The Rainy Danbo Home Screen [Featured Android Home Screen]

Reader Michael.l.england shows us how to create a very cool home screen with widgets that sit behind part of your wallpaper.

We'll leave it to Michael to explain how he did it:

I've always been a fan of the "Danbo" wallpapers. Also, of GeekTool for OSX. For a while on my iMac at home I used GeekTool to do some layered images to give a neat dynamic desktop with another Danbo wallpaper. Being inspired by that, and not seeing it done before on a phone, I took a similar approach to my Galaxy Nexus.

I'm sure there's a bunch of ways you can do this, but here's what I used:

• Apex Launcher
• The Roboto font for all the text
• Ultimate Custom Clock Widget for the clock
• MultiPicture Live Wallpaper, which puts a different wallpaper on each screen (not shown)
• The Minimalist Icon Pack
• This rainy Danbo wallpaper

• Getting the Danbo in the foreground wasn't too hard. It's simple: The parts that look like widgets are widgets. I got the clock widget behind Danbo's head by cutting out a portion in Photoshop (you could also use the GIMP), exporting it as a PNG, and then putting that image into a widget that overlaps the clock. It took a little bit of sizing things up, and even in the end I still had to play with positioning, but it wasn't nearly as hard as I thought it was going to be.

Do you have an awesome, tweaked-into-oblivion home or lock screen of your own that you'd like to share? Go ahead and post it on the #homescreenshowcase forum with a description of how you made it and it may be the next featured home screen.

The Rainy Danbo Home Screen | #homescreenshowcase

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/CX3pNqgiUok/the-rainy-danbo-home-screen

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