iPhone App Store: Downloadable Gloss-Effect PSD Templates
Over the past few months we’ve not just been busy on creating new branding for Taptu, but we’ve also been beavering away on an iPhone app which you’ll hear about in more details very soon. We couldn’t find any templates on the web to help us preview our new iPhone logo in-situ, so we created our own.
If you’re also developing an iPhone app and want it to stand-out amongst the crowd in the App Store, then this download is for you. Download the templates below and you can see how your app will look before it’s submitted.
Just drag your icon into the template to see how it’ll look with Apple’s funky gel-effects applied. Or better yet, design your app icon from scratch from within these templates. We use these to design in context so as to ensure we are thinking about how it will look from a user’s point of view – in the App Store list, the Home Screen dock, and on the Desktop iTunes Store. If you’re a designer or a developer, you’ll find these assets ultra-useful.
The templates are in Photoshop PSD format with full editable layers. We recreated the gel-effects using vector paths to give you greatest flexibility. The pink symbol is there just as an example. Hopefully the layers are all quite self-explanatory – if not, give us a shout.
Click here to download the whole zip package. There are templates for the Home Screen, the iPhone and Desktop App Store as well as individual 57×57px and 512×512px icon PSDs.
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June 17th, 2009 at 10:35 am
You can also generate them automatically at
http://www.midnightmobility.com/iphone-icon
July 5th, 2009 at 3:03 am
Hi, newbie here I would like to create an icon for the URL link that I save in home screen. How do I go abt it. Do I need to hv the SDK kit before I can create? Also can I run it in windows after I download? Thanks.
July 7th, 2009 at 10:57 am
>Hi, newbie here I would like to create an icon for the URL link that I save in home screen. How do I go abt it.
You mention ‘URL’ so I’m assuming you’re talking about saving a website bookmark to your Home Screen by tapping the ‘+’ icon in Safari? If so, you don’t need the SDK.
If you own the website in question, you can save a 57×57px image as apple-touch-icon.png in your domain root and the iPhone will use that instead of using a mini-screenshot as the icon.
More info here: http://www.webmasterworld.com/html/3560399.htm