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Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramatically angled photos
- mmags 4y agoFeedback: It would be very great if we could paste (Ctrl+V) into the webpage to upload an image.
- ldenoue 4y agoShameless plug for https://screenrun.app/ https://screenrun.app/ which makes it super easy to create video out of screenshots
- p0larboy 4y agoThe demo video makes me feel dizzy. Easy on the bounce.
- ldenoue 4y agoYep I’ll replace with something softer and have perhaps 2 examples on the landing page: one for a screenshot and one for the video of a screen
- hummus_bae 4y agoThis is great. I've been wanting something that looks like this for a product landing page for a long time. Thank you.
- jacobsimon 4y agoI like it! Do you have any examples where it can animate between different screenshots or a video? I think something like that would be super popular.
- ldenoue 4y agoI should add more examples yeah good idea
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- whatasaas 4y agoGood idea for a website for portfolio but a good front end person can likely rig it up, I just did a version with asking chatGPT and dropping code into code pen. If there is a market there for you then someone will make a freebie. Than again maybe less tech savvy need weird things like this as they certainly do phone screenshot ones/ templates which could be an electron program or site mod of this https://codepen.io/gschier/pen/AgLYBE https://codepen.io/gschier/pen/AgLYBE
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- Circuitstorm513 4y agoHere's my take, using Blender: https://imgur.com/a/qDLR8e3 https://imgur.com/a/qDLR8e3 Could probably be called from a shell script or similar to automatically exchange the screenshot texture.
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- slowmotiony 4y agoWould be cool if I could just ctrl+v my screenshot instead of having to open an image editor, saving it, and then manually uploading it to the website. I think snag.gy uses some simple method to collect screenshots from a paste command, maybe there is some easy way to implement it.
- rco8786 4y agoInteresting tool. But, for me, literally just the administration of managing the monthly charge is not worth signing up for this - highly suggest adding a yearly payment option. +1000 to more examples. This is a visual tool, show us the visuals.
- loa_in_ 4y agoSee also open source Fotowall. Not mine. https://www.enricoros.com/opensource/fotowall/ https://www.enricoros.com/opensource/fotowall/
- moserch 4y agoThis would be really cool for formatting images for social. Maybe you could add an option to export in different dimensions?
- MollyRealized 4y agoI don't mean this in a troll-like fashion, to dump on something someone invested effort into. But I also literally don't understand the purpose. Could someone, even OP, explain why? Again, I'm not meaning this in a 'hurt your feelings' mode, it's more my brain seems to have a lack of comprehension on this.
- kevincox 4y agoIt would be nice to have a few more examples. The only example I see on the homepage is hidden in the video, both hard to see and not always visible.
- TechBro8615 4y agoYes, I would recommend showing two images (before/after) instead of the video. You could do more interactive stuff, like the common interface of moving a slider on the "before" image to reveal the "after" image. And that's nice, but it should be supplemental to the two images. But take this advice with a grain of salt - after all, the video did cause me to spend more time on your site than if two images had immediately answered the question I was curious about.
- mikaelaast 4y agoOP here. Thanks for the advice. I have been considering a few different options. Perhaps I could have a preloaded screenshot with the UI already initialised, so I immediately can show off the functionality? I don't know what is the best approach.
- 1000100_1000101 4y agoYeah, 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.
- dt3ft 4y agoGreat results on the first attempt I did. When I wanted to export the result in highest available resolution, it asked me to subscribe for $5/month. I only need 1 single screenshot, so I’m not going to subscribe, but I can see this being used by big newspaper companies. Good luck with your project!
- mikaelaast 4y agoOP here. Thanks, that's good to hear. I got journalists at a couple of the big newspaper players here in my country (Norway) to purchase subscriptions, and after seeing these pop up in articles rather often, I felt that I had sold myself short with the $5 monthly fee. One of them (VG.no), is like the 2nd biggest site in Norway, with 70 million visits a month. I guess I'm bad at business.
- cloudking 4y agoI think the insight here is you should offer a pay-per-use model too.
- mensetmanusman 4y agoPersonal / business tier pricing
- movedx 4y agoIt's the wrong pricing model, in my opinion. consider the following: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwXlo9gy_k4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwXlo9gy_k4 & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWZbWzAyHAE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWZbWzAyHAE
- radiojasper 4y agoTook me 2 scrolls to find an image probably generated by your tool. https://www.tek.no/nyheter/nyhet/i/KnWn0G/ai-flause-for-google-fikk-store-konsekvenser https://www.tek.no/nyheter/nyhet/i/KnWn0G/ai-flause-for-goog... You probably should make a personal account which limits the amount of images you can generate a month (10?) and a business account which offers unlimited generation but for a steep price.
- oblib 4y agoI made a screenshot using this and it's pretty cool.
- mikaelaast 4y agoOP here. Love to hear it!
- warent 4y agoI'm sure you put a ton of work into this, so it's really unfortunate that I can barely tell what this really does or why we should care. Also the "Ready to go pro?" thing seems very rushed and presumptuous. Like, I'm not even sure I'm ready to go "Free" yet
- acuozzo 4y ago> so it's really unfortunate that I can barely tell what this really does or why we should care It takes an image as input and produces a "dramatic" copy of that image in which "dramatic" is defined as being angled away from the viewer on two planes and having a blur somewhat consistent with it having been photographed with a shallow depth of field.
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- colmanhumphrey 4y agoI'm surprised to read this — while the examples could be more cleanly presented, I felt like the title for this post and the initial gif on landing show what this does reasonably clearly. I do see what you mean about the PRO part.
- system2 4y agoWhy not skew, mask and blur with photoshop in 10 seconds?
- warent 4y agoyou mean aside from the fact that it requires downloading a huge multi-purpose program that starts at $21/mo which is built for significantly more than just those features and the user must use a lot more brain space for what they want to be a simple task?
- kilgnad 4y agoOr gimp. "Photoshop" is the all encompassing term for these editors. This task is actually quite trivial, but there is a bit of a learning curve for someone who knows absolutely nothing about photo editing.
- rzzzt 4y agoFor a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by using PHP's ImageMagick extension to modify the uploaded image file.
- JKCalhoun 4y agoI wonder can ImageMagick give you the "progressive linear blur" (or whatever you want to call it) that emulates depth of field? Might as well ray trace it....
- rzzzt 4y agoMy comment was mostly tongue-in-cheek. mih in a sibling thread added a link to actually useful IM scripts however, one of which supports variable blur using a mask (scroll below the table and parameters for example pictures): http://www.fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/variableblur/index.php http://www.fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/variableblur/index.ph...
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- mih 4y agoI can see how this is useful for laypeople. Those with a DIY attitude might resort to popular image editing tools. My choice would be trying to achieve this with Imagemagick. Fred Weinhaus' script http://www.fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/skew/index.php http://www.fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/skew/index.php and maybe adding a blur later.
- fuglede_ 4y agoOne can make so many fun things as client-side web tools by compiling ImageMagick to Wasm! One thing I played around with because I needed it myself was turning pictures into things that look like they've been scanned. Made for documents, but I suppose one could use it for screenshots as well. :) https://photocopy.fuglede.dk https://photocopy.fuglede.dk
- O1111OOO 4y ago> Fred Weinhaus' script http://www.fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/skew/index.php http://www.fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/skew/index.php Wow! What a great find! I wish more documentation looked like this. There are a few other (feature-rich) command line utilities that could benefit from a similar approach.
- julianeon 4y agoIn Gimp it's Tools, Transform Tools, 3D Transform. This is a good idea to add visual novelty to images, especially plain ones. The problem is the moat is very low: as low as 1 30-second YouTube video on using the transform tool in the case of Gimp. Doesn't seem very defensible - but maybe if you add versioning & various other features (links for images, etc.) it could be.
