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Designing Images for iOS Apps

The best place to look for information about designing your graphics is the iPhone Human Interface Guidelines. This document contains Apple's latest recommendations about designing applications for iOS and is available in Apple's iPhone Dev Center. Opacity includes several templates to help you create many images commonly used in iOS apps, including icons, buttons, tab bar images, and toolbar images. One great way to make the most of your image is to use variables. With variables, you can use one image file to generate several images to use in your project. You can use a boolean variable to make a button image with an enabled and disabled state, or a color variable to make several different colored versions of a single image.

When designing Icons for iOS apps, keep in mind that they will be clipped to a round rectangle.

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