TimThumb is a very powerful script to resize images on the fly. It is used by millions of website as it is pretty simple to setup & use. Many of you may be using it already. The most powerful aspect of TimThumb has been its simplicity but it can also do powerful things which aren’t being exposed yet.
To understand TimThumb better, its developers – BinaryMoon have created a series which shows all about installing & using TimThumb. The series covers the following -
Getting Started with TimThumb
This part discuss the basic usage of the script – the minimum parameters to send, and some examples of usage.
Working With External Images
This part covers loading images from external websites & cropping images from a specified location.
Image Filters Using TimThumb
This part talks about image filters, the types of effects you can get in Photoshop or most other image editors. Things like altering brightness and contrast, and blur or emboss. All this functionality is included in TimThumb.
Moving the Crop Location
Moving the crop location has been the most requested feature of TimThumb and now it has been implemented. This part tells all about it.
To know more about TimThumb visit BinaryMoon. If you have more tips & tricks of using TimThumb under your sleeves then please do share them with us.
Raju PP is the founder-editor of Technically Personal. He holds an Engineering degree in Electronics & Communication, and has previously worked as a Technical Specialist in Banking Software domain.
