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TutorialsImproving image quality by preventing correctly sized images being resized
7 January 2011 | | | Supports v2.4, v2.3
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Sometimes you'll have to create websites for clients that are very demanding when it comes to image quality, say graphic designers or photographers. SilverStripe can be a showstopper here, since images are always being re-saved when you're using something like $SetHeight in your template. This can reduce image quality quite a lot, especially when using JPEG images.
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TutorialsAdding an image to a blog post using Decorators and the SilverStripe Blog Module
31 May 2011 | | | Supports v2.4, v2.3
TweetThe Silverstripe blog module is great and its made its way into many of my Silverstripe sites. However, for most designers it is missing one vital aspect; an image field for each post. In this tutorial I'm going to show you how to quickly add an image to the blog module without editing any of it's files, allowing hassle free upgrading in future.
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TutorialsRotating and Greyscaling Images using GD and Decorators
8 December 2010 | | | Supports v2.4
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Some of you might have noticed that SilverStripe's GD class has a couple of interesting looking functions, namely rotate($angle) and greyscale($Red, $Green, $Blue). However it was never quite clear how to use these functions (at least not to me anyway!). So after a bit of trial and error, it turns out it's pretty simple to achieve by decorating the image class and adding a couple of simple functions...
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TutorialsWorking with banners
13 July 2009 | | | Supports v2.4, v2.3
TweetMost of the sites I work on are for corporate/business clients and there is not typically a lot of fancy motion graphics going on. I do like to ensure there is some dynamic element going on, just to provide a bit of interest and one of the simplest ways to achieve this is by some variation of the random/rotating banners scenario. Of course this could equally apply to other parts of the page, not just banner graphics.
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