Custom Windows 8 Tiles

Kyzou · 31 Oct 2012 at 09:53

The tiles Windows 8 creates for your desktop apps just ruin the look of the (not)Metro screen.

However, I have come across a tool that allows you to create your own tile shortcuts to applications and use a custom image for the tile! Thank god!

The app is called OblyTile and can be found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1899865
It's very simple to use and can help (non)Metro on PC be that little less painful!

Also related, a great pack of Premade App Tiles: http://dakirby309.deviantart.com/art/Metro-UI-Dock-Icon-Set-678-Icons-280724102?

Update:

Decor8: http://www.stardock.com/products/decor8/features.asp - Change background picture of metro and other colour settings.

Game Tile Images: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=497663 - Nice collection of tiles for games!

Enjoy!

Kyzou · 31 Oct 2012 at 12:13

I found that originally if you zoomed out using the same 512x512 image, it would disappear. However, after a reboot, when I zoomed out, the images auto resized. So it might auto-generated the 30x30 images.

Kyzou · 1 Nov 2012 at 10:06

Sweet man! The game images look sooo much better than the icons you get by default

Kyzou · 2 Nov 2012 at 10:49

Have you provided a separate 30x30 image for the zoomed out view or just letting it resize? I think if you provide OblyTile with a 30x30 image, it will solve that problem.

Kyzou · 2 Nov 2012 at 11:34

Resize in your favourite image editting software? Photoshop, Gimp, etc

Kyzou · 15 Nov 2012 at 16:04

Decor8 looks like it has a bit more functionality! Very glad that software like this exists, I don't think I could deal with Metro otherwise