Re: Tool for creating application icon

2012-06-08 Thread Preston Sumner
On Jun 7, 2012, at 2:56 PM, Luc Van Bogaert wrote: > Hoping this is not too off topic on this list, I would like to know what > tools developers here have used to create their application icons. I've found > a few candidates on the App Store, but before spending my money on one of > them, I th

Re: Tool for creating application icon

2012-06-07 Thread Roland King
I've done remarkably well with Inkscape. Ok it runs on X11, it has a learning curve, but it's very featured and even I, terrible at anything artistic, have managed to grind out some decent graphics with it, certainly good enough for buttons and icons. On 8 Jun, 2012, at 8:25, Graham Cox wro

Re: Tool for creating application icon

2012-06-07 Thread Lee Ann Rucker
On Jun 7, 2012, at 5:25 PM, Graham Cox wrote: > > On 08/06/2012, at 9:00 AM, Gleb Dolgich wrote: > >> >> On 7 Jun 2012, at 21:56, Luc Van Bogaert wrote: >> >>> Hoping this is not too off topic on this list, I would like to know what >>> tools developers here have used to create their applic

Re: Tool for creating application icon

2012-06-07 Thread Graham Cox
On 08/06/2012, at 9:00 AM, Gleb Dolgich wrote: > > On 7 Jun 2012, at 21:56, Luc Van Bogaert wrote: > >> Hoping this is not too off topic on this list, I would like to know what >> tools developers here have used to create their application icons. I've >> found a few candidates on the App Sto

Re: Tool for creating application icon

2012-06-07 Thread Gleb Dolgich
On 7 Jun 2012, at 21:56, Luc Van Bogaert wrote: > Hoping this is not too off topic on this list, I would like to know what > tools developers here have used to create their application icons. I've found > a few candidates on the App Store, but before spending my money on one of > them, I thou

Fwd: Tool for creating application icon

2012-06-07 Thread Patrick Robertson
> I’m definitely not an icon designer myself, but it’s my understanding that people generally just use Photoshop, or, if your budget is tight, one of its less-expensive equivalents such as Pixelmator. All you need is a set of images in an alpha-containing format like .png, scaled to different sizes

Re: Tool for creating application icon

2012-06-07 Thread Charles Srstka
On Jun 7, 2012, at 3:56 PM, Luc Van Bogaert wrote: > Hoping this is not too off topic on this list, I would like to know what > tools developers here have used to create their application icons. I've found > a few candidates on the App Store, but before spending my money on one of > them, I tho

Tool for creating application icon

2012-06-07 Thread Luc Van Bogaert
Hoping this is not too off topic on this list, I would like to know what tools developers here have used to create their application icons. I've found a few candidates on the App Store, but before spending my money on one of them, I thought I'd ask here for opinions. The idea is to create a 512x