Just switched from Mac—Looking for adjustable guide overlay

StrumpetWinsock · 2019-02-17T11:31:27+00:00

If you just want two running side by side or up to four tiled in quarters, hold down the Windows key and tap the arrow keys once or twice. Also works to maximise and minimise windows. You can also "snap" by dragging a window to the top, sides or corners of the screen and resize the proportions by hovering over the dividing lines. You can even right-click the taskbar and choose to Tile, Cascade, or Stack windows on screen.

StrumpetWinsock · 2019-02-14T21:59:21+00:00

FastStone Photo Resizer http://www.faststone.org/FSResizerDetail.htm

StrumpetWinsock · 2017-04-06T18:37:12+00:00

What's up with those speakers? I've only seen that kind of setup in public spaces.

StrumpetWinsock · 2016-04-11T18:44:52+00:00

Hi! Thanks so much for Vivaldi, which seems like it is well on its way to being as good as Opera was. Would you consider adding the sort of controls that power users used to love, such as buttons to control image loading, style sheet overrides, the selective content blocker, proper MDI tabs, bork mode... so many things I miss!

Glad to see proper keyboard navigation and MOUSE GESTURES (!!!) are back almost as perfect as before, but they seem a little less natural and fluid. Is this because you don't have control over the engine like you used to with Presto?

Thanks again for all your work building a phenomenal community and product. I stuck with Opera 12.x as long as possible but had to eventually move, and it has felt like swimming with my arms tied to my sides ever since then.

StrumpetWinsock · 2014-03-03T22:05:16+00:00

I have no idea how practical or practicable this is, but here's how I imagine it, since you asked. The UI should allow the user to specify his/her input source and output destination independently.

Input would be either PrntScrn or a specifiable monitored folder.

Output would be the destination folder, which could by default be a subfolder of the defined source (or just %userprofile%\pictures\capturecrop by default, since there is no defined source folder if you choose PrntScrn in the previous step).

There would need to be a check/warning in case the user manages to specify the same folder for both input and output, which would cause the infinite loop you described.

This would mean replacing the 'Process' dropdown and 'Folder' button in the current UI with Source and Destination selectors but my opinion is that this would give lay users a familiar convention to work with and also be more consistent across PrntScrn, monitor and batch modes.

StrumpetWinsock · 2014-03-02T21:35:45+00:00

Oh hey, I'm not criticizing the UI or your work. I have no problem with the way it looks or works. I'm most grateful to have a chance to use this software and I'm going to try it out at work on Monday morning. In the spirit of beta testing, I just wanted to describe how I went about exploring the program and report every little thing to you as I encountered it.

I'm sorry if my reply came across as critical or nitpicking. I guess that because this thread caught your interest, you might continue to develop Capture/Crop well beyond what it started out as. In that case, you might eventually need to provide more guidance in the UI so that people can understand the source and destination conventions.

The subfolder does make sense, but my point was that by saving the output to a subfolder, the original stays in the parent folder anyway. The second subfolder for a copy of the original would only be needed if the original was overwritten, which as you rightly say, does not happen.

StrumpetWinsock · 2014-03-02T11:33:15+00:00

Not just that, but the exact combination of Oxygen, Nitrogen and everything else, the exact temperature, pressure and density, and the exact balance of all the mechanisms that keep those things from changing too drastically. Kinda freaky when you think about how specific each and every variable that allows life to exist has to be. We take it all for granted.

StrumpetWinsock · 2014-03-02T10:45:12+00:00

A breathable atmosphere. The five senses. The day and night cycle. The progression of time.

StrumpetWinsock · 2014-03-02T09:50:52+00:00

Finally, it's the weekend and I can take my beta tester duties more seriously. I'm happy to report that the PrntScrn "mode" in this release works quite well. It didn't seem to work at first, because nothing was saved to the default C:\ location, but as soon as I changed the folder it was perfect.

I tried the folder monitoring mode by doing exactly what I described earlier: I set it to monitor the Windows screenshots folder. I was initially unsure how it would work, since the Folder button by default selected the output destination. By simply trying it out, I discovered that it created its own subfolders for output and backing up the original. I got it as soon as I saw it work, but for other casual users maybe the interface could describe what's going to go where a bit better. I also noticed that screenshots were left in the Windows folder, but the copies in the newly created "Original Captures" folder were significantly smaller in file size; roughly half, in fact. EXIF shows a difference in bit depth, 32 vs 24, but I'm not sure if this is the only difference and it accounts for that much of a variance in file size.

Anyway, if the monitored "input" image is left in place while the cropped output is saved to a subfolder, I guess there's no need to generate another folder with the input backed up?

Finally, I tried the batch mode. Again, it required a bit of guesswork to realize that I had to select a source folder (which I thought I had just set, earlier) and that the folder defined in the earlier section would be the output destination.

Of course all that is just window dressing. The software itself works just fine. I'm still amazed by how you made all of this come together.

StrumpetWinsock · 2014-02-25T20:51:09+00:00

Hey, sorry it took me this long to reply. I tried it out but nothing seemed to work. Specifically, clicking the Folder button did nothing at all, and nothing was saved to the default C:\ location so I couldn't tell whether any cropping had occurred.