- dandigangi 4y agoThis is a cool idea. Wish website showed a bit more info and examples but I like what it d oes. Content creators could use this.
- mikaelaast 4y agoOP here. Thanks! And yeah, I will try to improve on the landing page.
- LoganDark 4y agoWhat is this paid subscription to be able to rotate the screenshot a certain way?
- isoprophlex 4y agoYes, you pay for the "your mother who takes screenshots by photographing her screen" effect.
- LoganDark 4y agoOoh, I used to take 21MP photographs of LCDs as a cool effect. I really loved doing that. It looked so aesthetic.
- mikaelaast 4y agoOP here. LOL!
- bluetidepro 4y agoDef needs more before/after examples...
- mikaelaast 4y agoOP here. Duly noted!
- tambourine_man 4y agoThis looks neat indeed :) I have no idea how hard it would be, but this would be great as an effect for Final Cut, Da Vinci, etc. I don’t think the video world has a plug-in standard like the photo kinda does (eventually lots of apps implemented Photoshop's API).
- mikaelaast 4y agoOP here. I'm fantasising about making a video version of this app, to generate some very cool documentary-style Ken Burns-shit imagery.
- bee_rider 4y agoA version that pops out the video on the site could be cool (like, takes in a screenshot but then tilts and zooms it as a video clip). Very “nightly news.”
- ironlake 4y agoI clicked the link because it sounded interesting and maybe useful. But then I wasn't quite sure what it did. I wanted a before and after photo. It's a simple concept. The landing page should be equally simple.
- mikaelaast 4y agoOP here. A few others have made this point, and it's glaringly obvious to me in retrospect. Guess I have my work cut out for me.
- voytec 4y agoThe GIF[1] on the mail page shows the effect with before-after transformation. [1] https://www.screenstab.com/editor/resources/demo.gif https://www.screenstab.com/editor/resources/demo.gif
- syntaxing 4y agoThere’s a gif on the landing page that shows what it does pretty much immediately
- mynameisvlad 4y agoThat's pretty much what the animated image is. It shows a screenshot before, the tool being used, and the final image as part of a tweet.
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- ewjt 4y agoBased on the GIF, I thought it created an animated video. Even when the .PNG downloaded I thought for sure it’d be an animated PNG. If I’m doing some content creation, I probably already have an image editor, in which case I can create this effect myself or would prefer an integrated plugin to do it. Motion graphics is much harder, and there’s more demand there to add some sparkle to a static image. OP, have you considered that angle?
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- movedx 4y ago"Charged monthly at only $5 for individuals or $3 per person for teams of 3 and up. Cancel anytime." - excellent tool, terrible business model. No on wants to pay $5/month for a utility.
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- mikaelaast 4y agoOP here. How would you monetize it?
- JKCalhoun 4y agoYeah, subscription for the big players (and raise your subscription price), then $1 a pop for a one-off.
- moneywoes 4y agoWhat if a corp signs up as a consumer and uses $1 pops?
- justsomehnguy 4y agoMr. TotallyNotCorporate which makes 20 orders a day? Totally not a corp. Just add "more than N screenshots a day are considered corporate usage with an according plan", ask to upgrade, ban.
- qbrass 4y agoJust let them give you $20 a day.
- movedx 4y agoI would consider the value to the consumer and use a value based pricing model. The value you're offering is overcoming a few challenges. First, the technical challenges of designing these graphics yourself - you have to pay for potentially expensive software suites (Photoshop, etc.) to get this kind of work done, and then you have to learn how-to do it. There is a financial and educational curve to climb there. Then the second challenge is time. It takes time to sit and fiddle with a complex piece of software to make a screenshot do what your utility does. So your value is you provide a single piece of software that does one job very well, and it's near instant and requires little to no learning curve whatsoever. Further, you need to consider your own personal objectives with this software. I'm not in this field, so I do not have the foresight to see the potential growth with this software, therefore from my perspective it's a cute tool that does one thing. You might know different and can see potentially big markets. Anyway. I would likely price this as a $15 one time purchase at the non-commercial level (targeting everyday Joe Blogs) with one year of upgrades, and around $50/year/user at the commercial end. It really depends on the market and the user's pain points, Jobs To be Done, etc.
