![]() When the dialog appears, choose a percentage. For the purposes of this tutorial I’ll assume that you have only one layer in your image, so click Layer > Transparency > Add Alpha Channel. Now that you have an image to work with, you’ll convert that image to a rounded rectangle with Gimp, where the edges of the rectangle will be transparent: For instance, add colors to it, and center your app icon in the middle of it.Ĭonvert it into a rounded rectangle image Do whatever you want to the image here.If you’re creating a mobile app icon, make it a square, something like 1024x1024. If you don’t have an image to work on, start with these steps to create an initial image: To get started you’ll need an image to work with. ![]() Note: I wrote this tutorial in April, 2015, using Gimp 2.8. This tutorial contains a short step-by-step description of how to do this. I recently needed to make an icon look like an iOS style app icon - a rounded rectangle with transparent corners - and to do that I needed to learn how to create a rounded rectangle in Gimp.
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