Windows 8 Do-It-Yourself Theme

Just after I took that shot of the mountains covered with new snow yesterday, this came over, and by then I'd taken the camera off the tripod, and removed the SDHC card. So I hastily put the card back in and shot six pictures of this freehand at 24X optical with the Pentax X70, and fortunately they all came out fairly well. Maybe I'm actually learning how! And wouldn't that be nice.....

So I put these all into a folder named DesktopBackground, and put that into another folder named Sky-01, and then put that into my Username\AppData \Local\Microsoft\Windows\Themes, then opened it to the pictures inside the DesktopBackground folder, chose 'Select All', and right-clicked one of the batch to choose 'Set as desktop background'. That activates your new Theme, and puts one of its pictures on your screen. You then can close all those open windows, (Windows Explorer = 'Close all windows') then right-click on your desktop and choose 'Personalize' which opens your Themes window. Your new Theme appears as a thumbnail in the upper left corner of that window, where you should right-click on it to choose 'Save Theme', give it a name, and click on 'Save'. Then you can go down to the lower portion of that window, to the left icon 'Desktop background' (as in Windows 7) and set your timing for the changes of the individual images, and adjust the aero effects for window color.
 
And you can do all this with any set of images that grab your fancy, and you aren't limited to just four or six or eight or twelve images - you can have as many as you like if you're building the theme. You could create a set of fifty or sixty pictures and put them all into one of these slideshow formats as a theme on your Windows 8 Desktop. Desktops don't have to be boring, and they don't have to contain only ready-made Themes from Mr. and Mrs. Microsoft's favorite Themes makers in the back rooms of Redmond or Seattle or even BungaBunga. They can be your very own pictures of whatever makes you giggle. Enjoy!