
Genius Generator is a Mac program that helps you create icons in various sizes from your favorite pictures. This application might prove to be of good use to OS X and iOS developers who wish to easily and quickly generate icons for the programs they create.
All you need to do is drag and drop the input file over the app's interface, choose the preferred output format, and select the destination folder. As soon as you click the Export button, the program immediately saves the resized photo to the indicated folder.
The application can also be used for resizing photos to fit a certain style. For instance, it might come in handy when preparing pictures for a photo collage or slideshow presentation.
The thing I like the most about this program is the fact that it lets you import a picture and generate multiple icons of various sizes as the same time.
My only issue with icon generating utility is the fact that it doesn't offer you support for batch processing.
However, Genius Generator comes with an affordable price and lets you choose from various output profiles. So, I'd say it's worth buying it for your computer if you wish to easily generate OS X and iOS icons.
v1.4 [Nov 14, 2013]
- Genius Generator does now require OS X 10.7 Lion or later.
- Added iOS 7 icon sizes.
- Genius Generator does now support JPEG 2000.
- Added preferences window (Genius Generator > Preferences).
- You can now enable or disable notifications.
- You can now configure as many custom sizes as you want (Preferences > Custom Sizes).
- You can now adjust the JPEG quality, the image interpolation and enable/disable antialiasing (Preferences > Advanced).
- Genius Generator does now use Quick Look to preview icons.
- The file size of ICO and ICNS files generated by Genius Generator will now be much smaller.
- Genius Generator does now automatically suggest icon names.
- Moved all Icon Package Creators to the main menu.
- Renamed icon files generated by the iOS Icon Package Creator.
- Added advanced mode to the OS X Icon Package Creator (you can now set a different icon for every size).
- The iOS and OS X Icon Package Creators can now create Xcode5’s new .appiconset files.
- Improved Android Icon Package Creator.