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There may never be true "skins" for Facebook (and if you recall MySpace, that may be a good thing). But ever since Facebook redesigned their profile pages a few weeks back, savvy users have begun coming up with clever ways to trick out their pages visually.

That is, some Facebook users have been turning the new photograph-filled design into sprawling pieces of personalized picture art.

French artist Alexandre Oudin garnered a lot of attention for the way he sliced and diced his own image for an innovative display on his page. And check out a few more clever Facebook profile tweaks here and here.

And now, faster than you can say "poke back," apps have cropped up to make the work of fancying up the top of your profile even easier.

Apps like Profile Maker help you take a photograph of your choosing, then slice it up and spread it across not only your profile picture window on the left side of the page but also to the recently tagged photographs at the top of your page and to a new photo folder displayed in your top status update window.

Sounds confusing, but the net effect is that when all of this is seen together on the top of your profile page/wall, it looks like a cohesive collage.

Not many of us have professional portraits to work with, but in an age where everybody's a photographer it shouldn't be too hard for you to come up with a photo of your own to use. Look at me, above, getting all prettied up for you. Or better yet, try showing off a scenic panorama on your page.

In additiona to Profile Maker, there are other apps and sites that do something similar. I gave both Photo Magic and Oudinizer a try (thanks to the suggestion from All Facebook) as well as Pic Scatter but found Profile Maker to be the easiest to use.

It's also worth noting, this is really only a temporary thing. As savvy Facebookers will know, the effect is ruined once you or one of your friends tags a new photograph of you, which then gets bumped into the lineup.

Still, it's a neat trick if done well and it's intriguing to see how people are finding creative ways around Facebook's constraints. Though, I can't help but feel that having a giant photo of myself stretched all the way across the top of my profile page feels a little vain ... even for Facebook.

(Thanks to All Facebook for the heads up.)

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Winda Benedetti writes about games and other things for msnbc.com. You can follow her here on Twitter .