What is this for? I don't see the use case.

rikroots 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I can maybe see some value for opening a web page like this, then taking a set of screenshots (for me CMD+SHIFT+4) which automatically get added to the web page, which the user can then curate in some way to generate a final image for download. If the dev who built this web page can work out a way to get the web page to automatically ingest user screenshots while the page is open then I think this tool becomes a lot more interesting.

I did a similar thing for generating a video from multiple screen captures - GitHub repo here: https://github.com/KaliedaRik/sc-screen-recorder

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zdc1 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm equally confused. Why would I want to take a perfectly good screenshot and then shrink it down so it fits within a square and fill >50% of the canvas pixels with a gradient background?

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Elfener 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I think this is some (new?) social media trend, my school started doing it too with their images on facebook. Half the image is just a border so the actual image is really low res. I have no idea why they do it though.

	▲	Hendrikto 7 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Some social media sites and apps like to cut off the sides to fit content onto different screen sizes and aspect ratios. I think adding a border is an attempt to preserve the essential parts of the images in those situations. It really should not be necessary, but alas modern/stupid problems require modern/stupid solutions.
	▲	jan_Sate 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		so it's for drawing attention on social media?

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jdsane 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

this is current way of showing design screenshots, as plain screenshots gets buried under and most of the time designer, or frontend devs generate their own workflow for handling this grunt work of beautifying their work. it's tool to remove that pain point.

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benjaminwootton 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Because it looks nice and makes it pop in a social media feed.

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brokariim 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

As a dev who loves sharing stuff on X, this is super useful. You can use it to post clean screenshots for: - showing off a new UI component you built - sharing code snippets or errors with context - bug reports that don’t look like chaos

	▲	asipasip 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		But it's not a clean screenshot. There's a space-wasting gradient fill behind it.