Need some testers for new tilt-shift web tool

Moonstar

Hi,
I'm looking for a few (maybe 10 or so) testers for a new site that helps you make tilt-shift style fake miniatures. You needn't have used/known about this effect already - in fact ideally I'm looking for a mix of different types of people who are already interested in photography and post-processing etc.

Just want people to play around with it, see if they can break anything (shouldn't be too hard..) and give general feedback.

Please PM me for the site address, thanks.

Moonstar

Thanks to all who replied so far - I still need a few more testers.

(If you make a nice photo you can get a link to your website/photo page from the gallery.)

Alun

Can't get it to work at all, either with FF3 or IE7. I upload the photo, it displays the left hand pane with the focus and then just hangs with the little "whirly-gig" in the preview pane. IE reports a script error by the way ...

Line: 31
Char: 3
Error: 'null' is null or not an object
Code: 0
URL: http://tiltshiftmaker.com/ \photo-processing.php

ThOnda

I have tried it on few pictures and this is just a preview given on that page. Still nice picture processing.

City-Exile

Here's one I made.



Site worked without issue for me.

Moonstar

Nice pics

Thanks for the error report Alun, PM sent.

AnCatDubh

had a go. very simple and nice results.

For my attempt i took the highest office of our land and well..... basically reduced it to a dolls house :rolleyes:

City-Exile

That's class, ACD!
Really does look like a doll's house.

Alun

Works for me now, but only if I link to a photo on the web. Uploading an image still doesn't work for me.

Having some trouble finding suitable images though, although this one is reasonable .. Whitby Abbey in North Yorkshire

City-Exile

That looks good, Alun.
Must take a trip up there in the new year.

Alun

City-Exile wrote: »

That looks good, Alun.
Must take a trip up there in the new year.

I see you're in Bradford! Lucky guy! Yorkshire has to be one of my favourite places in the world. Have you been to the Yorkshire Dales yet? Fantastic photo opportunities there too, especially in the winter and there's snow. East coast is great too .. Whitby, Robin Hood's Bay, Runswick Bay etc.

City-Exile

Check out my flickr, Alun.
There's shots from Bolton Abbey, Shipley, Saltaire, Keighley and Cottingley.
Will head north in the New Year, and take in York too.
When the snow came down, it was too dangerous to drive.

Alun

City-Exile wrote: »

Check out my flickr, Alun.
There's shots from Bolton Abbey, Shipley, Saltaire, Keighley and Cottingley.
Will head north in the New Year, and take in York too.
When the snow came down, it was too dangerous to drive.

Very nice! I've got gazillions of photos of that part of the world too, just haven't got around to uploading any to my pix.ie account. I really must get around to it sometime but I'm just too critical of my own stuff to decide whats worth putting up.

Moonstar

Thanks all for testing again...

For anyone who was having problems with it, there were some bugs related to uploading files which had non-alphanumeric characters in them (eg ampersands, dots etc)

This would cause either the preview to stall and give a Javascriıpt error (in IE) or the fullsize download to be 0 bytes.

These should be fixed now.

Moonstar

If anyone else would like to try it, the site is here. If you find a problem, please send me a PM, thanks very much.

Eppie

Here's a couple of mine, it worked well for me, great fun!

*Dallas

hey,

im trying to download a pic i created on this site, when i click 'download this image' and then double click on the file name its completley black (all white)

Im using Motzilla. Any ideas?

Thoie

All worked well for me - thanks - no issues or breakages at all!

Here's a before and after. Not a great subject to start with, and I'd need to play a bit more to get used to it, but I'm theoretically packing a suitcase at the moment and NOT fiddling with the computer

Before:


After:

Generalissimo

Cool tool, I'll be referring friends to your site I prefer the extra control over the degree of blur and image saturation that Photoshop gives me but if I didn't have Photoshop I'd definitely use your site.

Moonstar

Thanks very much for that, good to hear it

Moonstar

Ok I think it's good to go.. .thanks all for testing!

Here's one I did, it's near the dock front in Barcelona, taken from the top of the Monument to Columbus at the end of Las Ramblas.

oshead

It worked mostly for me with one exception. This file Seaside - bay I found for testing from the Internet. The preview works fine. But when I download the large image to my comp it comes back as a 0 bytes file.....

Maybe its something to do with the original file format or something... Tried with both IE7 and Firefox on Vista, but somehow, I don't think this is a client problem... Then again, what do I know....

Hope this helps

Dave OS

Moonstar

Yep.. that helped a lot! Embarrassingly stupid bug involving assumptions about the lowercase-ness of the filename extension (It's true what they say about assumptions..)

If you try now...

oshead

Oh... the trials and tribulations of a programmer.

Cheers
Dave OS

Moonstar

Would just like to say thanks again to all who tested the site, it's been mentioned on boingboing.net today and is currently riding high in the "delicious.com/popular" page.

The server pretty much melted after the boingboing article. :pac:

Ruu_Old

Pretty nifty tool! Here is one of mine, Heidelberg in Germany.

dakar

Meant to stick these up a while ago:)

Ballroom in Charleville



Galerie de la Reine, Brussels