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Re: Quickly generate product screenshots in realistic environments

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Post by vacri » Tue, Jul 30, 2013, 9:59 PM UTC

codereflection wrote: post #39

Yetanfou wrote: post #38

Only Apple products there - why tailor to the minority? Globally Apple has around twenty-something percent of smartphones, thirty-something percent of tablets and ten-something percent of 'PC's'. You wouldn't suspect if you looked at the media though where it often is Apple or bust. I never understood this herd mentality and I still don't. People will start dropping Android screenshots in your iProducts, Xmonad runni…

You didn't look far enough. There are Androids and Windows Phones / Tablets to the right.

I looked far enough. There are very few, especially compared to the endless procession of Apple products, and there are not desktops or laptops.

Re: Quickly generate product screenshots in realistic environments

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Post by philsnow » Tue, Jul 30, 2013, 10:05 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…

On ubuntu, I'm currently using xmonad without gnome, and thus no nautilus (or whatever other thing it is that opens Finder-like windows and generally tries to behave like the Finder) by default.

Whenever I need to drop something into a web page, I find myself starting up a one-off nautilus and dragging from that.

I seem to recall there is a tiiiiny utility you run like "drag_target ", and it pops up a window that is a drag target that plumbs through when you drop it somewhere. Does anybody recall the name of that utility ?

Re: Quickly generate product screenshots in realistic environments

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Post by Theodores » Tue, Jul 30, 2013, 10:30 PM UTC

codeulike wrote: post #2

Nice. http://placeit.breezi.com/cade2ae

Tips x 6 + gift, please:

http://placeit.breezi.com/b0b75c3

Re: Quickly generate product screenshots in realistic environments

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Post by lttlrck » Tue, Jul 30, 2013, 10:47 PM UTC

alevans4 wrote: post #33

Would be awesome if this had stages for industrial environments.

Yes, that would be fantastic.

Re: Quickly generate product screenshots in realistic environments

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Post by crazygringo » Tue, Jul 30, 2013, 11:13 PM UTC

Yetanfou wrote: post #38

Only Apple products there - why tailor to the minority? Globally Apple has around twenty-something percent of smartphones, thirty-something percent of tablets and ten-something percent of 'PC's'. You wouldn't suspect if you looked at the media though where it often is Apple or bust. I never understood this herd mentality and I still don't. People will start dropping Android screenshots in your iProducts, Xmonad runni…

Simple:

- Apple hardware looks better (regardless of what you think of the rest of it)

- Apple hardware is less distracting (more minimalist than most non-Apple stuff) so the focus is on the product itself

- Apple has the single most common hardware models (Android may be more common overall, but the iPhone is more popular than any single Android device).

I mean really, who wants to have their app surrounded by some clunky boxy Dell laptop? You're basically sending the message of "look at how out-of-date we are". It's not about market share of devices, it's about perception of your product.

Re: Quickly generate product screenshots in realistic environments

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Post by glhaynes » Tue, Jul 30, 2013, 11:19 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…

Has the site changed since this was posted? For me it has an "Upload Image" button.

Re: Quickly generate product screenshots in realistic environments

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Post by Tloewald » Tue, Jul 30, 2013, 11:20 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…

You need to get Default Folder...

Also, you know you can Exposé/Mission Control mid drag — makes dealing with window clutter ridiculously easy.

Re: Quickly generate product screenshots in realistic environments

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Post by zalew » Tue, Jul 30, 2013, 11:49 PM UTC

sethbannon wrote: post #5

This should save a lot of people a lot of time. FYI it's all done under Creative Commons license allowing commercial use of the images.

with attribution

http://breezi.com/blog/using-placeit-images-for-commercial-p...

You’re completely ok to use PlaceIt-generated-images for commercial use. You just need to attribute PlaceIt if the work is publicly displayed. We’re ok with any attribution so long as you’re clearly not trying to be an asshole and just burying it. Doesn’t have to be large or very prominent either. Anything along the lines of mentioning PlaceIt is fine. We’d obviously really appreciate a link back.

Re: Quickly generate product screenshots in realistic environments

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Post by ne0phyte » Tue, Jul 30, 2013, 11:54 PM UTC

ColinDabritz wrote: post #53

nodata wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

And of course, http://placeit.breezi.com/b0ddd82 Edit: I was bored. http://placeit.breezi.com/d0f04d5

http://placeit.breezi.com/uploads/productshot/716230/breezi_...

Re: Quickly generate product screenshots in realistic environments

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Post by jakebellacera » Tue, Jul 30, 2013, 11:56 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…

I just opened a tab and searched for some iPhone app screenshots in Google Images and dragged it back into Breezi, all without touching my filesystem[1].

[1] I should say _technically_ it did touch my filesystem as that image was probably yanked from a local cache of some sort, but to the user this feels intuitive and not invasive.