Need to create Screenshots for Play Store

[akivabialo]

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!

[JJMack]

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.

[akivabialo]

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]

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.

[JJMack]

Displays have a single resolution the PPI the are manufactured with.  They can not change the size of the pixels they display image with.  Their pixels are all one size. There are displays that display more pixels than a 4k Display.  The are displays that have a low ppi resolution where the human eye can resolve down to and the are displays that has a very high pixel density that the human eye can not resolve down to.  Image will display a different size for each displays resolution.  4K size is the number of pixels 3840x2160 not the resolution.  A 4k image 3840x2160 pixels will fill as small 4k display and fill a 70" 4k display. The difference is the displays ppi are different.  70" 4k displays have a low ppi resolution where as small tablets 4k display has a high ppi resolution.

[akivabialo]

How does that work with: Aspect ratio can’t be more than 2:1 or 1:2?

A screenshot on the play store isn't a direct screenshot like of a phone

screen there are other things like a phone outline and the actual app

screenshot which is being created on Xd some text and sometimes graphics.

In order for to design it (attached is an example of screenshots from play

store) I need to enter the Width, Height, Resolution.

I don't know what numbers are the best option and that meet the

requirements.

I hope that explains it.

Thank you very much

[D Fosse]

You enter pixels wide x pixels high. That's it.

You don't enter size and resolution. That doesn't apply for screen viewing, those are print parameters.

[JJMack]

Image for the play store are image you create for displaying on a web device in a Play Store app.   You crate the image to be displayed on different web device.    I would think the best thing to do is capture images currently in the Play store displayed on different Web devices to see what size images are currently being used for Play store apps  on different devices.  I do not develop images for Play store  I do not even know if it is posible to have one size image that will display well on all posible web display devices from some Play store app..

[akivabialo]

That makes a lot more sense.

I did some research and just entered the Pixel amount 2560 x 1440 (galaxy

s7) is that good?

Thank You for your help I was so confused.

[JJMack]

akivabialo  wrote

That makes a lot more sense.

I did some research and just entered the Pixel amount 2560 x 1440 (galaxy

s7) is that good?

Thank You for your help I was so confused.

I would not think so.  It sound like you captured your tablets Display which is like the 3:2 display on my surface pro 3 that displays 2560 x 1440 pixels. You most likely did not capture an Image the your Play App is displaying.  The Play app may also be scaling image file it displays to fit your tablet display.

[akivabialo]

I’m not using a tablet I searched Galaxy S7 Screen Resolution…

I did not capture anything...

Sent from Mail for Windows 10

[JJMack]

A 3:2 aspect ratio is a 1.5 ratio which is not more that a 2:1  2 Ratio and is not less than a 1:2 .5 ratio.  The reason for these Ratio limits I believe is because mobile Web Devices rotate the image being displayed when you rotate the device so the image display when the devise rotate to the portrait or landscape orientation for the image being displayed. One of  the orientation will displayed an  image close to full screen. When scaled for the current orintation One oriantation well be a better Aspect Ratio match for the image being displayed

Your device has two Aspect ratios  a 3:2 aspect ratio in landscape orientation and a 2:3 Aspect ration in Portrait orientation

You need to get examples image files the  Play apps display.

Images used on the web are normally smaller than display size and may be scaled by apps like web browsers and Android and IOS apps.

A display has a fixed ppi resolution  and display a fixed number of pixels.  Display that display 2560x1440px come in many sizes they all display 2540x1440 pixels different size displays have different PPI resolution.  All have a 3:2 and 2:3 aspect ratio but may be different is size..

[D Fosse]

The Galaxy S7 does indeed have a screen resolution of 2560 x 1440 pixels. That's pretty impressive, btw, it's the same resolution as the 27 inch Eizo CG2730 I'm looking at now...

I would assume screenshot here means a mockup or a dummy version of how it actually looks on the device in question. So yes, for an S7, that would be 2560 x 1440.