- voytec 4y agoI would reconsider this pricing model. Flat monthly fee with unlimited calls/runs may not be pleasant for you.
- mikaelaast 4y agoOP here. I don't do any cloud computing to deliver the service. It is essentially a pure JavaScript-application running on the client.
- stevesearer 4y agoI have a similar tool that I am working on that is basically javascript on an html page. There are probably other ways to add value for paying users so they are less likely to just save page as: Integrating the JS into a WordPress plugin to generate screenshots automatically for posting to social media when a post publishes. Zapier integration to help people automate these screenshots in their workflows.
- amne 4y agothen what's stopping me from sandboxing this and .. not paying anything?
- jasonshen 4y agoGoodwill. And the fact that people can do any number of other things to get the same effect without paying. What are you really asking?
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- weakfish 4y agoWhy do you need to use a snide tone to convey your point? Just make it in plain language, don’t be rude.
- thot_experiment 4y agoYeah 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 implications of validating this sort of rent collecting are insidious and serve. We really need to re-evaluate what our definition of 'value' is as a society.
- kimjune01 4y agoNot everyone shares your values, and that's OK
- version_five 4y agoI seem to recall a similar discussion yesterday. I agree with you but I think I'll sit this one out :)
- thot_experiment 4y agoI may have made some bad choices in the past 48hours. Yr def making the wise choice. <3
- bee_rider 4y agoWhat people are willing to pay for it is the value of it, I guess. Capitalism :shrug:
- caboteria 4y agoError on the landing page: > Gorgeous screenshots is just a click away... should be "Gorgeous screenshots are just a click away...".
- INTPenis 4y agoI'd pay for one-time pro features. I don't want a subscription, but I'm willing to pay to use this service a few times a year maybe. There are probably more like me. Maybe sell 10 pro edits or something like that?
- hn_throwaway_99 4y agoI think this would be a tough one. FWIW, I think your question highlights a great example of why so many companies don't offer the pricing you want, even though it's probably true that the majority of users would prefer this pricing. My bet is that selling "10 pro edits or something like that" would nearly completely cannibalize any subscription sales. Thus, I think OP is probably likely to make a lot more money by only offering a subscription than by offering one-off pricing that kills subscription sales.
- INTPenis 4y agoI see where you're coming from, and I don't really have the market experience to argue with you. In my case 10 pro edits would be way too much, it could expire at the end of the year too, to make it even more profitable. First of all it would be more expensive than one month of subscription, and second of all they would expire. But a person like me who sucks at graphic design would still be willing to fork over like 10 bucks for 10 pro edits even if I only use a few of them. Because once that rare moment comes where I want this, I really want it!
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- XCSme 4y agoI tried to use the tool, but it's very laggy/slow. Is it server-side? Why not just HTML5?
- jesprenj 4y agoI think it's client side. At least his other project showcasted on the linked persille.no website is.
- mikaelaast 4y agoOP here. Sorry to hear it. What browser and OS are you on?
- XCSme 4y agoBrave, on a 4K monitor
- zoklet-enjoyer 4y agoI have no use for this. Very cool though. Reminds me of local news stories about the dangers of the internet
- dheera 4y agoInterestingly, I REALLY want the exact OPPOSITE of this. Many times it's just so frustratingly difficult to take a screenshot of something on a computer screen and send it over one of the several mobile messaging apps that don't have a good desktop client, so I end up just taking a picture of the physical computer screen with my mobile phone. It looks like shit but I'm lazy. I really wish a piece of software could recognize what I just took a picture of and then pull the actual data from that portion of the screen, send the screen data over bluetooth or Wi-Fi or whatever to the phone, and "fix" the screenshot.
