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Important Pages

Media

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DeskScapes Resources

Official Pages

About DeskScapes

Personalize your desktop with generated wallpapers, animations, and video.

Key Features

Playlists – Picking a single background can be tough but with Playlists, you can create a collection of your favorite images.
Generation – Easily create images using your local hardware, upscale an existing image to 4k, or easily apply an entirely new artistic style to any wallpaper in your collection.
Effects – Apply a wide range of special effects to your background, including color filters, textures, blurs, and over 120 effects to mix and match.
Organization – DeskScapes 2026 is built from the ground-up to make it the easiest way to manage your desktop wallpapers, animated backgrounds, and to create new backgrounds.
Configuration – DeskScapes 2026's user-friendly design makes it easy to find your wallpapers, make adjustments, and organize them for future use.

Features

Turn your static desktop into a vibrant canvas.

Turn your static desktop into an animated work of art.

DeskScapes makes it easy to animate your desktop

Turn any image or video into a background for your PC.

Bring images to life

Enhance static photos with over 60 special effects.

Creativity made easy with all the tools you need.

Create backgrounds or browse community designs.

Local Image Generation Made Easy

Easily create unique background images on your device using your GPU, no tokens or internet required.

Add a new artistic style to any image with AI Restyle

Choose from dozens of styles to add a new design to any existing image or easily upscale it to 4k.

Organize your creations with an intuitive interface.

DeskScapes makes it easy to manage your backgrounds.

Create playlists of your favorite backgrounds

Can't choose a favorite background? Create a playlist to cycle through your favorite designs.

Organized to perfection

Never lose another wallpaper again as DeskScapes makes it easy organize your backgrounds.

