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Show HN: Perspective Mockups – Hipster-as-fuck perspectives for your mockups
- skrebbel 12y agoI'm not the target audience, so I can't really give you any real feedback on the plugin, but I love the copy and spammed it all over the twitterverse. Good job! (btw, it looks like you forgot to replace some copy&pasted text under "How it works") EDIT: I also love the picture on the bottom. It took me a while until I got the point, but it's great.
- dualogy 12y ago> but I love the copy and spammed it all over the twitterverse Whoa. So for a while I wondered why the authors would be such shitty thick dicks but now I know why. In the "Attention Economy" (ugh) this is apparently what you need to be doing in order to be viral. So "viral" was actually a spot-on phrasing from the very beginning, anticipating that ultimately only rather sickening style will become indeed "viral". Now it's satire. A few years from now this kind of copy will go mainstream and kids will grow up to it. I'm scared shirtless about my old age now :D
- skrebbel 12y agoWow, you're bitter.
- malvim 12y agoI'm pretty much with you here. Saw a few comments on how it's hilarious and awesome copy, and all I saw was a bunch of cursing and... Well, and more cursing, I guess. Don't get me wrong, I'm pretty foul-mouthed myself, a bit too much, even. And I'm not totally against cursing in a page like this, target audience and all that. But I find this to be totally UNfunny. Reminds me of a little kid saying "poop!" and bursting into laughter. Made me scared about my age as well.
- coralreef 12y agoIts cool, I've seen these used before on Dribble/Behance and wanted to know how its done. But whats with the stupid marketing copy?
- sehr 12y agoI believe this is what the kids call 'satire'
- SamuelKillin 12y agoThis is super gangster
- pmalynin 12y agoSo, hold on, you're charging $19 for rendering a picture on two triangles? Damn, thats a pretty good business model - not sure anyone will fall for it though.
- royjacobs 12y agoWhy would anyone buy this when you can just use a Photoshop action like [1] to do the same thing? [1] https://dribbble.com/shots/984999-Perspective-Mockup-Photoshop-Action https://dribbble.com/shots/984999-Perspective-Mockup-Photosh...
- comeonnow 12y agoBoth are by the same person, think of it as a free v1, or a paid for and feature rich v2
- royjacobs 12y agoYes, I realize that :) It just seems like such a fad and then especially in the area of design where people tend to want to have more control over things. I'd expect the "v1" to be good enough for them to base any further tweaking on. Oh well. I also cried "fad" when reading about Minecraft, Bitcoin, the grooming of beards, the resurgence of PHP and various other things, so what do I know?
- simoncoulton 12y agoIf you'd read the copy you'd realise it's designed by Blaz (from Dribbble), I'm just posting on his behalf :) Edit: it was really just a way to start building photoshop plugins to see what the ecosystem is like, we've got 4 new plugins that are actually useful for a wife audience coming out soon.
- olliejay 12y agoThis is my favourite thing on the internet today.
- fuzzix 12y ago> this panel stays with you like a bad STD Wait, is this an actual product or is it a satire on the sad state of our industry?
- mjfisher 12y agoIt's somewhat of an indictment of our industry that I genuinely can't tell whether this is clever, semi-ironic marketing for a real product or flat-out satire.
- dave_sullivan 12y agoIndeed. Internet culture is pretty self referential, and I think the culture of the internet extends to the tech industry (and vice versa). I don't think it works all that well in marketing, but I wish it did! A sense of humor is a good thing and can be extremely powerful in marketing. But self referential humor is often too niche unless you really really know your target audience and you're reasonably sure they'll get the joke. For the record, it's marketing for a real product. I think hipsters are becoming overrepresented in tech marketing though, haha.
- jrockway 12y agoI tried buying it (with an empty form) and got: Error: This discount is invalid. Error: One or more of the discounts you entered is invalid Error: Enter an email Error: Please enter a valid email address Error: Please enter your first name I still can't tell if it's real or not. If this is a parody of random CRUD apps, it's spot on :)
- hyp0 12y agoI think both: began as joke, but can make money - like dirt cheap dirty boards https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7552631 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7552631
- downandout 12y agoThe ordering page actually sends you to PayPal to pay now (someone said it wasn't working earlier). Also there are installation videos on the support page. So it's a real product.
