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Quickly generate product screenshots in realistic environments

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Re: Quickly generate product screenshots in realistic environments

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I bet its free because now I know what breezi is, and I didn't before Jan. I agree this is an awesome service. I would shell out a few for it too.

We're keeping it free for now until we release a much larger library of imagery - at that point, we'll decide what makes the most sense.

Maybe 30 stock images for free, gain access to larger library for flat fee.

Re: Quickly generate product screenshots in realistic environments

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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 can easily drop many files and even folders in Chrome. With a file selector this is not as easy to do And it feels more natural to pick something and drop it somewhere rather and go digging into a file picker which never open in the right hierarchy.

Re: Quickly generate product screenshots in realistic environments

#85
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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 P…

Hmm, I certainly won't 'watermark' my app store screenshots and distract potential customers. I'd rather pay a fee to breezi for using the templates.

Re: Quickly generate product screenshots in realistic environments

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Can I have one context photo with a laptop on the top of a roller coster ? This could be a good introduction for a VC or startup conference presentation.

I would suggest to provide HP or Dell computers too because Apple computer everywhere is getting boring. Ask them to giveaway the laptop as marketing campaing.

Re: Quickly generate product screenshots in realistic environments

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post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 P…

Hmm, I certainly won't 'watermark' my app store screenshots and distract potential customers. I'd rather pay a fee to breezi for using the templates.

You can mention that you used them in the app description.

Re: Quickly generate product screenshots in realistic environments

#88
If you do an image search on google you can actually find companies which are using them... for example:

http://sobytes.com/world-news-translate-piechart-news-option...

( Did the image search with this one: http://placeit.breezi.com/uploads/stage/stage_image/113/bree... )

Re: Quickly generate product screenshots in realistic environments

#89

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…

Maybe someone wants to send the message of "We're available on Windows/Android only"

It's not just about looks, y'know.

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