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Google Plus pages.

Wednesday, November 9th, 2011

Not sure yet the value of a Google+ page vs a normal Google+ account for Photographers, but that may come as they develop the service.

One thing I have notice while looking into pages is a bunch of people talking about “ERROR CHANGING MEMBERSHIP” problems, if you take a look at Google’s tips for the new pages feature you will find this:

“2. No Google+ Page Can Follow You Until You Follow Them

We want Google+ to be a place you love to share. Pages cannot circle you until you follow them first…”

So if you have a Google plus page and you are trying to follow someone and see “ERROR CHANGING MEMBERSHIP” remember they have to follow you first.

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Creating a Google Plus Thumbnail Panorama Template.

Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

Photoshop G+ Pano Template Screenshot

I have seen several templates for creating a Google Plus Thumbnail Panorama, but they seem to over-complicate what has to be done. If we go back to the dawn of Photoshop there is a tool that does all the work for us: the slice tool. Using the slice tool to create a thumbnail panorama is as easy as downloading my PSD template – or creating your own PSD that is 670px by 134px with 5 square 134px slices – adding your image (resizing and positioning as needed) and saving for the web.

g+ pano template.psd

Gimp:
You can also use the PSD template with the free, open source image editor Gimp. The process does not seem to be as automated, but someone who uses Gimp regularly may be able to correct me on that. Once you open the PSD and add your image to the template, in Gimp’s image menu choose transform and then Guillotine.

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SimpleViewer 2 and Fotomoto

Monday, September 13th, 2010

Currently SimpleViewer 2 does not provide a method for clicking an image and running a function. You can however get around this short coming by embedding the simpleviewer.swf into another swf and placing a transparent button over your image area. Note you wont be able to use the image overlay navigation and you will need to make your gallery size static. The other option is to create normal purchase button that calls the purchaseImage function.
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How To: SimpleViewer 2 and SWFAddress.

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

As this is an update to an existing post I will dispense with a basic introduction. The major difference between this post and the previous is that the new version uses Actionscript 3. Here is the deep linking example of SimpleViewer 2 and SWFAddress 2.4.

What you will need to download:

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How to: Adding SWFAddress to SimpleViewer

Friday, May 15th, 2009

If you are using SimpleViewer 2 please use
the How To: SimpleViewer 2 and SWFAddress post instead.

SimpleViewer is an flash gallery that has gained some popularity on the net. Like with anything in this world of ours, it has strengths and weaknesses. It’s primary strength is that it allows people who do not know a lot about flash to set up a flash gallery. One of it’s weaknesses is that it does not handle deep linking in flash. Adding deep linking to SimpleViewer allows you to link to an individual image within the gallery instead of just being able to link to the base Flash movie clip. In this article I will show you how to add deep linking to SimpleViewer using SWFAddress.

With the integration of SWFAddress, the browser history will update every time you click a thumbnail, allowing for the use of the browser’s back button. You also get a nice clean URL, and the updating of the URL allows users to link to individual images which wouldn’t be possible otherwise.

I will be focusing on a Multiple galleries example, but you could easily adapt this if you only have one gallery.

Here is an Example of the finished working code or you can check out my galleries.

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