ArtSaver - 1.7

It is like the built-in Slide Show screensaver on Mac OS X, but with more options and features:

• Keeps a persistent database of all the images found in the specified directory tree. This allows the screen saver to handle huge directory trees, and still have the benefit of
  • displaying images immediately, and,
  • not "exercising" the disk every time it gets invoked.
• Can use all images in a directory tree (minus the ones that are excluded by other options, see below), or all images in one of your iPhoto albums.
• Options include:
  • the speed of the zoom-in and -out;
  • the duration for how long an image is displayed before the next one;
  • whether or not the path of the image currently being displayed should be displayed, too.
  • many more ...
• You can specify constraints for excluding images from being displayed:
  • the minimal size in pixels (e.g., to exclude thumbnails);
  • the minimal size in bytes;
  • a list of file patterns; if the path of an image matches one of the patterns, it gets excluded (e.g., to exclude "index prints").
• You can review the file names that ArtSaver has displayed after it was stopped (just open 'System Profiler' - Logs - system.log)

Installation: just open the disk image, and copy ArtSaver.saver to the directory /Library/Screen Savers or ~/Library/Screen Savers (depending on write permissions and taste). Then go to System Preference -> Desktop and Screen Saver.