How do you get your app icons designed?

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Inman

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My graphic design skills are really bad :) I don't want it to affect the first impression of my app, which will be the launcher icon. How do you get it done? Do you design yourself or do you know someone good who can do it?

I am looking for someone who can design app icons based on Google's Android design guidelines. My budget is also limited at about $50. Know someone good?
 
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Thanks guys. And you are right, it will cost more than $50 to get a custom icon designed. Most people point to a site called 99designs.com where you can run an icon designing contest for 1 week. That way we can see multiple artists competing for the prize, which means multiple icon concepts (average of 30+).

Unfortunately that too costs at least $149 :(
 
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I have used 99designs in the past. It was under another name but I forget what it was. We got very high quality and a wide range of choices. It depends on how much income the icon will generate and how well you describe your app and your wishes.

Since we were developing commercial websites and needing page styles we offered $500 and would get input that amounted to several hundred hours of work. It was well worth it.

I would think you would get lots of choices for just an icon for $149.

Another option is to find an open source icon that is as close as you can get to what you want and tweak it some.
 
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I tend to do all my own work. I'm not a pro but do seem to suprise myself sometimes with the results. I'm well known on an electrical forum and tend to do a fair bit for the forum and its users. Generally for free. Pretty much all good feedback so far too. Many of them have even sent me little goodies as a thank you and I have gained free web hosting out of it too. I can't draw for toffee, but can put shapes, texts and styling together pretty well.

Sent from my HTC Desire Z
 
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Roger Garstang said:
I do all my own work. Usually in an old Macromedia Fireworks (Before Adobe ruined them) or various Xara tools. There are some good icon editors out there too with options to export to PNG- some free(IcoFX) and some Pay (Microangelo).
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Rodger that,

I'ma fireworks fan myself
 
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Yeah, I use either MX or 8 about 80-90% of the time. Xara Xtreme 5 or Designer Pro 7 for advanced layout work. I have the Xara 3D tool too for 3D animations...The 3D in the other Xara tools is good enough for static stuff though, so not used as much anymore. Home - Mehdi - Plugins Photoshop has some nice free plugins that work with either. I love Noise Shampoo. EyeCandy and Redfield have some nice paid plugins too for making cool effects.

I can't draw worth a darn either, but I know design and making use of tools available. Doesn't hurt to have Electronics, Development, Photography, and Print Graphics background either. I even do Wedding/Event Videos on the side (Sony Vegas and Cyberlink PowerDirector are my favs there).
 
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Roger Garstang said:
Yeah, I use either MX or 8 about 80-90% of the time. Xara Xtreme 5 or Designer Pro 7 for advanced layout work. I have the Xara 3D tool too for 3D animations...The 3D in the other Xara tools is good enough for static stuff though, so not used as much anymore. Home - Mehdi - Plugins Photoshop has some nice free plugins that work with either. I love Noise Shampoo. EyeCandy and Redfield have some nice paid plugins too for making cool effects.

I can't draw worth a darn either, but I know design and making use of tools available. Doesn't hurt to have Electronics, Development, Photography, and Print Graphics background either. I even do Wedding/Event Videos on the side (Sony Vegas and Cyberlink PowerDirector are my favs there).
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Fingers in pies and all that. LOL

Well I'm a full time electrician, a weekend plasterer, plumber and tiler when required. lol. If anything I can spot a straight line. Doesn't help much with design work though :sign0148:
 
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Sizes

I've looked at the findicons.com & openiconlibrary websites previously referred to. However, neither site provides icons in all the sizes that the Google Android Design Guidelines wants. These seem to be 32 bit png in the following sizes: 36x36,48x48,72x72,96x96 as well as the required Google Play one of 512x512. What software (preferably open source) do people recommend for resizing the ones from the above websites?
 
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I would only buy icons from a site that provides them in PSD or AI format, that way you can resize without losing quality.
 
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Hi,
I can design windows .ico icons, not so pro but for my own app it is ok..
question: can .ico icon be used in android platform?
thanks.
 
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