Artists: Create and Sell iMessage Stickers in iOS 10
What you'll 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
Requirements
- Because iMessage custom texting stickers are new to iOS 10, everyone's a beginner. Jump right in!
- Students will need to have a Mac, as key sections of this course cannot be done on a PC
- Your Mac must be running operating system El Capitan, version 10.11.5 or later. Upgrade if you need to and join us!
- In this course, we'll be doing some minor image editing. Feel free to use your favorite image editing program. If you don't have one, during the course I'll recommend a good free program you can access online. If you've never edited images, no worries, as we'll cover what you need to know.
- If you already know how to edit images, that section of the course may cover ground you already know.
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 this course is for:
- 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.
Instructor
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As a photographer and software professional, my professional life exists at the intersection of art and technology.
With more than a decade of experience as a professional photographer, my photographs have appeared in newspapers, magazines, and books.
I've also managed the development direction of global business software, taking new software features from idea to deployed, and training people how to use those new features.
I specialize in making technical concepts easy to grasp for non-technical people. I've taught courses on two continents and have worked as a contributing editor focusing on technology for national consumer magazines. My work has been translated into multiple languages.