How to make your very own custom iphone/ios wallpaper
a way to setup your a document in Illustrator/Photoshop to create you own wallpaper for your iPhone or iPod
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Open up Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop, whichever you're most comfortable with π Go To --> File --> New
640 x 960 pixels = Retina (portrait)
Now let's setup some guides to help us π
But first let's set your Zero's (go to next screen to learn how to do that)
Set vertical guides at: 67, 181, 243, 357, 419, 533, 595, 709, 803, 917 pixels (shown in next slide)
Let's move on to the horizontal guides π (click to view large)
Set horizontal guides at: 35, 148, 186, 300, 340, 454, 492, 606 pixels (shown in next slide)
Let's move on to making boxes in those guides π(click to view large)
If you've done that correctly, you should have something like the next screenπ
Hooray π
Now we're going to round these dudes out π
Under Relative: Set your Extra Width & Height to 0px & your Corner Radius to 20px π
When you're all finished, save as a PNG & email it, Dropbox it, or whatever is easiest. Then set as your wallpaper. Yay!!
In your Photos: Use as Wallpaper --> Dont shrink or mess w/ it --> Set. Then check your masterpiece!!
This was my final product. Hope you learned something new. π
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator