CacheCrop
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- AlphaDK
We at STOLEN were wondering if anyone would be interested in beta testing and giving some documented feedback for a new server-side tool that we are giving away.
CacheCrop is a server-side image resizing utility that can be easily implemented by designers. It can be used for a variety of purposes. It is primarily written to allow designers to scale/crop/etc images on dynamically driven websites.
Ideally we would be interested in getting feedback from people using turn-key blogging software or image gallery's and documenting how they implemented CC into their templates.
Even if you don't feel like giving feedback, feel free to download it at the following address:
- TheBlueOne0
Cache. Crop. Oh....CacheCROP. Now that's smart thinking...
- mrdobolina0
//Im way too busy banging models and cashing large checks. sorry ;)
- version30
just so you know this is a really good thing, it's what makes the gallery i use so nice, generated thumbnails and such based on a couple files
pixeltwins has had this set up for a year or so and i love it
lets look at some examples
(you have to click the links for this to make sense)raw image from pixeltwins server with cc installed
now to scale it we add ?w=300 to the end of our url as scaling is the default method
so click this link to see how the addition to the url changes the file on the server and stores it in cache so the file isn't regenerated everytime
same picture but smaller, now lets crop to specific height and width by adding ?m=crop&w=300&h=100 to the end of the url
what you see here is m=crop which denotes we are cropping the image not just scaling it
w=300 scales the image width down to 300 pixels and then the h=100 is cropping it to that height
see the resulting image here
now lets have a little fun with dithering by adding a little more to the string on the end of the url. now with the letter d for dither method. we'll use grayscale, but I've made plenty and they are all free
so now add this to the end of the original url after the .jpg
?m=crop&w=300&h=100&d=grayscale
with that we scale, crop, and dither with a few characters on an img url. check it here
a lot of colormaps in action with cc
http://www.pixeltwins.com/conten…I'm even able to use CC on my myspace page for the random image, it is scaling and cropping each image to fit
refresh for a new image to see what i meanthere is more detailed documaentation on the methods at http://cachecrop.stolen.la/docum…
and 218 color maps provided free of charge by yours truly can be found on this page
http://cachecrop.stolen.la/downl…so now that you've see it in action, go to any image file on the pixeltwins server and begin experimenting
http://pixeltwins.com/online/nt/…
it won't take long before you will see how powerful this toy really is and how good it can make you look.
get it now while it's free because it's actually an invaluable tool for you and your clients (if I had it my way this wouldn't be free)
- ldww0
i would totally test it. looks impressive.