This is a cool idea. Wish website showed a bit more info and examples but I like what it d oes. Content creators could use this.
Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramatically angled photos
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#12I'm sure you put a ton of work into this, so it's really unfortunate that I can barely tell what this really does or why we should care. Also the "Ready to go pro?" thing seems very rushed and presumptuous. Like, I'm not even sure I'm ready to go "Free" yet
> so it's really unfortunate that I can barely tell what this really does or why we should care
It takes an image as input and produces a "dramatic" copy of that image in which "dramatic" is defined as being angled away from the viewer on two planes and having a blur somewhat consistent with it having been photographed with a shallow depth of field.
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#13It would be nice to have a few more examples. The only example I see on the homepage is hidden in the video, both hard to see and not always visible.
OP here. Valid point! I find it hard to strike a good balance between demonstrating value and cutting to the chase. I wanted it to come off as a utility that lets you take action immediately.
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#14What is this paid subscription to be able to rotate the screenshot a certain way?
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#15Def needs more before/after examples...
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#16This looks neat indeed :)
I have no idea how hard it would be, but this would be great as an effect for Final Cut, Da Vinci, etc. I don’t think the video world has a plug-in standard like the photo kinda does (eventually lots of apps implemented Photoshop's API).
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#17Great results on the first attempt I did. When I wanted to export the result in highest available resolution, it asked me to subscribe for $5/month. I only need 1 single screenshot, so I’m not going to subscribe, but I can see this being used by big newspaper companies. Good luck with your project!
OP here. Thanks, that's good to hear. I got journalists at a couple of the big newspaper players here in my country (Norway) to purchase subscriptions, and after seeing these pop up in articles rather often, I felt that I had sold myself short with the $5 monthly fee. One of them (VG.no), is like the 2nd biggest site in Norway, with 70 million visits a month. I guess I'm bad at business.
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#18Why not skew, mask and blur with photoshop in 10 seconds?
you mean aside from the fact that it requires downloading a huge multi-purpose program that starts at $21/mo which is built for significantly more than just those features and the user must use a lot more brain space for what they want to be a simple task?
Or gimp. "Photoshop" is the all encompassing term for these editors. This task is actually quite trivial, but there is a bit of a learning curve for someone who knows absolutely nothing about photo editing.
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#19I'm sure you put a ton of work into this, so it's really unfortunate that I can barely tell what this really does or why we should care. Also the "Ready to go pro?" thing seems very rushed and presumptuous. Like, I'm not even sure I'm ready to go "Free" yet
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Re: Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramatically angled photos
#20Great results on the first attempt I did. When I wanted to export the result in highest available resolution, it asked me to subscribe for $5/month. I only need 1 single screenshot, so I’m not going to subscribe, but I can see this being used by big newspaper companies. Good luck with your project!
OP here. Thanks, that's good to hear. I got journalists at a couple of the big newspaper players here in my country (Norway) to purchase subscriptions, and after seeing these pop up in articles rather often, I felt that I had sold myself short with the $5 monthly fee. One of them (VG.no), is like the 2nd biggest site in Norway, with 70 million visits a month. I guess I'm bad at business.
I think the insight here is you should offer a pay-per-use model too.