Yesterday I wrote a tiny little program for creating images for the Assets folder of a W8 app. How do you work with it?
- Type the app name into the first field – this text is written into all the images. As soon as you type, the text is drawn into the image and saved to disk as well.
- Enter the background and text colors – you can use English/named color names or hexadecimal notation, for example
#000000for black. - Enter the text size for the square images. Again, every keystroke is immediately reflected in the image. Or you can use the Increment/Decrement buttons to increase/decrease the size by 1 point.
- Same as step 3, only for the rectangular images.
Another feature of this program is calculating the optimal size. When you choose “Create Assets Graphics” from the “App” menu, the images are created in a subfolder – so there is no risk that images of an app with a different name will get overwritten:
And you can also take a look at what the program looks like:
(Alenka is in there because I was sending it to my aunt, whose name is Alenka.)
I put the program on CodePlex, you can check it out here: 👻 404: the website went for a hike and never came back.