Show HN: Make Your Photo 16x9

#1

Post by einaregilsson » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 3:33 PM UTC

Show HN: Make Your Photo 16x9
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Re: Show HN: Make Your Photo 16x9

#2

Post by einaregilsson » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 3:45 PM UTC

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

Re: Show HN: Make Your Photo 16x9

#3

Post by aminozuur » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 4:32 PM UTC

I've been looking for something like this for a while, for the same reason as you (optimizing pics for Twitter). I currently use the Skitch app on macOS, which requires like 5 clicks and a few keystrokes to lock the ratio to 16x9.

Re: Show HN: Make Your Photo 16x9

#4

Post by simlevesque » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 4:45 PM UTC

My friend has a blog and will love this. Could you let the user control the blur ? I tried it and for some images I found that the blur was not strong enough.

Re: Show HN: Make Your Photo 16x9

#5

Post by Myztiq » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 4:53 PM UTC

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

Re: Show HN: Make Your Photo 16x9

#6

Post by einaregilsson » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 5:32 PM UTC

simlevesque wrote: post #4

My friend has a blog and will love this. Could you let the user control the blur ? I tried it and for some images I found that the blur was not strong enough.

Good idea. I've just changed it so now you can keep pushing the blur button and it will increase the blur by 1px for each push.

Re: Show HN: Make Your Photo 16x9

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Post by einaregilsson » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 5:33 PM UTC

Myztiq wrote: post #5

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

Thanks It was fun to build.

Re: Show HN: Make Your Photo 16x9

#8

Post by bellyfullofbac » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 5:39 PM UTC

At first glance (and the glances after that), the blurring makes me think there are things being censored. IMO unhelpful because the audience will think "hey why is this screenshotter hiding stuff before and after the quote?"

Re: Show HN: Make Your Photo 16x9

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Post by einaregilsson » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 5:49 PM UTC

bellyfullofbac wrote: post #8

At first glance (and the glances after that), the blurring makes me think there are things being censored. IMO unhelpful because the audience will think "hey why is this screenshotter hiding stuff before and after the quote?"

Fair point, although I like the blur effect. But you can also fill in with a solid color or transparency.

Re: Show HN: Make Your Photo 16x9

#10

Post by achairapart » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 6:07 PM UTC

Maybe you can double its usefulness by adding an option to save as WebP, so that's both a ratio and a format converter.

I think should be trivial, on current supported browsers at least.