- [Karin] Hello, and welcome back to iPad Lettering.
My name is Karin,
and I'm here to help you get
the most out of your iPad,
whether that is with lettering,
or art,
or journaling.
In today's video I wanna show you
how I've made this beautiful cherry blossom themed
iPad home screen.
I'm so happy about it.
This really, really relaxes me
and just looking at it makes me so happy.
This is what my iPad used to look like.
(dramatic music) Look at those.
And then going back to this, (gentle music)
Oh, it just relaxes me so much.
But, because I don't wanna undo all the work
that I've already put into this,
I probably spent about four hours from start to finish,
until it looked like this.
I'm going to use my second generation iPad Pro.
And this is what it currently looks like.
You can see all the widgets are super busy
and it's got all these icons.
So let me show you how we can transform this
into that cherry blossom theme.
You're going to need three different apps.
The first app that you will need,
is called Widgetsmith.
This is what we are going to use
to create all the different widgets.
And this is what the icon looks like.
And then we are also going to use the Zinnia app.
This is what Zinnia looks like.
Zinnia is actually a journaling and planner app.
And I very much love using this app.
The app is free.
You can create up to three journals
and three pages within the app,
and that's all you need
to create the beautiful theme for your iPad.
Before you start adding widgets
and customizing your home screen
you wanna make sure that you've got
the latest version of iPadOS,
which is currently
14.0.1.
So just make sure that you've got that installed
before you start with the tutorial.
The first thing you wanna do is
get rid of all the icons
you already have on the screen.
And the easiest way to do that is too long tap
until all the icons start wiggling.
And then we are going to put them all
into a folder like this.
And the reason why I'm doing this,
is because I want to keep them all intact,
just in case you wanna undo
what you've already done.
It makes it much easier
if they are all in one folder,
I'm just gonna do that.
And then we are going to
rename this to Homescreen,
and then we are going to move this
on to the second screen.
And so now if you wanted to get all your icons back,
all you have to do is grab the whole folder
and move it back.
And they put the icons back in place.
And then we're also going to remove
the icons here at the bottom.
So I'm just gonna move them all up here.
And then the next thing we are going to do,
is set up the widgets that we have here.
And this is what we are going to use Widgetsmith for.
Now that we don't have any icons anymore,
the easiest way to find an app,
is to drag down on the screen to bring up Search,
and then you can type in Widgetsmith.
All right, and you can see now
you can add a small,
a medium or a large widget.
And I wanna start with the medium size widget for my clock.
So we're just gonna tap on this
to customize this widget.
So tap on this again.
And then select the layout
that you would like for your clock.
I selected the widget with this analog clock here.
I think this is quite pretty.
For the clock style I have chosen Index.
And then the font is Futura.
The tint color is white.
And then for the background color,
I have selected this blue-green,
and then border color is none.
So now this is good.
So now we're gonna go back,
and we're going to rename this.
And so now this is going to be our calendar.
It makes it easier to find the widget
if you give it a name.
So, I'm gonna do that and then save.
So now let's place our widget onto the iPad.
So you're gonna bring up the widgets
by swiping to the right,
and then swipe all the way to the bottom
until you see the Edit button here.
So tap on Edit.
And now we can remove all the widgets
by tapping on that minus icon here.
And also you can see here,
"Keep On Home Screen",
I've actually turned this on
so that all the widgets
stay on the home screen at all times.
And then tap that plus sign here.
And now this gives you an overview
of all the widgets that you could add.
And we are going to select Widgetsmith here,
and then the medium widget,
and go Add.
So now this one goes here at the top.
I wanna have this pinned here.
And this is our first widget done.
And then we're gonna go back to Widgetsmith.
And I wanna add a large widget,
so I'm gonna select this and customize it.
And for this one,
I want to use the reminders,
we're gonna allow this, yes.
And then, Lists.
I just want my reminders.
I don't wanna filter,
I'll just have all my reminders.
And then the font,
I recommend you use the same font
that you've used for your previous widget.
In my case it is Futura.
And then the tint color is going to be white,
the background color
is going to be pale pink.
And then I've also selected a watercolor for this,
I've selected the white color.
I only recommend using the borders for the square widgets,
but not the rectangular ones
because they get skewed.
For the square widgets actually looks quite cute.
Now, I'm gonna rename this to Reminders,
and then save.
Okay, now we can place this
on the iPad as well.
Edit, Add widget.
We're gonna go back to Widgetsmith
adding a large widget,
and here is our Reminders done.
All right, so the reason why
I've placed these two widgets first
is because I'm going to use them
to guide me when I'm creating the background color
for the home screen.
I can choose any background color
that I want for the home screen,
but I can't really choose any color for my widget.
So, I think it's important
that you do this first,
so that you have these as reference
for when you create the background image.
So now we're going to start the Zinnia app
and here is that screen that I've made for my iPad.
And then I've made this quote here as well,
but I wanna show you
how you can do this yourself.
So, we are going to start by creating a new page.
So it's just gonna start with an empty page
and then you're gonna add some stickers.
And that's why I really love this app,
especially for creating little graphics like this,
this is super easy.
You can use all these stickers,
even in their free version.
The only restriction you have
is that you can only create three pages.
But we only need to create one or two pages anyway.
So you'll be easily able
to do those with the free version.
So now I really like this organic textures pack here.
And one of the things
I haven't figured out yet in Zinnia
is how to change the background color
of the canvas.
It's got the page settings here
and it's got some different page styles with colors,
but it doesn't have the color that I want.
So, what I ended up doing
is just using this blob
and then I put it on the page.
And then I made it big enough
to cover the whole page.
And so that seems to be okay
because now I can change the color here,
so I can make this any color I want.
So this is much easier to change the background color.
