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Re: Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramatically angled photos

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Post by mensetmanusman »

mikaelaast wrote: post #17
dt3ft wrote: post #5

Great 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.

Personal / business tier pricing

Re: Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramatically angled photos

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Post by mikaelaast »

TechBro8615 wrote: post #3
kevincox wrote: post #2

It 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.

Yes, I would recommend showing two images (before/after) instead of the video. You could do more interactive stuff, like the common interface of moving a slider on the "before" image to reveal the "after" image. And that's nice, but it should be supplemental to the two images. But take this advice with a grain of salt - after all, the video did cause me to spend more time on your site than if two images had immediate…

OP here. Thanks for the advice. I have been considering a few different options. Perhaps I could have a preloaded screenshot with the UI already initialised, so I immediately can show off the functionality? I don't know what is the best approach.

Re: Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramatically angled photos

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Post by mikaelaast »

metadat wrote: post #4
kevincox wrote: post #2

It 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.

100%, I also wonder what this would do to a regular non-screenshot photograph. Could be funky weird or funky cool.

OP here. It's basically Ken-Burns-on-steroids vibes.

Re: Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramatically angled photos

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Post by mikaelaast »

tambourine_man wrote: post #16

This 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).

OP here. I'm fantasising about making a video version of this app, to generate some very cool documentary-style Ken Burns-shit imagery.

Re: Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramatically angled photos

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Post by rzzzt »

kilgnad wrote: post #18
warent wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by using PHP's ImageMagick extension to modify the uploaded image file.

Re: Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramatically angled photos

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Post by mikaelaast »

ironlake wrote: post #24

I clicked the link because it sounded interesting and maybe useful. But then I wasn't quite sure what it did. I wanted a before and after photo. It's a simple concept. The landing page should be equally simple.

OP here. A few others have made this point, and it's glaringly obvious to me in retrospect. Guess I have my work cut out for me.

Re: Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramatically angled photos

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Post by voytec »

ironlake wrote: post #24

I clicked the link because it sounded interesting and maybe useful. But then I wasn't quite sure what it did. I wanted a before and after photo. It's a simple concept. The landing page should be equally simple.

The GIF[1] on the mail page shows the effect with before-after transformation.

[1] https://www.screenstab.com/editor/resources/demo.gif

Re: Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramatically angled photos

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Post by syntaxing »

ironlake wrote: post #24

I clicked the link because it sounded interesting and maybe useful. But then I wasn't quite sure what it did. I wanted a before and after photo. It's a simple concept. The landing page should be equally simple.

There’s a gif on the landing page that shows what it does pretty much immediately

Re: Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramatically angled photos

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Post by mynameisvlad »

ironlake wrote: post #24

I clicked the link because it sounded interesting and maybe useful. But then I wasn't quite sure what it did. I wanted a before and after photo. It's a simple concept. The landing page should be equally simple.

That's pretty much what the animated image is. It shows a screenshot before, the tool being used, and the final image as part of a tweet.
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