A few months back we showed you how to make a your own screen saver in iPhoto using other people’s pictures from photo blogging sites (like Flickr) with an RSS feed. I tried making a more personal screen saver using my Flickr favorites, but unfortunately when I followed these steps I found that the pictures weren’t high-resolution (which didn’t work well with my 27” monitor). With just one extra step, you can turn those low quality Flickr photos into a high-res feed for your screen saver.
1. Copy your Flickr favorites RSS feed. Go to your Flickr favorites page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/(USERNAME)/favorites/. On the bottom left, you will find a "Subscribe to your favorites" link. Right-click the link and select "Copy Link Location."

2. Create a high quality RSS feed of your favorite Flickr images by going to Flickr Feed Image Re-Sizer. Paste the RSS feed you just copied into the first field, then select a resolution by typing “Large” or “Original” into the next box. Click “Run Pipe.”

3. Right-click “Get as RSS” and select “Copy Link Location.”

4. Subscribe to RSS in iPhoto. Open up iPhone and press (command + U) to open the subscribe window. Paste your new high-res RSS feed by pressing (command + V).

5. Set the Screen Saver in System Preferences. Once it’s all loaded up, go to your System Preferences and select “Flickr Feed Image Re-sizer.” And you’re done!


Comments (1)
Doesn't work. The images show when I get to the Flickr Feed Image Re-sizer, but when I try to make it work in iPhoto, it just shows "image unavailable" for far fewer images than are in my favorites stream. So I have two questions of clarification:
1) Does this require iPhoto '11?
2) Are you only able to have so many photos in your favorites for this to work properly?
Other troubleshooting suggestions welcome; I'd love to get this working!