Hoverizr – An in depth view of the jQuery plugin. As a web designer, from time to time, you may need to make a grayscale image fade into color on mouse over.
So the typical solution would be to have each image desaturated to achieve the grayscale effect in Photoshop. Then, you would have to add a few extra divs and image tags to the markup an then add some jQuery magic to fade the images in and out. Or, you could have merged two images into one larger image with double the height and play around with background positioning in the CSS and Javascript files. Lets have a look at the pros and cons of each of those two solutions: Pros: • If you use an image sprite (both images in one file) then you have one less HTTP request for each image.
Cons: • You have to manipulate each image separately, which means that the client might not be able to update images with that effect dynamically and it is a time consuming proccess.• If you use two images then you will have many HTTP requests. Enter the canvas element. Now let’s dive in. Hoverizr Part 1. 175 Awesome jQuery Slider and Effects Roundup. Slider are very useful and increasingly popular web page elements used for highlighting important content.
By using a jQuery slider plugin, one can create amazing HTML slider effects with fancy animations of content elements like text and images. jQuery takes care of the difficult aspects like browser support and typically when using jQuery plugins it can be done with very little coding effort. This is the reason why jQuery sliders and jQuery banner slideshow scripts have become very popular on most types of websites. They are are typically used to feature multiple products, news, video etc. without taking up a lot of space on the pages. In fact, we see sliders on most news and business websites today and they are placed on the most important location over the fold on the front page. The jQuery library has undoubtedly made the life of web developers easier and made it possible for non-experts to do fancy stuff themselves. Advertisement Article Index Camera Slider – MORE INFO. Automatic Image Montage with jQuery.
Arranging images in a montage like fashion can be a challenging task when considering certain constraints, like the window size when using fullscreen, the right image number to fill all the available space or also the size of the images in use.
With the following script you can automatically create a montage, either for a liquid container or a fixed size container (including fullscreen), with the option to fill all the gaps. View demo Download source Having a white space in the end of the container can, as well, be avoided optionally. The last image of the montage can fill the left space, so that the montage will be left gap-less. Another option that can be useful in some cases is the possibility to only allow that the height of all images will be the height of the smallest image, avoiding that any picture gets pixelated/enlarged. The images used in the demos are by Andrey Yakovlev & Lili Aleeva. The HTML structure Options There are several options for this plugin. Sliding Background Image Menu with jQuery. Supersized 3.2 – Fullscreen Slideshow jQuery Plugin. This version of Supersized has themes, direct slide links, dynamic preloading, and an API.
Introducing Supersized 3.2 Features Resizes images to fill browser while maintaining image dimension ratioCycles backgrounds via slideshow with transitions and dynamic preloadingCore version is available for those that just want background resizing.Navigation controls with keyboard supportIntegration with Flickr – pull photos by user, set, or groupHead over to the project page for all the details. New in Supersized 3.2. How to Create a jQuery Image Cropping Plugin from Scratch – Part I. Web applications need to provide easy-to-use solutions for uploading and manipulating rich content.
This process can create difficulties for some users who have minimal photo editing skills. Cropping is one of the most used photo manipulation techniques, and this step-by-step tutorial will cover the entire development process of an image cropping plug-in for the jQuery JavaScript library. Orbit and Reveal: jQuery Plug-Ins For Image Sliders and Modal Windows - Smashing Magazine. Advertisement A visitor comes to your website all giddy to learn more about your product, when suddenly a snazzy slideshow loads with some snap.
Impressed, they go to register and are greeted by a most elegant modal window. At this point they are finally overjoyed by the velociraptor that suddenly charges across their screen. They don’t know why but they like it. Crafting a polished and unique experience for your users is becoming ever more critical as the Web gets more overloaded. Today, we are thrilled to introduce two new jQuery plug-ins that were developed exclusively for Smashing Magazine readers to liven up your developer tool belts: Orbit, a new slider; and Reveal, a modal plug-in. Why Create Our Own?
Quickly, before diving into the details, some background would be helpful. Flexibility We use these plug-ins for clients, internal projects, our apps and a number of other places. Have a look at a couple of our previous articles: The Wall - A Javascript plugin for Mootools. jQuery Banner Rotator / Slideshow Preview.