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Show HN: Make Your Photo 16x9

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Re: Show HN: Make Your Photo 16x9

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Post by thrusong »

nitrogen wrote: post #24
thrusong wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm pretty sure you're allowed to build little utility websites and share them with your friends on Facebook. Extra context: people complained about how tedious the SoCast CMS was to use for years before I got there. Either way, whatever, as long as the tool effected change, I got what I wanted for myself and my co-workers.

Depends on the state, but often if you make something that relates to your employer's business, even on your own time, your employer owns it.

I don't know the laws here in Canada but I was always under the impression if you do something on your own time with your own equipment, you own the IP. It's been that way at several of my employers in the creative fields.

I only spent two hours building the initial Picture Perfect prototype, so at least it got something done when my former boss couldn't deliver something after two years of people begging for an easier way.

Re: Show HN: Make Your Photo 16x9

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Post by TacticalCoder »

bigiain wrote: post #29
biryani_chicken wrote: post #13

Here is how you can do it with ImageMagick: `convert -gravity center -background black -compose Copy -resize 800x450 -extent 800x450 input.png output.png` Sadly I don't know how to do it without specifying the size in pixels. Using `16:9` for resize and extent doesn't do the trick.

Do you have instructions so your mom could do that? Or would you just send here to the OPs website? I know which I'd do...

You're bringing in the moms... Does yours read HN?

A certain audience does enjoy technical hints and explanations. Heck, ImageMagick / convert are part of quite some workflows on servers...

Re: Show HN: Make Your Photo 16x9

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Post by thrusong »

worker767424 wrote: post #26
thrusong wrote: post #16

I built four tools that looked and functioned almost exactly like this about six years ago, but using PHP. They were called "Picture Perfect," "Portrait Perfect," "Partner Perfect," and "Process Perfect." I initially developed Picture Perfect for my reporter colleagues at a news radio station to use for our website, and they loved it. Just drag a photo on the site, crop it exactly how you want to our website's exact…

> My homophobic boss This is either the opposite of how people used to say things that weren't cool were "gay," or you just added a useless detail to the story for I'm not sure what reason.

He actively tried to cripple my career because of my sexuality, going as far to start putting me on non-broadcasting shifts because I "sounded too gay" (which I don't, I just don't have an AM voice that sounds like I've been smoking cigars for two decades).

In his words, it "affected the trust listeners had in the station."

So, he wasn't pleased I built a tool in two hours that he couldn't deliver in at least a year.

I didn't even hide the tool. I gave it to two senior staffers and sent it his way right away.

Re: Show HN: Make Your Photo 16x9

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Post by CivBase »

Pamar wrote: post #27
einaregilsson wrote: post #2

The site itself is at https://photo16x9.com

Cool... any chance to see a "photo1x1.com" doing exactly the same for Instagram, maybe? (They favour square format creating a simikar problem for users).

I just skimmed the source code and it looks like you could add support for other aspect ratios really easily. Not sure if OP is accepting pull requests.

EDIT: I went ahead and added quick support for other aspect ratios myself. Feel free to use it.

https://gist.github.com/CivBase/92f1b387c4c98d24481ec28ea2fc...

Re: Show HN: Make Your Photo 16x9

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Post by bigiain »

TacticalCoder wrote: post #32
bigiain wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you have instructions so your mom could do that? Or would you just send here to the OPs website? I know which I'd do...

You're bringing in the moms... Does yours read HN? A certain audience does enjoy technical hints and explanations. Heck, ImageMagick / convert are part of quite some workflows on servers...

Fair point... :-)

Re: Show HN: Make Your Photo 16x9

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Post by ziml77 »

p1mrx wrote: post #15
Myztiq wrote: post #5

I'm somewhat surprised twitter hasn't gone ahead and implemented something like this themselves. Kudos for building a solution!

Letterboxing has been deemed Ugly by modern web designers. Better to discard useful content until it looks nice.

It was deemed ugly long before that. TVs have been defaulting to stretching/cropping to avoid letterboxing or pillarboxing for years. And before that, movies were converted with pan-and-scan to fill a 4:3 TV.

Re: Show HN: Make Your Photo 16x9

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Post by noahjk »

Pamar wrote: post #27
einaregilsson wrote: post #2

The site itself is at https://photo16x9.com

Cool... any chance to see a "photo1x1.com" doing exactly the same for Instagram, maybe? (They favour square format creating a simikar problem for users).

4x5 is the optimal size on Instagram I believe. Gets you the most screen real estate as someone is scrolling past your photo
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