**Introduction to Winterboard Themes**

When it comes to customizing your iPhone or iPad, one of the most exciting aspects is creating and applying custom themes using Winterboard. In this article, we'll take you through the process of setting up and applying a new theme, as well as some tips and tricks for getting started with Winterboard.

**Understanding the Hierarchy**

The first step in creating a custom theme is to understand the hierarchy of the UI elements on your device. This includes icons, wallpapers, dock, status bars, and more. To see this hierarchy in action, open up Winterboard and navigate to the "Illumine" section. You'll see a list of various UI elements, including wallpaper, icons, dock, and more. The idea is that you can drag and drop these elements into their respective categories.

**Mixing and Matching**

One of the best things about Winterboard is its flexibility when it comes to mixing and matching different UI elements. For example, if you're using a theme called "Glass" as your base, you can add pieces from another theme, such as "Clart", to give it your own unique look. This is a great way to customize your theme without having to start from scratch.

**Experimentation**

One of the best things about Winterboard is its emphasis on experimentation and creativity. If you're new to customizing themes, don't be afraid to try out different combinations of icons, wallpapers, and dock layouts until you find one that works for you. The key is to have fun with it!

**Applying a New Theme**

Now that we've covered the basics of Winterboard, let's talk about how to apply a new theme to your device. To do this, simply open up Winterboard, navigate to the "Stash" section, and select the theme you want to apply. Once you've selected the theme, go ahead and drag and drop any UI elements that need to be updated.

**Using SCP or Cyberduck**

There are two ways to transfer your custom theme from one device to another: using SCP (Short Cut Program) or Cyberduck. To use SCP, simply open up Winterboard, navigate to the "Stash" section, and select the theme you want to transfer. Then, go ahead and copy and paste the theme files onto a new device using SCP.

