: Place screenshot into psd layer (requiring image resize) Can anyone tell me /point me in the direction of a good photoshop tutorial for taking app screen shots and putting them in as a layer

@Megan533

In case you still need it, here's a step-by-step tutorial my partner and I have on our website (with screenshots) that explains how to place your app screenshot inside a frame: blog.appdemostore.com/2014/10/how-to-add-your-screenshot-to-phone.html.

Basically, here's how to do it:
1. Open your Adobe Photoshop CS6. From the top menu, select File —> Open, choose your macbook psd and click Ok or hit Return.
2. Drag and drop your app screenshot to Photoshop, in the center of the macbook frame. Grab a corner, hold Shift and drag with your mouse in order to make the screenshot smaller. You can also move the image around to position it. Next, right click on the screenshot and choose 'Distort'.
3. Click & hold each corner and place it in its correct position. After you're done, hit Return.
4. Done. Save the final image from File —>'Save for Web...'.

I'm not sure if you are aware of the fact that you can easily achieve this task without Photoshop, by using online tools. This article lists some of the best online tools for this: www.versedtech.org/11293/add-device-frame-to-screenshot/ - such as such as picapp.net, placeit.net or appdemostore.com/frameapp. My favourite one is picapp.net because it's easy-to-use and free for small images.

Hope this helps. Good luck!

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@Murphy569

Here's a mock-up:



And here's a screenshot that is too big:



Select the layer in the Layers Panel, then check this box (in the upper left hand side of the screen). Now you have handles that you can use to resize the screenshot layer.

Hover over one corner of the screenshot and click and drag to start resizing. Hold dow shift to constrain the proportions of the screenshot.

Now the screenshot is the right width but too tall. Make a selection as pictured below. (using the marquee tool )



Double check that the screenshot layer is still selected in the Layers Panel and then click the mask button at the bottom of the Layers Panel.

Now you're all set and you should have something like this...

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