Can you please leave the links to the tools you used in the video? Especially the mini key decoder, it looks great! Anyways I love your 3 part series on this you truly did an amazing job! Thanks and keep up the awesome work.
Great video! Also to note, the part of the key between (to the right of) the rightmost cut (the "4" cut at 8:25) and the shoulder, is "uncut". The code for an uncut part of the key is a "0" cut. In the case of this key, the "height" of the "0" cut should be "0.335". So, you could just scale the image so that "uncut" part is 335 pixels and then everything in the image should be scaled at 1 pixel=1 thousandth of an inch which matches your method a little easier (I think) and would work even if you didn't have anything else in the image to use as a reference. But I'll admit that having the grid does help with correcting the perspective distortion.
Don't Schlage keys have the direct bitting code written on the back? You can use an app on Android called Snap Decode to get the direct bitting code of the key easily with a picture. This method works well, just not as easily as the app. Thanks for the video!
Interesting but very time consuming way of duplicating a key. Hope the point he was trying to make is it can be done using photoshop and ends there. I duplicated a key once based on a picture a customer sent me 400 miles away. He left his passport in the drawer and he took the key with him. He didn't want to pay much for the service for me to go pick it open so I offered him that I will make one and give it to his mom so she can get the passport and send it to him. Once I have a photo on my smartphone I zoomed in and out the picture to the right ratio to the actual key blank by transposing the uncut key on the phone screen then decoded the cuts. Two days later, I got a thank you email that he got his passport and went to Mexico. If you have the depth info then you can simply draw two lines similar to the depth gauge that he used, mark the each depth on the line than move the key left and right on that line for each cut to decode the cuts. Probably the cheapest fastest way to decode a key without any tool other than a micrometer.
Also, please do a new video using the latest PS software!! I'm new to using photo shop and the new one is nothing like whats in the video. It's really hard to follow along. Thanks!
Really time consuming and a lot less accurate than just using a lighter to get an imprint. Takes a lot of trial and error though completely awesome that this is even possible. May download photo shop again to test further not having much luck using gimp.
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Can you please leave the links to the tools you used in the video? Especially the mini key decoder, it looks great! Anyways I love your 3 part series on this you truly did an amazing job! Thanks and keep up the awesome work.
Great video! Also to note, the part of the key between (to the right of) the rightmost cut (the "4" cut at 8:25) and the shoulder, is "uncut". The code for an uncut part of the key is a "0" cut. In the case of this key, the "height" of the "0" cut should be "0.335". So, you could just scale the image so that "uncut" part is 335 pixels and then everything in the image should be scaled at 1 pixel=1 thousandth of an inch which matches your method a little easier (I think) and would work even if you didn't have anything else in the image to use as a reference. But I'll admit that having the grid does help with correcting the perspective distortion.
ty - thanks for watching
Don't Schlage keys have the direct bitting code written on the back? You can use an app on Android called Snap Decode to get the direct bitting code of the key easily with a picture.
This method works well, just not as easily as the app. Thanks for the video!
Great video. Can you do this with a double sided key? Where would your measurement reference be?
Interesting but very time consuming way of duplicating a key. Hope the point he was trying to make is it can be done using photoshop and ends there. I duplicated a key once based on a picture a customer sent me 400 miles away. He left his passport in the drawer and he took the key with him. He didn't want to pay much for the service for me to go pick it open so I offered him that I will make one and give it to his mom so she can get the passport and send it to him. Once I have a photo on my smartphone I zoomed in and out the picture to the right ratio to the actual key blank by transposing the uncut key on the phone screen then decoded the cuts. Two days later, I got a thank you email that he got his passport and went to Mexico.
If you have the depth info then you can simply draw two lines similar to the depth gauge that he used, mark the each depth on the line than move the key left and right on that line for each cut to decode the cuts. Probably the cheapest fastest way to decode a key without any tool other than a micrometer.
awesome key post
Also, please do a new video using the latest PS software!! I'm new to using photo shop and the new one is nothing like whats in the video. It's really hard to follow along. Thanks!
Which Photoshop program is that?
would you able to do it on your phone?
You can use an Android app called Snap Decode.
Really time consuming and a lot less accurate than just using a lighter to get an imprint. Takes a lot of trial and error though completely awesome that this is even possible. May download photo shop again to test further not having much luck using gimp.
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