To custom wallpapers for iPad 2 is similar with the wallpaper making for any other type of display such as iPhone, Mac, PC, etc. You can make iPad 2 wallpapers from your photographs. Photographs of nature scenes, photograph of world famous tourism sites are great source for creating iPad wallpapers. Instead of paying for commercial wallpapers for iPad 2, or downloading Free iPad 2 wallpapers or HD photographs, you can make your own. It is easy and it is fun.
If you rolled up your sleeves and decided to make your own wallpaper for iPad 2 from photographs, bellow tips could be useful to help you make the best ipad 2 wallpapers.
The dimensions of wallpapers for iPad 2
Apple iPad 2 has a resolution of 1024×768 at 132 pixels per inch. So, you should crop your images to 1024×768, is that right?
No. Although the iPad 2 has a 1024 x 768 pixel screen, and so does the iPad2. Bear in mind it can be used horizontally as well as vertically. A proper iPad 2 wallpapers should be 1024 x 1024 pixels.
So when you turn iPad 2 from the horizontal to vertical orientation, or vice-versa, it automatically rotates its wallpaper to match.
Your custom iPad 2 wallpaper should be a square image. There will always be some parts of the image that will never be seen, no matter how the user holds their iPad 2. Your iPad 2 wallpaper will be automatically cropped to 768×1024 or 1024×768, depending on the orientation of your iPad 2.
However the 768×768 area at the central part stays the main focus when the iPad 2 is being held in either orientation. So when cropping a photograph as iPad 2 Wallpaper the most important part is the central 768×768 area.