Customize leopard

[SevenEleven]

Hi I have seen lots of screenshots of peoples nice looking customized homescreens.

I have looked into doing it but am not sure what I need to do it. I see people refer to a program called SS but I dont know what it is.

I am using leopard, can anyone point me where to start?

 

[TuffLuffJimmy]

http://unsanity.com/haxies/shapeshifter

 

[GGJstudios]

If, by "homescreens" you mean the desktop, you can change the image by going to System Preferences > Desktop & Screen Saver > Desktop

 

[TuffLuffJimmy]

If, by "homescreens" you mean the desktop, you can change the image by going to System Preferences > Desktop & Screen Saver > Desktop

yeah not at all what s/he's looking for.

 

[gusious]

What exactly do you want to change??

 

[SevenEleven]

Thanks guys - appreciate the link.

gusious: I am looking to customize the entire look of Leopard along the lines of what you would see here:

http://turnpaper.deviantart.com/art/down-time-96156808

Of course non of that is my work. Credit to the artist.

Edit:
Seems that shapeshifter doesnt support 10.5.x yet, looks like I will have to wait.

 

[sickmacdoc]

Actually no need to wait for shapeshifter for something like your example really. It looks nice and is well coordinated, but does not appear to be anything beyond dock replacement, a bunch of icon replacements and a new desktop picture (although it looks like the menu fonts have been changed but I can't really tell. I use a similar dock replacement and some of the same icon replacements myself (see below).

You can change icons easily with free programs like "LiteIcons": http://www.freemacsoft.net/ or they can be changed manually with the Get Info Copy/Paste routine, but LiteIcons is quickest and simplest (and can change some system level icons that the Get Info method can't).

There are a LOT of places to look for icons to use for Macs, but one of the most commonly used sources is Interface Lift: http://interfacelift.com/icons-mac/ and they also have hundreds of desktop pics which can be searched by screen size- a real bonus: http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper_beta/downloads/date/any/

Replacement docks can be found a lot of places too- one is http://www.dockulicious.com/docks/index/page:1/ A neat little app to change docks is http://www.ed-shiro.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=35 although there are others.

Anyway there is a lot more that can be modified without a full ShapeShifter theme change, so just wanted to give you some examples to work with!

 

[SevenEleven]

Thanks very much, I have downloaded those programs and searching for some icons now.