**Conclusion**

That's it! With these simple steps, you can create and apply custom themes on your iPhone or iPad using Winterboard. Remember to experiment and have fun with it – there are no limits to what you can do with this powerful customization tool.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys what is up it's Duncan and today I'm here with a video I think will help a lot of you guys out I'm going to give you guys a quick tutorial on how to make winterboard themes um I'm going to give you guys the basics um and I'm kind of go show you how you can piece together parts of other themes but the same Basics will apply if you would like to make your own themes although obviously it's going to be a little bit more complicated but the basics are all still going to be there so anyway let's go ahead and get this one started okay so the first step is that you're going to need to download some software that will allow you to SSH basically what sshing is in a nutshell is that you allows you to transfer files from your iPod or iPhone to your computer you know there are more purposes and all kinds of stuff but for this for the purpose of this tutorial that's all you need to know so basically you will need to download one of two programs there are others but these are the ones I recommend okay so if you're using a Windows computer you should download winp I will have links to both of these programs in the sidebar uh onp is a really a pretty solid uh program just allows you to SSH No Frills whatever it's perfect and if you're using a Mac you will need to use cyberduck um I've used it I've used both both of these they both very simple so you know they both work in general I will be showing you guys when SCP but if you have a Mac and you're using cyberduck it should be pretty similar so go ahead install those and then we'll go ahead to The Next Step okay so I'm going to go ahead and Skip ahead to just using the program if you do not know how to SSH it's not I'm not going to give you guys the full tutorial it's very simple once you learn how to hook it up and everything it's no big deal um but if you have if you have problems with it you know go ahead find some other tutorial and go ahead and Skip to this next part okay and you will need to have your iPod or iPhone hooked up on everything and logged in okay so when you log in you will be in the root file okay so you see librar and media on the right ignore the left that's just your files this is what you're looking at on your Remote device which in this case is your iPhone or iPod so basically you see library media and you'll also see this one double click it to go back now you'll be in this file and you'll see all these now we'll note that SSH can kind of get a little intimidating for people but really yeah I mean you know you are in the main files but you're not I mean unless you start grab stuff and deleting it you should be okay so so go down almost to the end and hit stash the stash folder right here go ahead and go into that and you'll see a bunch more go into themes okay so go into SL so basically you back out when you first open it you back out to the v file then you go into the stash file and then you go into themes and once you're here you can pretty much breathe easy you're you're you're pretty much there now you will see all of your winterboard things all of them are going to be uh in this file now basically what you do is you can go through and get whatever you want so let's say well for purpose of this I'm not going to go ahead and do it but I'll show you guys how to do it because it does take a little bit so basically let's say I want glass clar so you click it and then you can drag it over or you can drag it onto your desktop or whatever um I've already done it cuz it does take a little while so I've grabbed two themes glass clart and illumine so let's go ahead and go to the next step and show you guys how to edit once you do have the themes on your computer okay so now once you're at wherever it is that you put the two theme folders in my case it's on the desktop but whatever is most convenient to you next you're going to want to go ahead and edit these themes now once you're editing them it's it's pretty simple um it does get pretty complicated and uh I don't have the time to go through each and every what each and every uh little icon and everything what what it all means um you know it really is going to come down to a lot of trial and error I mean you know download I mean it's really it's kind of fun to go know just download lots of different themes and you know go look and see the customizations they made and scroll through the files and see what the names are and all that kind of stuff but I'm going to show you guys some simple things so let's say we're can to go ahead and make our own theme it's going to be really simple so let's go ahead and just make a new folder it can be named whatever you want so just go into new and folder and obviously if you have a Mac you should know how to do this too and let's name it uh test does not matter just name it whatever you want that is going to be the name of the theme okay so now assuming obviously I have glass clart and ilumine um you know you can use whatever you want you can make your own but I'm just going this is just kind of show you the basics okay so let's go ahead and open up glass clar okay so you can see that there are a few uh there are a few things there's like bundles folders icons and then there are couple of others but unfortunately I've already gotten into this but you will see sometimes depending on the theme like a thing that says dock or uh background and and different things like that but uh you know the main thing that glass clart is about is icons so let's go ahead and open up the icons folder in the icons folder you will see all of the icons and you can see that there are what 25 200 icons in glass clart so you know what let's say you know what I like glass clart icons but you know I don't like them all I like this one for example so what we do is let's go ahead and open up test folder okay now we will need to create folders inside this but long it's just pretty simple so to make an icon to have a custom icon in your test which is your new theme right click it go ahead and just make a new folder I'll say that you're definitely going to be making lots of folders and stuff okay now you need to do it specifically uppercase i then C O NS that's icons so whatever icons you put in here will be the icons that will show up so let's say we like the one password so let's pick it up and drag it into icons now we open it up you'll see that this icon is going to be in the theme now obviously if you want you can copy the entire glass clart over you can mix and match you can make your own icons it really doesn't matter um one thing though is that if you do want to customize one thing that you definitely need to notice is be wary of the size so if we open this up it's going to be 59 by 62 um now you can edit the sizes a little bit but you have to be careful when you get into uh sometimes if you change the size of something it can kind of mess stuff up so you know do a little experimentation and kind of you know be mindful of what you're doing so ilumine obviously you can see here has a lot more okay you can see wallpaper and everything like that um now basically wallpaper is going to be your basically what it is behind the uh behind all your icons on your springboard so you know I like this one so let's go ahead and go over to