How To Create iPhone Apps Icons With Gimp

When creating apps, you need several graphic elements. The three most important are

— the icon which will be visible in the app store,

— the splash screen, which will be visible after the app starts, and

— the header graphics, which will be the header inside the app.

The best tool for graphics work is of course Photoshop, but it is expensive.  A free alternative is GIMP, which can be downloaded from its site, http://www.gimp.org/.

GIMP TUTORIAL – How to make an iPhone app icon in Gimp

Creating an icon in the Gimp is not very difficult, as the following video goes on the show:

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