Cell Phone Wallpaper - Redecorate your phone

**HayTay** · 23 November 2008, 11:25 PM

One of the neighborhood teenagers, who lives and dies by his cell phone, sometimes finds time to help my wife and I out with certain projects around our house. I wanted to do something different and unique for him to boost his 'coolness' factor about school so I fired up Xara Xtreme and Xara 3D to come up with the following external and internal wallpapers for his cell phone. From the feedback I've managed to drag out of him it seems that they were quite a hit with his classmates.

My 2 animated wallpapers to follow in the next post...

I consider it a job well done,
HayTay

**HayTay** · 23 November 2008, 11:29 PM

As promised here are the 2 animated cell phone wallpapers...

**iamtheblues** · 24 November 2008, 08:41 AM

Very good work, Harry. I like the way the 2 Cs look like an "X", especially the chrome version. The font you've chosen gives it an American feel. This may be part of the coolness appeal for schoolkids (I'm assuming-although I know I shouldn't-Chatham, Kent, given there are two in Canada and more than several in the US).
Anyway, I like it a lot.
Saludos,
Bob.

**gray** · 24 November 2008, 10:16 PM

Very creative good looking wallpapers HayTay. It's always nice to be appreciated for your work.

**HayTay** · 25 November 2008, 04:23 AM

Originally Posted by iamtheblues

Very good work, Harry. I like the way the 2 Cs look like an "X", especially the chrome version.

Thank you, Bob.

The 2 Cs and multi-point star are actually 'DC' and comprise the logo for DC Shoes. As near as I can gather, DC makes and distributes what appears to be the current rage in shoes and apparel for extreme sports athletes (skateboarding, snowboarding, surfing, motocross, BMX, & auto racing) and wannabees. Those graphics are what I cobbled together after overhearing the kid lamenting that he couldn't find any cool DC wallpapers for his cell phone.

Originally Posted by gray

Very creative good looking wallpapers HayTay. It's always nice to be appreciated for your work.

Gray,

Thanks for kind words. It's worth it to have kids you really don't know go out of their way to ask if you were the guy that made those 'really awesome wallpapers for the cell'. That's my 15 minutes of local fame, I guess. All the kids seem to like the 2 spinning wallpapers. Go figure! Me? I'm partial to the ones where I made the bear claw rip through the crumpled paper to expose the cell phone PCB.

I've got a different internal wallpaper I'll post if I can remember what I named, and did with, it. Of course the wallpapers I sent out didn't have the 'Created with Xara Xtreme 4' overlay on them.

Cheers,
Harry

**HayTay** · 25 November 2008, 11:08 PM

Ahhh, I found it. Here's the other wallpaper I constructed from a photo I sliced and diced. The photo was overlaid with several coats of a plasma fill that ware subsequently tweaked using the transparency tool.

Enjoy,
Harry

**gray** · 26 November 2008, 09:14 PM

Interesting effect from the plasma fill, Harry.

**raynerj1** · 26 November 2008, 11:49 PM

Harry... I hope you took those shots yourself. Too many people think of shots they find on the net as free and clear. Particularily amongst the younger folks. They don't know what really goes into taking a good shot.

For instance, I was asked to take a few real estate pictures today of a pub for sale. Try taking a few shots inside a pub with the walls/ceiling painted black and the lights turned low... Not too easy, unless one has a flash brighter than the sun, which is not cheap.