davidburela / windowsmarketplaceiconmaker

Automatically generate all the required icons for Windows 8 & Windows Phone 7/8 marketplace applications.

Windows Store Icon Maker

When creating applications for the Windows stores (RT & Phone), there are numerous icons that need to be created. This utility to help generate all the required icon sizes, including the scaled versions for higher DPI devices.

Downloading

Compiled versions can be found under releases

Usage

1. Drag and drop an image onto the workspace.
2. Select the region of the image you want to crop
3. Click Save to have the icons be generated

It is recommended to use an image that is at least 300x300 for best results.

Features

• Automatically generate icons for:
  • Windows Phone 7
  • Windows Phone 8
  • Windows Store Applications

###Generated icons Windows Phone 7

• StoreTile.png (300x300)
• BackgroundImage.png (173x173)
• ApplicationIcon.png (62x62)

Windows Phone 8

• ApplicationIcon.png (100x100)
• FlipCycleTileLarge.png (691x336)
• FlipCycleTileMedium.png (336x336)
• FlipCycleTileSmall.png (159x159)
• IconicTileMediumLarge.png (134x202)
• IconicTileSmall.png (71x110)

Windows Store Application

• Logo
  • Logo.scale-180.png (270x270)
  • Logo.scale-140.png (210x210)
  • Logo.scale-100.png (150x150)
  • Logo.scale-80.png (120x12)
• SmallLogo
  • SmallLogo.scale-180.png (54x54)
  • SmallLogo.scale-140.png (42x42)
  • SmallLogo.scale-100.png (30x30)
  • SmallLogo.scale-80.png (24x24)
  • SmallLogo.target-256.png (256x256)
  • SmallLogo.target-48.png (48x48)
  • SmallLogo.target-32.png (32x32)
  • SmallLogo.target-16.png (16x16)
• StoreLogo
  • StoreLogo.scale-180.png (90x90)
  • StoreLogo.scale-140.png (70x70)
  • StoreLogo.scale-100.png (50x50)

Building

I develop and compile this using Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate. However if you are using Visual Studio Express to developer, there are reports that you can use Visual Studio Express 2012 for Desktop to compile it.

Acknowledgments

This utility is based off the original source code of Windows Phone Icons Maker by Hiroyuki Kawanishi. The source code had not been updated since September 2011, so I decided to fork it and update it to support the new platforms (WP7/WP8/WinRT).

License

The code is MS-PL as that is what the original source code was licensed as. http://wpiconmaker.codeplex.com/license

windowsmarketplaceiconmaker's Issues

Wrong Image sizes for Windows 8

Hi David,

I tried to use this tool to make icons for Windows 8 apps.
But the icons have wrong pixels. For example, Logo.scale-100.png has 100x100 px instead of 150x150 px.

Not able to open solution in Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows 8

I am getting following errors

Unsupported
This version of Visual Studio does not have the following project types installed or does not support them. You can still open these projects in the version of Visual Studio in which they were originally created.
- WP_IconMaker, "C:\Users\Sagar\SkyDrive\Projects\WindowsMarketplaceIconMaker\ImageShrinker\WP_IconMaker.csproj"

Non-functional changes required
Visual Studio will automatically make non-functional changes to the following projects in order to enable them to open in this version and Visual Studio 2010 SP1. Project behavior will not be impacted.
- WP_IconMaker, "C:\Users\Sagar\SkyDrive\Projects\WindowsMarketplaceIconMaker\WP_IconMaker.sln"

Has anyone else encountered this?

ImageShrinker has stopped working

When I click "Save Icons" app just stops. Also I think white background in that right column is the best choice, when I have something transparent with white foreground I can't see anything

Create new release

Could you compile and tag a new release with the latest pull requests? Be easier when I recommend this to people!