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Re: Quickly generate product screenshots in realistic environments

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Post by cgag » Tue, Jul 30, 2013, 6:17 PM UTC

ryanbrunner wrote: post #46

This is a more of a rant on an overall trend than criticism of this site completely, but I honestly do not understand the "drag to upload a file" interaction at all. I'm in all likelihood going to need to navigate through a bunch of folders to locate what I want to upload anyway - why force me to open up Finder, reposition it so that my browser and finder are both visible, with the "drop area" visible as well, find m…

It's kind of annoying on a tiling window manager (i3) as well since I otherwise don't often open a GUI file explorer. On the plus side though I guess when I do open it, they're always both visible.

Re: Quickly generate product screenshots in realistic environments

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Post by gdilla » Tue, Jul 30, 2013, 6:24 PM UTC

I love breezi. Unfortunately, it is against Apple's marketing guidelines to use their product in unauthorized ways to promote your app. It is loosely enforced, but they have pointed it out to us and asked for a takedown (politely). They can also hold it against you if they're considering you for a feature.

Re: Quickly generate product screenshots in realistic environments

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Post by hrabago » Tue, Jul 30, 2013, 6:26 PM UTC

eterm wrote: post #47

ryanbrunner wrote: post #46

This is a more of a rant on an overall trend than criticism of this site completely, but I honestly do not understand the "drag to upload a file" interaction at all. I'm in all likelihood going to need to navigate through a bunch of folders to locate what I want to upload anyway - why force me to open up Finder, reposition it so that my browser and finder are both visible, with the "drop area" visible as well, find m…

1. The default file chooser on windows is horrible. 2. With multiple monitors, multiple desktops, etc, quite often people will have their working files open anyway. 3. You can drag a picture straight from another open browser tab so it never needs to touch your browser. 4. Most sites give a choice of either method. 5. It's a fairly intuitive action. I know that I caught older family members struggling when they used…

I've always thought it was better than Finder, and is still one of the few things I miss from Windows. I could go into why I feel this way but I don't want to go off on yet a other tangent away from the main topic.

Re: Quickly generate product screenshots in realistic environments

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Post by hrabago » Tue, Jul 30, 2013, 6:29 PM UTC

gdilla wrote: post #62

I love breezi. Unfortunately, it is against Apple's marketing guidelines to use their product in unauthorized ways to promote your app. It is loosely enforced, but they have pointed it out to us and asked for a takedown (politely). They can also hold it against you if they're considering you for a feature.

Are you saying you've used the "iPhone being held"/"Photographed in context" style before and Apple told you to take it down? I would be interested in this because I've been considering this style for my landing page update.

Re: Quickly generate product screenshots in realistic environments

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Post by MarcScott » Tue, Jul 30, 2013, 6:40 PM UTC

deleted_account wrote: post #51

nodata wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nicer: http://placeit.breezi.com/e0d7579

http://placeit.breezi.com/3c07b95

I like http://placeit.breezi.com/f1bcb26

Re: Quickly generate product screenshots in realistic environments

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Post by quartus » Tue, Jul 30, 2013, 6:51 PM UTC

I loaded up my first screenshot sequence of the day. http://placeit.breezi.com/3443524 Please advise on how to kick up the 4d3d3d3

Re: Quickly generate product screenshots in realistic environments

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Post by Groxx » Tue, Jul 30, 2013, 8:08 PM UTC

eterm wrote: post #47

ryanbrunner wrote: post #46

This is a more of a rant on an overall trend than criticism of this site completely, but I honestly do not understand the "drag to upload a file" interaction at all. I'm in all likelihood going to need to navigate through a bunch of folders to locate what I want to upload anyway - why force me to open up Finder, reposition it so that my browser and finder are both visible, with the "drop area" visible as well, find m…

1. The default file chooser on windows is horrible. 2. With multiple monitors, multiple desktops, etc, quite often people will have their working files open anyway. 3. You can drag a picture straight from another open browser tab so it never needs to touch your browser. 4. Most sites give a choice of either method. 5. It's a fairly intuitive action. I know that I caught older family members struggling when they used…

6. file pickers are frequently modal, so you can't do anything in other tabs while trying to find a file.

Re: Quickly generate product screenshots in realistic environments

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Post by aytekin » Tue, Jul 30, 2013, 8:18 PM UTC

Awesome idea. Great execution.

Re: Quickly generate product screenshots in realistic environments

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Post by sbashyal » Tue, Jul 30, 2013, 9:02 PM UTC

Feature request: stages like these http://www.slickwebsite.com/img/showcase1.png

Also, stages with transparent background would be nice

Re: Quickly generate product screenshots in realistic environments

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Post by triplenineteen » Tue, Jul 30, 2013, 9:51 PM UTC

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like you are sending a Safari user-agent string for all of the devices.

It might be worthwhile to send the proper user-agent strings for each device, so that you'll get a custom response from servers which dynamically generate content based on that header.