Turn a photo into live tiles [How To]

There has been an awesome tutorial posted that allows one to add a photo as a prepare of live tiles, and so if yous are someone who would like to have the top eight (or in whatsoever order) tiles of your home screen show a sliced image then this is perfect for you to attain that effect.

Get the complete how-to after the jump.

First, we must locate the image we wish to use (it should be at to the lowest degree the size of the telephone screen dimensions - 480x800). For instance purposes, I shall be using a simple wpcentral logo on a pre-fabricated WP7 wallpaper design. You should brand sure that the prototype is light in colours, a darker choice (similar our case) makes getting the slices perfect slightly more difficult.

Now nosotros have our prototype, we will need to open it upward in an image editor of choice. Create a sheet with the dimensions of 358x728 (pixels). We will now demand to split this canvass into eight equal 173px squares with a 12px separator.

You can achieve this a number of means, by either cutting up the prototype into equal squares, or creating a template which should issue with whats shown below.

You can apply the paradigm above as a template for your design should you lot wish to skip this part. Now we have our template at the ready, it's time to add in our image. You will need to place the prototype you've chosen on a layer that's behind the template we just created.

Now we volition need to save the image as .png or .jpg preferred format and upload to our favourite image sharing site. Visit the location on your device where the image has been uploaded to and zoom in to fit one square perfectly on the screen. Be certain to have the top of the foursquare touching the accost bar each and every fourth dimension with the sides of the foursquare striking the edges of the screen. You volition see the elevation one-half of the square below, this is fine as information technology wont show on the live tile.

Press "…" and so select "pin to start". The image will now appear on your first screen, movement it to the top left and conduct this process out with the rest of the squares. Yous should now have something that looks like the result I gained.

Should you not have epitome editng software, or if you lot wish to not dive into creating your own images with the steps above, "there's an app for that!" Just browse the Market place for "Pin To Showtime" (by FlickyFlocky) and install what ones you crave - there are eight available, one per tile. Comment below if you institute this useful and show u.s.a. what images you lot used for your device.

Cheers for the tip Tezawaly!

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Source: https://www.windowscentral.com/turn-photo-live-tiles-how

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