@NeoHV

Yeah, I made the wallpapers and the circles or w/e we’ll call them (the red things :P).

@MissionImprobable
I made and use a different wallpaper for landscape.

@MissionImprobable
There is an app that does it.. I used it once a while back, then saw it on someones screen earlier last night or this morning and it reminded me of it, but I didn’t install it. I just took the screen shots. I never actually use my phone in landscape mode these days but I used to a lot in the car so I try to make them work both ways.

I wish I had grabbed it when I saw it.

If you find that widget before me, post it here plz :p .. I’ll do the same.

I’m trying to gather a good stash of apps to make a UI that is really different from anything you can buy in the store, but I keep losing them when I flash a new rom!

@NeoHV
I use gimp. I prefer vector images so I use inkscape when possible, but I’m terrible with inkscape and much better with gimp. Both are free, open-source, multiplatform graphic editors so I’d recommend you give them a try. Much less expensive to use gimp than photoshop… Plus learning one and then learning a different one is hard.. so start with the free one ;) Gimp is the photoshop equivalent but if you can stand inkscape, it makes vector images and they are very useful at times.

I might have to give that app a try.. usually I used titanium backup but on one of the forums (xda or rootz) there was talk about something new and much better.. so IDK.. It gets messy though, all those backups.

@NeoHV

First, of course, here are a couple things to help get you started.
http://android-ui-utils.googlecode.com/hg/asset-studio/dist/index.html
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/icon-sets-made-easy-with-icon-set-builder/

and as far as text hotspots, I’m running Apex Launcher, if you drag an app to the homescreen and then click and hold down on that icon it’ll give you the option to change the icon and the app name (or just remove the text but you can do that globally for all apps on the homescreens in Apex settings). It also has some of its own functions that you can set up like the one I use to pull down the status bar – it doesn’t hide/unhide it, it just shows the notifications pull down only.

Also, I have my home key set to open my app drawer when I am on my home screen, and that is a feature of AOKP (the rom I run).

Oh, the second link.. that does batches of icons, and can be tweaked in a bunch of ways.. I don’t run Windows or OSX so I don’t use it often because it requires .. technical jibberish.. but yeah.. its pretty much alright.

If you go looking for icons though try to search for ones in SVG format. Those are vector images and you can scale up a vector image to 9999999999x999999999px and it’ll still be super crisp.. those are great if you want to make big icons I like do often. Vector images are always preferred, you just have to export them to png in the resolution you want before you use them on your phone.. I don’t think android supports vector images for icons yet (though I think it should).

@bogdyy13

Yeah its stored elsewhere, though I’ll grab a copy next chance I get and get it posted.

@NeoHV @bogdyy13

Wallpapers for both landscape and portrait are posted :)

I’ll try to get them posted faster in the future.