{"id":2005,"date":"2014-05-31T17:47:57","date_gmt":"2014-05-31T15:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thegamebakers.com\/?p=2005"},"modified":"2015-03-02T19:50:23","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T17:50:23","slug":"a-screenshot-exporter-for-the-app-store-and-google-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thegamebakers.com\/a-screenshot-exporter-for-the-app-store-and-google-play\/","title":{"rendered":"A screenshot exporter for the App Store and Google Play"},"content":{"rendered":"

Overview: this is a tool that helps exporting screenshots with localized text in all the different resolutions required by the Apple App Store and Google Play.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you are a mobile game developer and have published some apps, you probably have prepared screenshots for the different stores, in varied resolutions, and maybe different languages.<\/p>\n

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For Squids and Combo Crew, we published the game on the App Store and Google Play. The App Store is 5 screenshots of 3 different resolutions (iPhone 4, iPhone 5, iPad) and Google Play has also 5 screenshots of 2 resolutions that are different from the iOS ones (7 and 10 inches). We also have localized the game in over 8 languages and we had some text on the screenshots, that we wanted localized as well. That makes a total of 5 x 5 x 8 = 200 screenshots to export manually.<\/p>\n

It’s ok, it’s an hour of grunt work for sure, but anyone can do it. But when for some reason you want to update something, a text or a picture, that’s another round of manual exports and that’ll become\u00a0a bit annoying.<\/p>\n

We had a very resourceful intern (thanks again Hannes!) who wrote a handy photoshop script that will export all the screenshots for\u00a0all resolutions from a well set up photoshop file. It’ll save you time for the initial export, and\u00a0if you have to update something later on, you’ll just have to update the picture or the text once and watch the script do the rest for you.<\/p>\n

Here is how it work:<\/p>\n

1. Download this package that includes the script and a photoshop template file.<\/h4>\n

Note: there are two scripts, one for exporting in JPG and one in PNG. I recommend using the JPG one for the stores, as the files will be lighter and upload faster.<\/p>\n