I need to create logos for my Windows Store Apps. I am not a skilled graphic artist (pretty clueless as to the use of those tools, or even what they are).
I have the design in mind for what I want my logo to basically look like:
I could create this in XAML, using a grid, and placing images in various cells, using either Segoe UI Symbols characters and/or "commons" graphic images (of a camera and footprints), and then add the text in the great middle of it all. But how to then convert that image to the needed 50X50 pixels* for the app's logo? Wouldn't the images, and even the font characters, get too "smushed," for lack of a better term?
- Windows Store Apps actually require several different files at various scales and even width:height ratios, but Microsoft has made a tool available that can take a 50x50 logo and automatically generate all the other files.
So: Is it possible to create a Windows Store Apps logo using XAML, and if so, how? Otherwise, what is the preferred method/standard approach to this?
UPDATE
With a little help from my friends (a "virtual one" found here, and an old hiking buddy), I was able to come up with one that I like. Logo:
...and splash screen:
