AI Generated Album Pages - Curious On Feedback And Thoughts

TaylorHealey, thanks for letting me know. I hadn't actually heard of Astra until now, but it does look interesting. I will definitely give it a try.
Clive

Re: Astra AI and AlbumEasy

I tried this late last night and was impressed with the results. I asked it to produce AlbumEasy code for 1939 USA issues and the output looked flawless to me. Unfortunately, I did not copy or save the output, and when I went back this morning to try and duplicate it to post here, I found out that it required a subscription (which I am not willing to do).

This definitely has possibilities. Imagine being able to generate accurate AlbumEasy files on the fly ...

If you try it, you get one shot before you have to pay for a subscription.

John

@jbodo said:




I liked the look of what you've done with the design types album, but the download links sadly don't work, "file not available on site".

Is there any chance of correcting this please? Also, what page/paper size does the PDF file expect when printing?

Many thanks.

The link posted above in your comment doesn't work because it is "prefaced" by this - www.stampcommunity.org/go/link.asp?target=

The correct link is "https://us-stamps-design-type.onren...viewer.html" I put it in quotes hoping it doesn't get changed as a hyperlink. Copy and paste it into your browser, instead of clicking on it.

The pdf is letter size. if the preface gets put in again by this web site, then try going to classicstampcollector.com and you can find the design type album from the home page.

Well, actually.. Clicking on the original link with the "target" prefix works, but if you copy/paste that link from your last message it doesn't work because it is a long hyperlink name and an ellipsis ... gets added to the middle of the name, so if you copy & paste that ellipsis it won't work.

If someone wants to copy and paste, here is the full name, without the ellipsis, and without the http prefix (which is what causes it to turn into a clickable hyperlink). Paste that into your browser and the browser should add the https automatically. Computers, sigh.

us-stamps-design-type.onrender.com/design-type-album-viewer.html

Secondly, to @imperfectal's point, at least one of the PDFs on the site doesn't work, and says "Not Found". The URL for "Bryan Design Type Album.pdf" doesn't work -- https://us-stamps-design-type.onren...%20Album.pdf


All that said, Jbodo, I went to your site for the first time just now and it looks nice. I like the idea of the face-different stamp Classics stamp collection. For a beginner to try and identify the six 1-cent 1851 types or four different 10-cent types listed in an ordinary Scott National album is daunting. Many intermediate collections that I view don't even get the 7/9, 10/11 or 25/26 right. Having just one space for a 1-cent imperforate Franklin stamp is much more satisfying to fill when there aren't 5 other identical-looking blank spaces right next to it.

Sure, one could buy a beginners album that doesn't include all the type variations, but those albums also leave out all the more expensive stamps, like #2, #37-#39, dollar value Columbians, etc. Someone can be a beginner and still have aspiration to buy the expensive stamps someday. But for the beginner to have to learn about flyspeck plating varieties on the earlies requires too much knowledge too soon, and takes all the fun away.

Bookmarking your site to have a closer look later.