I had a question from a reader/listener over at iUpgrade. She watched the podcast, Podcasting with the iPod Touch, and asked how I got the screen captures off of the device that actually showed the device itself.
Ahah! I thought I should share that with everyone as you set out to make your podcasts and publish them on the web. You can easily do the same thing. In fact, one of these days, I will get around to flipping the device sideways and having video podcasts play inside of it--giving the impression the video is playing on the device live in real time! (I just need 36 hours in every day!)
First, a visual example of what she is talking about. In the podcast (which is a screen capture of a Keynote using ScreenFlow, both apps are my true loves), I show a screen shot from the iPod Touch that also shows the entire iPod Touch. Something along these lines though the screenshots are all different:
- Start with making all of your screenshots by going to the screen you desire on your device and making a screen capture (holding down the top power button while at the same time pressing the home button--flash!)
- Sync the image from the phone to iPhoto (or some similar app that allows you to get the contents of your photos off of the device and onto your computer hard drive)
- Go over to the blog by the good people at teehan+lax, specifically this post, where they offer, free for download and use, a PSD of the iPhone/iPod Touch GUI for OS 3.0.
- Open their GUI file in Photoshop (of some such program that supports PSD files and their layers) and your screen capture(s)
- Show the body elements of the device (hide all of the other GUI elements layers) and paste your screen capture into an empty layer under the screen glare layer
- Export: Tah dah!
I'm not really sure how the people at teehan+lax created all of these elements, but I think they were incredibly nice to share them with everyone. In their GUI file, you will find every conceivable screen and body graphic element. They're all there at the exact screen size of the element on the device. Their work is meticulous and gorgeous! (They also have a GUI for the Palm Pre. Not sure if they offer others as well.)
