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Glass wallpaper

Any photo. Behind glass.

Koi's Glass wallpaper puts a photo behind fluted glass and sets it on every screen at its full resolution. Pick one of Koi's photos or your own, start from a recipe, tune the glass live, and click Set as wallpaper.

Pick a photo, pick a look

Glass wallpaper is in the notch's Tools. It puts a photo behind fluted glass and sets it as the wallpaper on every screen, at each screen's full resolution.

  1. Hover the notch, open Tools and click Glass wallpaper. It opens on Aurora, one of Koi's own photos.
  2. Under Photo, pick Aurora, Cloudscape, Colour, Flow or Waves, or the sixth tile for a photo of your own. You can also drop a picture on the preview.
  3. Under Recipes, pick a look: Classic Flutes, Tidal, Soft Lens, Rain or Tiles.
  4. Tune it if you like. The preview changes as you go.
  5. Click Set as wallpaper.

Five of Koi's, or one of yours

Koi's five pastel photos are Aurora, Cloudscape, Colour, Flow and Waves. Each one comes down from koiscribe.com the first time you pick it, with a ring filling on its tile as it does. The sixth tile is for your own photo, and any picture dropped on the preview works too.

Five looks to start from

  • Classic Flutes, Tidal, Soft Lens, Rain and Tiles.
  • Save current keeps a look of your own among them.
  • Copy recipe puts a look on the clipboard as text to share, and Paste recipe uses one someone sent you.

Tune the glass live

  • Grid: the shape of the ribs.
  • Refraction: how the glass bends the photo.
  • Fit: how the photo sits behind the glass.
  • Size, Distortion and Angle: sliders, and the preview follows them as they move.

Set it, or keep it as a picture

  • Set as wallpaper puts it on every screen, each at its own full resolution.
  • Export image… saves it as a picture, to use anywhere.
  • On a call, say “open glass wallpaper” and Koi opens it for you.

Made on your Mac

The glass is drawn on your Mac. Your own photo is never sent anywhere. The only thing that comes in from outside is one of Koi's five photos, downloaded from koiscribe.com the first time you pick it. More on the privacy page.

Koi and glass wallpaper apps

Vitrine is a small Mac app that makes fluted glass wallpapers from your photos. Koi's is one tool in your notch. See the Vitrine alternatives, how to make a fluted glass wallpaper or how to make a Mac wallpaper from a photo.

Keep exploring

How to make a fluted glass wallpaper on Mac

Put any photo behind fluted glass and set it as your Mac wallpaper on every screen: pick a photo and a recipe in Koi's notch, tune the glass, and set it.

How to make a Mac wallpaper from a photo

Set any photo as your Mac wallpaper in two clicks, or turn it into a fluted glass wallpaper first with Koi. Sizes and tips for photos that look good.

The best Vitrine alternatives for Mac

Vitrine alternatives for Mac compared: Facet, Fluted Gradients, Canva and Koi's Glass wallpaper. Fluted glass wallpapers from your own photos.

Koi 2.1 puts any photo behind glass

Pick a photo in Koi's notch, pick a fluted glass look, and set it as your wallpaper on every screen at full resolution. Made on your Mac, recipes to share.

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