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iPhone App Icon: Twist It!
Twist It is a gimmicky app for the iPhone. The point of the app is to pretend your phone is the grip of your bike and Twist It to hear your bike rev up. Again, the app developer needed an icon that visually explains what this app does.
I created the generic grip in Photoshop horizontally level. I created a flat layer, adding monochromatic noise, and used the warp tool to “wrap” the layer around the grip for a more realistic feel.
The twisted arrow was broken down into two groups of layers. The front group was made using three shapes, plus one layer for the effects. The back of the arrow is a single layer, with a mask to hide the parts I don’t need.
Once the grip looked right, I created a copy of all of the layers and flattened it. Then I used the distort option to get the perfect angle.
The actual graphic that was submitted to Apple did not have the rounded corners or the glare that you see here. The app developer submitted it without the effects and let the App Store add in the effects after the fact.
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