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- Someone 4y agoOn Apple devices ”Universal Clipboard” (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209460 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209460) works fairly well for that (’fairly’ because, in my experience, it doesn’t always work in one go)
- pbhjpbhj 4y ago'KDE connect' has a similar shared clipboard, also very low friction local network file sharing IME, works on Android with either Windows or Linux (and maybe other systems too?).
- okaleniuk 4y agoI had a similar problem a decade ago. Had a lot of paper bureaucracy in my life, didn't have a scanner on me at all times obviously. So I wrote an app that undoes the perspective: https://github.com/akalenuk/Docam https://github.com/akalenuk/Docam
- moneywoes 4y agoHow’s the SaaS model working?
- mikaelaast 4y agoOP here. I'm not quitting my day job anytime soon. It's a grind to get the word out in the first place, for one. The SaaS model covers some of the cost of running it, but it isn't a viable product on it's own just yet. I have other projects that generate income to cover cloud services, accounting costs and other fees.
- StayTrue 4y agoNice work. I can see the utility since I manually do this for some of my blogs [0,1]. But a subscription model doesn't work for me. [0] https://www.islandix.com/blog/announcing-1-1 https://www.islandix.com/blog/announcing-1-1 [1] https://www.islandix.com/blog/radar-re-homed https://www.islandix.com/blog/radar-re-homed
- xwdv 4y agoWhy would this be a subscription? It could just be a standalone app for $10 bucks and you'll probably get more lifetime revenue that way compared to having a subscription, because in a year more people will buy for $10 than will subscribe and stay subscribed for long enough to overcome that revenue.
- zx8080 4y ago> Why would this be a subscription? Because more monies. Could also make it hard to unsubscribe. Like swedish insurance, where it needs 3+ hours waiting on the line to get to some supporter who can unsubscribe.
- xwdv 4y agoNo, it’s literally less money.
- crackercrews 4y ago> Because more monies. See how many people are saying the pricing model is wrong? They won't get hooked on a sub because they'll never sign up.
- Tepix 4y agoRight. I (reluctantly) accept subscriptions if there is something the company does for me every month - in this case it's a javascript app that runs in my browser. There is no countervalue per month, making it unattractive.
- swatcoder 4y agoWith all due and sincere respect to mikaelaast's effort and ambition, I can't believe we're at a point where the implementation of an image filter can ask for a automatically renewing $5 per month subscription and nobody blinks. We used to blink, didn't we?
- tjbiddle 4y agoI didn't just blink; I immediately ignored. And yes - same comment; awesome tool, but lol - not worth paying for. If they really want to monatize: Enforce account sign-up, go on a token system for each use, and give a few free for trial maybe.
- aaronblohowiak 4y agoYou’re not the target market
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- pvg 4y agoand nobody blinks. There are a whole bunch of repetitive comments about this already and it's not, by itself, all that on-topic in a Show HN, especially with the added meta.
- wruza 4y agoAt this point I believe that this is only a snowflake on an enormous iceberg of opportunities that we are missing, because “come on, everyone could open a shell and <insert your convoluted pipeline here>”. It’s probably a trillions dollars industry that doesn’t exist due to professional deformation and being conditioned to sit and work for someone else’s profit.
- wvenable 4y agoYou are not the target market.
- NikolaNovak 4y agoMy 100 Croatian lipa : This feels like something that's too expensive for a random individual (I've become allergic over time to simple things that insist on subscription as opposed to pay once). But too cheap for enterprise use. Consider putting together few more simple tools, build a quick pipeline, and offer per seat and enterprise licensing.
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- alex_suzuki 4y agoI agree, I would also try to market this is as one tool (“Dramatic Screenshot”) of a larger “Screenshot Toolbox” or sth.
