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Re:Show HN: Profile Collage for Facebook by nailer on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @04:04PM (#2009778)
This looked really exciting before I used it, but has taken me one hour so far, and been fairly frustrating.

First getting my eyes inside the area took a bucketload of image cropping and editing. You don't even have guidelines to help me so it was trial and error.

Then, tagging from 5 to 1 still isn't reproducing the images in order. I've tried multiple times.

Re:Show HN: Profile Collage for Facebook by epiphany47 on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @09:08PM (#2010843)
Try the demo ui at: http://fromjeffrey.com/pc/ and see if it works better for you - supports live preview, move, rotate, and scale.

Originally we were planning Facebook integration so that we'd have one click image uploads and tagging to Facebook, but the FB API has been in flux lately so it's taken longer than expected. We're pretty happy with what we have over two nights of hacking. =]

Keep the comments coming!

Re:Show HN: Profile Collage for Facebook by nmb on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @10:47PM (#2011039)
Thanks for trying out our hack! I'm sorry you've experienced frustration, and as epiphany47 has posted, we are working on an interface that makes the process easier. I haven't heard of anyone else having the same tagging issue as you...in all cases that I've seen tagging from 5 to 1 works well. I'm afraid there's not much that can be done if the tagging process for your profile seems to be nondeterministic. =/
Re:Show HN: Profile Collage for Facebook by BluePoints on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @04:52PM (#2009976)
If this were automated it would be better... I agree. 2 hard to complete.
Re:Show HN: Profile Collage for Facebook by nailer on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @04:59PM (#2010006)
1. Yep, if not face recognition, then let me use the arrows to move the picture up and down.

2. They can fix this with better instructions. I finally un-tagged and re-tagged all my pics without from 5 to 1 without re-uploading them to get the correct order.

3 (new). I forgot to say thank you. I was having trouble with the app and I should have been more gentlemanly. Sorry.

Thank you! This was good for a beta and the results look OK with some fiddling.

Re:Show HN: Profile Collage for Facebook by nmb on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @10:50PM (#2011042)
Ah, didn't see this post. Glad you finally got it working! Do you think it would have been more clear to suggest that users upload the album, save it, and then proceed to tag themselves?
Re:Show HN: Profile Collage for Facebook by alphaoverlord on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @08:50PM (#2010786)
Yea. We are working on UI for next iteration!