I know how to change my app icon but don’t know how to make one. I heard people say use GIMP or Photoshop. I have used GIMP but can’t manage to make my app icon look like an object from the game. I thought about taking a screen shot from the Unity Editor and cropping the image and that works, but the the graphics is a little bit better than the graphics from mobile since this graphic is from the computer. So how do you actually make an android app icon look like an object from the game (e.g. like the app icon from Clash of Clans looks exactly like the barbarian from the game or the app icon from Subway Surfers looks exactly like Jake from the game).
Is it legally okay to take a screen shot from the computer instead of from the actual mobile graphics?
Okay, I just learned how to take screen shots from mobile application from here.
Should I take a screen shot from my mobile application and crop the image to get the object that I want for the icon or is there an alternative better way?
Do you guys make your own custom made icon from scratch in a photo editing software or can you just take a screen shot and crop it?
Is taking an in app screen shot inappropriate for an app icon?
How do you guys make app icons?
My avatar (the two cards) is the app icon for my recent game.
I’m horrible with graphics so I just played around with photoshop for a while until I got something I could live with. Made it 512x512 and just drop it in unity and it will make all the smaller sizes for you automatically. Your icon should still look good even when really small. So don’t make something really detailed.
Yeah, but how do you make an app icon like Clash of Clans in which the barbarian icon looks exactly like the barbarian? I mean, I tried to make the icon look like a coin in my game. However, when I used Gimp and made the icon, the coin looked nothing like it did in the game. I do not want to fool players into thinking the coin in my app icon looks like the actual coins in my game. So what should I do?
I’m not sure what you mean. If you are using the same image of the coin in your game that you are using in the icon then how will it look different?
What I mean is that creating the coin in Gimp from scratch looks nothing like the coin in the game.
How did you get the coin in the game… the coin in the game must be some image that came from somewhere…
I created a 3d model of a coin in blender and took a screen shot of it.
Clash of Clans has serious money with a serious art department, you won’t be able to match that quality just by taking a screenshot. You’d either need to be quite good at graphic design, or hire someone who is.
But of course you can take a screenshot and use it as a base for your icon. The best way to do it is to use Unity’s built in screenshot method and set it to a high resolution, then use Photoshop to scale it down and polish it into a nice icon.
set the supersize parameter to 4 If your graphics card can’t handle it, the resulting image will be garbled, lower that number.
Okay, thanks for the advice!