Seadragon is a technology, by Microsoft, for deeply zooming images of any size. It provides almost perfect transitions independent from the sizes of the images.
Seadragon Ajax is an interface for using/embedding this technology to any website.
Seadragon can be used in 2 ways:
Developers can customize viewers & controls with the Seadragon Ajax Library. It is also available at the Silverlight platform.
jQuery Corners is a jQuery plugin for creating nice-looking, anti-aliased rounded corners without using any images.
The plugin is unobtrusive & works well with all major browsers including iPhone.
The corners to be rounded & the radius of the corners can be easily set.
And, a great feature is the ability to round form buttons.
Update 26.01.2011: The URL of the resource is updated as the developer's website is no longer available.
Requirements: jQuery
Compatibility: All Major Browsers
Easy Reflections, a PHP script that enables you to create reflections (Web 2.0 look) of any image.
Supported image types are GIF, JPG & PNG.
There is a built-in caching mechanism to prevent creating same images again & again.
And, fade levels used can be configured.
The script works with both PHP4 & PHP5 and requires GD extension 2.0.1+ installed.
Requirements: GD extension 2.0.1+
Compatibility: PHP4 & PHP5
Jumpeye Components is giving away 3 FlashEff Premium Unlimited Licenses ($249 value/each) to WebResourcesDepot readers.
Details of the giveaway & how to join it can be found below the post.
What is FlashEff?
FlashEff is a Flash CS3 (and Flash CS4 ready) AS3 component for easing the animation process & creating stunning animations.
Tip: To see the beauty of the effects, click here to go to the effects gallery.
It is also a collection of over 100 patterns (and growing) that enable cool animations and interactive actions on visual objects and texts. FlashEff can be used/customized from both, the visual interface and API.
The visual interface, FlashEff Panel, is a powerful online utility that loads inside your Flash CS3 IDE and configures everything for the FlashEff component.
- Create amazing animations with images, movieclips or text.
- Create animated buttons without coding.
- Perform commands and trigger actions on any event such as rollOver, press or doubleClik.
- Add static or animated fitlers to any visual object within Flash CS3.
- Most of the patterns can be combined to create complex animated objects.
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Click here to see the details of the Pattern Creation Contest.
How To Win The Free Licenses?
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jParallax is a jQuery plugin which enables you to create Parallax effects.
This effect simply moves layers in response to the mouse, and, depending on their dimensions (and options for layer initialisation), they move by different amounts & create a depth.
Info: If you’re new to parallax effects, check the demo to see it (Parallax in Wikipedia).
jParallax simply provides the necessary options for creating the animation like layer controlling, positioning & timing.
Requirements: jQuery
Compatibility: All Major Browsers
Raphaël is a JavaScript library that facilitates using & creating vector graphics in websites.
It uses SVG & VML for creating graphics. As every graphic generated is a DOM object, you can manipulate them via JavaScript.
This graphics JavaScript library is very ideal for creating charts, images effects like rotation or reflection.
An example:
Creating graphics is much easier with Raphaël compared to writing everything from scratch as a circle can be created with:
paper.circle(320, 240, 50).attr({fill: "#223fa3", stroke: "#223fa3", "stroke-width": 3, "fill-opacity": 0.5});
The library currently works in all major browsers except Firefox 2 & it is still under development.
Requirements: No Requirements
Compatibility: Firefox 3.0+, Safari 3.0+, Opera 9.5+ and Internet Explorer 6.0+
WideImage is an object-oriented PHP image library.
It is written in PHP 5 and requires only GD2 library for manipulating images.
The library is very suitable for new generation web applications (for easier mashups) as it supports loading images from any URL besides loading them from a file, string or a valid image source.
Some features of WideImage:
- Transformations: crop, resize, rotate, flip, mirror
- Conversions: graysclae, negative, truecolor, palette
- Colors/channels: merge, mask, filter, get channels, correct gamma…
Requirements: PHP 5.2+, GD2 extension
jqPuzzle is a jQuery plugin which enables you to create sliding puzzles from any image.
The created JavaScript puzzle can have the shuffle & solution options besides the moves made & seconds played.
jqPuzzle is highly configurable as the options in the interface can be enabled/disabled, number of rows & columns of the puzzle to be created can be defined & more.
How to use?
After inserting the jquery.jqpuzzle.js & jquery.jqpuzzle.css files to your webpage, simply give the class="jqPuzzle" to any image. That’s all.
Requirements: jQuery 1.2.1+
Compatibility: All Major Browsers
JavaScript Image Effects is a library that you can instantly create effects like rotate, blur, emboss & more.
Using such a library is very functional in situations where you may need to add an effect to lots of images, need to provide an interface to the users for creating effects & so.
How to use?
After inserting the imagefx.js file into your webpage, you have 2 options:
<script type="text/javascript" >
jsImageFX.doImage(document.getElementById("myimage"), "blur");
</script>
or
<img src="image.jpg" imagefx="blur" />
where both are very easy to apply.
Every image effect is not available in every browser and a comprehensive browser compatibility chart can be found in the website
Requirements: No Requirements
Compatibility: Browser compatibility chart is provided at the website.
Magic Toolbox is a set of JavaScript image effect solutions.
These include zoom, magnify and thumb features.
These JavaScript solutions do not rely on JavaScript framework, they are well-documented and some have installation instructions for other like Joomla, Drupal, osCommerce & more.
They are free only for non-commercial use and need a license for commercial websites.
Requirements: No Requirements
Compatibility: All Major Browsers
