App Icons How?

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App Icons How?

Anyone know how they make those nice shiny icons for the different apps and stuff on the iTunes Store? I'm pretty au fait with graphics program but have been unable to replicate the shiny look of the iTunes icons. Are there any tutorials on line anywhere?

MacBook Pro 15.4in, 60GB iPod Video, Intel iMac 20" 16GB iPhone 3G, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Jan 23, 2009 2:40 AM

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Answer 1

tmhudg

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4 points

Jan 25, 2009 7:42 PM in response to apple-lovin-it

Apple does it for you automatically. You just upload a flat image of your App icon and they round the corners and add the shine. You have to give them a 512 x 512 image though so you've got to be able to make it pretty big. Scaling up a small icon doesn't usually work very well.

HTH,

Tom

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Answer 2

Pumbaa

Level 1

15 points

Jan 26, 2009 4:24 AM in response to apple-lovin-it

Are there any tutorials on line anywhere?

Check out the +iTunes Connect Developer Guide+, which can be downloaded from [itunesconnect.apple.com|http://itunesconnect.apple.com> -> +Manage Your Applications+ (Standard Developer Program membership required)

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Answer 3

Feb 28, 2009 12:04 AM in response to tmhudg

I can't remember the application I saw this in. Able to set reflection, opacities, shadow, gloss.

For tutorials on making shiny buttons there are heaps. Google "Glossy Button" along with the name of you favorite graphics app.

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