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August 09, 2007

CFImage Effects Library for ColdFusion 8

I have been very busy today launching the CFImage Effects Component for ColdFusion 8.

The product includes five handy effects:

Reflection Effect
Drop Shadow Effect
Rounded Corners Effect
Gradient Rectangle Fill
Plastic Effect

Examples

The following example simply uses the Reflection Effect

This next example I attempted to draw the CF8 logo using CF8. It makes use of the Gradient Rectangle Filler, the Drop Shadow Effect and also ColdFusion 8's built-in ImageDrawText function.

Next I am using several of the effects (Rounded Corners, Gradient, and Reflection) to create a plastic button:

Check out the CFImage Effects homepage for more info.

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On 08/10/2007 at 9:21:47 AM MDT Andy Matthews wrote:

Pete...

You really should have examples of all of the effects this component is capable of. The ones you have look great though.

by the way, your presentation on security at CFUnited was quite good. Thanks for it.

On 08/10/2007 at 9:36:19 AM MDT Pete Freitag wrote:

Thanks Andy! You're right I will be adding more examples to the foundeo website soon.

On 08/12/2007 at 7:27:45 AM MDT Michael White wrote:

I bought the CFImage Effects Library and I think it's great. In the next version, maybe have a way to specify which corners for the rounded corner effect in case you only want the top corners rounded. I was fooling around with combining the rounded corners with the drop-shadow and it's hard to get it to look right on all four corners. So I don't know if you can have a special rounded-corner-shadow or just a two-corner rounded effect

On 08/12/2007 at 7:49:21 AM MDT Michael White wrote:

Maybe some kind of image overlay offset effect to create a drop shadow on text then overlay that on a gradient rectangle with rounded corners (and a drop shadow on the rectangle, too?)

On 08/14/2007 at 4:34:58 PM MDT Pete Freitag wrote:

Hi Michael,

Perhaps a future update could include a rounded drop shadow option. I may also include the ability to specify which corners have the drop shadow.