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Icon sizes: 48x48, 32x32, 24x24, 16x16, 256x256, 512x512 File formats: ICO, GIF, PNG, BMP ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A Quick Way To Make Customized iPhone ImagesThe iPhone and its gadget-cousin, the iTouch is Apple's heavily favored mobile device engineered to make phoning that next level of cool. The iTouch is just like the iPhone sans telephone, and it works just like it apart from the phonephone portion.When it comes to icons, the iPhone is the best, and the default application icons could be all that you need. However , it is really easy to make your own customised icons if you know a bit of Photoshop. The fundamentals Make a new document in Photoshop that is sixty pixels by 60 pixels with a transparent background. Then make a new layer and Select All. You're going to want to make the sides of your iPhone icon rounded so Select Smooth and make it at five pixels. Take the graphic and wallpaper the icon which is the back part of the icon. This may outline the theme and it will stay uniform. Be sure and save it. Ensure that your layer is selected by Ctrl+Click on the layer preview thumbnail on the layers palette. Make the background of your icon. Be sure that the whole area is selected. Make a three-color gradient for best effect with the lighter side on one. Make it a Linear gradient because if you look at iPhone icons, they typically have a sophisticated background. Just consider it as if you are making desktop wallpaper and you'll still get good results. Make sure that your text on top has good contrast to your background, so you may need to darken or lighten your background depending on what you plan on putting on top of it. You can now define what the icon is being used for. That is, what is it - a web browser icon, picture viewer, game app. You can use a complicated image or simple text to get this across. Make your symbol design which can be a cutout of a photo or graphic, a mono- or bi-color design - anything you can think about will work. Your symbol should be centered and should have anywhere from 5- to ten pixel padding on all sides. Match as close as you can most themes which are generally all focused. Make A Template Of Your First Icon When you save the icon files, you will want to save it as a PNG file. Use the File >> Save As dialog as it won' do compression which is not required except for web photographs. Reserve it as a PSD or Photoshop file which may be your template for making future icons. You can now upload the PNG file to your iPhone/iTouch and have your first unique icon for your device . ![]()
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