Screen shots for app submission

Scoots

I'm just about ready to submit my first app. My questions is where do you obtain the screenshots for the app store? The screenshot folder looks encrypted or something, I did screen grabs but the resolution isn't acceptible in Itunes connect. so I am wondering do I make mock ups?
I have all the backgrounds obviously in photoshop but is there anywhere that I can grab the actual screen shots with the action and actors or is it back to the drawing board in photoshop?

Scoots

JohnPapiomitis

what i do is plug my iphone it to my computer, run the game on the viewer, and then while its running open xcode go to organizer and youll see a button that says screenshots for your device thats hooked up. You can then take your sreenshots from the device like that and save right to your desktop for upload

quantumsheep

You could try pressing the home and sleep button at the same time - this will take a screenshot on your device, and you can mail it to yourself.

A bit fiddly, but it works!

One thing I noticed using this method - if you have a retina display device, then the screenshots come out at 960x640 - and itunes accepts them! This will give you some very high resolution images for your itunes page!

Hope that helps!

QS

Scoots

Thanks John and QS,
I forgot all about the phone pic thingy QS. yes I have iPhone 4 so big pics it is.

;-)

tenrdrmer

quantumsheep said:
You could try pressing the home and sleep button at the same time - this will take a screenshot on your device, and you can mail it to yourself.

A bit fiddly, but it works!

One thing I noticed using this method - if you have a retina display device, then the screenshots come out at 960x640 - and itunes accepts them! This will give you some very high resolution images for your itunes page!

Hope that helps!

QS

That is what I do.

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xyloFUN

Why not make it with GS?
It let's you save out any scene to the desktop.
That's what I do

Basically,
Just preview your game and click the camera icon.
The most left option saves a screenshot.

I'd that what you need?

Scoots

I do that also XyloFun but didn't know it can save to desktop. Anyway the retina images are so sharp.
out of curiosity how does it save to desktop?

xyloFUN

Scoots,
considering that it is "just" screen shots, I wouldn't worry about how they display on the apple web site.
The good news is that the proper png image is saved out and that's all I ever use.

Basically, save screenshots of each scene I want to show in the app store on my desktop and then close GS once more.
Open the GS file to view the contents and go to the screenshots folder and remove everyone except one so that I can submit.
Once you are on the Apple iTunes site to submit, use the screenshots saved to the desktop.
Same goes for the icon which needs additional work to make it 512 x 512

Scoots

When I go into the screenshots folder all I see are white boxes instead of actual thumbnails. I tried opening them in the past and they never displayed. Oh well maybe next app.

thanks,