diff --git a/Source/cmGlobalXCodeGenerator.cxx b/Source/cmGlobalXCodeGenerator.cxx
index a9fcf0634..4131dfcaf 100644
--- a/Source/cmGlobalXCodeGenerator.cxx
+++ b/Source/cmGlobalXCodeGenerator.cxx
@@ -650,6 +650,10 @@ cmGlobalXCodeGenerator::CreateXCodeFileReference(cmSourceFile* sf,
     {
     sourcecode += ".c.c";
     }
+  else if(ext == "png" || ext == "gif" || ext == "jpg")
+    {
+    sourcecode = "image";
+    }
   else if(ext == "txt")
     {
     sourcecode += ".text";