Creating an iPhone Background

There are a lot of place to download iPhone and iPod Touch backgrounds. I wanted to make one though. I wanted a background that matched my laptops background (another one I made). Its very basic just a black background with some text. I’m a big fan of the minimalism look.

rivik-iphone-background

I started out by looking up the screen size of the iPhone, 320 x 480.  I made a quick background in Fireworks and loaded it on my iPhone.  The text didn’t quite line up though, which made no sense to me at the time.  Then I realized that the screen of the iPhone may be 320 x 480, but the actually usable space is 320 x 460.  The status bar at the top of the phones screen is always present and takes up 20px (the signal strength, time, and battery life bar).  I re-did the background with this resolution and everything lined up nicely.

I included a couple blank templates for iPhone and iPod Touch backgrounds that are already set to the correct size.  One is just a blank white background, the other is a blank black background.  Feel free to use them and create your own backgrounds.

iPhone Blank Background White

iPhone Blank Background Black