Foundeo has released 3 new Image Effects for ColdFusion 8!

The first is sepia tone, you can see an example image to the left. Sepia tone was popular in the 1800's (used to give black and white photos a bit of color), but thanks to modern photoediting technology is making a comeback.

It was nice to see that two of the quirks that I talk about in my Image Processing in ColdFusion 8 presentation were fixed in ColdFusion 8, Update 1 - they are:

The cfimage tag and image functions now retain EXIF data after operating on an image.

Last week when I gave my Image Manipulation with ColdFusion 8 presentation at the New York City ColdFusion Users Group, several people asked me to blog this slide.

I will be speaking at the New York City ColdFusion Users Group this Wednesday March 26th at 6:30pm. My topic is Image Manipulation in ColdFusion 8. You will learn how to manipulate and extract information from existing image files, and also how to create your own images from scratch.

Foundeo is holding a special promotion through the rest of 2007. We have bundled Foundeo's popular Image Effects Component for ColdFusion 8 along with the full source of our Simple Feed Parser for ColdFusion for $49.99 (you save $139!).

One example that I've been meaning to post is how to get Image Metadata using the Exchangeable Image File Format or EXIF a using ColdFusion 8. It's actually quite simple, to get a list of all the EXIF tags simply use the ImageGetExifMetaData function.

Last night I gave a presentation on Image Processing and Manipulation with ColdFusion 8 at the ColdFusion Online Meetup. The recording is now available.

Charlie Arehart, the host of the ColdFusion Meetup, has also posted it on his UGTV.

I gave a presentation on ColdFusion 8's CFIMAGE tag, Image Functions, and Foundeo's CFImage Effects Component yesterday to the Albany, NY CFUG.

I have made the code samples & slides available online.

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