It’s Tuesday Push time again and this week we’re talking about another nice product from Spoiltchild Design. Anyone who works with a designer will be familiar with the constant stream of back and forward emails and attachments to get the final draft of an image or layout approved.
Finetuna.com helps speed up this problem by allowing you to make notes directly on an image either taken from an URL or uploaded from your computer and add simple hand drawn instructions, such as arrows to show where to move things to, or boxes around elements of the image.
For a simple demonstration of how it works, I decided to “finetuna” the Finetuna.com homepage.
Using Finetuna.com to make comments about Finetuna.com
As you can see I’ve been able to add some text notes and some very simple hand drawn instructions. It was quick and easy to do, but not without its own problems.
I was going to share the URL for my notes with you, but just after I finished I decided I wanted to look at the homepage again in another tab, so I CTRL-clicked the Finetuna logo, but instead of loading the homepage in a new tab it loaded it in the same one. When I clicked the back button my notes and drawings were gone but the image was still there. (See http://www.finetuna.com/hx86vv)
I haven’t seen a way to change the shape (width) of a note speech bubble, meaning long notes become very tall. I also think it would make sense to be able to change whether the speech bubble pointer was on the left or the right. Finally, when I write a new note (in Chrome at least) and click outside the input bubble by mistake, when I click inside it again I can’t actually input any text. It’s not a big problem, but the numbering of your notes increments, meaning it looks like a note is missing.
Overall, I think this tool is incredibly useful. It would definitely have saved us some time on new designs for pages on RevaHealth.com. There are some bugs to fix, which I’m sure the Spoiltchild Design team are already working away on, and I would share the privacy concerns voiced by Dave Concannon, but I will certainly be recommending it to other people in our office when it comes to our next design mock-ups.
P.S. As with almost everything Spoiltchild do, it looks great and has some really nice little touches. I particularly liked the “fold” dotted line image on the homepage.
P.P.S. To the guys at Spoiltchild, if you can’t read my notes about the homepage in the screenshot above, I’d be happy to email them to you.
Finetuna.com – Simple Image Annotation
Finetuna.com Homepage
It’s Tuesday Push time again and this week we’re talking about another nice product from Spoiltchild Design. Anyone who works with a designer will be familiar with the constant stream of back and forward emails and attachments to get the final draft of an image or layout approved.
Finetuna.com helps speed up this problem by allowing you to make notes directly on an image either taken from an URL or uploaded from your computer and add simple hand drawn instructions, such as arrows to show where to move things to, or boxes around elements of the image.
For a simple demonstration of how it works, I decided to “finetuna” the Finetuna.com homepage.
Using Finetuna.com to make comments about Finetuna.com
As you can see I’ve been able to add some text notes and some very simple hand drawn instructions. It was quick and easy to do, but not without its own problems.
I was going to share the URL for my notes with you, but just after I finished I decided I wanted to look at the homepage again in another tab, so I CTRL-clicked the Finetuna logo, but instead of loading the homepage in a new tab it loaded it in the same one. When I clicked the back button my notes and drawings were gone but the image was still there. (See http://www.finetuna.com/hx86vv)
I haven’t seen a way to change the shape (width) of a note speech bubble, meaning long notes become very tall. I also think it would make sense to be able to change whether the speech bubble pointer was on the left or the right. Finally, when I write a new note (in Chrome at least) and click outside the input bubble by mistake, when I click inside it again I can’t actually input any text. It’s not a big problem, but the numbering of your notes increments, meaning it looks like a note is missing.
Overall, I think this tool is incredibly useful. It would definitely have saved us some time on new designs for pages on RevaHealth.com. There are some bugs to fix, which I’m sure the Spoiltchild Design team are already working away on, and I would share the privacy concerns voiced by Dave Concannon, but I will certainly be recommending it to other people in our office when it comes to our next design mock-ups.
P.S. As with almost everything Spoiltchild do, it looks great and has some really nice little touches. I particularly liked the “fold” dotted line image on the homepage.
P.P.S. To the guys at Spoiltchild, if you can’t read my notes about the homepage in the screenshot above, I’d be happy to email them to you.