When they are not in use, our smart TVs dominate the wall with a large, empty screen that adds nothing to the room. This is why I customize my TV sticks to convert my TV into a visual feature, even when it is in standby mode.
Why do I customize my fire TV stick background
Customizing your fire TV background effectively converts your TV into a large digital picture frame. For general use, my fire TV stick source from my dedication Fire TV Screensever The albums, which are displayed as a moving carousel throughout the day. Alternatively, I will make many folders with holiday images, family photos, or curated artwork.
If there is a special artist, I am currently, I can use Amazon photos To cure galleries based on style and display them to my mood. This can be more aesthetically pleasing, especially in rooms where other artwork is already on the walls. Gallery is easy to configure through Amazon Photo App.
Prepare my background images
For most parts, any picture is completely well displayed on my Amazon Fire TV Stick, provided they are in JPEG or PNG format, as they are the most compatible with Amazon’s ecosystem. If I am displaying photos from my phone, high-resolution images in landscape orientation are beautifully displayed, even on big TVs. However, when the artwork is cured from other sources, I look for those who ensure clear and crisp images at a normal viewing distance with minimal resolution of 1080p.
The aspect ratio is another idea. If you are happy to keep a black bar on either side of your image. If it does not fit enough on the screen, you are good to go. It is not very bad with me with photos, which often contains ratio of 3: 2 or 4: 3 compared to TVs, usually 16: 9. If I want to fill my photo or artwork screen, I harvest the image by 16: 9 in the Amazon Photo Editor.
Customizing my fire TV stick background
Prime membership borches several benefits for fire TV stick owners, including unlimited online storage on Amazon photographs. You can cure, edit and organize your images from within your dedication Fire TV Screensever Folder, or create your own custom gallery folder, ready to appear on your fire TV stick background.
Using Amazon Photo App
As soon as I downloaded Amazon Photo App and signed, the process was comfortable. Allow Amazon Photos to reach images on your device, navigate Album, And you will find your dedicated Fire TV Screensever The album was added by default. From here, you can create additional albums, as well as add, edit (including cropping in 16: 9 ratio), and can extract photos.
After uploading, switch to your fire TV. From home screen, navigate Settings> Displays & Sounds> Screenseverthen choose Current ScreenseverThe albums you upload are shown here, and you can choose one of your custom folders as The Fire TV Screensever album or Slide Show.
Using a web browser
Alternatively, you can use a web browser to upload and organize images. This is often easy if you want to use separate software for photo editing, or you are managing large batch of photos for a screensever album.
To do this, go on Photions.amazon.com And sign in to your Amazon account. From there, you can upload images and manage albums, like you will do with a mobile app. Once your album is ready, you can set it as a screensever on your fire TV stick, you can use the same. Settings> Displays & Sounds> Screensever Path.
How to accommodate your fire TV stick screensaver preferences
After choosing the album I want to showcase, I want to adapt how my screensaver behaves. Gives some options under fire TV Screensever settings Menu. I usually set Start time Up to 5 minutes, so the screensever kicks immediately after inactivity.
There are also options for Slide style (Options include Pan and zoom And Dissolve, Slide speedAnd showing time or other information on the screen or not. I like a slow PAN and zoom for more cinematic experience, and I usually shut down time performance to keep my screen free from chaos when displaying artwork.
I often do not update my fire TV screensaver album, usually only after a significant event or travel, or to add that odd photo that I consider to be album-qualified. The beauty of this system is that you can make many folders, including artwork, family albums and holidays, for example, and switch between them.
Customizing my background was one of the first settings that I replaced after buying a fire TV stick. This not only adds a unique beauty to my living space, but it makes my TV more attractive to the eye. It is well worth to install for yourself well, and within a few minutes, you will have a large digital picture frame, working with personality, where a featureless black was zero before.
