Unfortunately I do not have Photoshop CC 2014 and so I have the ability to use ParallaxExporter, there is an alternative?
To create the icon is mandatory to use Photoshop?
I used Sketch and my upload went fine. Gimp should work too and it's free.
Make sure you remove transparency from your App Icon back layer and top shelf image.
Hi bvsdev, thank you. I will do it with Sketch then. Do you know if there is a tutorial for creating tvOS icons? I have some difficulties to understand the correct workflow...
There's nothing special about the parallax images. They're just images stacked on top of each other.
What Apple's tools and plugins allow you to do is preview the parallax effect of your stacked images, which is nice.
The way I understand it, just layer each picture on top of each other. Using the gear icon as an example:
Layer 1: Colored Background.
Layer 2: Gear.
Hope I am correct, as thats how I think we do it.
Dan Uff
Thank you so much to all of you. Then I will just create the separated images with Sketch and then I will import to Xcode's Assets.
Just create 3 images, like you would create a regular icon.
Front (can be transparent, same image size)
Middle (can be transparent)
Back (must be opaque)
Drag these into assets, into the front, middle, and back respectively.
I used Acorn and its Smart Layer Export worked perfectly for this. Parallax Previewer and the Xcode asset catalog can both be used to assemble the layers, and they couldn't care less where the images came from.