the test and as you can see here if you pay attention to the hierarchy you see that in the very first thing in the ilumine you see all of the stuff so if you see wallpaper here you can drag it over to wallpaper on your other it's just kind of a general sort of thing so we like this wallpaper so we're going to move it over to our new one um that dock this is going to be the dock at the bottom um sometimes you might want to have a transparent dock sometimes you might not in this case we we like this dock so we're going to go ahead and drag it over here okay um there's lots more uh I won't even try to get into the bundles and everything like that but basically this is kind of the basics you can mix and match for this I recommend just if you don't know what you're doing it first just mix match icons and like wallpapers and like we can go ahead and grab status bars and docks and that sort of thing you can go into the more in-depth like the bundles and everything at later date or you can do it right now if you want but you know it takes while you might not understand exactly how everything goes so you know just experiment around but for this we're just going to use this so now let's go ahead and go to the next step okay so now we're assuming that we're done for right now with the theme so now let's go ahead and put it on the device okay so it's very simple go ahead and open up one SCP or cyberduck and do the exact same thing we did before back out of root go down open up stash and open up themes okay now go ahead and you can drag and drop but I've happen to have it just right here on my desktop so go ahead and grab test drag it in here now you got to be sure that you don't accidentally you know put it inside one of these so let's go ahead and just drop it right here and so we're going to copy it go ahead and copy let's go ahead and give it just a moment and there we go so if we scroll down here a little bit we should see test okay so now if you you go ahead and open up and look at it you see that your icon your Dock and your wallpaper there obviously anything else you put okay so now let's go ahead and take a look at what it looks like on the device okay so once you've SED the your theme your brand new theme onto your device and you have selected it through either winterboard or WB app and R springed and you're all done then you will have the theme you see here this is not that nice of a theme I mean it's it's uh I do still have all the everything else I had on it but you know it's basically pretty solid I mean you can see that obviously the background is there um and the dock is there and if I would have picked more icons obviously you would see the icons would have changed but yeah guys so that's pretty much how to uh change and do everything in a nutshell um you know there's lots and lots more but just to get yourself started that's that's this is a pretty easy way you can customize themes and uh another way you can do it that I didn't quite show in the video was you can customize pre-existing themes so what I showed was like taking bits and pieces from two themes this case glass clart and illumine but if you wanted to you could take glass clart or whatever theme and just like add pieces to it so you already have a base theme with all the UI elements and just add more like add icons or do whatever you want really it's all about customization that's what winterboard is all about so you know just go and have fun with it um uh if I don't know I might do some more tutorials on some more in-depth stuff but once you get this really just experiment just look at each find different themes and look at the different files and say oh I think that that does this change them make your own custom I mean just just go for it it's it's a lot of fun anyway guys so that's it uh just a video tutorial want to show you guys how to make custom winterboard themes uh so yeah thanks for watching guyshey guys what is up it's Duncan and today I'm here with a video I think will help a lot of you guys out I'm going to give you guys a quick tutorial on how to make winterboard themes um I'm going to give you guys the basics um and I'm kind of go show you how you can piece together parts of other themes but the same Basics will apply if you would like to make your own themes although obviously it's going to be a little bit more complicated but the basics are all still going to be there so anyway let's go ahead and get this one started okay so the first step is that you're going to need to download some software that will allow you to SSH basically what sshing is in a nutshell is that you allows you to transfer files from your iPod or iPhone to your computer you know there are more purposes and all kinds of stuff but for this for the purpose of this tutorial that's all you need to know so basically you will need to download one of two programs there are others but these are the ones I recommend okay so if you're using a Windows computer you should download winp I will have links to both of these programs in the sidebar uh onp is a really a pretty solid uh program just allows you to SSH No Frills whatever it's perfect and if you're using a Mac you will need to use cyberduck um I've used it I've used both both of these they both very simple so you know they both work in general I will be showing you guys when SCP but if you have a Mac and you're using cyberduck it should be pretty similar so go ahead install those and then we'll go ahead to The Next Step okay so I'm going to go ahead and Skip ahead to just using the program if you do not know how to SSH it's not I'm not going to give you guys the full tutorial it's very simple once you learn how to hook it up and everything it's no big deal um but if you have if you have problems with it you know go ahead find some other tutorial and go ahead and Skip to this next part okay and you will need to have your iPod or iPhone hooked up on everything and logged in okay so when you log in you will be in the root file okay so you see librar and media on the right ignore the left that's just your files this is what you're looking at on your Remote device which in this case is your iPhone or iPod so basically you see library media and you'll also see this one double click it to go back now you'll be in this file and you'll see all these now we'll note that SSH can kind of get a little intimidating for people but really yeah I mean you know you are in the main files but you're not I mean unless you start grab stuff and deleting it you should be okay so so go down almost to the end and hit stash the stash folder right here go ahead and go into that and you'll see a bunch more go into themes okay so go into SL so basically you back out when you first open it you back out to the v file then you go into the stash file and then you go into themes and once you're here you can pretty much breathe easy you're you're you're pretty much there now you will see all of your winterboard things all of them are going to be uh in this file now basically what you do is you can go through and get whatever you want so let's say well for purpose of this I'm not going to go ahead and do it but I'll show you guys how to do it because it does take a little bit so basically let's say I want glass clar so you click it and then you can drag it over or you can drag it onto your desktop or whatever um I've already done it cuz it does take a little while so I've grabbed two themes glass clart and illumine so let's go ahead and go to the next step and show you guys how to