{"id":10947,"date":"2005-08-25T16:05:58","date_gmt":"2005-08-25T16:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2005\/08\/network-publishing-flickr-style.html"},"modified":"2005-08-25T16:05:58","modified_gmt":"2005-08-25T16:05:58","slug":"network_publishing_flickr_style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/25\/network_publishing_flickr_style\/","title":{"rendered":"Network Publishing, Flickr-style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Watson has crafted a very cool <a href=\"http:\/\/flagrantdisregard.com\/flickr\/magazine.php\">magazine cover generator<\/a> that combines photos from Flickr with text you enter.  Give it a spin, or check out <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/groups\/flickrtoys\/\" \/>some examples.<\/a> [Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.makezine.com\/blog\/\" \/>MAKE Magazine<\/a>]<br \/>\nI have a special affinitiy for this kind of thing.  I managed to talk my way into AGENCY.COM as a designer, but having no formal training, I often found myself slinging GIFs in menial graphics production.  Having determined that creating the same graphical text 200 times in a row does, indeed, kind of suck, I built a graphics engine using Macromedia Generator.  It let teammates or even clients themselves enter text into an HTML form, then get back a GIF.  Upshot: Let the creative folks spend their time creating, instead of being a bottleneck for production.  That&#8217;s the idea behind the new Variables feature in Photoshop CS2, as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/server\/graphics\/main.html\"> Adobe Graphics Server<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/indesign\/indservermain.html\">Adobe InDesign Server<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Watson has crafted a very cool magazine cover generator that combines photos from Flickr with text you enter. Give it a spin, or check out some examples. [Link via MAKE Magazine] I have a special affinitiy for this kind of thing. I managed to talk my way into AGENCY.COM as a designer, but having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10947"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}