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Re: what do you use to make icons and similar?
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Re: what do you use to make icons and similar?


  • Subject: Re: what do you use to make icons and similar?
  • From: Chris Paveglio <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:15:30 -0700 (PDT)

Adobe Illustrator CS3 and up has a feature called "live trace" which is like the old Streamline program, to trace raster images into vector format.
There is also an app called Vector Magic that can vectorize images, there is a demo online somewhere.

As a professional graphic designer breaking into programming, I make most of my icons with Illustrator, as almost all vector objects, then bring into Photoshop for final tweaking, at 512x512 pixel or 128x128 pixels, and then use either IconFactory's IconBuilder, or just save the PSD file with transparent background and drop into Apple IconComposer. For UI items I use .tif format, as it supports alpha channels (transparent areas), so it's suitable for buttons or just UI background items.

Here's a tip- Don't rely on a photo of something as your application icon. Consider that many people will view the icon at 16x16 (list view) or 32x32. Too much detail will destroy an (application) icon's visibility at small sizes.




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