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iPod touch Post your NEW SpringBoards! Part Two

mavis

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Here's what I've been working on this weekend: Sol (left) and Cracker (right).

Sol was the easiest to put together - I only had to make a few of the icons myself (that's my son in the Photos icon!) because I basically just pieced together icons from lots of different themes (particularly Agua). I made Sol's dock from scratch, as I couldn't really find anything else I liked. I wanted something sleek and unobtrusive - I think it turned out OK. I also made the wallpaper myself, starting with another WP and adding lots of effects (plus the 3D menu bar). Overall, I'm fairly pleased with the way the theme turned out.

Cracker ('officially' known as Simple White) was a little more difficult because it's a newer theme, which means less pre-made third-party app icons available. For Cracker I had to make the Mines, 15, Battery, Finder, Terminal, BallFight and Othello icons myself. But I'm fairly pleased with the way they turned out! I inverted a very subtle black WP I had, which I think looks pretty sweet and I even edited my IpodStarRatings files to make my rating stars stand out on against the white (I wish I could take a screenshot of that, they look sweet now!) ... :) Anyway, I think Cracker looks pretty cool - I think that's what I'll be using for a while. Just needs a better (ie more recognizable) weDict icon ...

Page One: Main Apps
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Page Two: Games
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Page Three: Utilities
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Hey, I'm interested in making a theme for my iPod Touch, could anyone point me to a guide?

Thanks :)
 
mavis said:
Mod Note: This thread is a continuation from here

Here's what I've been working on this weekend: Sol (left) and Cracker (right).

Sol was the easiest to put together - I only had to make a few of the icons myself (that's my son in the Photos icon!) because I basically just pieced together icons from lots of different themes (particularly Agua). I made Sol's dock from scratch, as I couldn't really find anything else I liked. I wanted something sleek and unobtrusive - I think it turned out OK. I also made the wallpaper myself, starting with another WP and adding lots of effects (plus the 3D menu bar). Overall, I'm fairly pleased with the way the theme turned out.

Cracker ('officially' known as Simple White) was a little more difficult because it's a newer theme, which means less pre-made third-party app icons available. For Cracker I had to make the Mines, 15, Battery, Finder, Terminal, BallFight and Othello icons myself. But I'm fairly pleased with the way they turned out! I inverted a very subtle black WP I had, which I think looks pretty sweet and I even edited my IpodStarRatings files to make my rating stars stand out on against the white (I wish I could take a screenshot of that, they look sweet now!) ... :) Anyway, I think Cracker looks pretty cool - I think that's what I'll be using for a while. Just needs a better (ie more recognizable) weDict icon ...


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Can you PLEASE post the icons from the SOL theme?? thx
 
mavis said:
Mod Note: This thread is a continuation from here


Here's what I've been working on this weekend: Sol (left) and Cracker (right).

Sol was the easiest to put together - I only had to make a few of the icons myself (that's my son in the Photos icon!) because I basically just pieced together icons from lots of different themes (particularly Agua). I made Sol's dock from scratch, as I couldn't really find anything else I liked. I wanted something sleek and unobtrusive - I think it turned out OK. I also made the wallpaper myself, starting with another WP and adding lots of effects (plus the 3D menu bar). Overall, I'm fairly pleased with the way the theme turned out.

Cracker ('officially' known as Simple White) was a little more difficult because it's a newer theme, which means less pre-made third-party app icons available. For Cracker I had to make the Mines, 15, Battery, Finder, Terminal, BallFight and Othello icons myself. But I'm fairly pleased with the way they turned out! I inverted a very subtle black WP I had, which I think looks pretty sweet and I even edited my IpodStarRatings files to make my rating stars stand out on against the white (I wish I could take a screenshot of that, they look sweet now!) ... :) Anyway, I think Cracker looks pretty cool - I think that's what I'll be using for a while. Just needs a better (ie more recognizable) weDict icon ...
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Nice,Like the way you have organized apps too.

Your little ones photo,love that one.
 
Mazda 3 said:
Nice,Like the way you have organized apps too.

Your little ones photo,love that one.
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Thanks, I appreciate it! :D

Nickr1313 said:
Can you PLEASE post the icons from the SOL theme?? thx
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Well, here you go:

Sol and Cracker are now available!

I changed the screenshots above to show my new Cracker dock, it's simpler than the original one and I think a lot smoother. Unfortunately it's also a part of the wallpaper because I couldn't quite get it placed exactly where I wanted as a dock.png - so I took the easy way out and just made it part of the wallpaper; however I also included a copy of the WP without the dock, in case you want that. Finally, I included a free-standing (normal) dock in case you want to use your own wallpaper, with instructions in the readme.

And now I'm off to bed. Hope you guys enjoy the themes.
 
THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much!!!!!! i was looking for (and still am) a bunch of icons with color variations and thats exactly what you gave me, youll be the first on my Donations list(theme parts, not money, sry, lol). Im expecially happy about the iZoo icons, thx again. These will be in the next "The Ultimate iPod Theme Maker and Customizer". thanks again
 
Wirelessly posted (iTouch 1.1.3 (JB'd): Mozilla/5.0 (iPod; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/4A93 Safari/419.3)

I'm glad you liked them. ;)

Actually I almost deleted those extra icons (I usually load up multiple icons like that when I'm theme-building - makes it easy to switch them around on the fly, using MobileFinder) ... Anyway I'm glad I left them in! :D
 
HaHa, good thing you did. i wish every theme i downloaded was like that, it was like christmas, lol
 
Mesh?

Mavis, did you make the meshy.png background? If so could you post a 1680x1050 version to use as wallpaper for my MacBook Pro. If not can you point me to the site you got it from? Thanks! Great work!
 
maybe i am kinda stupid , but the Icons for Weather doesn't change...
where do i have to change it, or do i just have to rename it?!
 
Cracker Icons

I made a few more Cracker icons. I also uploaded a template I made for the cracker theme. If you make any more, please post them in this thread.

Icons
iCountDown
RSS
TextEdit - Don't really like this one
BlockPuzzle

Edit : The colours I used are: a8a8a8 and 626262
 

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Quick question...how does one apply these skins to the touch? Is is a hacking thing or what?
 
chris:

here are teh apps I have missing from Cracker

FiveDice
EvolutionRGB
Homework
 
VToX said:
chris:

here are teh apps I have missing from Cracker

FiveDice
EvolutionRGB
Homework
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Haven't tried EvolutionRGB so I couldn't really think of an icon.
 

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Does anyone have a nice "iPhysics" alternative icon? I have made all of the other icons but I really don't know what to do for that one. All of my other icons have no boundaries, if you have something that fits along those lines.
 
Vigilante said:
Does anyone have a nice "iPhysics" alternative icon? I have made all of the other icons but I really don't know what to do for that one. All of my other icons have no boundaries, if you have something that fits along those lines.
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There are some nice ones in the Sol theme at the top of the page

Also, what is it with my iPod where it displays the dock image halfway down meaning the Leopard style dock only shows a slim portion of the image? Is it me or are there other people experiencing this?
 
03sho said:
What do you install in installer to get that theme and the pac man and the battery icon?
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summerboard and customize, used some icons off installer.

the theme I used was found on the net, did a google for vista iPhone theme for the main springboard look
 
my newly jailbroken 1.1.4 as you can see it has summerboard and customize installed and working. I had to alter version number to get it to install but as you can see works fine under 1.1.4

jailbreak was a soft upgrade done using ipodtouchmaster's repo and following his video on youtube

 
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