One of Aeon's key features is the ability to use your own custom backdrops to personalise its environment. These crossfade as you move from one menu option or screen to the other, cycling through entire folders if you idle. Because it's hard to find genuine 1080p backdrops online, a vast collection has been assembled here for download. Many have been recomposed using professional image software to suit the Aeon menubar. If you want them to cycle smoothly in Aeon and XBMC, however, it's vital they're converted from JPG to an uncompressed BMP format once downloaded. An ideal app for this is Irfanview, with its intuitive batch command. Just convert to BMP, copy them to your HTPC and tell Aeon where to find them.

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