Prototype Digital Album Page - a way to display all inclusive coins slabbed by diff companies
Mr_Spud
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I’m getting dangerously close to being able to have infinitely customizable digit coin album pages. I just now threw this page together using random coins that I had just put into my new Spudview template. The album page is from a screenshot of the thumbnail images in my iPhone/iPad that I’m going to try and make into a digital album page template. It’s just a concept, but I think I’m just about there. What do all of you think? 🤔
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While I very much like the reflection template, I think it makes the photos look crowded and "busy" in this format. Also not too sure that I like the background fade as it tends to draw my eye away from the coins as I scroll down. But that is more of a nit picking thing and may not bother anyone.
Overall a very cool presentation for multiple coins.
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For starters, I think that the variety of different backgrounds is counterproductive, as are the mirror images and shadows. I also think that the text should include a short description, and utilize a smaller font.
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Thanks @coinbuf and @MrEureka . that’s just the kind of constructive criticism I’m looking for. Right now I’m just playing around, learning how to make templates that I can automatically pop my coin photos into. I just downloaded an app the other day called Pixelcuts that is designed to make templates to display products to sell on online stores. I wasn’t sure if I could get it to work for coins, but it worked well enough after playing around with it yesterday and today that I can see the potential to make this into something worthwhile. Pixelcuts costs money though, either $10 a month or something like $60 a year. I’m just on a 3 day free trial, but I’m probably going to purchase it for a year because it’s so easy to use once you figure things out. 🌞
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Absolutely Spudaliciuos.
Indeed Spudtacular.
I am very impressed.
My 2cents is I think you should experiment with some of those backgrounds that you posted and I commented on how much I appreciate your work. Maybe enlarge the boarder. The font and amount of text seems adjustable to order.
Really like it and I would give it a try. There’s some of my collection I’d like to be able to display. Great stuff
I can envision my d.Carr d.d.55 with one of your swirling background. Dizzy City. 😉🙀
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Yes, the software is infinitely customizable and makes automatic templates that can be used to pop in other coins and you can use gradient backgrounds or your own pictures as well as a bunch of stock images and blurry backgrounds to show off the in focus subject, etc. I could use it to make a fractal calendar and all of that. One thing I really like about it is that it cuts out coin images without leaving ragged edges around the circumference like photoshop express sometimes does, that it the real reason I tried out the Pixelcut app, because I read that it does the edges better and I had no idea it could make the templates so easy.
Mr_Spud
I've heard that Photoscape is a very good freeware program on Windows that does circular crops.
Personally, I use GIMP and IrfanView, which are also free on Windows.
I just do the circular crop, paste the reverse photo on the right,
and then add the text in the lower center with GIMP.
This is for the purpose of making plate photos of die pairs, and similar stuff for die features.
It may be fun to play with different backgrounds, because that's art and it's nice to look at beautiful things.
But I try to keep it just about the coins.
(Either way is good, your choice)
I think it is quite attractive - but mainly for non-collectors. Most collectors would prefer the images to be plain, but super defined without the trimmings. Overall, the concept looks excellent, and being readily customizable is a significant feature. You could like market the finished product. Cheers, RickO
I’m hopelessly incurably addicted to this kind of stuff, digital mass production. With these templates, I can pop in any of my coin images in place in seconds. It doesn’t have to be all busy with distracting backgrounds. It pretty much can change templates to whatever style you want from no distraction at all to super busy artsy looking to symmetric fractals like these. I especially like how it works automatically for both TrueViews as well as my own pictures I took with my phone and both come out the same size.
I’m thinking of trying to make it so when you click on the thumbnail smaller image it pops up big like this first image. it’s that way now in my iPhone/iPad album I just made called Spudfracts, but I want to figure out how to share it so it enlarges the same way when other people click on the smaller pictures on their own electronic devices. it might have to be a webpage to work though, not sure 🤔
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Jumping back in real quick. Yes. That’s sweet. 👍🏼
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Be careful about what programs you use to build an album. Several years ago I was using an album from the Apple App Store, over the course of several years and IPad operating system upgrades, I found myself having to leave the album behind. Be cautious is all I can say.