awesome service!
any chance of getting a good ol' boring office version maybe with a real monitor or just a laptop on a desk? the kind of people i would use this for really dont go for "macbook air with a notepad in the garden"
Quickly generate product screenshots in realistic environments
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#42Looks great, but it's taking forever to process the image. And I'm sure that because the app provides no feedback or indication that your image is queued, people are probably stopping the process and re-trying their upload which probably only slows things down tremendously!
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#43I was trying to find screen reflection :)
The iPhone 5 screenshot area is off. Top left corner too high, top right corner too close to the right, two bottom corners too close to the right so perspective looks incongruent.
Actually content areas in almost all templates are slightly off. All these screens have gaps around them, it’s chrome - bezel - screen gap - pixels. Consider shooting template images with the device showing a solid color so you have the actual image area baked into the original, not with the screen turned off because you’re more likely to get the placement wrong that way.
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#44It looks very nice.
Is it possible to add glare/reflection to the actual screen? It would make it look more 'integrated' into the photo's surroundings.
Re: Quickly generate product screenshots in realistic environments
#45Only 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.
Ah, better. Now mix them so there is no selection bias.
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#46This 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 my file and drag it over? With the default file upload that HTML provides, it's going to open a conveniently sized open window from the start, with a clear call to action on how to select the file in question, and no requirement for an awkward drag into some box on a webpage.
It really feels like prioritizing "cool" interactions over usability.
Re: Quickly generate product screenshots in realistic environments
#47This 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 to drag images and then the image would display in their browser. At this point they thought the photo was online and would be confused when they couldn't then find it on the site when they came back to it later.
Re: Quickly generate product screenshots in realistic environments
#48This 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…
"reposition it so that my browser and finder are both visible, with the "drop area" visible as well"
You can grab a file then Cmd(or Alt probly)+tab back to your browser window and drop the file.
Don't get me wrong I don't like drag and drop interfaces for the most part. If you do have the folder open you are working on in the background, drag and dropping different files can be quicker than using a choose file dialog.
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#49Awesome. I was just the other day thinking that there should be this exact service when considering doing one of these shots. This is going to save me a lot of time, thank you. Will be much easier to create marketing assets.
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#50I really want to share this with people, but it's horrendously slow. I uploaded a 2048 x 1536 image generated from my iPad, and it has been processing it for the past 10+ minutes. edit: over 20 minutes now. I had to restart it.
Not working for me either, but I have to imagine the combination of image processing and HN front page isn't terribly kind to a webserver.
Should be good now