How to create a tvOS icon without Photoshop

You’re forced to use photoshop for now. Of course, this lsr metadata isn’t all that difficult.

You could try generate the .lsr yourself, (mind you this is extremely painful)

In the root directory create a json file:

//Contents.json
{
      "layers": [
        {
          "filename": "top-layer.imagestacklayer"
        },
        {
          "filename": "highlight-layer.imagestacklayer"
        },
        {
          "filename": "shadow-layer.imagestacklayer"
        },
        {
          "filename": "middle-layer.imagestacklayer"
        },
        {
          "filename": "back-layer.imagestacklayer"
        }
      ],
      "info": {
        "version": 1,
        "author": "photoshop lsr plugin 1.1"
      },
      "properties": {
        "canvasSize": {
          "width": 400,
          "height": 240
        }
      }
    }

Each of the “filename” values, create a directory for each of them.
In each of the directories create another JSON file:

//Contents.json
    {
      "info": {
        "version": 1,
        "author": "photoshop lsr plugin 1.1"
      },
      "properties": {
        "frame-size": {
          "width": 400,
          "height": 240
        },
        "frame-center": {
          "x": 200,
          "y": 120
        }
      }
    }

Also nest a new directory in it called Content.imageset

Inside this new directory implement another json file:

//Contents.json
{
  "info": {
    "version": 1,
    "author": "photoshop lsr plugin 1.1"
  },
  "images": [
    {
      "idiom": "universal",
      "filename": "back-layer.png",
      "scale": "1x"
    }
  ]
}

Also include in this directory the .png

So it should look something like this:

Last but not least, compress using .zip and change the file extension to .lsr