While larger development teams have dedicated graphic artists to create icons and other artwork assets, the reality is that on smaller teams or on solo projects, a programmer may need to create icons themselves. It may seem strange to be covering icon creation in a Cocoa programming blog but the icon is an important part of an application and Cocoa is primarily an application programming environment. The remaining four will be covered in the second part. Only the first icon will be created in this part. This series will cover the creation of the following different icons: In this first part, I'll talk about the common styles and traits of icons on the Mac and iPhone and give a step-by-step guide to creating the first iPhone icon in Inkscape. I then save it to the only png format that Inkscape offers me is Cairo png - now I dont know if that if different to a normal pngĪnyhow when I open the png file in Inkscape or photoshop or any programme what I now see is a white background peaking around the edge of the border of the rectangle, I could just make it square and I guess that would sort the problem but I think the rounded corners lookd better.ĭuring creation I have set the document properties to fit to the selection so my file is 0.986 x 1.333 inch which is about the size that is needed apparently.In this two part series, I'll give a beginner's guide to creating iPhone and Mac application icons using Inkscape - a free, vector illustration program. I am creating playing cards for an iphone app written by a friend, I have successfully created the image in inkscape - dont know if I can paste here but it is a rounded rectangle with a 9 upper left and bottom right(upside down and reversed) with a spade in the same orientation under both 9's. Hello, after banging head on wall - well desk at least wonder if someone can help please
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