Amazing automatic magazine layout for photos
The guys over at A List Apart really know what they are doing, they either created or found out about this awesome script and are showing us how to impliment it into our sites. It is a must see for anyone who wants to add photos to their site and wants them to look good. Keep in mind, the real genius is that this script is automatic.
Auto-resized images are a common feature on the web now. Automating the process of resizing images saves a lot of time—it’s certainly quicker than manually resizing images in Photoshop—and is a good way to manage images on a site. But when a good designer crops your images manually, they always looks better.
The problem with automatic uploads is particularly evident when several images of completely different dimensions are displayed together on a page, such as four product images that have been uploaded through a content management system (CMS). Finding an attractive way of displaying any two, three, or four images together (regardless of shape and size) has always been difficult without manual resizing or cropping.