Librarian
From the monthly archives:
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post called Picnik: Easy Photo Editing Online about the online photoediting site Picnik. But I have to write about it again because I keep discovering new features every time I use it.
The big news of the past week was adding Facebook support — which brought over 100,000 new Picnik accounts in just a matter of a few days. This should be great for all those libraries who use Facebook to communicate with students and others.
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Flickr badges are an easy way to add Flickr images to your website. Once you’ve added the right snippet of code to your pages, they will display new or random assortments of pictures from your library’s Flickr account. This can be a really easy way to keep your pages looking fresh and interesting, and to have your pages display new photographs as soon as you add them to Flickr.
You create the badges using a wizard on the Flickr website which you can find on the Tools page. There are options for an animated Flash style badge, or an HTML badge with several option. You can select content from a group, a set, by a tag, or using a combination. For the HTML badges, you can choose to use the most recent photos or a random assortment, and you can choose how many photos to display. For either badge style, you can choose colors and borders, or with some knowledge of HTML and CSS, you can style it yourself.
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Google made an interesting change two weeks ago, ranking and integrating web links, books, images, music and more all in a single search results page. Images and videos are displayed with thumbnails. I especially like the way results from Google Video and YouTube are displayed:
Clicking on the link or the thumbnail takes you to the video’s page on Google Video or YouTube, and clicking on the Watch Video link lets you watch it directly from the search results page.
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If you’re using WordPress for your blog, you’re no doubt familiar with the default theme, Kubrick, with the big blue box header:
Blog Header Generator — If you’d like to keep that theme but use one of your own photographs as a background, try this easy tool from fd’s Flickr Toys collection. You can upload a photograph from your PC, or choose one from your Flickr photostream or from another URL, click on Create, and you’ll get back the image you need, cropped, sized and ready for use.
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Palette Generator — “Automagically create a harmonious color palette from a photograph”
Choosing a palette of colors for your website or for a particular web project is a difficult task for many of us, but here’s something that can really help. Just select a photograph from your Flickr account, your PC, or any webpage, click on Create, and this tool will present a matching palette of colors, with numbered color swatches and a simple CSS sample.
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