so.... I LOOOOVE this thing, I think it's absolutely fantastic... especially as someone attempting to do the same thing in DisplayFusion (which is WAAAAY TOOO HARDWARE INTENSIVE) I believe you're truly doing the good dark lord's work here. I use it daily on both of my monitors.

I just figured I'd drop some ideas for some things I think would be cool to see in the upcoming versions (if I read correctly in another thread that you've working on one for like over a year now)

1. more control over the parallax scrolling
- being able to control the timing of the ease in/ease out would be cool as hell
- being able to set a consistent scroll direction for images of a specific orientation
+ maybe even a seamless scroll action too! ( being able to load up an image set of a comic book or manga and having it scroll thru it could be SUPER SICK)
- a pseudo "ken burns" effect that would add some extra parallax/rotation/zoom to the images in your slideshow
+ I wonder if you could make the direction of it customizable by adding some text at the end of the filename... something like "image32-CR.jpg" would make an image ken burns zoom to the center right of the image. (the free windows powertoys extension adds a quick file renaming option to the "right click" context menu in windows that could make this super easy for users to take advantage of)

2. a pulse (zoom/shake/bloom/blur) feature that could be audio responsive so your images could react to the beat of the music you're listening to

3. image effects... like how someone had mentioned adding an image blur feature, but also some things like:
+being able to import a LUT to affect the colors of the entire slideshow
+ in the same-vein as the last idea maybe even a "gradient map" effect could be cool
+particle effect overlays like raindrops or fog

4. the ability to schedule different image directories or sources for different times of the day (being able to have a "focus folder" for the workday or a "positive affirmations folder" for the morning time would be sick!

5. more sorting options...like being able to sort by date added/modified... and then adding the randomize feature on top
+the reason I say that is I use a folder with like 800+ images in it... and I just recently re-installed windows and noticed that I now have a bunch of images showing up when the slideshow it set to randomize that never seemed to show up before, and some images that would ALWAYS pop up... so maybe even something like a "random-seed" that could use a different randomize parameter to choose the images chosen to pop up?

BTW no pressure to implement any of these suggestions... they're just some extra ideas that I thought would make your already incredible tool even cooler.


REGARDLESS, I love the work you've put into this project, and as I said prior.... it's been my daily driver for half a year now! so, thanks so much for all the hard work you've already put into it!

much love, friend!