Has anyone had great success with the "Try online" option? The ones
were you upload a picture, and see how the frames look.

It seems that many of these sites have very flawed programs to do
this. Some have you scale your own picture or frames to suit. That is
terrible! It doesn't guaranty that the frames will look anything like
that on you. And some do a horrible job of cropping the frames image,
and you get a white line around the edges of the glasses.

The best ones I've found have you locate your pupil centers and enter
your pupil distance, then scale the frames accordingly.
eyebuydirect.com works this way but the rotating option doesn't allow
fine enough increments. 39dollarglasses lets you print out the frame,
but what a waste of time!

Ideally it would work like this; you upload a picture, it would assume
your eyes are horizontal from one another (but you could override it
if they were not) and rotate the picture by analyzing the points you
selected for your pupil centers. then you would move a vertical line
above your nose to set the center of the frames. by entering your
pupil distance it would ensure your picture/frame was always scaled
properly. You would also be able to adjust were on your nose the
glasses would sit.

Then you would have one side of the screen with your picture, and the
other with a list of glasses that is easily filtered to your taste.
You can try the glasses, and save the image as you go, without having
to jump from page to page. Then when you have enough pictures of
glasses you like, you could simply view/compare all those photo's side
by side, and refine your choices from there.

I think I found one that worked very similar to what I described as
ideal, but I can't remember witch it was. I think it was out of the
UK.

My question is why don't these companies make a decent "try on your
own face" option? Is it too much work? It seems to me that they have
already entered pictures of the glasses, and the dimensions, so it
should be a snap. Is the problem in making the transparencies in
frames images?

Any how, I'd like to know which sites you've had the most success with
trying online, and which options that I have overlooked that would
make these programs better.



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