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akivabialo
akivabialo
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October 10, 2018
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Need to create Screenshots for Play Store

  • October 10, 2018
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This is most likely a very simple question but I am new to Ps and your help would be greatly appreciated!

I am looking to create "screenshots" for an app on Play Store. (and App Store when i finish this)

I dont understand, and cant seem to find anything online that explain best dimensions (Width Height Pixels...) to put in when i create the document size to then create screenshots (I know this is probably very stupid question) the following are the requirements for Play Store:

Requirements

  • Minimum dimension: 320 pixels
  • Maximum dimension: 3840 pixels
  • Aspect ratio can’t be more than 2:1 or 1:2

Ty for your patience and assistance!

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JJMack
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JJMackCommunity Expert
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October 10, 2018

You show a one dimension range 320 to 3840 pixels. An image has two dimensions and which has aspect ratio the ratio between sides lengths.   You show two very different  aspect ratios one is a wide short landscape aspect ratio the other a  tall narrow portrait aspect ratio.   Do you know what you actually want?

I dought very much that you would want a web image that has a width or height dimension that is 3840 pixel.  That is the number of pixels that are displayed in the width of your 4K TV screen and 4k Computer display.  Web image are not create for 4k Displays and 4K displays they have a 16:9 aspect ratio not a 2:1 aspect ratio a 3840 wide image with a 2:1 aspect ratio would be 1920 pixel high and not fill the 4k Display 2160 pixel height. The image would also need to be scale smaler to fit into web pages.

JJMack
akivabialo
akivabialoAuthor
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October 10, 2018

This is the requirements from Google

Requirements

To publish your Store Listing, you must provide a minimum of 2 screenshots.

- JPEG or 24-bit PNG (no alpha)

- Minimum dimension: 320px

- Maximum dimension: 3840px

- The maximum dimension of your screenshot can't be more than twice as

long as the minimum dimension

I need to figure out what's a good size and resolution, but I'm not really

understanding how this works and what they want.

D Fosse
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D FosseCommunity Expert
Community Expert
October 10, 2018

A screenshot is a screenshot - just lifting the screen pixels as they are, and using them as image pixels in a new document.

Different devices have different screen resolutions. You need to target the ones you want. I don't know the going rate for phone screens, but a traditional HD display is 1920 x 1080 pixels, a new 4K display 3840 x 2160, an MBP retina 2880 x 1800, and so on.

Resolution as expressed in pixels per inch (ppi) doesn't apply here. Only number of pixels.

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