Geek Posted March 8, 2012 Posted March 8, 2012 <div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/retina-ios-app-icons.jpg" alt="Retina iOS App Icon Template" title="retina-ios-app-icons" width="620" height="465" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-28180" /></p> <p>If you’re spending the time and <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/09/07/iphone-development-costs/">money</a> to develop an iOS app, don’t skimp on the icon. This may sound like silly advice, but the fact is a good icon can make your app stand out in the App Store and on a users home screen, encouraging both downloads and use. </p> <p>If you’re not a designer it can be challenging and expensive to get a good icon made, but thanks to Louie Mantia on Dribble, you should be able to create a tolerably decent one yourself using a retina iOS app icon template. The template come as a nicely layered PSD file and covers a variety of sizes for the icon, but perhaps most importantly with the new iPad out is the 512×512 pixel template. Start big and refine as you go down, you should have a gorgeous iOS icon in no time.</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://dribbble.com/shots/461654-iOS-App-Icon-Template">Check out the app icon template on Dribble</a> or <a href="http://dznr.org/wmq0">download the PSD directly</a></li> </ul> <p>This will be useful even for web designers and developers who want to use it as a template for the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/02/09/set-apple-touch-icon-png-to-customize-a-websites-iphone-bookmark-favicon/">apple-touch-icon.png iOS bookmark icon</a> that appears on a Home screen whenever an individual bookmarks a site.</p> <p>Speaking of helpful PSD files, don’t miss the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/10/18/ios-5-gui-elements-in-psd/">iOS 5 GUi elements</a> and <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/17/mac-os-x-lion-gui-element-psd-for-easy-app-mockups/">OS X Lion GUI PSD</a>, both are helpful for mocking up apps.</p> <p><em>Hat tip to <a href="https://twitter.com/applespotlight/status/177790924317917184">@AppleSpotlight</a> on Twitter, you can <a href="https://twitter.com/osxdaily">follow us there too</a></em></p> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/bw1YYvhs2Jf9kmn5-GBIuvh0w5E/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/bw1YYvhs2Jf9kmn5-GBIuvh0w5E/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/bw1YYvhs2Jf9kmn5-GBIuvh0w5E/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/bw1YYvhs2Jf9kmn5-GBIuvh0w5E/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=UdWyONPkXBI:_IttkWO6i2M:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=UdWyONPkXBI:_IttkWO6i2M:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=UdWyONPkXBI:_IttkWO6i2M:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=UdWyONPkXBI:_IttkWO6i2M:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=UdWyONPkXBI:_IttkWO6i2M:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=UdWyONPkXBI:_IttkWO6i2M:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=UdWyONPkXBI:_IttkWO6i2M:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/~4/UdWyONPkXBI" height="1" width="1"/> View the full article
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