- andai 4y agoIt's 13 Croatian Euro cent now ;)
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- mucle6 4y agoThis is why we can't have nice things (Note: I don't know OP, and have never used their product)
- Trufa 4y agoI mean, the fact that it’s not properly protected doesn’t really give you the moral right if “don’t want to pay”.
- esrh 4y agoIf the author was that serious about this as a business they would've done it server side -- or better yet sold the unburdened source code at a one-time price. If you are running someone else's code on your computer you are entitled to change it, morally. The fact that most other programs make this hard to meaningfully do is another problem.
- richardw 4y agoUpside to you is some karma points. Downside is harming their business, right there on the launch post. Why? Just quietly notify them offline.
- GingerMidas 4y agoEh, from the rest of the thread I don't think these 133t HN readers are the target audience anyway.
- 14 4y agoI appreciate the reveal. I come to HN to see things exactly like this. And if someone is going to “show HN”, well hacker is right in the title of the site so expect people are interested in that kind of thing so best take minimal steps to secure your stuff.
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- danparsonson 4y agoJust a note that your front page doesn't look great when using dark mode on Firefox Android (in particular the stabby 't' disappears into the background leaving "Screenshots that sick out" which is quite funny but not what you were going for!).
- michaelbrave 4y agoit doesn't look good with dark mode in regular firefox either
- habibur 4y agoI was wondering : is it a client side JS transformation? Yes. Then how will the developer monetize it? Sending it to server for something, anything? No, rather watermarking the image client side. Or NOT doing it if you pay. It would be interesting to watch this project succeed. I want it to. That will mean there's good business case in similar projects. Six months later, an "I made $xx from this app" will be a more interesting post than the project itself. $xx can be any amount. Even if it's not that high.
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- est 4y agoFirefox made something cooler: make a page into 3d using DOM's z-index property https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools-user/3d_view/index.html https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools-user/3d_vie...
- jefftk 4y agoThat's a completely unrelated feature, intended for web development? It also didn't end up being very useful, and they removed it in 2016.
- est 4y ago> It also didn't end up being very useful Because SPA (Angular/React/Vue) happened. Webpages are going from handcrafted "semantic" ones to nested pile of DIVs.
- ironmagma 4y agoSemantic HTML/CSS was always a fantasy. People aren't crystalline, nor are the documents we read/write or the webpages we use. Something like ARIA is orders of magnitude better for accessibility than the SUMMARY tag ever could have been.
- jefftk 4y agoEh, most web pages haven't been handcrafted since ~1996. Remember how ugly Dreamweaver's output was?
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- poly_morphis 4y ago> From Firefox 47 onwards, 3D view is no longer available. :sadface:
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- ficklepickle 4y agoThe people here are so negative. Fortunately not ur target market. I think it's great. I saw the example, and immediately got the idea and tried it out. Well done!
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- nateweiss 4y agoI subscribe to the paid service and use it from time to time. I think it's quite good at what it is supposed to do: convert a "plain" screenshot into a particular type of presentation-ready image. Like many utilities, there are countless other ways to get to a similar result, but I personally don't want to think through exactly what tools and adjustments would be needed. So, for me, $5/month is a good value to get a task off my plate every once in a while. Thanks for making it!
- mikaelaast 4y agoOP here. Thank you very much for using it, and for the thoughtful comment.
- sorenjan 4y agoWould be nice if you could paste images to it, instead of having to save the screenshot as a file and then upload it.
- jameshart 4y agoTip 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.
- jacobsimon 4y agoDoes anyone know tools that can capture high quality screen recordings from a browser session? Thinking about the type of video that has lots of dramatic pans and zooms + smooth cursor movement used in marketing videos. I feel like I came across a tool that could do this but can’t find it now / might have been my imagination.
- biztos 4y agoIf you're on a Mac, you can just use QuickTime Player. File -> New Screen Recording I think it does pretty well with movement on the screen. Just remember that "stop" is Cmd-Ctrl-Esc!
- unicornporn 4y agoIt can't modify device pixel ratio for higher resolution (that might be needed for zooming and panning in editing).
