Hi Alex here from rebeloper.com and welcome to App Store Domination and in
today's video we are going to talk about screenshots so let's get to work!
Okay! Before we dive into screenshots let me just remind you that the continuation
of App Store Domination is at The Tribe. Go ahead and take a look at The Tribe
on our channel and maybe reach out for our support team. Just hit this contact
us and send us a message if you are an indie developer because we do have some
very special discounts for indie devs and studios. So that put aside let's get
into screenshots! Okay! Now we are inside our iTunes Connect dashboard inside ASD Magic
and if you don't know how we got here go ahead and take a look at the
previous videos. Okay! Now we want to add some screenshots to our submission.
Go ahead and click on prepare for submission and you will be presented
with this screen. Here we have three types of screenshots and previews of
course. We are not going to talk about previews at this time. They are inside
The Tribe. Basically previews are videos. Okay! Screenshots are just simple
static images. Okay as you can see iPhone 5.8'' display is optional so we
will not talk about this... well we will not add them at this time. Instead you need to
add iPhone 5.5'' and iPad 12.9'' displays for your screenshots.
When you first go into your prepare for submission you will not have of course
any screenshots. Let's take a look at the dimensions you need to provide.
Tap on iOS screenshot properties and you will be taken to this page. As you
can see here are the device sizes or the
platform and screenshot size. This is what we need and if it is required or not.
Now what is this? Well as of I believe one year ago Apple introduced these
basic reusable screenshots. What that means is that you can add one screenshot
for your iPhone version and one screenshot for your iPad version and
and the App Store well the iTunes Connect automatically resize it for all
screen sizes. Of course this doesn't include the newest iPhoneX screenshot
because it has different dimensions. That is why at this time it is optional.
Okay! I believe it will be required some time in the near future. Now what we need
is the largest screenshot so we need the largest display.
And that is the5.5 inch Retina display. As it you can see it is
required if app runs on iPhone. And because all of our source codes and I
believe you too want that to all of your source codes are on iPad and iPhone so
they are universal you will need an iPad screenshot too required if app on iPad.
As you can see may use this 4.7 inch display, may use the 5.5 inches display and that
is what I was talking about when they are down scaling, down sizing the
screenshot from the 5.5 inch Retina Display image. Okay, and that is it!
You need to create a one... well let's say we are in portrait mode, if you have
landscape than you'd use these dimensions. Let's create this portrait.
Okay! I will just launch Adobe Photoshop here. aAnd we will create two
screenshots. And one is for the iPad and one is for the iPhone.
We'll start off with the iPhone. Let me just copy out what we need here.
So: 1242 and let me just paste it in here. The width will be 1242.
Don't even bother trying to memorize these pixels. You just go in to this page
and copy that out. Okay and resolution 72 will be just fine. Let's create this.
Okay, and here we have our basic iPhone 5.5 inch display. And let me
just go and find my logo here. I'll just simply drag and drop it maybe make it a
little smaller. Such a large logo here. This will be my screenshot.
Now you will not add your logo here. You will add the
screenshot of your app and let me just show you how you can do that you.
First of all you just simply launch your app on the simulator. And let's just
select iPhone 8 plus for our simulator. Now because that is the largest screen size.
Okay! Let's just wait for it to load.
I believe it will be a simple red background but anyway we will just wait
for it to load and show you how you can make that screenshot. Here is your brand new
app that you want to add to the App Store. Well it most probably will be
much more interesting than this red background. Now what you need to do is go
into the simulator and under File you see New Screenshot or hit Command + S but
in some case Command + S brings up Siri so I will not use this shortcut.
Hit "New Screenshot" and this screenshot will be saved
onto your desktop. Let's find that and here it is simulator screenshot iPhone8 Plus
and today's a date. What you need to do is now because this
dimension is 1020x1813 so this is not the dimension that Apple requires.
What you need to do now is go into your Photoshop file and simply drag and drop it.
Okay and here we are and now I will just simply free transform scale it to
size and that is it. That is how you can add your screenshot. And go ahead and create new
screenshots for your app. Okay! You can have up to 5 screenshots.
For now I will just delete this. Don't need that. I will just simply Save as and just
go into here. Yeah, it will be screenshot maybe iPhone and that should be fine.
I will just save it as PNG but make sure you don't have alpha values on your PNG files.
iTunes connect will not accept images with alpha values. Okay!
Now let's create our iPad version. iPad version is here. It is 2048x2732.
Okay! Let's create this one right now! Let's go into "New".
Okay and I will just drag and drop my icon here. As usual you need to create
this screenshot with the the help of simulator and just scale
it to size. Okay! Now let us just Save as and I will
just save this as screenshot. Let it be of PNG and let's Save it. Okay!
I believe I saved it in today 8 which is not where I want to save it.
I will just move it. Where are they? Here they are screenshots iPad and iPhone. Okay!
Now finally we go back to iTunes Connect and select iPhone 5.5 inch display and
just simply and drag and drop your screenshot here. And it will try to add
it and it sees that this is your preview... well your screenshot that is 5.5
and it can be used to create the other screenshots. This is what it
basically says here. Okay and now we will click OK and that is it. You have one
screenshot for your iPhone. Of course you can add up to5 screenshots.
Now let's go to iPad and do the same thing. Okay, screenshot iPad. Let's wait for it.
Click on OK and that's it. Yeah finally we need to click on Save to save the
changes and that is it! You can of course add iPhone 5.8 inch
display screenshot but it goes the same way. Okay! Hope you enjoyed this video and
as usual go ahead and do this for yourself. Do this for your app. Do these
two screenshots at least two screenshots because Apple
at least one screenshot per device. Go ahead and create your screenshots and
I will see you in the next one! Good stuff! Now if you want to see more of
this video and want to boost your app business go ahead and take a look at my
30 Days challenge AppStore domination. Go ahead and click the link down below and
I will see you inside ASD - App Store Domination! Let's get to work!