Tag Archives: GIMP

Presenting a Procedural Button Click Tutorial

We’ve long struggled with a presentation approach towards depicting … … in the slide of a procedural click or tap taking place, we have trouble specifying what was clicked to arrive at the results slide which follows … … though, occasionally we’ve used macOS Preview’s “Speech Bubbles” in PDF presentations, as we explained at Preview PDF Annotation Bubbles Primer Tutorial. Somehow, we think that “Speech Bubbles” idea is not as good as a new idea we stumbled upon (and used, … Continue reading →

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Image Conversions via PHP GD Overlay Reveal Tutorial

Around here, we have two words we like to approach the topic of “web design”, where it meets “practicality”, with … reveal overlay And so, onto yesterday’s Image Conversions via PHP GD Multiple Actions Tutorial‘s progress with our Image Conversions via PHP GD web application we were keen to think that an “overlay” concept could be part of the workings, at the image creation stage of the web design. Supposing you have a set of images that go to make … Continue reading →

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Image Conversions via PHP GD Multiple Actions Tutorial

We’ve waited a while preparing for today’s release of “multiple actions” functionality onto yesterday’s Image Conversions via PHP GD Transformations Tutorial. From how we see it we had a choice of two approaches to delivering this new functionality … start using select (ie. dropdown) element multiple attribute approach … but, especially because we are separating GD “Filters” into one dropdown and “Transformations” into another, we think it would be better to … start prefixing ✔ (✔ tick) emoji to selected … Continue reading →

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Image Conversions via PHP GD Transformations Tutorial

In today’s work progressing yesterday’s Image Conversions via PHP GD Command Line Tutorial‘s outcomes … we add into the GD “Filtering” thinking, some “Transformations” … Image Transformations …Image Transformation Ask Arguments …FlipFlip VerticalFlip HorizontalRotationScale … thinking and functionality … and then … we cater for a “curl” mode of use … by, up in that top newish block of code “recreating” a non-existant $argv[] and $argc to precede any “command line” code that fills in $_POST[] array to join in … Continue reading →

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Image Conversions via PHP GD Command Line Tutorial

In the online woooooorrrrrlllllddd (of surfing the net in a web browser) we hope you see “nothing to see here” different to yesterday’s Image Conversions via PHP GD Filters Tutorial‘s exploits with our image conversion PHP web application. And though this is the boring partner in … must not break previous logics … must work for new functionality … adage around here trying to keep “backward compatibility” as you move forward with a project, it is, often, the most important … Continue reading →

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Image Absolute URL Conversions via PHP GD Filters Tutorial

So far with the progress regarding yesterday’s Image Conversions via PHP GD Filters Tutorial‘s PHP image conversion web application, it has been … all relative (ie. relative image URL(s) or file specification) … but, today, quietly, we allow for … absolute image URL(s), comma separated as required … that will not succeed with all absolute URL(s), but with those images on web servers that allow the PHP file_get_contents function access to their image data. Please seek permission to use images … Continue reading →

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Image Conversions via PHP GD Filters Tutorial

Once in the (PHP) GD-land of yesterday’s Image Conversions via PHP GD Primer Tutorial, you’d be mad not to facilitate some image filtering which GD is so good at. And so, we have included an optional usage dropdown as per … Image Filter …Image Filter Ask Arguments …EmbossNegateEdgeNegedgeGrayscaleGaussian BlurSelective BlurSharpenBoxblurColourizePixellateSmoothContrastBrightnessSketchyColourize RedColourize GreenColourize Blue … into the mix. We add this select element “dropdown” within the HTML form method=POST action=”Here’s looking at you kid” arrangement. Initially it gets assigned just an … Continue reading →

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Image Conversions via PHP GD Primer Tutorial

Regular readers at this place will know about our admiration for ImageMagick and its command line (“convert” for macOS and Linux and “magick.exe” for Windows) image conversion functionality. Even so, ImageMagick is not capable of … convert filespec*.*g* *.jpeg … type of image conversion, in bulk, kind of processing (which Gimp offered with its sadly departed Bimp conversion software in the past). But tailored PHP use of the GD (image manipulation) library, helped out by (good ol’) PHP glob, is! … Continue reading →

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