Primps Video Demo!

So in only 10 takes, I made quick video demo of some of the main features on the site. I'm still trying to find the perfect little icon to link this up with on the main page, but until then here's an old school link...

http://www.primps.com/primps_demo.html

...see, I got the "http://" in there and everything.

How to autoload an image from your site into Primps...

Okay so here's a cool "hidden" feature on the site. You can autoload any image online and have it bypass the initial start screen on Primps (the screen that says "Upload or Choose Photo" , and the autoloaded image will go straight to the editing mode. This is a handy feature if you already have an image on your site and you want your visitors to be able to caption it. I think its a cool idea for web comic authors if they removed their own captions from their comics and gave readers the occasional chance to pen a comic.

Anyway, this is very simple.  The image link on your site just needs to include this in front of it...

http://www.primps.com/index.php?autoload=

So to autoload this image... 

 http://www.yoursite.com/image.jpg

...The full link would just combine the two like...

  http://www.primps.com/index.php?autoload=http://www.yoursite.com/image.jpg

Make sense? Here's some working examples...

http://www.primps.com/index.php?autoload=http://www.mows.com/wordless_comics/mows1.jpg

http://www.primps.com/index.php?autoload=http://www.comingsoon.net/gallery/15533/The_Incredible_Hulk_4.jpg

Cool right.

Primpz is now Primps!

Okay this is somewhat old news. A couple months ago I bought the domain Primps from someone (Sedo.com did a good job handling the transaction). So I switched up the site. Primpz.com will still work of course, but Primps is now the official site name.

Elections Buttons for YOUR Cam-pagan

Hey, long time no blog! Why is that??... well develop-minting on Primpz has continued, but I didn't add much to the objects library so I didn't feel much was blog worthy. Although I did fix one major thing that bothered me from Day 1. When the images were scaled down in Flash they would become pixellated around on the edges. But I had an "oh wait, I know how to fix that" moment, and did something I should have done from Day 1, and boom, we're looking good again. (Flash developers, here's a hint... Library, Click your Image, Check off "Smoothing")

Anyway, enough chit-chat. I have a slew of election / political buttons you can now drop on your own images. Many of the buttons have see-thru middles, so you can surround someone's face with an election button (reminds me of "Pick Flick" if you remember the movie Election) . And the rest of the buttons have blank middles so you can enter in text there.

Also if you haven't already noticed, if you create a caption bubble, but don't want the bubble and just want the text, you can right click and select "Toggle Bubble Visibility", or you can take the Transparency down incrementally using the "Adjust Transparency" button on the main toolbar.

Oh and speaking of the visuals options in the toolbar, I did add a Bevel feature, and the RGB sliders are now tucked in there instead of floating on bottom. Much cleaner, methinks.

Alright, I'm outtie!

Ka-Pow!

Tonight I added to the FX category a whole slew of different explosions. So have fun dropping those bad-boys on top of your images.

Also under the FX section is what I'm calling "Color Plates". Basically these are squares of vector art that once piled on top of your image (or other objects) will change their color. For example, here's a kind of 2001 effect....



Get the idea yet? Here's an example of one of the color plates only taking up half the image....



That one's more of a photo-negative effect.

This used to be a man....

....and it still is. Just much less of a man. So if the image above and below aren't a major tip off, I've added eye makeup to the Primpz Object Library. So as usual, just upload or link up your image, and quickly drop in some of these funky eye templates to your file.




Also I meant to point this out before, but one of the great things about using .png files to add on top of your images, is the alpha channel not only gives you a cookie-cutter type outline of your object, but there's also some subtle (or not-so-subtle) transparency added within many of the png files. For example, if you add some of the sunglasses to your image, you'll notice many of the lenses allow you to see-through to the image below. Notice the collar through the lens...



(went a little crazy with the lens flares)

Side burns, soul patches, and more added to the library!

Alrighty, a whole shload of new stuff has been added to the library of .png's you can add onto your images. More Facial Hair, Sunglasses, more Hats, and a few more in the previous categories.