iPad wallpaper and lock screen template
17 May 2010 | benbritten |
I am just playing around with making myself some groovy looking wallpapers and lockscreen backgrounds for my iPad and realized it is not as easy as just whacking up some 1024×768 image. There is the whole auto-rotating issue. In the end I decided to make a template, and I made it just a wee bit nicer so I could post it here.
Lovely isnt it?
The basic upshot is that for desktop wallpapers (the one that shows up behind your icons) your best bet is to make a 1024×1024 image and the center 768×768 is the area that will always be visible.
Here are some examples I took, to give you an idea:
It is important to note that the iPad overlays a gradient on top of your image (as well as icon shadows), so if you want to be color-perfect then you will want to take that into account.
As for the lockscreen, it is a slightly different beast since it has the overlay bars. In portrait, you have the same 768×768 ’safe’ area in the middle, but in landscape that is chopped down to a slightly thinner slice of image:
Thats it! have fun, make some cool wallpapers!
Cheers!
-Ben
Great post. I would wish you had included some larger images – especially of the first one.
Martin
Hey Martin!
Oops! I had meant to link those as full size images but my wordpress-fu was weak today
Thanks for pointing that out. I have updated the files to link to the full size images so you can actually use them as I had originally intended 
(ie as a template)
Cheers!
-B
Great! I have added a link to your site on my iPad wallpaper site. Thanks again.
Hey Martin,
THanks for that! Had a look and you have some lovely photos on your site, nice! (for anyone interested: http://ipadwallpapersbybay.com/, or just click on martin’s name above)
Cheers!
-Ben
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