Basics: Picking a Picture
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As flat panel displays have grown, categories have blurred. So which television type is better: L.C.D. or plasma?
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From the SpinDrop.us blog, there's a new tutorial on combining the power of dynamic HTML and PHP to create an image cropping script for your website.    Years ago when I was working on a photo gallery for davedash.com I got the art of making tumbnails down fairly well. It was automated and didn't allow for specifying how the thumbnail should be made. With dozens of photos (which was a lot back then), when would I find that kind of time.   Flashback to today, for my company... we want users with avatars... but nothing too large. Maybe a nice 80x80 picture. Well the coolest UI I've seen was Apple's Address Book which let you use this slider mechanism to crop a fixed sized image from a larger image.    They create a pretty slick little app, using symfony to handle the framework for the app, some Javascript in the form of Prototype to make the controls, and plenty of CSS/HTML to make it usable. You can check out the demo here.
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Pixelmator, a Core Image-based image editing software package for the Mac, is now available for download.
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Have a favorite photo you never tire of looking at? Why not use it to dress up your Finder window? Here&#146;s how.
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So, you've got a nifty camera phone or digital camera, and now you want to show off your best shots of your buddy taking a header into a snowbank. Daniel Terdiman looks at several photo-sharing sites.
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Time to start squinting at your screen. Nikon releases sample images from its D3 professional-grade SLR, and Canon 40D shots also are emerging.
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For years, you couldn't go wrong by letting one number drive your digital-camera shopping: the  megapixels, or millions of picture elements, that the camera could record in an image.
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Apple's geeky gadget sports a nice 2-megapixel camera, but the cheap lens means it's pretty lousy at capturing detailed photos taken at ranges closer than about 8 inches. This simple and cheap hack will let you take incredibly sharp close-ups with your iPhone.
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Reader Ektaa Minocha sends us a picture.
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On the Zend Developer Zone, they point out a handy little image manipulation class they've come across - GenXDesign's PHP Thumbnail Class - as well as some details about it.    I've seen a lot of implementations of thumb nail functionality in PHP, I've even written a couple of my own. I like this class thought. In looking over the code the first thing you notice is that it's clean code. I don't mean they use the latest whiz-bang method to cshave a few keystrokes.    This code is simple, nicely formatted and easy to read through. My only real problem with the code itself is that it is not terribly well documented. That can be forgiven since easy to read.    Cal talks about some of the other features of the class, including that it works with gif/jpeg/png images, makes it easy to set the quality of the jpgs, and makes it easy to display the dynamic images directly to the browser. Check out the demo for more.
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Offering readers a gift suggestion âIâm certain your loved one isnât going to receive from somebody else,â Bob LeVitus (Houston Chronicle) suggests âcreating a book or calendarâ from the images in your iPhoto library. And, LeVitus points out, âit couldnât be easier to create one in iPhoto: Just select the photos, drag them where you want them on the pages and then add some text. When youâre done, you order it with a click of a button.â  Thinking about placing an order? You have just a few days left if you want your parties to receive their gifts by December 25.
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Blog: For those happy to cede initiative to the camera, a trio of new Panasonic compact models offers to automatically select scene types such as portrait or macro.
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A new device offers a pixel layout that saves battery life and presents a sharper picture.
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Gerald Rubin is looking for someone who can take a picture of a thought.
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A new camera-finding feature at Flickr may find profits, too.
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We have some big news today for FlickrFan users, a major new source of high-def photography for the networked living room. They come from Agence France-Presse, one of the world's great news organizations, and a fantastic source of high-resolution news photography. I met with Agence France-Presse when I was in Paris in December, introduced them to FlickrFan and explained what we were doing with the Associated Press. They got excited, it took a little while to work out the technical details, but now we're ready to go. The updates are all out, here's the howto for FlickrFan users. Change #30: Agence France-Presse photos in FlickrFan. There were unique challenges in this project because their flow is huge. Yesterday we got over 3000 new photos. Because there are so many, I asked my friend Matt Mullenweg, if his company Automattic could help us out with server space and bandwidth, and he said yes. The AFP pictures are hosted on wordpress.com. Many thanks to Matt and his company for helping us out. To the extent we're bootstrapping a new use of the net, which I hope is what we're doing, Matt's company has made the kind of contribution we'd like to see more companies make. Usually the companies are happy to make the money, but not willing to help out with the bootstrap, which often costs money. Matt has always been a great guy and a visionary. I thank him and hope that FlickrFan users find an appropriate way to thank him too. And also, please consider the generosity of Associated Press and Agence France-Presse. We all hope that there's a market here, a way to monetize the flow of high-resolution photography to enrich and inform. Other content companies have been reluctant to take a chance on the Internet, we saw that in the early days of RSS and podcasting. I feel that these two media companies are playing the same pioneering role that the New York Times played with RSS 2.0 and NPR played in podcasting. Associated Press and Agence France-Presse deserve our respect and admiration for steping out, for going first, this is how new Internet activities get going. This is what we call market leadership, the real kind. Bravo!! And this couldn't come at a better time, with tomorrow being Super Tuesday here in the USA. Think of all the great photographs we're going to get in the next few days! Kevin Tofel helped test the feed over the weekend.
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Blog: Taking a deeper look at the features in Microsoft's new photo management application.