OS X comes with some very nice screen savers and I’ve been wanting to use some of the pictures in them for my desktop background?

Thanks to a hint from Macworld this is how to do it.

The following screensavers have images you can use - Beach, Cosmos, Forest, Nature Patterns, and Paper Shadow, and the images are stored in the ‘/System / Library / Screen Savers’ folder (the system folder is seen circled here).

Open the folder and ctrl-click on Beach.slideSaver (or whichever other you want to use), and choose ‘Show Package Contents’ from the drop down menu. When the new window opens, navigate to ‘Contents/Resources’ to see the pictures.

Now you can copy the images to a more convenient location. I have made a folder in the ‘Pictures’ area of my user account for all my Desktop backgrounds.

Finally to use these pictures as your desktop background go to ‘Desktop & Screen Saver’ in System Preferences (on the apple menu in the top left of your screen), click on the ‘Desktop’ tab, and select the folder with your images in from the source list. Click on the image you want, and it will appear as your desktop image. You can also select the images to rotate at a certain speed.

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