- Baeocystin 4y agoI use the Awesome Screenshot and Screen Recorder Chrome extension. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/awesome-screenshot-and-sc/nlipoenfbbikpbjkfpfillcgkoblgpmj https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/awesome-screenshot... It works very well.
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- CodeIsTheEnd 4y agoI 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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gw0rXPMMPE
- ianceicys 4y agoYes I would pay for the ability to generate videos like this, too!
- jacobsimon 4y agoI was just thinking the same thing and commented up in the thread. let me know if you come across anything like this!
- icelancer 4y agoI agree. I'd actually pay if it could do this in addition to its current set of features.
- jeffrallen 4y agoA triumph of form over function!
- icelancer 4y agoI don't particularly care for the pricing, like most of the people here. However, you really shouldn't care that much what we think. How are sales amongst the normal people who just want to upload images and do transforms? I could see this doing fairly well with bloggers and such.
- mikaelaast 4y agoOP here. Thanks! I know what I'm getting myself into when posting here. This crowd usually has strong reservations when it comes to subscription based business models, which I can understand. For me the monetization aspect is a necessary "evil" to justify spending so much of my free time outside of my day job and obligations as a family man.
- wvenable 4y agoWhat about an option for $5 for a month of access but no subscription? I originally considered $1 a per image download but then I thought it might take some finessing to get the image right and simply having a month to mess around might be a better deal. This is a pretty cool tool. I might be one of those freeloaders that is happy with an SD image but I could really see using this. I picked a random screenshot of code I had and the result was awesome.
- fegu 4y agoThis is by a company in the middle of farmer county in Norway. Kudos!
- mikaelaast 4y agoOP here. You are absolutely correct. I'm in a rural part of Norway which is nicknamed "Norges matfat" (which translates roughy to "Norway's dinner plate"), because of how so much of our produce comes from here. Moreover, I'm not exactly a company, but just one guy doing this in his free time. My day job is at a software company called Grensesnitt (check it out: https://www.grensesnitt.no https://www.grensesnitt.no)
- brailsafe 4y agoI really hope you make some money with this somehow. It's funny.
- jarek83 4y agoSmall feedback regarding the landing page - first few impressions I got were the same - it is a paywalled article page, it wants me to pay first to read about how 'dramatically angled photos' can look like. I almost left the page without realising it's a product page itself.
- monai 4y agoThe generated images look too flat and too sharp, giving an aged look. No one takes screenshots programmatically anymore. Consider revitalizing the output by adding RGB pixelation and a moire pattern filter to look like it was taken from a real monitor with a phone camera.
- webprofusion 4y agoIt looks really cool, best of luck commercializing it however it seems a little too simple for that. It produces an image almost exactly like I've takes a photo of my monitor, so I could just take a photo of my monitor rather than buying the HD option? It's also possibly a bit too easy to replicate in an hour or so (e.g. apply image as a surface texture in threejs and screenshot/canvas-capture that, together with standard FX like bloom).
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- webprofusion 4y agoIt was about 20 mins using React Three Fiber (not counting a bug filing related to their npm dependencies). https://snipboard.io/teiXnd.jpg https://snipboard.io/teiXnd.jpg Yours looks better, but mine is 120FPS with zoom/spin and gravity :)
- webprofusion 4y agoLots of fun. Adding fire now https://codesandbox.io/s/3878x https://codesandbox.io/s/3878x
- carlmr 4y agoYeah, my impression is that monetizing could be worth it for professional bloggers, but then it would need to be more than a one trick pony like this. I'm also not sure if this is the only effect the app can do.
- webprofusion 4y agoI think it doesn't matter if you market well and make it easy, people do want things that make their live easier and in a very small way this is one of those. I built a thing to resize app icons/screenshots years ago and it still gets thousands of visitors per week: https://apetools.webprofusion.com/ https://apetools.webprofusion.com/ - I didn't get around to monetizing it though!
