Thanks for looking, and for your comments, Moose. You are not wrong about
the "barebones" gallery, nor the resolution of the images.
I also agree that it is so far a toy, but I think you have hit the nail on
the head with "Brooklyn" - this seems to be what PicLens does best,
providing an immediate overview of the entire contents of an image library,
with the option to look closer. The challenge is to make the closer look
one that is worth the effort.
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Piers
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From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Moose
Sent: 17 March 2008 04:41
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] Piclens -embedding in an album
Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> The first thing I noticed about Piclens is that it causes the cooling
> fan on my video card to turn on... instantly. Before trying Piclens I
> had never heard the fan running. I at least know now that it works
> but I hate the sound of fans. I didn't much care for Piclens either.
> Seems to do a lot of graphical backflips to no apparent good. It's
> more like some programmer's "hey, dudes, look at what I can do" event
> than anything useful.
Well, it's just a toy, at least so far. I think I choose a poor example for
my first try. It seems more useful for a big gallery composed of lots of
subgalleries. Seeing the whole wall of images and pulling it back and forth
gives an overview of what's inside in a more organized, detailed form.
<http://galleries.moosemystic.net/Brooklyn/>
> I think I'll stick with the nicely crafted high resolution images that I
just enjoy looking at while they're standing still.
>
That's why I wish I knew a way to make double clicks display the gallery
image at native resolution. I've dropped them a not about that. that way,
PicLens could be a different index into the full quality images.
I would be possible to create and clog up the server with a second, larger
size, set of images for the RSS feed, but that isn't appealing for most
uses. As it is, PL produces a separate directory of images, but it's easy
enough to change the RSS file to point to the same ones being used for the
normal gallery and avoid duplicates.
Moose
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From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Moose
Sent: 15 March 2008 22:21
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] Piclens -embedding in an album
Interesting sample. I can't say I'm impressed with the bare bones "album"
Also, image quality is pretty crappy on the animated "wall". If I click on
an image, the small jpg that displays is a good looking, sharp, image. I
assume this is what you provided. In the "wall", however, although the
partially enlarged version you get when an image is single clicked is about
the same size as the original, but badly pixelated and fuzzy looking. Double
click and the full screen version is really bad.
I tried adding the slide show button to an existing gallery with bigger
original images. The result isn't bad.
<http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseEats/>
This approach maintains the look and functionality of the original gallery
and doesn't require that anything be installed on the viewing browser,
although javascript has to be enabled.
Starting with bigger originals results in nice, sharp, single click images
and not so bad full screen images. It would be nice to have a way to use the
originals as the double click images.
Moose
Piers Hemy wrote:
> Thanks for this link, Ali, it looks a very interesting presentation tool.
> Indeed, Fernando, there are supported and non-supported sites - but
> the beauty of it is that, having downloaded Piclens Publisher, it is
> easy to make personal webpage albums Piclens-supported.
>
> Here is a quick example:
> http://www.hemy.me.uk/Gallery-SW/Chernobyl/gallery.html
>
> ... which I knocked together instantly, with no additional effort
> required (you can see what little effort was put in, no doubt) from
> images which appear also in this form:
> http://www.hemy.me.uk/Gallery-SW/Chernobyl/index.html
>
> The first link shows thumbnails. If you have installed Piclens itself
> (Piclens Publisher is not required) each thumbnail has a "play" button
> which appears on a mouse-over. Alternatively, at the bottom of the
> page there is a "Start Slide Show" link.
>
> Comparing the two treatments, Piclens does not offer an obvious way to
> provide titles etc - but it could be argued that would get in the way
> of the images anyway.
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