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Background Images - the non plus ultra of iPhone home screen modification.
WinterBoard now supports different background images for each Home Screen page. Please make sure you have upgraded (through Cydia) to the latest WinterBoard and MobileSubstrate versions.
Different images for each Home Screen page allow the display of a panorama - one large image that you slide across your screen. I have always been very fond of this effect:
The Old Way
Until now, it could only be achieved by adding placeholder web clips to fill all empty screen slots, and then setting the icons for each slot to give the illusion of a background image. This method, implemented in earlier versions of iFuntastic, has some serious drawbacks:

- it was very complicated - internally as well as user interface wise
- applications could not be rearranged without destroying the effect
- you needed to add a lot of placeholder web clips
- hard to add new applications
- themes needed to be installed through Son of iFuntastic, since they involved adding the placeholders, changing the display order and setting application icons

The New Way
Thanks to saurik, the developer of WinterBoard and Cydia, this now has become a lot easier!
The new method is now simply a WinterBoard theme and works independent of the icon layer. Placeholders are not needed. The background images are displayed just underneath the icon layer (and dock,) but above the home screen wallpaper and movies. The dock area background now also changes from page to page.
The background images, dock, wallpaper and status bar pages work the same way with regard to image handling. They differ only in the portions of the screen that are affected. Please refer to the Overview to learn more.
Command and Options Menu
Ignore Empty Pages when this option is chosen, blank page images are not saved into the theme. This means the background images from other themes can (and will) show through.
The Affected Areas section lets you fine-tune the background images. Any excluded area will be cut out of the background images; whatever is underneath - either from this or other themes - will show through.
Note that reverting does not restore a list of assigned images (that is, the 'work in progress') but instead adds the Page0.png ... Page8.png files (if present) to the list of assigned images.