And the nice thing is you can always come back
and change it if you haven't picked the right color,
but this is very nice for now.
And now are we going to add
some different elements here to the screen.
You can also change the opacity
which makes it really cool,
because then you can see both elements.
And then I recommend that you don't
fill the whole screen.
You wanna keep this quite simple
because all the icons are gonna sit on top.
So this looks pretty cute.
Now we can add some floral elements as well.
These countrysides stickers are very, very cute as well.
So let's add some of these.
All right, and so this is our home screen done.
Wasn't this super nice and easy?
So now what we can do is save image.
So this is going to
save the image
to the Photos app.
And now we can go back
to the settings
and now we can set that home screen.
So now we're going to the wallpaper
and select Choose New Wallpaper,
All Photos,
and then we can select the background like this.
So now you can choose whether or not
you wanna set this for
just the lock screen
or the home screen or both.
And I'm gonna set it for both.
And now you can see how
the reminders match just the background quite nicely.
So I'm quite happy with that color scheme so far.
So now the next thing we wanna do
is add that quote
that I've had here as well.
So we're going to go back to Zinnia
and we're going to duplicate this page.
And so you can either start from scratch
and do the same thing again.
But what I've actually done here
is I've just changed some of the settings here.
So I ended up making this dark,
making this a dark background like this.
And then we can write that quote here in the middle.
So now this widget
is going to be a rectangular widget.
It's only going to use that
middle part of the image
so you just have to remember
that the edges will get cut off,
but doesn't matter too much.
We can always change it
if you don't get it right the first time.
So now we are going to select the Technical Pen.
I think this is a very nice pen to write on Zinnia,
and I'm gonna write with white
and then,
this is probably quite a good size,
but let's see and then smoothing.
So I like to smooth it quite a lot.
So maybe 90% is not too bad.
And then we can write our quote here.
So now we wanna group this,
but you wanna lock some of the elements on the page first,
otherwise it will select all of them.
They're gonna lock the background
and then we can group this
and now you can move it around,
and you can make it a bit bigger if you'd like,
or you can even rotate it.
And so now we're going to save this
to the photos as well.
So we're gonna save the image.
And then we are going to go back to Widgetsmith.
And so now we are going to
add a new medium widget.
We tap on this
and then change the style to Photo,
select the photo.
And then we are going to choose our quote.
So now this looks pretty good.
And then we are going to give it a name.
Save.
And then we can add it here as well.
Now, we can see how it's good
that you've given it a proper name.
So now we know that this is the quote,
and I want the quote to be here.
And then we're going to
add one more widget.
And that is going to be the Procreate widget.
So you can see Procreate
has enabled one of the widgets.
So you can have your most recent artwork
be displayed here.
So we're gonna add a small widget
and you can see now
one of my recent artworks comes up here.
So of course this doesn't
quite match my theme,
but that's okay.
This is actually a very, very handy shortcut
because if when I tap on it,
it opens the artwork straight there.
So if you choose a different artwork
and then you go back to the home screen,
you can see that it changes it here as well.
So this is very, very cool as well.
All right, so now that we've done the widgets
and the home screen,
it's time to take all the icons.
And the trick here is to use the Shortcuts app.
And I'm gonna show you how this works.
So we're going to
look for the Shortcuts app
which is part of iOS.
And you can see now
because I've already done this
it's actually remembered those
as part of my iCloud settings.
So all the shortcuts
that I've already made for my previous iPad
now turn up here as well.
But I'm gonna show you
how to make a shortcut.
So we're going to tap on the plus sign,
and then we need to create a new shortcut.
So now what we need to do
is find the action.
And we want the Open App
action.
And that's what it looks like.
It says Open App,
so you tap on this.
And so this creates now
the action to open whichever app
that you select here.
So now, let's select App Store
as the first app that we want to open.
And then here where it says New Shortcut,
you can see how it's got these three dots here.
So we tap on those
to bring up the dialogue
where we can now customize the shortcut.
So the first thing is we wanna give it a name
and I recommend that you just use
the name of the app that you want to open,
which is App Store.
And then what we need to do is add to home screen,
so you tap on this,
and then where it says New Shortcut,
this is where you give it the name
that will appear on your home screen.
So we're going to go App Store here again.
And now comes the important part
because this is now where you select the icon
for the App Store.
And because it took me quite a while
to make all these icons,
I'm not gonna include it
in this specific tutorial,
but I'm gonna show you in another tutorial
how to make the icons as well.
So for now, I'm actually just going
to choose the icons I've already made
and you can see I've made all these icons already.
So I'm going to select the icon that I've made,
and then I'm going to assign it to this shortcut
and then tap Add.
And then it says now it's added it
to the home screen.
And then done.
And then when you go back
to the home screen,
you can see here now it's added the App Store icon,
but it hasn't added it to the first page.
It's added it at the end
of all the other icons.
So now what we need to do
is move this onto our actual home screen.
And there we go,
this is our first icon done.
And now we're gonna go back
and we're gonna do the same thing
with all the other icons.
We are going to select Open App,
select Notes.
And then here we are going to
customize the shortcut,
add to home screen notes,
and then we're going to add the photo.
let's make this icon here
for the Notes app.
So we're gonna use this
and then add,
and now this has been added to the home screen.
We're gonna go back
and then we're going to move this
on to the front page.
So this process of adding all the icons
and making all the icons
is actually what took me the longest.
And that's why I really wanna make another tutorial.
So I can show you step by step
how I made the icons as well.
Alright, so there you have it.
This is part one
of the iPad home screen
customization process.
I really hope you found this video useful.
In the next video,
I'm gonna show you how you can customize
all the icons as well.
And we're going to use Procreate for that, of course.
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when that video comes out.
Thank you so much for watching
and I'll see you in my next video.