Artists: Create and Sell iMessage Stickers in iOS 10
A step-by-step guide to preparing your artwork for selling on Apple's new App for iMessage online store
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What You Will Learn!
- Use your artwork to create custom static and animated stickers to use when texting with iMessage, and learn how to submit your custom sticker packs to Apple's App store for iMessage
Description
In this course, I'll show you how to use your artwork to create texting stickers to use in iPhones and iPads, and sell them in Apple’s new App Store for iMessage. Be among the first to get your artwork, literally, in the hands of people around the globe.
Texting stickers are new for iOS10, and let you express yourself precisely and artistically. Plus, they're fun! I'll even show you how to create animated stickers!
No particular technical expertise is needed for this course -- I'll cover everything you need to know, from drawing-on-the-page, photograph, or illustration, to finished sticker pack.
[Videos are closed-captioned in English]
You'll learn how to:
- Choose artwork that'll work well as stickers
- Choose software to make your artwork sticker-ready. That includes a no-cost web option.
- Minimally edit your artwork using free software or, optionally, Adobe Photoshop.
- Download and install the free Apple software -- xcode -- you'll need to package your stickers into collections in a format ready for iPhones and iPads.
- Use xcode to make sticker collections -- including animated stickers! -- from your prepared artwork files.
- Submit your stickers to the App Store for iMessage.
I've provided lots of sample images you can download and use to follow along with the course. Lessons are presented in easy-to-follow videos.
So don't let the engineers have all the fun. Take this course now and learn how to publish your work in the App Store too!
Enroll today!
Who Should Attend!
- This course is meant for creative people -- photographers, graphic artists, comedians, satirists, people who doodle in the margins -- who have great ideas and want to share them with the world and earn money doing so.
- Texters who want to express their thoughts PRECISELY will enjoy using custom sticker packs they create, and unleashing their brand of humor/way of thinking on the world.
- No particular technical expertise or capability is required -- if you can surf the net and navigate your email inbox, you'll be able to handle the steps in this course. Although this course will show you how to publish in the App store, we won't be doing any programming.
- You don't need any experience editing images, although those who have such experience will have a head start.
- Although we'll go over some basic image editing, this is not a course on how to edit images.