- dinglefuk 12y agoIt's not "clever", that's for certain. :/
- Leander_B 12y agoI clicked the "Buy now" to see if this was serious. It is.
- matthewmacleod 12y agoI guess I've just had a stroke, or am totally out of the loop on modern copywriting. And the website itself is broken all over the place. If you're doing mockups, the PS actions at http://www.psdcovers.com http://www.psdcovers.com have been really useful for me, and they look really great. Nothing quite like the (quite nice) perspective view from this site, but lots of devices in use etc., along with physical products.
- jay-saint 12y agoThank you for sharing this, I just used one of their actions to makes some graphics for the /help/manuals pages I am working on.
- mosselman 12y agoWhat I like about skewed-perspective screenshots is that you can't really see the screens properly.
- m0dest 12y agoYou almost had my $19 until I saw the note about it not being compatible with the latest version of Photoshop... Seriously?
- Kiro 12y agoWhat's with the copy? This is a useful service, no need to be sarcastic.
- abcd_f 12y ago> This is a useful service Only if you are trying to make an otherwise unremarkable design look much better than it is. This is gimmicky and misleading. This is what's been ruining Behance and Dribbble for a while now, pushing total crap to the front page just because it looks pretty and forcing others to focus on superficial decoration rather than on actually important parts like interaction and convenience. The copy is spot on and sarcasm is well justified. Well done, OP.
- catinahat 12y agoIf it's useful and the copy is meant to appeal to its target demographic, what's wrong with that? Clearly a lot of potential buyers seem to be appreciating the humor...
- joeyspn 12y agoHow is this different than a custom PS action?
- jedanbik 12y agoWell...can't say you've done a great job targeting folks related to slaves or folks with STDs, but at least the site looks good? Even as small as this, racist and ableist statements are inappropriate and alienating. Punch up, not down. http://reasonableconversation.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/punching-up/ http://reasonableconversation.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/punch...
- jthreaded 12y agoTumblr is that way >>>
- oldmanjay 12y agoI can't figure out exactly what you mean but I'm guessing that you consider the word "slave" to be racist, which makes me wonder if you're just parodying something. I'm too old to get the super-sensitivity that plagues modern youth so i often can't distinguish serious vs parodic positions. little help?
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- jcromartie 12y agoThis assumes that some people deserve being "taken down a notch" which is a pretty fundamental flaw in leftist ethics if you ask me. Ideas are bad. People are just a product of their environment like any other animal.
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- nicholassmith 12y agoI didn't quite pick up the stuff relating to slavery, but I'm pretty sure that the market of 'designers with STDs' is pretty slim and won't be feeling too outraged.
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- columbo 12y agoWow, we used to do this using the free transform tool. Here's an embarrassingly bad piece I did in '98 http://i.imgur.com/SmgQSy7.jpg http://i.imgur.com/SmgQSy7.jpg Not to go too far off-topic, the meta information of this image is probably more interesting than the poor design (http://metapicz.com/#landing?imgsrc=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FSmgQSy7.jpg http://metapicz.com/#landing?imgsrc=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com...)
- VPrime 12y agoCan this perspective/stack a bunch of layers in a single psd to get a result similar to the images on bottom 1/3rd of the page (http://perspectivemockups.com/v2/wp-content/themes/Perspective/images/background-3.jpg http://perspectivemockups.com/v2/wp-content/themes/Perspecti...) We have files with multiple layers and need a quick and easy way to display the layers in a perspective stack.
- rglover 12y agoSo when we look back in 50 years and the "kids" are asking us what we poured our lives into, we'll be able to say "really, really well-done snark." Future is looking bright.
- Igglyboo 12y agoWhile hilarious, I can't tell if this is real or not never having used photoshop. It doesn't seem like this actual does anything other than rotate your image 45 degrees and give it a 3D effect.
- elliottwilliams 12y agoI think either way, satire or real, I'd toss a few fucks for entertainment value.
- shenanigoat 12y agoThis kind of copy-writing is obnoxious and juvenile. If it's satire, it isn't obvious enough. Try again.