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

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Post by whywhywouldyou »

TaylorAlexander wrote: post #53
mikaelaast wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

My first reaction was “I can barely tell what this does” so it’s hard to feel motivated to take action at that point.

I had the same response. And beyond the motivation factor, the second response was, "I suppose I could test it myself, but I'm not uploading a picture of my screen to a strange website"

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

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Post by alphabetting »

mcny wrote: post #120
1000100_1000101 wrote: post #117

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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.

I uploaded a screenshot of the front page of hacker news https://i.imgur.com/aTqN3qA.png

having blur set to extreme probably doesn't help but I haven't messed around with it

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

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Post by hummus_bae »

ldenoue wrote: post #105

Shameless plug for https://screenrun.app/ which makes it super easy to create video out of screenshots

This is great. I've been wanting something that looks like this for a product landing page for a long time. Thank you.

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

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Post by jameshart »

Tip for getting good quality website screenshots for presentations from Chrome:

- Open developer tools.

- Activate the device toolbar.

- Set the DPR to 3 and make sure the screen is the width you want to capture.

- Press cmd/ctrl-shift-P to bring up the command popup

- Type 'screeenshot' and select one of the screenshot options - area, fullsize, node, or just plain screenshot to capture the viewport.

Result: high res capture of your webpage.

To get the 'dramatic' look from this tool, load it into powerpoint, apply a 3D transformation, overlay a radial gradient to get a vignette kind of look, then just do another screencapture.

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

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Post by nicpottier »

thot_experiment wrote: post #56
weakfish wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you need to use a snide tone to convey your point? Just make it in plain language, don’t be rude.

Yeah fair, I'm one one today. I genuinely thought this was a joke at first. But you're right, I should just put my money where my mouth is and make a github pages or similar that replicates this functionality as something that you can download and keep forever, how hard can it be? It's utterly disgraceful to charge money for something like this as a service, but that doesn't excuse my conduct in response. The implica…

Are you new here? Perhaps I can introduce you to one of our heros, patio11 who made an entire business out of making bingo cards. I don't particularly think this is a great business but my gosh, this is the right audience to "show it off"

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

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Post by CodeIsTheEnd »

I wish there were an option to export a video like the example on the homepage (with some ability to control the camera path). I'd love to be able to use it to make a promotional video for a developer tool similar to the announcement video for the Windows Terminal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gw0rXPMMPE

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