If you were one of the lucky people who grabbed yourself a new Apple iPad’s this weekend, then you may be a little disappointed with the selection of wallpapers available on the fantastic little device – fear not, help is at hand.

We have created a set of guides for all you budding and professional artists out there who wish to create your own. The download below offers a fully layered Photoshop (CS4 or earlier) file with guides added and an overlay to make sure you understand the process – let me explain.

The native screen size of an iPad is 768 x 1024px, or (and this is the funky bit) it’s 1024 x 768px – as we all know you can orientate the iPad either horizontally or vertically dependent on our preference of display – the iPad simply rotates the wallpaper image when you do this and as such we have to create an image that is 1024 x 1024px – to cover all the bases. There is also, because of this method, 4 corners of your image that will never be seen, regardless of it’s format.

Here is a reduced size of the download for you to get a clear idea on how things work.

The download includes the following formats for your convenience:

• Layered Photoshop
• TIFF
• JPEG

Please – NO HOTLINKING TO THIS FILE – I fully support linking to this article however.

We look forward to some designs from our small community, and we have lots more goodies in store for the iPad owners out there – stay tuned!

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