{"id":5787,"date":"2017-03-10T22:44:19","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T06:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=5787"},"modified":"2017-03-18T23:03:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T07:03:37","slug":"whats-coming-up-next-tom-bluewater-introducing-fit-perspective-for-mac-os-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=5787","title":{"rendered":"What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Coming Up Next? \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Tom Bluewater Introducing Fit Perspective for Mac OS X"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nTOKYO (Tom Bluewater) – These days I develop more iOS<\/strong> apps than desktop applications. And I face some difficulty in creating iTunes Connect<\/strong> screenshots. Shown here below is a picture with a hand holding an iPhone. And it’s quite difficult to fit a rectangular picture into a non-rectangular area in green. If you use Adobe Photoshop<\/strong>, it might not be that difficult. If you use Adobe Fireworks<\/strong>, … Well, Fireworks is the last application you should use for this task. What else could I use? How about Fit Perspective<\/strong>? Right, Fit Perspective is the desktop application that I submitted to Mac App Store<\/strong> a few minutes ago.<\/p>\n\n\n
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Making this type of application might not be so difficult. But the question that I initially had is how I let the user set four corners over a picture efficiently<\/strong>. Really, software is all about saving user’s valuable time. What else is more important? It’s not about how beautiful it looks superficially, compromising user efficiency like Big A belives in, I believe. So it took me a while to come up with somewhat a creative way. I can definitely tell you that I won’t have to use Adobe Photoshop or Fireworks for non-rectangular distortion any more. In other words, I’ve developed this application just in order to make my work more efficient.<\/p>\n

Fit Perspective is a desktop application that lets you fit a rectangular picture into a non-rectangular area over another. It won’t just rotate a picture. It’s designed such that the user manually moves four numbered-markers with their mouse to so that the application can be distorted accordingly. Also, the user can apply the same marker positions in order to distort multiple images at a time.
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  1. Manually move four numbered-markers with your mouse over a background image and tell the application how you want to distort a rectangular picture.<\/li>\n
  2. As you move a marker, the application will show its surroundings with a bigger picture.<\/li>\n
  3. You can preview the result of distortion ever before saving a distorted image to disk<\/li>\n
  4. Save the result of distortion with the current target image (a picture to distort) or apply the same settings to multiple images.<\/li>\n
  5. Change the view rate over the background image to reveal a distortion area.<\/li>\n
  6. Apply color filters (brightness, contrast) to make distortion borders distinct.<\/li>\n
  7. The application will automatically append an underscore and a number to the original file name so that it won’t overwrite existing files when you save multiple distorted images to disk.<\/li>\n
  8. The fullScreen mode is supported.<\/li>\n
  9. The application supports the retina screen. (tested with 2014 2.6 GHz 13″ MacBook Pro)<\/li>\n
  10. Languages: English and Japanese only.<\/li>\n
  11. Application file size: 23.7 MB.<\/li>\n
  12. The application comes with a built-in 13-page user guide. Choose Show Quick Tour under Fit Perspective whenever you need to see it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    \nSystem requirements<\/u><\/p>\n

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    1. 10.11 (tested with 10.11.6), 10.12 (tested with 10.12.2)<\/li>\n
    2. 64-bit system<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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      1. The application will only distort the target image and will not produce a composite image with a distorted picture over the background image.<\/li>\n
      2. The application will only distort the target image and will not produce a composite image with a distorted picture over the background image. Why not? What if the target picture has a set of resolutions like 96 dpi x 96 dpi against the background image with another set of resolutions like 72 dpi x 72 dpi?<\/li>\n
      3. If you have a non-retina display, regardless of original resolutions, a distorted image will have 72 dpi x 72 dpi in resolutions. If you have a retina display, a distorted image will have 144 dpi x 144 dpi regardless of original resolutions, provided that you choose JPEG, PNG or TIFF as an export format.<\/li>\n
      4. The application is not document-based.<\/li>\n
      5. You may not get the exact result you hope for if you set the view rate low, obviously. So what? Set the window mode to fullScreen?<\/li>\n
      6. A rectangular picture will turn into a distorted, non-rectangular picture. In other words, the number of corners won’t be three, five, six… but remain four.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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        \nVersion history<\/u><\/p>\n

        None so far…
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        \nTrial\/Demo version<\/u><\/p>\n

        Click here<\/a> to download a trial version. This trial version will remain fully functional for 7 days, starting from the very moment you first launch it.
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        \nVideo tutorial<\/u><\/p>\n

        There is no video tutorial at this time.
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        \nFit Perspective is a product of Tom Bluewater.
        \nApple and the Apple logo are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. Mac App Store is a service mark of Apple Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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