Post your Start Screen!

[mlauzon]

Here's mine!:

 

[Kris]

 

[AC]

View attachment 11806

Haven't really done much to mine yet.

One problem- Daemon Tools

 

[blackroseMD1]

View attachment 11806

Haven't really done much to mine yet.

One problem- Daemon Tools

Hahaha, nah, that saves me the trouble of having to put in the Pirates! or SC4 disc every time I want to play.

 

[AC]

View attachment 11806

Haven't really done much to mine yet.

One problem- Daemon Tools

Hahaha, nah, that saves me the trouble of having to put in the Pirates! or SC4 disc every time I want to play.

Cough, Built in Image Mounter or VirtualCloneDRive, Cough.

 

[magoshin]

this ^^

 

[Hopachi]

One problem- Daemon Tools

Hahaha, nah, that saves me the trouble of having to put in the Pirates! or SC4 disc every time I want to play.

Cough, Built in Image Mounter or VirtualCloneDRive, Cough.

I'll have to say... Cough, Cough... that I agree with 714 on this one.
Right click and mount ISO.

 

[Wienen]

Thanks for the tip! Only it's not that the image size is different but the icon inside the image is smaller.

It's similar:
You scale the layer in the image and it's fixed.
You get the needed empty space around the icon (layer).

Hope someone will give you a link with the mods if this is too hard.

Hopachi you were right!! Joga send me a PM and explained what he did.

There's probably an easier way to do it than what I did (I'm not that great with image editors); I used The GIMP but you could do it in photoshop or probably anything else:

Open the original icon. Use the color picker to extract the background color, and make a new 512x512 image, filled with that color. Reduce the original icon's size by 66% (from 512 pixels to 338 pixels), and copy/paste that into the other 512x512 image.

The icon stays the same size (512x512), but the white picture is now a smaller proportion of it, so the OblyTile text will fit. There's probably an easier way to do it but that was my method. In Obly Tile I just used the new 512x512 icon for both the "Tile Image" and "Tile Small Image" - it'll automatically resize it for you.

I shared it above for if someone also likes to know!

 

[cicmildjordje]

Took me half a day to customize it, finally.

Which program you use to customize start screen?

 

[Kris]

Took me half a day to customize it, finally.

Which program you use to customize start screen?

OblyTile, Decor8 (for the custom background picture), Photoshop and a lot of patience. I had to "cheat" on photoshop to get the picture and icons like that.
I improved it again since I last posted these screenshots. I'm starting to love Modern UI, you can really customize it and it's only the beginning of Win 8 (hated the UI at first, took me a month to switch from Classic Shell to it).

 

[Hopachi]

Thanks for the tip! Only it's not that the image size is different but the icon inside the image is smaller.

It's similar:
You scale the layer in the image and it's fixed.
You get the needed empty space around the icon (layer).

Hope someone will give you a link with the mods if this is too hard.

Hopachi you were right!! Joga send me a PM and explained what he did.

There's probably an easier way to do it than what I did (I'm not that great with image editors); I used The GIMP but you could do it in photoshop or probably anything else:

Open the original icon. Use the color picker to extract the background color, and make a new 512x512 image, filled with that color. Reduce the original icon's size by 66% (from 512 pixels to 338 pixels), and copy/paste that into the other 512x512 image.

The icon stays the same size (512x512), but the white picture is now a smaller proportion of it, so the OblyTile text will fit. There's probably an easier way to do it but that was my method. In Obly Tile I just used the new 512x512 icon for both the "Tile Image" and "Tile Small Image" - it'll automatically resize it for you.

I shared it above for if someone also likes to know!

That's great news!

GIMP is a great program for this kind of things.

The easiest way I know, with the layer:

-open your image in GIMP, let's say it's 256x256


-go to: layer -> scale layer

to resize 50% smaller (half size)

-the result: image is the same size just layer is smaller and the rest is transparent


The great thing is that it's automatically centered, just export.

 

[Coke Robot]

Took me half a day to customize it, finally.

Which program you use to customize start screen?

OblyTile, Decor8 (for the custom background picture), Photoshop and a lot of patience. I had to "cheat" on photoshop to get the picture and icons like that.
I improved it again since I last posted these screenshots. I'm starting to love Modern UI, you can really customize it and it's only the beginning of Win 8 (hated the UI at first, took me a month to switch from Classic Shell to it).

By far the most creative Start Screen hands down!:thumb:

 

[Hopachi]

Which program you use to customize start screen?

OblyTile, Decor8 (for the custom background picture), Photoshop and a lot of patience. I had to "cheat" on photoshop to get the picture and icons like that.
I improved it again since I last posted these screenshots. I'm starting to love Modern UI, you can really customize it and it's only the beginning of Win 8 (hated the UI at first, took me a month to switch from Classic Shell to it).

By far the most creative Start Screen hands down!:thumb:

Agree. Great work!

 

[TheGrantFitz]

OblyTile, Decor8 (for the custom background picture), Photoshop and a lot of patience. I had to "cheat" on photoshop to get the picture and icons like that.
I improved it again since I last posted these screenshots. I'm starting to love Modern UI, you can really customize it and it's only the beginning of Win 8 (hated the UI at first, took me a month to switch from Classic Shell to it).

By far the most creative Start Screen hands down!:thumb:

Agree. Great work!

Cannot even express how great it turned out.

 

[voyagerxp]

Took me half a day to customize it, finally.

Which program you use to customize start screen?

OblyTile, Decor8 (for the custom background picture), Photoshop and a lot of patience. I had to "cheat" on photoshop to get the picture and icons like that.
I improved it again since I last posted these screenshots. I'm starting to love Modern UI, you can really customize it and it's only the beginning of Win 8 (hated the UI at first, took me a month to switch from Classic Shell to it).

Great work indeed.

 

[Kris]

Thanks guys.
I changed around some icons again to make the style more homogeneous, but I'm pretty much done now.

 

[SeoHyun]

 

[IownAmoneyPit]

Todays Start Screen brought to you by the free Windows 8 Start Screen Customizer & OblyTile.



I used the free Windows 8 Start Screen Customizer to select the picture and set Tile opacity & used OblyTile to create the individual tiles with a black background so they show transparency.

 

[DevilsReject]

heres mine

 

[robinb9]

ok here is mine done with decor8 on 30 day trial, easy to configure, costs $4.99 to purchase
of course you are not seeing the whole thing but at least you see part of it
robin