iPad 101: Customize your wallpaper
Unlike the iPhone,* the iPad lets you customize wallpapers for, both, the lock screen and the home screen. While the default image is beautiful (unless you think the stars resemble scratches), many users will want to replace it with something personal. Here's how.Tap the Settings app and then select Brightness and Wallpaper. There, you'll find two options. First, you can enable auto-brightness, which adjusts the display's brightness by monitoring the environment's ambient light.
Tap the images below to bring up the wallpaper settings. At the top of the page, you'll find the iPad's default images followed by your own pictures (if you've synchronized photos). Tap any image to bring up the full-screen view. Now, you've got three options: set the lock screen, home screen, or both. You're done!
There are two things that you should note. The first thing is that your images are sorted by album, events, and then faces, which makes searching easier. Secondly, you can't adjust or re-size an image before setting it as a wallpaper like you can on an iPhone.
*That's going to change this summer.
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Unlike the iPhone,* the iPad lets you customize wallpapers for, both, the lock screen and the home screen. While the default image is...
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Correction: The iPad will let you resize the image this *fall* when OS 4 is available for the iPad.
April 12 2010 at 12:55 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyNice article. Here are some really nice free wallpapers:
http://yaymicro.com/view.action?page=free_ipad_wallpapers&la=en
They link to this page, that's how I found it.
There's a bug in the beta . Go to your setting instead. Do it from wallpaper! It will work from there.
April 09 2010 at 11:53 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyYou're right about the "scratches" comment. I got my iPAD home and my first thought was that the screen was scratched. Fortunately, I have the foresight to try another desktop image before taking it back to my Apple store!
April 09 2010 at 10:35 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyIs anyone else having a problem with their images not being clear in certain orientations? For example if I set a photo of mine that has a landscape orientation to be the background and then put the ipad in portrait orientation it will scale the image up to fill the background. Is itunes scaling images down so that they fill the screen in the correct orientation when transferring them to the ipad, so they look terrible when they are scaled up in the improper orientation when they are set as the background? Or, is it just that I have never taken the time to look at my images six inches from my face and they are all horribly flawed compared to the background images that came with the ipad? I guess my question is, does the itunes scale a landscape image to be about 1024x768 or 1365x1024 before transferring to the ipad?
April 09 2010 at 10:01 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI still have a few developer spots left on my account, if you want to get in on the beta and try this email me at blachole [at] gmail.com for more info!
April 09 2010 at 9:41 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyYou should not own an iPad if you didn't know this!!!!
April 09 2010 at 9:23 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHow do wallpapers act when the orientation is changed from portrait to landscape? Is a portrait orientation photo (like the girl standing in the image above) going to just be on it's side?
I'm assuming the answer is yes, though it would be cool to have the option to select different portions of the image that would be visible depending on orientation. For example, you get the full photo of the standing girl in portrait mode, but when you rotate to landscape it zooms in towards her face to still make the photo fill the screen, but also still be in relative orientation to you rather than the device.
Sorry to say but the bottomof the image gets chopped off. So if it's a person standing in potrait view when you flip to landscape their legs are no longer visible and it's zoomed to fill the width of the screen.
April 09 2010 at 10:45 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyCorrection - you *can* resize images by pinch-zooming, before you commit the image to wallpaper.
April 09 2010 at 8:52 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replywho didn't know?
thats simple [People sometimes]
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