Rafael Library Paints a Pretty UI Future
Rich interfaces may be easier with the new Rafaël JavaScript library. Programmer Dmitry Baranovskiy created the library to make it easy to create–and alter–vector graphics. Using Rafaël, you can create...
View ArticleOne Man Photoshop: Pixlr is Slick
New online image editor Pixlr is closer to Photoshop than web-based Adobe’s Photoshop Express. And Pixlr was created by one person. Sweden-based developer Ola Sevandersson spent a year writing–and...
View ArticleMake a Cropping Tool For Your User Avatars
Now your site can be like Flickr, at least in one aspect. Create a cropping tool to let your users decide what part of their profile photo becomes their avatar to represent them across the site....
View ArticleImage Types Duke Out Over Quality And File Size
The age-old image type debate is going on over at Reddit. What used to be mostly JPG versus GIF now puts JPG up against PNG. Yahoo’s Stoyan Stefanov recently had a series on image optimization. His...
View ArticleTrick Out Your Images With PaintbrushJS
HTML5′s canvas tag is a blank slate that allows you to manipulate all sorts things with JavaScript — everything from complex animations to interactive infographics to videos. For those that want to...
View ArticleTinySrc Shrinks Your Images for Mobile Browsers
If you’ve played around with optimizing your website for small screens, you know one of the big headaches is resizing images. You can set the viewport in your head tags to make sure your main content...
View ArticleMeet WebP, Google’s New Image Format
As part of its self-imposed mission to make the web faster, Google has rolled its own image format. It’s called WebP, and it’s based on open source technology. Google launched the initiative Thursday...
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