In these kind of conditions they work brilliantly. Icon makers and converters are useful, especially if you have large artwork with a relatively low level of detail and not too many straight lines. Google Play icon (512x512px) created by a professional icon designer In conclusion Google Play icon (512x512px) created by an automated icon maker conversion Oh,no! They are all blurred regardless of which icon maker we try because stretching pixels simply causes blurring. Here is 512×512 pixel icon that was created from a 256×256 image. You can easily find nasty artefacts in the details of all the free icon makers.įor these smaller sizes you can’t really beat professional icon designers.Īnother problem appears if your initial image is quite small, or at least smaller than the largest size you need. Here is example of 18×18 icon, that is used for notifications. These kind of problems increase when we get down to the tiny icon sizes. Curved lines and circles tend to stand up to automated scaling much better. It is almost always easier to spot the blurring artefacts on straight lines, vertical, horizontal or angled. Look at the bar code, it becomes blurred, although the other parts of the pencil still look good. At this size automated scaling issues start to become more visible but usually only when small details are present in your image. Of course you will need to pay for his/her time, perfection costs! 😉įinding the right icon designer doesn't have to be difficultĪll of the icon converters produce acceptable results at large resizes (until you get down to 72x72px). If you are not satisfied with the results of these free icon makers, the best option is to hire an icon designer, the smartest and most responsive ‘icon maker’ you will find. Rather good and offers a lot of icon sizes and types but it does not let you preview the results before downloading, and you’ll get really tired of unzipping and re-uploading to check the results. Also it is possible to add some styles and change the background colour of the icon.A big plus – the possibility to generate any custom icon size.It exports icons into a crazy number of folders and you may have trouble locating the sizes you immediately need. This converter with the frightening name and old-fashioned design I like the least. Sets some padding around artwork by default.circle, square) and allows you to add some popular effects like long shadow or dog ear. I think this is the most responsive converter for Android, it lets you select the shape of the final icon (e.g. On this example I found some artefacts and erroneous grey pixels.Ĭool, but it only works with Android icon sizes. Provides a lot of size types, but I couldn’t find xxhdpi size for Android icon, maybe you will. I wonder what else the email is used for? You also need to give over your e-mail for downloading the icons. Move your graphic to the toaster and receive your hot icons! The simplest and most pleasant one, but you can’t change anything.
My favorite and I think the most convenient. Please forgive me Apple users – your part has been skipped this time, but the results would be the same!įor a really useful comparison I’ve add manual resizes produced by a professional icon designer too, as a quality baseline. Here are the 5 converters I used and a comparison of how they rendered a set of popular icon sizes for Android apps, from a simple pencil icon example. I decided to compare several popular free icon maker/converters for you and was genuinely surprised with the results! Honestly, I don’t believe in miracles and didn’t expect too much from these automatic icon makers. The results you’ll get critically depend on the artwork you upload and a little bit of luck too. Job Done! But this magic is capricious one. Import an image, let the software scale it to the sizes you need & export the correct file formats. How cool, is that?Īpp icon generators are really helpful. These programs let you select the format, size or even add some simple effects.
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