One frustration I have with some applications is their live tile doesn’t match my Windows Phone’s accent color. Only some developers give their tile such properties. There’s a way to make your own tiles with your own icons. This method works for People tiles and Wallet tiles, so it isn’t particularly useful necessarily (unless you want to pin your credit cards to start), but it looks cool.

1. Windows Phone 8 Hack:
Make your own “Metro” Tiles
David V. Kimball

2. Step 1
• Use Photoshop (you can download CS2 for free from Adobe’s
website) to edit an image of the card you want to use. Make the
background transparent, and use the paint bucket to make the
shapes white. Save it as a PNG format. Also make sure to save the
image with square dimensions for best results.

3. Step 2
• In the example below, I’m using AT&T logo for the “AT&T Account”
Payment method that comes default in Windows Phone 8 wallet
for AT&T phones. The image on the left is the stock image, and the
image on the right is the transparent logo.

4. Step 3
• Then locate the saved file on your
computer and email it to yourself. Open
the email on your Windows Phone, open
it, and save it to your phone.

5. Step 4
• It should look white with a fully-black
background like in this image.

6. Step 5
• Once the image is on your phone, open
Wallet, and open an existing credit card
(or make a new one).

7. Step 6
• Tap the pencil charm to edit and then
change the photo to your recently
downloaded icon (see screenshot). Here
we’re changing the existing non-metro
friendly image and replacing it with the
logo we made earlier.

8. Step 7
• You should see your new icon with a
black background. Tap the save charm at
the bottom.

9. Step 8
• Pin your card to start, and it should look
something like this:

10. Step 9
• You can also make more tiles by going to
the “deals” area of wallet and adding
new items.

11. Step 10
• A title will appear on your tile from the
“Deal name” field, so if you want a title
displayed, name it there.

12. You can add as many as you want. Try more accent
colors!

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