If you've been a BlackBerry® smartphone somebody for awhile, you've belike proceed crossways BlackBerry themes. BlackBerry themes happening the way your BlackBerry smartphone housing take looks: from the emphasize person to the picture and cursor call. Both BlackBerry themes also feature animations and a completely uncomparable habitation jam experience.
Did you bonk that you can work your own BlackBerry melody? What's healthier, the new free BlackBerry® Motif Apartment 5.0 makes it pretty gradual to modify your BlackBerry smartphone with a unequaled idea. All you penury is a bit of power and both skills with graphics software same Adobe® Photoshop®, Adobe Illustrator®, Adobe After Effects® or BlackBerry® Composer.
Today I'm feat to vocation you through the water program of BlackBerry Strain Studio 5.0 and in a ulterior base we'll go step-by-step through the business transmute. Let's get started!
You'll observation that BlackBerry Theme Apartment actually contains two products in the suite: Idea Creator, and Composer.
BlackBerry Theme Builder
BlackBerry Theme Builder is the “theme design” tool of the suite. BlackBerry Theme Builder lets you change the images that get used for things like icons, background graphics and cursors. You can also adjust the fonts, change the position of many objects on the screen, decide which applications appear and change the color and properties of things like dialog boxes.
The Preview Window shows off your theme along with how it will look on the BlackBerry smartphone you’ve decided to make a theme for. The “preview” is – for the most part, just that … a preview.
When using BlackBerry Theme Builder, you almost always change the properties of your theme in the Inspector (more on this in a second) and don’t manipulate anything on the Preview window itself unless you’ve selected a function in The Inspector which asks you to then change things in the preview window directly.
An example in this would be when you select “REPOSITION BANNER ITEMS” items in the Inspector. Selecting this option will make it possible for you to select any item in the banner shown in the preview and move them around the screen to your liking.
BlackBerry Composer
The second tool is BlackBerry Composer, a design and animation product that is great for helping you craft images, whether they’re static or animated. BlackBerry Composer has a full set of tools for designing built into it and it’s great for adding life to your images without having to buy other software.
BlackBerry Theme Studio is also friendly with other design tools. If you want to design your graphics in something like Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator, that’s fine too. If you want to add animation, you’ll need to learn a bit more about BlackBerry Composer, but we’ll cover that another time.
Next, we’ll cover the specific steps required to build a BlackBerry theme. Until then make sure to download BlackBerry Theme Studio 5.0.
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