Before I go about creating something I'm curious if you guys know if something like this already exists. BTW: I mean Image swapping/rotation not rotating the image 90degs.

I have a large image which is sliced into 10 different images (loads quicker) and I would like to rotate the larger image (made up of smaller images) and swap it periodically with another large sliced image. I can't seem to find anything which allows this mode of operation. If I didn't have the image sliced up it would be simple there are tons of image rotation scripts out there but none that handle this situation.

I tried to use one Image Rotation script and setup each of the sections in different directories then had one php script for each directory and it seemed to work fine when the website loads quickly otherwise the slices are all mismatched so that won't work. Maybe if I had a rotation script which operated on a timer this might work better but its still a cludgy solution.

Thoughts or suggestions?

Thx,

Justin

4/12/2006 4:17:04 PM

Keep it a single image and adjust the compression?

4/12/2006 4:19:15 PM

I was really wanting to keep the quality of the image quality as high as possible but your probably right its alot of work for something so silly.

Is there a acceptable image file size that I should keep it under or is it just a matter of experimenting with load times?

[Edited on April 12, 2006 at 4:26 PM. Reason : p]

4/12/2006 4:26:01 PM

you can preload all the images and use javascript to swap the images, but i would recommend making a different web page for each image and just have the page redirect on a timer (or is there more on the page than the giant image?).

4/12/2006 4:28:18 PM

Photoshop will tell you the exact size and approx load times (on 56k) during editting.


Or just do 2 sites, and adjust the quality of the images for the low-bandwidth site.

4/12/2006 4:32:33 PM

do you want it to do it dynamically as you sit on that page or just have a different image show up each time you load the page (sorta like the ads on tww)?

if it's the latter it should be real easy in PHP and if it's the former, it's probably real easy to do in Flash

[Edited on April 12, 2006 at 4:39 PM. Reason : probably]

4/12/2006 4:35:51 PM