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Real screenshots are the wrong tool for publishing. This page is about why, and what to do instead.

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Why a real screenshot looks bad when you publish it

A phone screenshot is captured at your device resolution, then cropped, then re-compressed by whatever app you post it through. By the time it reaches a feed the text has soft edges and JPEG artefacts around every letter.

It also carries the platform chrome — status bar, battery icon, navigation — plus whatever was above and below the post. Cropping that away leaves an awkward aspect ratio that no social platform displays well.

Generating instead of capturing

Here the image is drawn directly at the export resolution. Text is rendered as vectors into a 1080-pixel-wide canvas rather than resampled from a 390-point screen, so letterforms stay crisp at any size.

You also choose the canvas: 1080×1350 for a feed post, 1080×1920 for a story, 1080×1080 for a square, or 1280×720 for a YouTube community post. The card is composed for that shape rather than cropped into it.

Matching your own post

To reproduce one of your own posts, copy the text across, set your display name, handle and profile picture, and turn on the date and view count in the Optional details section if you want them.

Bear in mind that the result is a design, not a capture. It should not be presented as evidence of what someone posted.

Common questions

Can I make it look exactly like a real screenshot?
Deliberately, not quite. The card is an original design in the same visual family rather than a pixel copy of the platform interface, and the hierarchy is tuned for legibility as a graphic rather than as a UI.
What resolution do I get?
Up to 1080 pixels wide on the standard presets, or a custom size up to 4096 pixels. PNG keeps text edges sharp; JPG and WebP are available when file size matters more.

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