After introducing Kustom and posting some Tutorials I noticed the lack of a real Beginner's Guide to Kustom and the first steps are quite irritating coming from Zooper. This Kustom Beginner's Guide should give an overview of KLWP Basics with new parts coming for more detailed help.

Kustom Live Wallpaper, created by "Kustom Industries," is a live wallpaper tool that allows you to create your theme directly in the live wallpaper itself. This allows fluid transitions in widgets and a host of other things that would have otherwise been impossible due to launcher limitations. (via reddit androidhemes wiki)

Kustom Beginner's Guide - Part 1 - KLWP Basics

I'm pretty sure that Kustom will become the most popular app to create a totally unique and efficient designs for your android homescreen. There are many users in communities and on reddit showing how elegant and interactive the designs can be. With these basics it should be easy for you to produce some nice designs.

Getting Started

If you don't have Kustom already installed, get it from the Play Store. You can start this Kustom Beginner's Guide with the free version but I would recommend to go Pro InApp or with this Key because it will give you extra features that come in handy.

- Remove the ADS

- Unlock import from SD and all external skins

- Allow exporting skins to SD and creation of APK preset packs

Crucial here is the import and export function because its often easy to learn by studying other walls or komponents.

Organization

The first thing to understand is that you don't need to add a widget which you later edit in the app. In Kustom you design a whole wallpaper and set it as background. This wallpaper can contain so called komponents which can be shared separately, so you don't need to share your whole design. Komponents could be called widgets and can be a clock, weather icons or almost anything else.

Interface

Kustoms comes with an easy to use interface. Most of the specific functions of the interface I'll cover in future parts of the Kustom Beginner's Guide, for now you can acquaint yourself with the layers menu on the left side. After adding new items to your preset you can navigate easily through the layer menu. On the right side you have the add new items button and some options to make designing presets easier. You can automatically zoom into smaller parts of you screen or pause clock animations. On the bottom you have the navigation bar with all options to adjust your items. The bar changes depending on your current item.

The hamburger menu on the left side contains load and export functions for your whole wallpaper, setting and some links. Make sure to check the FAQ and rate Kustom!

Settings

One of the first things to do is to adjust the settings your way. I would advise you to change your app language to English since all the tutorials published on every site will be in English and it will be way easier to work with the Kustom Beginner's Guide that way.