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Re: Show HN: Screely – Instantly turn screenshots into beautiful images

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Post by dingaling »

0verAchiever wrote: post #2

I regularly want to share what I've worked on with others on Twitter or Slack/Telegram. However, sharing a simple screenshot always was a bit too bland for my taste... I wanted to make it look better. Give it a background, put it in a fake window with some shadows etc. You can do this in Photoshop or Sketch with some templates but that takes a lot of time if you just quickly want to share something with friends or co…

> I wanted to make it look better. Give it a background, put it in a fake window with some shadows etc.

Interesting, I'm the complete opposite. When I make or receive a screenshot I want to crop down to the focal point.

One of the best IT investments ${BIGCORP} made when I worked for them was to install SnagIt on every user's machine. Suddenly their documents had neat, inline cropped screenshots instead of huge one-per-page full-screen dumps. Saving in storage costs alone must have paid for that deployment.

And our bug reports became much easier to triage since the users just included an image of the problematic field, instead of the whole screen with a comment 'see error'. Where?!

Re: Show HN: Screely – Instantly turn screenshots into beautiful images

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Post by genezeta »

0verAchiever wrote: post #60
genezeta wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Happening here too; on Firefox/Win10. Something that seems unrelated is that, in your drawWindow function you seem to be assigning an onload handler and then immediately overwriting it with a different onload handler. This is not really the problem, but I mention it just so you know. Now, the actual problem seems to be there's a long standing bug in Firefox where it won't draw SVG to neither canvas nor Image elements…

Thank you for letting me know and also looking into it!! Was able to quickly fix this issue thanks to you! I've just pushed the fix to production so it should be fixed now. Would you mind testing it one more time to check if it works?

Yes. It works now :)

Re: Show HN: Screely – Instantly turn screenshots into beautiful images

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Post by oneeyedpigeon »

gbajson wrote: post #51

I am trying to figure out what's the value of this additional fake window around the screenshot. Could you describe any valid use case, please?

I think just putting it in context is the key part. Many products adopt this kind of style for their screenshots (see sublimetext [1], for example). TBH, in that case, I think it's most useful when they accurately reflect reality so you can understand whether it's a native app versus a web app, or whether it's a mac app or a windows app, etc. Still, even just an indicator that 'this is a screenshot' is a useful design element, even if it might already seem as obvious as can be.

[1] https://www.sublimetext.com/

Re: Show HN: Screely – Instantly turn screenshots into beautiful images

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Post by 0verAchiever »

genezeta wrote: post #62
0verAchiever wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you for letting me know and also looking into it!! Was able to quickly fix this issue thanks to you! I've just pushed the fix to production so it should be fixed now. Would you mind testing it one more time to check if it works?

Yes. It works now :)

Good to hear! :D

Re: Show HN: Screely – Instantly turn screenshots into beautiful images

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Post by adtac »

kroltan wrote: post #14

Windows does that natively, with Alt+PrintScreen. Some Linux distros also support that out of the box.

Apologies for the pedantry in advance, but Linux distros probably don't support that. It's the desktop manager / window manager doing that for you.

Re: Show HN: Screely – Instantly turn screenshots into beautiful images

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Post by sarreph »

cygned wrote: post #45
null0pointer wrote: post #39

On mac: + + then pressing will allow you to select a window for screenshot which includes the window border, title, and transparent shadow.

Hold while clickling the window to remove the shadow. Hold while clicking to skip the desktop and copy it to the clipboard directly.

Never ceases to amaze me the options (no pun intended) that OS X developers put hidden in the simplest of system apps. Makes them so versatile.

I remember as a stupid middle-schooler thinking I was being cool showing everyone how many // key combos there are to take the perfect PhotoBooth shot.

PSA: Reminder – option click everything for nice surprises.

Re: Show HN: Screely – Instantly turn screenshots into beautiful images

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Post by 0verAchiever »

dingaling wrote: post #61
0verAchiever wrote: post #2

I regularly want to share what I've worked on with others on Twitter or Slack/Telegram. However, sharing a simple screenshot always was a bit too bland for my taste... I wanted to make it look better. Give it a background, put it in a fake window with some shadows etc. You can do this in Photoshop or Sketch with some templates but that takes a lot of time if you just quickly want to share something with friends or co…

> I wanted to make it look better. Give it a background, put it in a fake window with some shadows etc. Interesting, I'm the complete opposite. When I make or receive a screenshot I want to crop down to the focal point. One of the best IT investments ${BIGCORP} made when I worked for them was to install SnagIt on every user's machine. Suddenly their documents had neat, inline cropped screenshots instead of huge one-p…

Reporting bugs and sharing designs on social media or in chat with friends or co-workers are very different use cases though. Screely is aimed at making the latter easier, SnagIt fixed the first one for you.

Re: Show HN: Screely – Instantly turn screenshots into beautiful images

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Post by Twisell »

hartator wrote: post #36
Twisell wrote: post #35

I might be old school but it always seems very dubious for me to rely on a web server controled by who the f... know for such basic task that can be done more efficiently offline. And also why is it free? Can we be sure the service won’t store every image send? Would be a nice way to gather free real word training example for a neural network so it can learn what frame contain nothing useful and what frame contain lo…

That’s oddly specific, I am sure you have 100x better way to harvest passwords. Like run a free proxy server.

It depends on what is your target. No enterprise will tolerate that their employees set up a proxy (and even so clever employees are not the target).

However I’ve seen a lot of people using free web based tool to replace pretty basic dumb stuff such as assembling pdf.

Would’nt it be nice for a concurrent company to buy all pdf assembled by your employees using this web service based on company IP?

Of course nerd might find out that pdf is uploaded (most probably however he will use offline FOSS solution because he know better). But the basic employee that use this « because someone send them a link to this awesome tool » will never even thought of it...

I have no proof this scheme is used by scammers, but it seems highly plausible to me.

Re: Show HN: Screely – Instantly turn screenshots into beautiful images

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Post by Vinnl »

null0pointer wrote: post #39

On mac: + + then pressing will allow you to select a window for screenshot which includes the window border, title, and transparent shadow.

On Ubuntu: holding while pressing will limit the screenshot to the current window.

(Other tips: holding will copy it to your clipboard, and holding will allow you to select a region.)

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