If you've played with Flickr you'll have seen the 'notes' feature that allows viewers to mark-up areas of other peoples images. Similarly you've probably seen lots of great photos that were hiding there in plain sight just waiting to be pointed out. Accordingly, I present the elegantly simple tool BlockWindow.
Each time you start BlockWindow a black square will appear. Any corner or edge of the square can be grabbed to resize it and its surface can be right-clicked to toggle it between black and white, allow it to sink behind other windows or, most importantly, to make it go away.
Using BlockWindow to mock up a crop is simplicity itself - start four copies, ensure 'Always on Top' is selected on each and drag them over top of the subject image, overlapping them as required to isolate the area in question.
Most importantly, once you've got the perfect crop you can still interact with the Flickr window underneath to place the cropping note without needing to move all the BlockWindow instances thanks to that 'Always on Top' option.
Kudos to Scott Durow for authoring this handy little tool for me.
Each time you start BlockWindow a black square will appear. Any corner or edge of the square can be grabbed to resize it and its surface can be right-clicked to toggle it between black and white, allow it to sink behind other windows or, most importantly, to make it go away.
Using BlockWindow to mock up a crop is simplicity itself - start four copies, ensure 'Always on Top' is selected on each and drag them over top of the subject image, overlapping them as required to isolate the area in question.
Most importantly, once you've got the perfect crop you can still interact with the Flickr window underneath to place the cropping note without needing to move all the BlockWindow instances thanks to that 'Always on Top' option.
Kudos to Scott Durow for authoring this handy little tool for me.
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