It's always a balance between intuitiveness and efficiency for experienced users. discoverability should be optimized: poor discoverability here was somewhat of a conscious choice. – How can I pan a big screenshot with a mouse: there's also a Space+Drag trick. I thought it works ok because I mostly use key shortcuts for everything, but for the mouse users it should be a nightmare. – trying to put all the options in the toolbar might not be the best way: yeah you're right. Which protocol would you prefer, FTP, SFTP, SSH? – Upload to the private server: I don't plan on monetizing the app and would gladly replace uploading to my server with something else. – The scrolling issue in the Finder is due to the Finder's way of quirky overriding scroll events in this particular mode. – Undo/Redo: funny thing, it works on Cmd+Z / Cmd+Shift+Z, but is not wired in the menu (don't ask why, it's sort of a tech debt, haha) Hey, thank you for taking the time to compile this feedback! I'll keep using this, if only for the measuring tool and the curved arrows :) How about some Catmull-Rom arrows that follow a path? Tl,dr: Cool stuff, but the workflow and discoverability should be optimized. How can I pan a big screenshot with a mouse? There are no scrollbars and Cmd/Option/Ctrl/Shift-mousewheel doesn't work, neither does dragging. To edit a screenshot taken with Cmd+Shift+4 I would have to go to the shottr menu icon >. Dragging an image on the Dock icon or the "Welcome to shottr" window doesn't work. The size of a thing should change as you're dragging the handle, not only after you're finished Although it doesn't save time compared to the built-in Digital Color Meter, which works without taking a screenshot. Always-on color selector and pressing Tab to copy the value is good.
Maybe it's better to add a sidebar and have more room to explicitly show the options and grow functionality. There will probably be more features in the future, with more options. Buttons have a second level once you do something, so to get from the erase-tool-settings back to adding a line, I have to click the "back" button, then the line button instead of just an always visible line button. You have to hover over buttons to see their function. In general, trying to put all the options in the toolbar might not be the best way. I guess you plan to monetize this by offering your own image hosting service? I would pay some bucks for a good upload function to my own server, with various options for auth, file names etc. Skitch does that, but doesn't support private key auth (thus my custom upload script/app). I guess it's planned or buggy, because the Undo menu item is there but disabled? Although it doesn't quite work in a multi column Finder
SKITCH TAKING SCREENSHOT OF BACKGROUND FULL
There are other apps/extensions that capture full web pages, but this does arbitrary capture of anything that is scrollable. And apparently you can just Ctrl+Drag on the image itself to drag the file, interesting. Took me a bit to find the option, after mousing over the toolbar buttons. But it's not as discoverable as Skitch, with its prominent bottom tab. Drag&Drop an image quickly to save it somewhere, nice. I love the dynamic Skitch arrow, the main reason I still use it to be honest. Multiple arrow styles, even curved! But, a more curved arrow style would be nice. And non-destructive, like the other options.
The erase tool in addition to blur/mosaic is great. After using Shottr for the first time, some unordered feedback: I take a lot of screenshots with annotations and use Cmd+Shift+4, Skitch and a custom script/app to upload images to my server. It's hard to make something that complements the pretty powerful built-in screenshot and measurement tools of macOS.
I would have loved to have taken this idea farther.This is neat with some fun features. I was basically trying to make the launchpad a useful helper interface that morphed to the needs of the user. It could also potentially morph into something else when an image is open - for example, it might show a thumbnail of the current image and allow the user to drag it out from the widget to different places. The launchpad would stay active in the background while a document was open, and it would become a place to drag files into Skitch. The general idea was to present users with a floating widget containing input options when initially opening Skitch, rather than launching straight into a blank canvas. The launchpad was another crazy idea I was exploring for future Skitch functionality. I put special emphasis on the animation of the buttons when mousing over the main access point to make sure they felt snappy and responsive. This prototype doesn't reflect the horizontal toolbar design in the mockups above, but it does show how an input or output menu would expand and contract.
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