensaver (Windows: Screen saver settings; macOS: System Settings, Screen Saver) and start it when the computer is idle. This page runs while its tab is open, which makes it the quicker choice on a TV, a borrowed computer or a tablet. The idle start option fills the browser window by itself after 1, 2, 5 or 10 minutes without input; browsers only allow true fullscreen after a click, so press F once for that. To show it on a TV, open the page in the TV’s browser, connect a laptop with HDMI, or cast the tab (Chrome Cast or AirPlay mirroring).
Night dim, brightness and grain
Brightness (60 to 140 %) and contrast (70 to 130 %) apply to the whole picture, on top of the colour grade. The night dim darkens the screen by about 60 % from the hour you pick (17:00 to 23:00) until 06:00 by your device’s clock, which suits a bedroom frame. Film grain and the soft vignette are drawn over the picture and are not saved in a PNG; Save PNG keeps the current frame with the grade, vignette, caption and clock.
Performance and auto quality
The canvas follows your screen up to twice the CSS size, limited to about 5.5 million pixels. Time-based animation keeps the speed the same on 60 and 144 Hz screens. If the page measures fewer than about 38 frames per second for three seconds, auto quality lowers the render resolution in steps, down to half; you can turn it off or add aq=0 to the link. The slideshow pauses in a hidden tab. If your system asks for reduced motion, the page starts in the calm Crossfade look with no film grain.
Share your settings with a link
Copy link builds an address with your settings (not your photos). Open it and you get the same look and options. You can also write the parameters yourself:
| Parameter | Values |
|---|---|
l | look, 1 to 8 |
d td | seconds per photo (3 to 120), transition seconds (0.2 to 5) |
o | shuffle, name, date |
fit | smart, contain, blur |
fi tr | grade: none, sepia, grayscale, vintage, warm; transition: fade, zoom, dip |
br co | brightness 60 to 140, contrast 70 to 130 |
bg | black, grey, white |
cap cl h12 gr vg pb lp nd | 1 or 0: caption, clock, 12-hour, grain, vignette, progress bar, loop, night dim |
nh id | night dim hour (17 to 23), idle start in minutes (0, 1, 2, 5, 10) |
fs=1, aq=0 | open in fullscreen, switch auto quality off |
Ideas
- Digital photo frame: an old tablet or laptop on a shelf with Crossfade or Ken Burns, 15 seconds per photo, night dim on.
- Family evening: Mosaic wall on the TV to scan a whole holiday folder quickly.
- Events: Polaroid table or Postcard for a party or a wedding gallery on a screen, with the clock on.
- Work: a second monitor with Filmstrip at 30 seconds per photo, brightness lowered.