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Re: JQuery Blend Modes plugin - A new mouse hover idea ..

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Post by mappu »

These TLD previews (dropbox.com) are great, but one day, someone's going to host a phishing page or a fake news post on their dropbox and link it here, and someone's going to fall for it.

On topic, i think this is the first time i've seen someone actually try to sell a jQuery plugin.. i wish you the best of luck, especially when the source is right there.

The plugin itself is obviously going to work out best for people when the desired effect is easier to generate in javascript than it is to precompute, which is almost never the case - well, maybe for some classes of dynamically generated content (cloning instagram client-side?)

Re: JQuery Blend Modes plugin - A new mouse hover idea ..

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Post by drivebyacct2 »

mappu wrote: post #4

These TLD previews (dropbox.com) are great, but one day, someone's going to host a phishing page or a fake news post on their dropbox and link it here, and someone's going to fall for it. On topic, i think this is the first time i've seen someone actually try to sell a jQuery plugin.. i wish you the best of luck, especially when the source is right there. The plugin itself is obviously going to work out best for peop…

Are you saying you trust it more if it just comes from a random TLD? That... seems very naive.

As for the plugin, it seems... not terribly difficult or expensive (computationally). Chrome on my phone handled it fine.

Re: JQuery Blend Modes plugin - A new mouse hover idea ..

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Post by [deleted] »

mappu wrote: post #4

These TLD previews (dropbox.com) are great, but one day, someone's going to host a phishing page or a fake news post on their dropbox and link it here, and someone's going to fall for it. On topic, i think this is the first time i've seen someone actually try to sell a jQuery plugin.. i wish you the best of luck, especially when the source is right there. The plugin itself is obviously going to work out best for peop…

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Re: JQuery Blend Modes plugin - A new mouse hover idea ..

#7

Post by waxjar »

I don't really see why I would use something like this. Just eye candy?

With the exception of the 4th picture, they all come out worse. The last image (of the boat) suffers in particular. If you're considering using this plugin, I'd first consider precomputing it with an application like Photoshop. Seems a lot easier (no fiddling with jQuery settings) and I think you would end up with a picture of higher quality.

*I didn't mean to sound so negative. It's a good attempt; it obviously works.

Re: JQuery Blend Modes plugin - A new mouse hover idea ..

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Post by Keithamus »

bkyan wrote: post #2

Do these effects require two images to begin with, or does it work with only one image to begin with, and the script generates the 2nd image?

The script duplicates the images inside of a tag, which goes exactly on top of the current image. It then uses the canvas to provide the blend-mode functionalities.

Here is the source: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/45557606/Envato/CodeCanyon/jQuery-Bl...

Re: JQuery Blend Modes plugin - A new mouse hover idea ..

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Post by andybak »

waxjar wrote: post #7

I don't really see why I would use something like this. Just eye candy? With the exception of the 4th picture, they all come out worse. The last image (of the boat) suffers in particular. If you're considering using this plugin, I'd first consider precomputing it with an application like Photoshop. Seems a lot easier (no fiddling with jQuery settings) and I think you would end up with a picture of higher quality. *I…

Can you clarify what you mean by 'worse'? The clipping, over-saturation and other 'defects' are all intentional aspects of this kind of process.

Or do you mean something else?

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