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

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post #128

Firefox made something cooler: make a page into 3d using DOM's z-index property https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools-user/3d_vie...

That's a completely unrelated feature, intended for web development?

It also didn't end up being very useful, and they removed it in 2016.

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

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post #131
post #128

Firefox made something cooler: make a page into 3d using DOM's z-index property https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools-user/3d_vie...

That's a completely unrelated feature, intended for web development? It also didn't end up being very useful, and they removed it in 2016.

> It also didn't end up being very useful

Because SPA (Angular/React/Vue) happened. Webpages are going from handcrafted "semantic" ones to nested pile of DIVs.

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

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I subscribe to the paid service and use it from time to time. I think it's quite good at what it is supposed to do: convert a "plain" screenshot into a particular type of presentation-ready image.

Like many utilities, there are countless other ways to get to a similar result, but I personally don't want to think through exactly what tools and adjustments would be needed. So, for me, $5/month is a good value to get a task off my plate every once in a while. Thanks for making it!

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

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post #133
post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's a completely unrelated feature, intended for web development? It also didn't end up being very useful, and they removed it in 2016.

> It also didn't end up being very useful Because SPA (Angular/React/Vue) happened. Webpages are going from handcrafted "semantic" ones to nested pile of DIVs.

Semantic HTML/CSS was always a fantasy. People aren't crystalline, nor are the documents we read/write or the webpages we use. Something like ARIA is orders of magnitude better for accessibility than the SUMMARY tag ever could have been.

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

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I can see how this is useful for laypeople. Those with a DIY attitude might resort to popular image editing tools. My choice would be trying to achieve this with Imagemagick. Fred Weinhaus' script http://www.fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/skew/index.php and maybe adding a blur later.

In Gimp it's Tools, Transform Tools, 3D Transform.

This is a good idea to add visual novelty to images, especially plain ones.

The problem is the moat is very low: as low as 1 30-second YouTube video on using the transform tool in the case of Gimp.

Doesn't seem very defensible - but maybe if you add versioning & various other features (links for images, etc.) it could be.

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

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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.

Yeah, I don't want to upload my data to a random website I've never heard of, just to see what the heck it does. You NEED a few examples, otherwise users will just close tab.

> Yeah,

You sound so cool when you start a sentence with "yeah" for no grammatical reason, as though answering a question that no one asked. I bet you're really laid back and were probably smoking a blunt and exhaling a massive cloud while you typed your comment. Did you personally innovate this conversational technique?

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I don't want to upload my data to a random website I've never heard of, just to see what the heck it does. You NEED a few examples, otherwise users will just close tab.

> Yeah, You sound so cool when you start a sentence with "yeah" for no grammatical reason, as though answering a question that no one asked. I bet you're really laid back and were probably smoking a blunt and exhaling a massive cloud while you typed your comment. Did you personally innovate this conversational technique?

What even is this criticism?

An ad hominem attack based on a single word and your extreme displeasure of it?

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