This tutorial will teach you how to open up the .artwork files in the iPhone, using iPhoneShop 0.4.
It will help you do things like change the keyboard image to a new one, like this:
While I am doing this in OS X, the process is pretty much the same in Windows - you just open the command line (Start>Run>cmd) instead of the Terminal.
Lets get started.
You will need:
> An .artwork file from the iPhone. In this example I will be using the Keyboard-StandardQWERTY.artwork file, which controls the iPhone’s general keyboard.
> iPhoneShop 0.4 or greater. (Mirror from their site)
Step 1
In this tutorial, I will be putting everything in a folder called artwork, which I will store on my Desktop. I recommend you do the same, unless you are decent enough at command line stuff to know where to change paths, etc. So put your .artwork file and the iPhoneShop-0.4.jar file in that folder. Also, create a blank folder in there called pngs. This is where the images from within your .artwork file will wind up.
Step 2
Open up Terminal (Applications>Utilities>Terminal), or if you are in Windows, open up the command line (Start>Run>cmd), and type:
cd ~/Desktop/artwork
and hit return.
If you have multiple users on your computer, type:
cd /Users/Your_User_Name/Desktop/artwork
and then return.
Step 3
Next, type:
java -jar iPhoneShop-0.4.jar ARTWORK file-you-are-opening.artwork export ./pngs/
and hit return. Since I am wanting to open Keyboard-StandardQWERTY.artwork in this tutorial, I replace file-you-are-opening.artwork with that.
- if you are using a windows machine, you need to create the pngs directory in the artwork folder, before running this command.
Step 4
You may get a couple errors at the front, no worries, then you should see a bunch of lines pass by, each one is an image being pulled from the .artwork file. At the end you will be back to the command prompt.
Step 5
Now you can see all your images stored in the pngs folder we created (Desktop/artwork/pngs).
Now you may edit away, but remember a couple things:
>Transparent images must remain transparent. In Adobe Photoshop please add one black layer and set fill to 1 or 0%
>File dimensions must not be changed!
Step 6
Now, to recompile into an .artwork file again, lets go back to Terminal or the command line, and make sure we’re back in the artwork folder by again typing:
cd ~/Desktop/artwork
and hit return. Remember, if you are using a Mac with multiple users, type:
cd /Users/your_user_name_here/Desktop/artwork
and hit return.
Step 7
Now type:
java -jar iPhoneShop-0.4.jar ARTWORK file-you-want-to-create.artwork import ./pngs/
and hit return. I am creating KeyboardGeneralQWERTY.artwork in this tutorial, so I will replace file-you-want-to-create.artwork with that.
This line is telling your computer to use iPhoneShop, a Java (.jar) file to import all the .png’s from the folder called pngs and create an .artwork file called KeyboardGeneralQWERTY.artwork.
Step 8
You will again see a bunch of lines going by as it processes each .png file, and will end with a message telling you where the new file is stored (in your /Desktop/artwork/pngs folder).
There it is! You can now upload it back to your iPhone to replace the original. Of course, make sure you keep a backup of your original somewhere, in case you want to go back to it.