Start Design, add a little color to your Windows Phone Start Screen

Start Design

There are plenty of Windows Phone apps available to create custom wallpapers for your First Screen or Lockscreen. Showtime Design is a relatively new offering in this genre of apps and hopes to catch everyone's creative heart.

Start Design non but allows you to create colorful groundwork wallpapers only besides has tools to create multi-column groundwork images, blur photos for apply and the ability to create advanced wallpapers to match custom backgrounds to specific transparent tiles. As our tipster notes, this app opens upwards a lot of possibilities for your Windows Phone wallpapers.

Start Design'due south master menu greets you lot with a list of each of the four customization tools and an choice to rate the app in the Windows Phone Store. Each of the tools accept a mock Start Screen that volition preview your wallpaper.

Start Design Menu, Color and Columns

The four tools include:

Colors: This is a elementary tool to create solid or ii-color backgrounds. Your two color choices are displayed on the left side of the screen and in tapping ane of the colored dots, you tin can pull up a color palette to cull the color of your liking. If you'd rather roll the die and permit the app cull your colors there is a Random button at the bottom of the screen.
Picture: Once more, a unproblematic tool to pull up a photo from your Pictures Hub to utilize as a wallpaper. Unfortunately, you cannot reposition the image in one case chosen just you do accept three buttons to the left of the screen that will use a blur filter to the image. This is a nice tool that will have a little emphasis off the image then your Live Tiles will stand out just a bit more.
Columns: While the Colors tool will let you blend two colors for your background, the Columns tool will let you create 4 or six multi-colored columns for your background wallpaper.

Start Design Advanced

Advanced: This tool allows you to use multiple images, shapes and colors for your background wallpaper. Merely have a screenshot of your existing Start Screen (remove any background images first) and, in a roundabout manner, you can create custom Alive Tile backgrounds. This tool has options to add together eclipses, rectangles, images and fourteen more shapes to your background wallpaper. Shapes tin be resized past touch and moved around to fill transparent Live Tiles.

Regardless of your customization method, in one case you've got your background wallpaper just right you lot will need to use the Save Button to send it to the Saved Images binder of your Pictures Hub. Once saved, y'all can put the wallpaper in identify equally your Get-go Screen background or possibly as your Lockscreen wallpaper.

Overall Impression

Start Design Picture Tool and Samples

Start Design has a lot of potential to create custom background for your Windows Phone Start Screen or Lockscreen. While the customization tools are nice, they could use a little fine-tuning.

For example, when you use an image it would be nice to have the ability to reposition the image. Also while the Cavalcade tool does bring a good chip of color to things, it would exist squeamish to have the ability to alloy these columns as is done with the Colors tool.

In that location are enough of quality Kickoff Screen and Lockscreen apps available in the Windows Phone Shop. We think you can add together Start Blueprint to the growing list of these notable apps.

Thanks, Kenneth, for the tip!