- klntsky 4y agoNow add fire, glitter, snowflakes and market towards extremely online aesthetics subcultures.
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- zapt02 4y agoYou should have priced it at $15 for a permanent license desktop app. I'd pick it up as a snack purchase. But I'd never pay $5/mo for so little.
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- melson 4y agoI will also create this tool
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- avipars 4y agoI did something similar in photoshop for app screenshots... it doesn't take too long and looks great! Perspective warp and then some shadows and rotations
- monkeydust 4y agoI can see use here but not monthly subscription, typically will use in a batch for say a newsletter. Seems like you can pay $5 a month, do your batch work, then cancel.
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- badcppdev 4y agoI'm really interesting in the best pricing models for this type of mini-product.
- Cthulhu_ 4y agoAn alternative would be a pay-per-use scheme, but according to others, this has been implemented client-side, so it would be easy to circumvent or fake. That said, given this is on HN, I'm sure a dozen free versions are already in the works.
- mikaelaast 4y agoOP here. This really blew up. I actually made this back in 2021 (doesn't seem long ago), and probably tried posting it to HN back then, to no avail. I just posted it again on a whim, because I felt I was on a roll with my previous post on here about the metal skeuomorphism thingamajig (https://www.metalmorphism.com https://www.metalmorphism.com). If you liked this project, and want to see what I've been up to in my spare time lately, feel free to check out that discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34707160 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34707160
- varenc 4y agoIt looks like your 2021 post on this was decently successful! Here’s the discussion back then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26088625 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26088625
- oliv__ 4y agoLooks cool but I think the UI should be improved for me to consider paying: I'd want more control over how the image is displayed / transformed and UX is currently too laggy (Firefox 106 on Mac).
- andai 4y agoI honestly thought this was satire, for those times when you want to make your nice clean screenshot look like your dad took a photo of the monitor with his phone.
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- fxtentacle 4y ago$3 per month to rotate screenshots ?
- jeroenhd 4y agoIt's a mobile friendly UI, that's one way this website stands out above many others. Sure, it looks like the underlying process is a perspective shift, a gradient, and a blur, but making the UI usable deserves some credit. If you don't feel like paying, you can repeat the process in any free image editor for a fraction of the cost. Perhaps the value add will be bigger if the service gets expanded, for example when it also works with videos and allows for transitions. You can throw together a product demo video a lot quicker by combining that with some captions. It won't be much, but in many areas, it may just be enough to stand out in the crowd. If I needed one of those "camera panning across a rotated screenshot" videos for a product, I wouldn't know where to begin. Maybe automate imagemagick? Teach myself Blender? I imagine for many tech illiterates (and there are a lot of those, especially these days) will have the same problem with plain images.
- joenot443 4y agoAgreed. I’m a bit surprised the author feels comfortable charging money, from what I saw. This is like 3 operations in Photoshop, isn’t it?
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- grishka 4y agoLocally in your browser, too. Footer: > Image processing is done in the browser. No image data is stored or transmitted.
- Cthulhu_ 4y agoThat's cheap if you're a media company or online marketeer that uses it regularly. The alternative would be paying for Photoshop and acquiring those skills. Not eveything has to be free, and people are willing to pay for things. You just need to know the audience. I think one issue I have with comment sections is that a lot of people only speak from their personal point of view, and don't consider e.g. companies or other individuals.
- amelius 4y agoYou can do this in Python with 1 function call: https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.ndimage.affine_transform.html https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.n...
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- okaleniuk 4y agoYes, but you need to compute the matrix first. That's the tricky part I suppose since applying the transformation itself is as simple as multiplying every output bitmap center by the inverse projective transformation matrix and translating the original color.
- amelius 4y agoTrue! But this is of course basic knowledge for people working in 3d graphics. If you don't have that knowledge, I think you can get quite far by just starting with a unit matrix and changing the coefficients iteratively until you get something that looks right.
- h43z 4y agoYou could have named it "drama screen".