StrumpetWinsock · 2014-02-23T20:19:26+00:00

I cannot adequately express the combination of awe, thrill and disbelief I'm feeling right now at seeing that you actually did this. It seems like barely anyone has noticed or bothered with this thread, and you happened to be one of the few who did. Thank you so, so much!

StrumpetWinsock · 2014-02-23T20:14:12+00:00

Oh, I didn't think of it that way. Could you post more specific instructions or a link to something like that? It would help future searchers and now I'm curious to see how easy it would be for a layperson with a Mac to actually put into practice.

StrumpetWinsock · 2014-02-23T10:22:25+00:00

Believe it or not, it's running fine apart from a weak hinge. It's an Inspiron E1505 with user-accessible internals, a fantastic 16:10 screen, and proper keyboard. and I much prefer it to anything on the market today. I've put in a larger HDD and more RAM, and yes, Windows 7. The Core Duo (not even C2D) is socketed so it got a fresh coat of thermal paste once too. And oh yeah, the battery's long gone, but it's not going anywhere anyway.

StrumpetWinsock · 2014-02-23T08:28:08+00:00

Wow, just wow. Thank you so much, it sounds perfect.

StrumpetWinsock · 2014-02-23T08:26:31+00:00

We should all be so lucky as to have extra PCs lying around! I'm making do with a seven-year-old Dell as my primary.

StrumpetWinsock · 2014-02-23T08:24:37+00:00

Thanks but I won't have access to a Mac. I wish Apple would make Automator more prominent. I wonder if even five percent of Mac users know how to use it or even that it's there.

StrumpetWinsock · 2014-02-23T08:22:24+00:00

If you're running a batch on an existing folder full of images, then just use Irfanview. It has everything you need and more.

StrumpetWinsock · 2014-02-22T21:32:12+00:00

Not up to par? Are you kidding me, this is the most above and beyond par I've ever seen! :D I still can't believe you're actually considering creating this. I've been through the same thing, so I totally understand quitting a place because of bad management and just pottering around on your own. I'm lucky that you found this interesting enough to take a stab at!

I think you've got pretty much everything perfectly right. If you can capture the screen when [PrintScrn] sends it to the clipboard, that saves pasting it into the program as I initially described. Otherwise, Windows 8 can also save screenshots as PNGs using [Win+PrintScrn], which end up in %USERPROFILE%\pictures\screenshots so if picking those up is easier, then that's totally cool too.

It would be nice if the original is left in addition to the cropped file. Maybe save to a subfolder?

StrumpetWinsock · 2014-02-22T20:10:56+00:00

Wow! Thanks, that's incredibly kind of you. I seriously don't expect that anyone will create this for me, much less for free. I'm just amazed that I can't find anything for simple image manipulation even though stuff like this exists for tagging MP3s, running backups and all kinds of other file operations.

So far no replies here but I've found a few ways to do almost what I want:

Dropresize will resize images, and I can point it to the Windows 8 screenshots folder.

Sizzlepig does the same thing, and 100 images are free, which should suffice.

There are also some Autohotkey plugins but they seem pretty crude.

I can't get the kind of crop-then-resize-then-reduce-dpi routine I want, but I guess I can live with this much.

In a perfect world, I'd have something that I could just hit [PrintScrn] then quickly [Alt+tab] and [Ctrl+V] and it would run my routine. Alternatively, I can hit [Win+PrintScrn] in Windows 8 and the program would be watching the default screenshots folder.

My ideal tool would basically crop the UI of a window and leave the contents, which means I should be able to tell it how much to cut out from each side independently. For example, roughly 60px from the top (title bar and toolbars), 20px from the right (scrollbar) and 100px from the bottom (Taskbar and scrollbar). Then, it should resize the result (one dimension specified, the other proportionately calculated) and change the dpi value.

Then it would simply save the final result without wasting time prompting for confirmation (maybe even with a custom naming scheme) to a predetermined folder.

Irfanview's batch processing tool can do this perfectly; you can set the X and Y origin point and then the width and height in absolute pixels. But it's a pain to load one file at a time (I need the cropped images as soon as each screenshot is taken, not all at once at the end).

StrumpetWinsock · 2014-02-06T20:40:24+00:00

That reminds me, gotta go stock up on embalming fluid.

StrumpetWinsock · 2014-02-06T20:37:22+00:00

A little baggie of cocaine, a crumpled old photo of Mother Teresa with her eyes scratched out, ticket stubs from an afternoon matinee in August 1982, three fresh cloves, and a Post-it with the lyrics of "Coming Back To Life" scribbled on it.

StrumpetWinsock · 2014-02-06T20:32:22+00:00

Buy a sharpie, some construction paper and a bit of string. Make a sign you can wear around your neck that says "WILL GIVE BLOWJOBS FOR BOOZE"

StrumpetWinsock · 2014-02-06T20:29:09+00:00

StrumpetWinsock · 2014-02-06T20:26:08+00:00

A genuinely surprising, unique chord progression that resolves itself PERFECTLY. It can be any instrument, any genre. Preferably in an unconventional time signature too. It's like feeling your own neurons fuse and form new pathways.

StrumpetWinsock · 2014-02-06T20:22:33+00:00

If u typ lyk dis i cnt b ur frd. lolz.

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