Framing Photos In Real Time

[vengavenga]

Hi,

 

Take a look at this:

 

http://en.easyart.com/scripts/framing/inde...0462&uncropped=

 

and also

 

http://www.PhotosFramed.com

 

It's a very nice effect (for those haven't got time to look, customer uploads photo and chooses frame style/colour, website generates a preview of how the photo will look when framed)

 

There are several sites on the that work in a similar way suggesting that there may be an "off-the-shelf" script that does this - can't find one though.

 

I'm no expert on perl so I wouldn't have a clue where to start if I were to attempt to write a module like this from scratch.

 

Does any of the family know of any scripts that are at least part way there?

 

Thanks

 

Ali.

[TCH-Rob]

Try;

 

http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/27115.html

[vengavenga]

Thanks for that Rob - I did look on Hotscripts, but missed that one

 

It's quite basic in comparison to the ones I've seen working on sites, but it's a good start if nothing else comes up.

 

Anyone else know of any? (cost doesn't matter too much)

 

Cheers

 

Ali.

[TCH-Rob]

Heck, I had never seen that before. I had just done a quick look. I will let you know if I can find anything else. Have you tried contacting the sites webmaster to see if they can tell you?

[LisaJill]

It's probably not as pretty as those frames, but I just use css border styles to emulate frames. You can also use some nifty drop shadow techniques that were documented, I believe, at a list apart.

[MikeJ]

You can use CSS to implement frames dynamically. This is what I use in my blog to automatically frame any images in my "pics/" directory:

>.storycontent img[src*="pics/"]
{       
       padding: 4px;
       border: 1px solid #999;
       background: #fff;
       margin: 5px 0 20px;
}

 

That's a very simplistic example, but you could get a lot fancier with it with more advanced CSS. I believe it's not 100% compatible with all browsers, either, but works for most.

 

That obviously doesn't help with the uploading part though.