Great tool!
Would be cool if it showed what % of the image the text was covering. I know when you want to pay promote a specific post on FB they require text covers less than 20% of the image. It would be good to know ahead of posting to FB that the text fits within that range in case it's something worth promoting on a company page.
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@kristofertm Wow, that's a really great point Kris! Could definitely see that being super useful. Would love to hear any tools or tricks you use now to determine what percentage of an image that text is covering?
@patrikward I unfortunately right now crop the area of the text in my image and multiply the pixel dimensions of that space, then divide by the total pixels of my image. Crappy I know... Would be great to have this as a feature of Pablo!
@patrikward@kristofertm wow, that's quite crazy - that definitely seems like something valuable we could simplify for you in the future as we learn more about how folks are using Pablo! Thanks Kris :D
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Just yesterday I was wondering for a tool like this, I was playing with Python taking screenshots of the site that was going to be shared (using Buffer API), now today I got this, and I am very exited :) congrats!
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@thinkxl Awesome timing, thanks so much for trying it out Juan! Would be keen to hear any thoughts on how it feels for you. :-)
@joelgascoigne@syedaliahmed thanks so much Ali for your comment, if you have any feedback or thoughts about Pablo at all don't hesitate to give a shout :)
@hilzfuld wonderful to hear Hillel, thanks! Give a shout if you have any feedback or ideas for us, we're excited to learn more about how this can help different people :)
@joelgascoigne@milann Ah Milan! Sorry about this one! If you have a moment, would you mind trying it out one more time? I pushed an update to fix this one :-)
I was testing shareasimage.com and now Pablo, i would love to give my Facebook page permissions and publish on Fanpages easily, maybe with the Buffer power... scheduling posts.
@josuegio love it Josue, thanks for the comment! This kind of feedback is so valuable for us to work on next steps for Pablo, hopefully we can make this process easier for pages!
I love it, but why can't I upload my own photo? I mean, I saw the "upload photo"option, but it hasn't worked all 10 times I tried it...
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@v4violetta Yikes, so sorry about this Violeta! Still ironing out a few kinks with this one. Would you happen to know if the images you're uploading are larger than 2MB by chance?
@v4violetta Oh awesome! Yep I think that we might have a bit of trouble uploading larger images at the moment, definitely a good one for us to fix up. Smaller images under 2MB might upload a bit smoother, thanks so much for the nudge on this!
Neat little product, but I have to say I do hate this pattern that's emerged. I really wish Twitter would add in feed preview for card driven images. In order to get in-feed, many publishers and brands upload an image in addition to a link to the content instead of using a card (@TechCrunch is a fine example). For me, the added context of the card and the deep link possibility is preferable.
@sammybauch thanks for the feedback Sam, we're quite early on validating some of these ideas in Pablo - it seems like chatting with Twitter about how to deal with cards might be worth doing :)
This is super slick for Twitter. I can't tell, though - does it automatically optimize images for FB, G+ and LinkedIn in the same stroke? That was one of my big problems before. Thanks!
@alexsalkever Hey Alex, great one! Right now it's just exporting as a 1024x512, which is optimized for Twitter. As we learn more, it might be really meaningful for us to build out better support for other networks in terms of image dimensions :)
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