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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 PictogramsThe iPhone and its gadget-cousin, the iTouch is Apple's heavily favored portable gizmo engineered to make phoning that next level of cool. The iTouch is the same as 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 might be all that you would like. However , it is really easy to make your own customized icons if you know a little bit of Photoshop. The basics Make a new document in Photoshop that is sixty pixels by sixty pixels with a clear background. Then create a new layer and Select All. You are going to want to make the perimeters 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 could outline the theme and it will stay uniform. Be sure and reserve it. Make sure 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 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 subtle background. Just consider it as if you are making desktop wallpaper and you'll still get excellent results. Make sure that your text on top has good contrast to your background, so you could need to darken or lighten your background depending on what you are counting on putting on top of it. You can now outline what the icon is being used for. That is, what is it - a web browser icon, picture spectator, game app. You can use a complicated image or easy text to get this across. Make your symbol design which could be a cutout of a photograph or graphic, a mono- or bi-color design - anything you can think of will work. Your symbol should be centered and should have anywhere from 5- to 10 pixel padding on all sides. Match as close as you can most themes which are generally all centered. 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 because it won' do compression which is not needed except for web photographs. Put it aside as a PSD or Photoshop file which will 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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