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Detect if a GIF is Animated
If you tweet an animated GIF, you'll notice that Twitter takes it and converts it to an mp4. I'd speculate that they do that conversion because an MP4 is better supported across platforms, at least in that they allow for playing/pause of the animation. And with...
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Create Screenshots from Videos
The idea behind my Get the First Frame of an Animated GIF with ImageMagick post was to improve a page's performance by not loading an animated GIF automatically, but instead grab the first frame, display it, and allow users to "click to activate" the GIF. That strategy...
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Create Image Thumbnails with ImageMagick
ImageMagick is, for lack of better term, magic. You can throw just about anything at it and succeed. With that in mind, I was recently using Google Page Speed to see how I could improve my website and it occurred to me I wasn't generating thumbnails for...
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Convert PSD to PNG from Command Line
I've been fascinated by basic image manipulation these days, which led to my Get the First Frame of an Animated GIF with ImageMagick and How to Create Screenshots in Firefox posts. It was brought up in a comment to the Animated GIF post that ImageMagick can also...
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Get the First Frame of an Animated GIF with ImageMagick
ImageMagick has been the industry standard for image manipulation for as long as I can remember. Hell, I remember using the ImageMagick extension when I first learned PHP over a decade ago. Anyways, I've noticed recently that many sites which host animated GIFs will have a static image initially and will...
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Image Manipulation with PHP and the GD Library
Yeah, I'm a Photoshop wizard. I rock the selection tool. I crop like a farmer. I dominate the bucket tool. Hell, I even went as far as wielding the wizard wand selection tool once. ...OK I'm rubbish when it comes to Photoshop.
