Few days back Facebook released the new facebook profile layout which is completely different from the old one. One feature was very much new was Photostream which showed your recently tagged photos under your profile name below the new bio.
Someone discovered to use tagged photos in photostream creatively to design the new facebook layout hack. Some stunning examples are shown below.
Want your Profile to look like this ?
The above image is a demonstration of the effect that can be achieved with tools below which will allow you to easily turn any image into what you see!
How to use new Facebook layout profile image trick?
PicCut : Facebook New Profile Image Trick Picture Generator
PicCut (Link) is an useful online tool that allows you to upload large picture and it will automatically slice up the image according to the size requirements of the facebook new profile photo image trick.
An useful addition to this tool is it lets you select the no. of lines in your profile bio. If your profile bio is 1-2 lined then the alignment of the photostream thumbnails is non proper making it look mis-aligned.
PicScatter : Create Facebook New Profile Image Trick
PicScatter (Link) is a similar tool like PicCut you can use with the new Facebook profile to make amazing profile pictures, with an added advantage to directly upload the image and thumbnails to your facebook profile. This makes it easily to implement the facebook new profile photo hack to your profile.
As soon as you’ve uploaded your image, you can zoom in and out, drag it around and tell it how many lines of bio (info-text) you have. This last option can help you see if it’d be better to add or remove a bio line to optimize the photo hack effect. When you’re finished, you can download the individual image files in a compressed archive (pic_scatter.zip) or publish them instantly to Facebook. (detailed guide on ampercent)
Using these Generated Profile Photo and Thumbnail Images
Step 1: Upload your desired picture and let PicCut or PicScatter to generate the correctly sliced up profile image and 5 thumbnails.
Step 2: Download the generated ZIP file of your images, or manually save them.
Step 3: First, set the image named "profile-pic.jpg" as your Facebook profile picture.
Step 4: Create a new photo album, then upload the other images in the order of their filenames.
Step 5: Tag yourself in all 5 photos, starting with "image5.jpg" and ending with "image1.jpg."
Step 6: Hide any tagged photos you do not wish to display on your profile. That’s it!
Other Online Tools to Create Facebook Profile Photo Hack with Tagged Images
FBcrop (Link) is an online tool that duplicates the effect of the facebook profile hack in 3 easy steps. It gives a higher level of customizability compared to other methods currently available and works by directly uploading to your facebook account.
Profile Banner App (Link) is a facebook app that let you use the new facebook profile image trick directly from facebook. They feature cool photos compatible with the facebook profile hack in different categories like the holidays etc. in case if you are out of ideas or photos.
Some more similar online tools for generation profile hack photos are MyPeex.com, ProfileGen.com, FullPagePic.
Hope you like using these tools. Here are some of the most awesome facebook profile image hack tricks implemented creatively below…(more here)
By : Anjo
Excellent idea. If you need a measurement of the smaller images to cut out, see here. There is also a ready-made gimp image here - How to make facebook profile attractive
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