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+| welcome = [[File:ds2026-header.jpg|link=|<span title="Stardock DeskScapes Wiki"></span>]]
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 | about_title = About DeskScapes
 | about_content =
-DeskScapes gives you the capability to animate and customize the wallpaper on your Windows desktop. Choose from the massive integrated library or use your own images or video files to personalize your desktop.
-[[File:DeskScapes_v11_01.jpg|350px]]
+Personalize your desktop with generated wallpapers, animations, and video.
 <h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; margin-top:0.875em"> Key Features </h2>
-*NEW! Massive WinCustomize.com background and Dream library integration
+* Playlists – Picking a single background can be tough but with Playlists, you can create a collection of your favorite images.
-*Easily customize and create your own animated backgrounds from images and videos
+* Generation – Easily create images using your local hardware, upscale an existing image to 4k, or easily apply an entirely new artistic style to any wallpaper in your collection.
-*NEW! H.264 video support
+* Effects – Apply a wide range of special effects to your background, including color filters, textures, blurs, and over 120 effects to mix and match.
-*Custom rendering engine minimizes CPU usage for animations and videos
+* Organization – DeskScapes 2026 is built from the ground-up to make it the easiest way to manage your desktop wallpapers, animated backgrounds, and to create new backgrounds.
-*Apply over 60 special effects to your backgrounds
+* Configuration – DeskScapes 2026's user-friendly design makes it easy to find your wallpapers, make adjustments, and organize them for future use.
-*Apply any Dream as your PC screensaver
+<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; margin-top:0.875em"> Features </h2>
+===Turn your static desktop into a vibrant canvas.===
+Turn your static desktop into an animated work of art.
+*'''DeskScapes makes it easy to animate your desktop'''<br/>
+<p style="margin: 0 0 0 22px;">Turn any image or video into a background for your PC.</p>
-<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; margin-top:0.875em"> Animate</h2>
+*'''Bring images to life'''<br/>
-===Animate your Windows desktop wallpaper===
+<p style="margin: 0 0 0 22px;">Enhance static photos with over 60 special effects.</p>
-Use video and Dream files with DeskScapes to apply animated wallpaper to your desktop. The .Dream format, which DeskScapes uses, has been specially designed to contain content used to animate wallpaper. You can also apply any dream as your PC screensaver!
-===Easily customize and create your own backgrounds===
+[[File:ds2026-home-L1A.png|400px]]
-DeskScapes includes over 60 special effects plus colorization options to make any image or video into a fantastic, custom background. Want to create a .Dream to share? Use the included Dream Maker app to package your own animated or video creations.
-<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; margin-top:0.875em"> Stylize</h2>
-===Add cool effects to your background===
-Choose from over 60 effects to apply to any background. Effects include: black and white, blur, canvas texture, inverted, night vision, pop art, sepia, and animated snow, just to name a few!
-===Recolor your existing wallpaper===
+===Creativity made easy with all the tools you need.===
-Using a simple slider DeskScapes helps you apply new colors to backgrounds. Color customization can be applied to an entire image or only to select colors.
+Create backgrounds or browse community designs.
-===Multiple monitor support===
+*'''Local Image Generation Made Easy'''<br/>
-DeskScapes capabilities give you the option to have different backgrounds on each of your monitors or stretch video and static backgrounds over multiple monitors.
+<p style="margin: 0 0 0 22px;">Easily create unique background images on your device using your GPU, no tokens or internet required.</p>
-<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; margin-top:0.875em"> Create</h2>
+*'''Add a new artistic style to any image with AI Restyle'''<br/>
-===Easy-to-use configuration dialog===
+<p style="margin: 0 0 0 22px;">Choose from dozens of styles to add a new design to any existing image or easily upscale it to 4k.</p>
-The user interface is intuitive and so easy to use that you can create a great looking custom desktop design with just a few clicks. An always present preview helps you see what your desktop will look like before applying effects to your new background.
+[[File:ds2026-home-L2.png|400px]]
-| sections_title = Featured Trailer
+===Organize your creations with an intuitive interface.===
+DeskScapes makes it easy to manage your backgrounds.
+*'''Create playlists of your favorite backgrounds'''<br/>
+<p style="margin: 0 0 0 22px;">Can't choose a favorite background? Create a playlist to cycle through your favorite designs.</p>
+*'''Organized to perfection'''<br/>
+<p style="margin: 0 0 0 22px;">Never lose another wallpaper again as DeskScapes makes it easy organize your backgrounds.</p>
+[[File:ds2026-home-L3.png|400px]]
+| sections_title = Featured Screenshot
 | sections_content =
-<span style="margin-left:-0.4em;">[[File:Deskscapes_thumb.jpg|319px|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6V8ntd8-TA]]</span>
+<span style="margin-left:-0.4em;">[[File:ds2026-release-ss01-thumb.jpg|319px|link=https://www.stardock.com/products/deskscapes/deskscapes2026/images/screenshots/release/ds2026_release_ss01.png]]</span>
 | articles_title = Important Pages
 | articles_content =
 <h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.125em; margin-top:0.875em"> Media </h2>
-*[[DeskScapes Videos|DeskScapes Videos]]
 *[[DeskScapes Screenshots|Screenshots]]
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 *[https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/dream DeskScapes wallpaper downloads]
 *[[DeskScapes History|History of DeskScapes]]
-*[[DeskScapes Changelog|DeskScapes Changelog]]
+*[https://www.stardock.com/products/deskscapes/history DeskScapes Changelog]
 *[[DeskScapes System Requirements|System Requirements]]
-<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.125em; margin-top:0.875em"> DeskScapes Blogs</h2>
-*[[Check out what's new with DeskScapes|Check out what's new with DeskScapes]]
 <h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.125em; margin-top:0.875em"> Official Pages </h2>
 *[https://www.stardock.com/products/deskscapes/ DeskScapes Website]
 *[https://forums.stardock.com/forum/432 DeskScapes Forums]
+*[https://store.steampowered.com/app/1027220/DeskScapes/ DeskScapes on Steam]
 *[https://www.facebook.com/official.stardock/ Stardock Facebook]
 *[https://twitter.com/stardock Stardock Twitter]