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Screenshot Captor Splice Tool
« on: June 01, 2010, 01:33 PM »
You'll find a screencast of the new SC "Splice" tool command here:

https://www.donation...c/3ds/sc16/sc16.html

The splice tool allows you to splice out horizontal or vertical regions, like banners.  Good for removing ad regions in screenshots, etc.


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Re: Screenshot Captor Splice Tool
« Reply #1 on: June 01, 2010, 01:49 PM »
Wow that's awesome! :Thmbsup:

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Re: Screenshot Captor Splice Tool
« Reply #2 on: June 01, 2010, 01:51 PM »
Great little feature. 

Why don't you release that as a standalone application?  I would use it just for that.  Basically let me open an image, perform splices and then resave out.

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Re: Screenshot Captor Splice Tool
« Reply #3 on: June 01, 2010, 02:05 PM »
Very nice!
mini.jpg

If one has, say, a wide image but short (or a tall but narrow) the only way to 'splice' out a big chunk is by repeated small splices.

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Re: Screenshot Captor Splice Tool
« Reply #4 on: June 01, 2010, 02:07 PM »
that's a good point :(

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Re: Screenshot Captor Splice Tool
« Reply #5 on: June 01, 2010, 02:11 PM »
Simple solution: Put a Splice icon in the toolbars (on the side with the others) that has default smart behavior that splices depending on selected area's dimensions. Then put Splice Horizontally and Splice Vertically in the SpecialFX dropdown menu for those rare times when you need to splice a large section from a narrow or short image.
« Last Edit: June 01, 2010, 02:12 PM by Deozaan »

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Re: Screenshot Captor Splice Tool
« Reply #6 on: June 01, 2010, 05:21 PM »
Looks nice  :Thmbsup:

I didn't see a hotkey listed on the menu item during the screencast -- is there a hidden one or an option to configure one?

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Re: Screenshot Captor Splice Tool
« Reply #7 on: June 01, 2010, 05:23 PM »
you people and your hotkey shortcuts!

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Re: Screenshot Captor Splice Tool
« Reply #8 on: June 01, 2010, 05:25 PM »
Great little feature.  

Why don't you release that as a standalone application?  I would use it just for that.  Basically let me open an image, perform splices and then resave out.
You already can, I do stuff like this all the time with SC.  You just move the pic to the screenshot folder (or open SC and navigate your screenshot folder to where the file is), and then edit it.  That said, it also explains why I requested an Open file option that I think Mouser probably just forgot to add... ;)

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Re: Screenshot Captor Splice Tool
« Reply #9 on: June 01, 2010, 05:31 PM »
just a reminder, SC will let you drag and drop images into and out of it's thumbnail panel.

and i think you can pass a filename on commandline when calling SC to have it switch to that image file's directory and load that image -- so that does what you asked for veign, i think.

also, dont forget to use the Save+ button, to save the image with an incremented filename -- useful for preserving originals.

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Re: Screenshot Captor Splice Tool
« Reply #10 on: June 01, 2010, 05:40 PM »
just a reminder, SC will let you drag and drop images into and out of it's thumbnail panel.

and i think you can pass a filename on commandline when calling SC to have it switch to that image file's directory and load that image -- so that does what you asked for veign, i think.

also, dont forget to use the Save+ button, to save the image with an incremented filename -- useful for preserving originals.

Yeah, yeah... :P

I always forget about that.  That is why I do it the way I do. :-[

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Re: Screenshot Captor Splice Tool
« Reply #11 on: June 02, 2010, 01:22 AM »
Great feature  :Thmbsup:

I do this often with msPaint: cut out an region, cut out one part of the two remaining parts and paste it again to fit to the other part.

Since you add such an nice feature i will use this now instead.

But as i see, the positions of the prior inserted objects (box, arrow) are not recalculated and moved with the background...
>> improvement idea... or just remember to insert the objects after the splicing?  :P

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Re: Screenshot Captor Splice Tool
« Reply #12 on: June 02, 2010, 01:28 AM »
a very useful and much awaited feature.. :Thmbsup:

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Re: Screenshot Captor Splice Tool
« Reply #13 on: June 02, 2010, 01:32 AM »
Possible icon ?


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Re: Screenshot Captor Splice Tool
« Reply #14 on: June 02, 2010, 03:44 AM »
that's a really, really cool feature. adobe will be coming for that when they see it - seriously, you need to patent it if it's unique. adobe love sticking features into Photoshop that they've seen elsewhere - and paying for it.

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Re: Screenshot Captor Splice Tool
« Reply #15 on: June 02, 2010, 03:47 AM »
lol patent it.. there is nothing complicated or clever about it.. i'd be surprised if it wasn't already in photoshop somewhere.

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Re: Screenshot Captor Splice Tool
« Reply #16 on: June 02, 2010, 03:56 AM »
thanks for the icon image abterix!
i'll try to fix up object positions.

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Re: Screenshot Captor Splice Tool
« Reply #17 on: June 02, 2010, 04:22 AM »
lol patent it.. there is nothing complicated or clever about it.. i'd be surprised if it wasn't already in photoshop somewhere.

i've not seen it in photoshop (unless it's in CS5). maybe it can be done using an Action (i'll give it a go later). either way, it'll be in there within the next couple of versions, i bet.

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Re: Screenshot Captor Splice Tool
« Reply #18 on: June 02, 2010, 07:33 AM »
That's neat mouser.

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Re: Screenshot Captor Splice Tool
« Reply #19 on: June 02, 2010, 02:05 PM »
you people and your hotkey shortcuts!
I think Alt-X followed by an appropriate number of arrow key presses (1 or 2) and then Enter is doable, so the current state of things seems fine.

Thanks again for this feature!

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Re: Screenshot Captor Splice Tool
« Reply #20 on: June 03, 2010, 12:39 AM »
Made a proof-of-concept GIMP Script-Fu script that handles the case of the selection being longer in the horizontal direction.

If there's any interest, I'll post the code (ugly though it may be ;) ).

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Re: Screenshot Captor Splice Tool
« Reply #21 on: June 03, 2010, 05:15 AM »
Mouser, I've just tried out the splicing and it works really well.

Keep up the good work.

Thanks

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Re: Screenshot Captor Splice Tool
« Reply #22 on: June 11, 2010, 12:30 AM »
Very cool. Thanks.

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Re: Screenshot Captor Splice Tool
« Reply #23 on: June 11, 2010, 01:07 AM »
So where is the link where I can download the tool?
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Re: Screenshot Captor Splice Tool
« Reply #24 on: June 11, 2010, 01:14 AM »
So where is the link where I can download the tool?

you can download from the official web page, here.