The raised, rounded rectangle bezel is a common trait on many application icons. Made popular by developers such as Electronic Arts, Lima Sky, Gameloft, and others, such icons often look as if they almost have a wooden or metal frame.
Let's take a look at how we can go about creating our own rounded edge effect so that our icons stick out on the App Store.
For this recipe, we'll need a copy of Adobe Photoshop or another similar raster image editing application. It will also be useful to have the source file, titled IconBezel.PSD, to be downloaded from the Packt website.
Creating a rounded bezel effect on our icon is relatively simple; we'll just have to work in some rounded rectangles and proper sizing requirements. Let's take a look at the simple steps that we must take to create such an icon:
1. Create a new Photoshop file for the icon, square in shape, measuring at least 512 pixels by 512 pixels. Then, give a color...