The best part of this extension: online photo grabs and custom slide shows Regardless, I love seeing this sort of innovation in extensions and as time goes on, perhaps this part of CrosPaper will get a bit better and more usable. If a library of optimized live wallpapers was available, I might be more inclined to try it out. Overall, the live wallpaper setting is nifty, but I don’t see myself using it in its current state. If you’ve ever made a GIF, you know the reasoning behind this and the CrosPaper extension is likely just trying its best to save resources. Even on a FHD Chromebook, they looked pretty degraded compared with the video they originated from. To put it simply, I wouldn’t recommend saving a ton of these live wallpaper animations on a regular basis.įinally, these motion-enhanced backgrounds are delivered at pretty low quality once the process completes. Keep in mind, since it is doing this via your Google Photos, all those individual frames are now photos in your library, taking up lots of space, and they are littered in your main photo feed as well: not just in the album that was made for them. That part isn’t terribly long, but once you select your Google Photos live wallpaper folder from the extension’s menu, it then re-downloads each of those frames before giving you the option to set the resulting animation as your wallpaper. CrosPaper basically extracts all the frames from your video, uploads them to a Google Photos album, and you then select your live wallpaper from the same Google Photos album once the extension creates it for you. This process is simple enough, but once you’ve set it and accept the beginning and end, you’re in for some waiting. You’ll need to link a Google Photos account first, find the video you want set as the background, then use CrosPaper’s video editor to set the start/stop time of the video you choose. If you don’t mind hunting for and working with short videos that you’d like as a backdrop, however, the extension does eventually deliver on the promise of live wallpapers once you get through all the steps.Īnd for live wallpapers, there are quite a few steps. And it’s a tad bit labor intensive, so if you are looking for a quick, simple live wallpaper solution, this probably isn’t your thing. You can get the extension here, but you’ll need to sign up for the $1/month subscription in order to leverage the live wallpaper function.
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