I recently uploaded an update to one of my apps. This update includes a new app icon. The icon is pre rendered and so the relevant field in the info.plist file is set to TRUE. One of the reasons the icon is pre rendered is because it's shape is not the normal shape (with the oval ends). The shape is centered inside a 57x57 area, and the space around the shape is transparent. When the icon is displayed on the iphone, it looks good. But on the app store (only on the computer, not on the device itself), it doesn't look like it should look. There are smudges (mostly black) around the main shape of the icon, where it should be transparent.
I know this kind of thing can be done right (take, for example, the Peggle icon). Is there anything I'm missing? Something special that needs to be done for my icon to be displayed properly on the iTunes store as well as on the device itself?
I recently uploaded an update to one of my apps. This update includes a new app icon. The icon is pre rendered and so the relevant field in the info.plist file is set to TRUE. One of the reasons the icon is pre rendered is because it's shape is not the normal shape (with the oval ends). The shape is centered inside a 57x57 area, and the space around the shape is transparent. When the icon is displayed on the iphone, it looks good. But on the app store (only on the computer, not on the device itself), it doesn't look like it should look. There are smudges (mostly black) around the main shape of the icon, where it should be transparent.
I know this kind of thing can be done right (take, for example, the Peggle icon). Is there anything I'm missing? Something special that needs to be done for my icon to be displayed properly on the iTunes store as well as on the device itself?
oh, i c what you're talking about on the left side of the icon. Im guessing the problem is that those black smudges are actually in the picture, to mkae sure they're not, open your graphics program, make new white layer and put it behind the main layer, this will reveal if the smudges are actually there or not
oh, i c what you're talking about on the left side of the icon. Im guessing the problem is that those black smudges are actually in the picture, to mkae sure they're not, open your graphics program, make new white layer and put it behind the main layer, this will reveal if the smudges are actually there or not
Thanks for the help but I don't think the smudges are part of the picture. If you look at this link: poccaDot - Mobile Software Development, it had the same icon, with a white background, and it doesn't have the smudges...
Thanks for the help but I don't think the smudges are part of the picture. If you look at this link: poccaDot - Mobile Software Development, it had the same icon, with a white background, and it doesn't have the smudges...
oh, wow, i thought the other black stuff was the bordering, i though u were talkin about the tiny smudges, besides, i think its kind of cool lol. But you should still contact apple
oh, wow, i thought the other black stuff was the bordering, i though u were talkin about the tiny smudges, besides, i think its kind of cool lol. But you should still contact apple
The icon displayed on the desktop itunes is your 512x512 pixel icon. You can color background of that image so that it appears better in desktop itunes.
The iphone itunes icon is taken from your application's 57x57 pixel icon. You could try changing the background of your iphone 57x57 icon to black so that it appears well in itunes, and blends in with the home screen of the iphone.
Transparent App Icon
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