edit once you do have the themes on your computer okay so now once you're at wherever it is that you put the two theme folders in my case it's on the desktop but whatever is most convenient to you next you're going to want to go ahead and edit these themes now once you're editing them it's it's pretty simple um it does get pretty complicated and uh I don't have the time to go through each and every what each and every uh little icon and everything what what it all means um you know it really is going to come down to a lot of trial and error I mean you know download I mean it's really it's kind of fun to go know just download lots of different themes and you know go look and see the customizations they made and scroll through the files and see what the names are and all that kind of stuff but I'm going to show you guys some simple things so let's say we're can to go ahead and make our own theme it's going to be really simple so let's go ahead and just make a new folder it can be named whatever you want so just go into new and folder and obviously if you have a Mac you should know how to do this too and let's name it uh test does not matter just name it whatever you want that is going to be the name of the theme okay so now assuming obviously I have glass clart and ilumine um you know you can use whatever you want you can make your own but I'm just going this is just kind of show you the basics okay so let's go ahead and open up glass clar okay so you can see that there are a few uh there are a few things there's like bundles folders icons and then there are couple of others but unfortunately I've already gotten into this but you will see sometimes depending on the theme like a thing that says dock or uh background and and different things like that but uh you know the main thing that glass clart is about is icons so let's go ahead and open up the icons folder in the icons folder you will see all of the icons and you can see that there are what 25 200 icons in glass clart so you know what let's say you know what I like glass clart icons but you know I don't like them all I like this one for example so what we do is let's go ahead and open up test folder okay now we will need to create folders inside this but long it's just pretty simple so to make an icon to have a custom icon in your test which is your new theme right click it go ahead and just make a new folder I'll say that you're definitely going to be making lots of folders and stuff okay now you need to do it specifically uppercase i then C O NS that's icons so whatever icons you put in here will be the icons that will show up so let's say we like the one password so let's pick it up and drag it into icons now we open it up you'll see that this icon is going to be in the theme now obviously if you want you can copy the entire glass clart over you can mix and match you can make your own icons it really doesn't matter um one thing though is that if you do want to customize one thing that you definitely need to notice is be wary of the size so if we open this up it's going to be 59 by 62 um now you can edit the sizes a little bit but you have to be careful when you get into uh sometimes if you change the size of something it can kind of mess stuff up so you know do a little experimentation and kind of you know be mindful of what you're doing so ilumine obviously you can see here has a lot more okay you can see wallpaper and everything like that um now basically wallpaper is going to be your basically what it is behind the uh behind all your icons on your springboard so you know I like this one so let's go ahead and go over to the test and as you can see here if you pay attention to the hierarchy you see that in the very first thing in the ilumine you see all of the stuff so if you see wallpaper here you can drag it over to wallpaper on your other it's just kind of a general sort of thing so we like this wallpaper so we're going to move it over to our new one um that dock this is going to be the dock at the bottom um sometimes you might want to have a transparent dock sometimes you might not in this case we we like this dock so we're going to go ahead and drag it over here okay um there's lots more uh I won't even try to get into the bundles and everything like that but basically this is kind of the basics you can mix and match for this I recommend just if you don't know what you're doing it first just mix match icons and like wallpapers and like we can go ahead and grab status bars and docks and that sort of thing you can go into the more in-depth like the bundles and everything at later date or you can do it right now if you want but you know it takes while you might not understand exactly how everything goes so you know just experiment around but for this we're just going to use this so now let's go ahead and go to the next step okay so now we're assuming that we're done for right now with the theme so now let's go ahead and put it on the device okay so it's very simple go ahead and open up one SCP or cyberduck and do the exact same thing we did before back out of root go down open up stash and open up themes okay now go ahead and you can drag and drop but I've happen to have it just right here on my desktop so go ahead and grab test drag it in here now you got to be sure that you don't accidentally you know put it inside one of these so let's go ahead and just drop it right here and so we're going to copy it go ahead and copy let's go ahead and give it just a moment and there we go so if we scroll down here a little bit we should see test okay so now if you you go ahead and open up and look at it you see that your icon your Dock and your wallpaper there obviously anything else you put okay so now let's go ahead and take a look at what it looks like on the device okay so once you've SED the your theme your brand new theme onto your device and you have selected it through either winterboard or WB app and R springed and you're all done then you will have the theme you see here this is not that nice of a theme I mean it's it's uh I do still have all the everything else I had on it but you know it's basically pretty solid I mean you can see that obviously the background is there um and the dock is there and if I would have picked more icons obviously you would see the icons would have changed but yeah guys so that's pretty much how to uh change and do everything in a nutshell um you know there's lots and lots more but just to get yourself started that's that's this is a pretty easy way you can customize themes and uh another way you can do it that I didn't quite show in the video was you can customize pre-existing themes so what I showed was like taking bits and pieces from two themes this case glass clart and illumine but if you wanted to you could take glass clart or whatever theme and just like add pieces to it so you already have a base theme with all the UI elements and just add more like add icons or do whatever you want really it's all about customization that's what winterboard is all about so you know just go and have fun with it um uh if I don't know I might do some more tutorials on some more in-depth stuff but once you get this really just experiment just look at each find different themes and look at the different files and say oh I think that that does this change them make your own custom I mean just just go for it it's it's a lot of fun anyway guys so that's it uh just a video tutorial want to show you guys how to make custom winterboard themes uh so yeah thanks for watching guys