FF3.0 Q&A: Built-In Preview Images

In this thread I'll answer questions about built-in preview images we introduced in FF3.0.

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Cybersparkle wrote: wow! woohoo! It looks really great! I love the idea of new preview images with transparency too. I do wish there was a preview image of people though, I tend to do a lot of portraits. I would love to see about 6 to 9 faces close up of all skin hues(pink,yellow,tan,brown,chocolate), male & female and young and old. The faces would ideally be close together. Here is an example- but I would rather whole faces than half- but this would do- just to have human faces to test out the filters. Do you think something like this is possible for the final release? I found this picture from this site http://geoffallan.blogspot.com/2009_04_01_archive.html

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lipebianc wrote: GREAT IDEA! +1 here

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uberzev wrote: I'd like a preview image of a single face.

Future betas will include portraits (and people photos in general). We won't include portrait collages/assemblies like the one shown above, just regular portrait photos.

Actually, we planned to include at least one portrait and a general people photo into the first beta, but we just didn't have time to sort through thousands of microstock images.

One minor problem: when we include 9 more portraits and 5 more general people photos, selecting the preview images via the menus will become too inconvenient. We'll have to design and implement a new interface for chosing previews, perhaps a dedicated dialog box.

Cybersparkle, thank you for the specifics, now we have much better search criteria for candidate images for portraits.

I've been following this, and I apologize if the question has been answered elsewhere, but I haven't seen it.

My first thought was that we would be able to specify our own images to be part of the defaults available.

From the sounds of it, this isn't being contemplated, but I'm hoping I'm wrong and that there was some discussion elsewhere that this would eventually appear.

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Vladimir Golovin wrote: Future betas will include portraits (and people photos in general). We won't include portrait collages/assemblies like the one shown above, just regular portrait photos. Actually, we planned to include at least one portrait and a general people photo into the first beta, but we just didn't have time to sort through thousands of microstock images. One minor problem: when we include 9 more portraits and 5 more general people photos, selecting the preview images via the menus will become too inconvenient. We'll have to design and implement a new interface for chosing previews, perhaps a dedicated dialog box.

When releasing the new beta 3.004 is put "This is the third and final stage of the beta test" So I suposse that this beta is the last one before the final release, but this one does not include any new built-in images.

I mean that you said that in future betas would included portraits, and if there will not be any more betas, will this be available on the final version and did not have time to include it in Beta 3.04 or is something that will not be included ?

Perhaps you have some problems implementing them as you said and needs to make anad design a new interface for this and could be more difficult than is said.

Thanks very much