>> ^marinara:

i know i'm way too cynical, but how is a videogame (isn't it?) about books going the help kids read


I would not class it as a video game , its just a more modern version of books with popup pages and things to do in them. the activities in it are more "toys" than "games" not that that's a negative thing.



this would help kids to read by making reading which on the face of it is incredibly dull more interesting , you have to remember that reading is utter shit and a chore until it comes naturally , what is entertaining about reading is the content within the writing not the process of converting letters and words into meaning.



Toys/books like this can be enjoyable in themselves and can also help people get through the initial part of reading thats not fun getting people to the a level of comprehension that will then allow them to enjoy deeper stories or novels faster.



Theeming this thing around books allso helps promote the idea that books are fun and not something asoceated with the choir of traditional shitty school learning , father encouraging children to pick up more complex books later on.

People also learn tasks allot faster if they are enjoying themselves whilst they learn.

>> ^campionidelmondo:

I dunno how you'd do it using CS5 software, but using a server-side scripting language like PHP it'd be a matter of a couple of lines of code to enumerate through one folder (of thumbnails) and display each one as a link that points to the bigger image ... given that they have some similarity in name (e.g. the thumbnail of 1.jpg is named 1_tn.jpg or named the same but in a 'thumb' subfolder...).


Beat me to the punch, campioni.

1. From the Bridge side you'll want to run a batch Image Processing to generate your thumbnails (might want to run one action for resizing landscape photos versus run another action for resizing portrait photos). I believe Batch options are in the Tools > Photoshop > Batch menu.

2. From the website end you'll absolutely want to use a more dynamic language (PHP, ASP) to traverse your images/thumbs directories and dynamically generate your gallery. Do not do this manually with static HTML!

3. Fancy up your presentation with pagination (via PHP/ASP) and a lightbox-esque modal window popup for the images when clicking on the thumbnails (I'm personally a fan of Shadowbox but these are a dime a dozen).

Good luck!

>> ^hpqp:

>> ^Encumberance:
I have no idea on how to get that dam thing to embed.

In the "embed" popup, choose "old embed code". (took me a while to figure out too )


Awesome, thnx alot

>> ^Encumberance:

I have no idea on how to get that dam thing to embed.


In the "embed" popup, choose "old embed code". (took me a while to figure out too )

Just awesome. Pity most every popup book that finds itself in our house does not remain working for long before it's destroyed by one of the four kids.

I do love them though

@lucky760 the comments are broken here, they don't show up on the sift's own address, but show up with the comment popup in the overview-view.

You've got to be kidding me ... fucking popup shit.

BTW, I loved this vid. Sorry about the inserted rant--but popups really piss me off.

God told me to cash in--Ka-ching!!

BTW, Does anyone else have a problem with the fucking Canon popup commercial? Fucking thing won't stop--or go away.

Does anyone else have a problem with the fucking Canon popup commercial? Fucking thing won't stop--or go away.

Clearly *viral - my superior Internet Sleuthing(TM) noticed the constant barrage of popup ads for t-shirts at haybalingfun.viralprints.com.

This is the best use of the youtube popup caption things ever.

The sounds that the popups make me piss me off.

http://www.comicfortress.com/mm5/popups/CP1326%20Wonder%20Woman-Mythology.jpg
http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/b1d3fc8b92.jpg
http://i325.photobucket.com/albums/k381/jaysinleigh/hpqscan0004-1.jpg
http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/5774/alexross800.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3069/2614886330_a88ebec5a3.jpg
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff161/MattComics/wwpage0203.jpg

Wonder Woman looks fine as she is. The third one's by the same artist as the redesign, tell me she doesn't look ten times as awesome.

I don't know what it is with Jim Lee, does he actually do any work any more, or does he just creep around ruining iconic costumes? He even managed to screw up Invincible for about two years, just by doing one guest cover.

A 'modern sensibility' means drawing Wonder Woman as a 90s teenager? The jacket is retarded. The choker is retarded. She's somehow acquired new unique one-of-a-kind magic bracers. What about a pair of slacks says 'amazon princess'?

What it boils down to is, there is nothing unique or striking about that new costume. It will never produce a single iconic image.

I am on the internet, making an angry post about comic books.

Both I would think. Nasty popups on that site too.

>> ^ponceleon:

Holy shit... am I nuts or is this real?
http://www.camisecret.com/Default.asp?bhcp=1