As a Saturday afternoon Photoshop project, I made a custom background image for my new iPhone 5.
In the spots which aren’t filled with app icons I positioned old school yearbook photos of some of the famous people who have made my life more enjoyable. Interesting group, I know.
There are download links below if you’d like to use it on your own iPhone.
Top row: Stephen Colbert, Ross Perot, Evel Knievel
Second: Kate Moss, Alexa Chung, Larry David (!), Kurt Cobain
Middle: Lindsay Lohan, Claire Danes, Steve Martin, Steve Jobs
Fourth: Johnny Cash, Bobby Kennedy, Barack Obama, Emma Stone
Last: Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, David Letterman, Grace Kelly
I really wanted to include Annika Norlin, but I just couldn’t find a childhood photo of her online. Apparently school yearbooks aren’t a widespread phenomenon in Sweden like they are in the US.
Download Links
Feel free to download it and use it on your own iPhone. Here are the links to the the full resolution versions for iPhone 5 and for all other iPhones. If you’re reading this on your iPhone, just tap one of the links to see the image, then hold your finger on it until the option pops up to save it to your library.
Here’s how it looks in action: