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Using TimThumb Part 4: Moving the Crop Location

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Moving the crop position around is by far the most popular feature that has been requested for TimThumb. And today it has been officially released!

To be honest the cropping code was something I had put off as I wanted to keep things nice and easy to use; but then a month ago I found a comment on the TimThumb Google Code page that gave me a nice simple method for adding the alignment code.

Using TimThumb Part 3: Image Filters

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So far I have documented the basic TimThumb functionality, and how to resize images that are on external domains and now things can get interesting. In this part I will talk about some of the features that have been available for a while, but never officially documented - Image Filters.

Image Filters

When I talk about image filters I mean the types of effects you can get in Photoshop or most other image ...

Using TimThumb Part 2: External Websites

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Of all the TimThumb feature requests the most popular are being able to crop an image from a specified location, and being able to load images from external websites. Resizing images from external images was added at the start of 2010 and seems to be working really well.

Like all things TimThumb I tried to make it as easy as possible to use the external images feature, however I had to keep security ...

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Using TimThumb part 1: Getting Started

TimThumb has always been built with simplicity in mind. However there are a few things it can do that have not been exposed before. Inspired by a comment from RBhavesh I have decided to ... read more ›

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The Green Zone

Let's get this out of the way quickly. Yes this is Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass, but it's not the Bourne Identity. Not close. One similarity the two films share is the shaky cam stylings. It's everywhere, even more so than the Bourne ... read more ›

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Sumo Gamer

A couple of years ago Sumo sent me a Sumo Omni bean bag to review. It was fantastic for relaxing on, in particular for sitting around and playing video games or watching movies. But now its time for something new. The ... read more ›

About me

About BenMy name is Ben Gillbanks. I'm a lover of Video Games, WordPress, Web Development and everything in between.

I have been working on the internet since 1998, and working with computers even longer. I am a hardcore Nintendo fanboy and have owned most of their consoles at one stage or another.

Read more about me on my about page.


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