Mac Kung Fu, 2nd Edition

Tip 376

Get Cool Wallpapers from Screensaver Packages

The images included within screensavers on OS X can be explored, and the high-quality images they use can be extracted and used as desktop wallpapers.

There are two stashes of screensaver files. The first contains old screensavers with lower-resolution images, and the second contains new screensavers with very high-resolution images. You can extract images from both as follows:

1. Start by creating a folder within your Documents folder where you can store the wallpaper files you’re going to extract. It doesn’t matter what you call this.

2. We’ll start with the folder containing the old screensavers. Open a Finder window, hit Shift+Command+G, and type /System/Library/Screen Savers. You should see ...