As you may have noticed, i edited a bit. I’ve implemented a new gimmick for my images, it’s like Ambilight in a TV. A small script gets the average color of the first image and fills the background with it. Not just flat, but with a small gradient from the top left, to black in the lower right corner.

As usual, this was just a conversion of a simple idea i had with a pixelpost-addon months ago, and ended up in something on this page. I’m pretty sure i can find some more usages for a snippet like this, maybe something like this guy – haha ;-)

If you’re interested in what i’ve done, here is the code:

<?php 

$post_id = $post->ID;
$single = true;

$key = image;
if ( $image_value = get_post_meta($post_id, $key, $single) ) :

// Read … read the story…

Quite a big change happened in the last days. I grew tired of using the same old system for my portfolio, so this is the new pixelblog.
Pixelpost is good as what it stands for, just being a portfolio with simple archive and slider funcionalities. Since i’d like to share memories, where not only one picture stands for, but probably more, i needed a system where i could add as many pictures as wanted to share the moment. Since quite some time i use WordPress for nearly everyhing personal, back then it was still called bb2press. So the descision for using WordPress as my new system for my photoblog was not hard to take.
I don’t want to get too deep into specifications, but this blog is – as by now – the currently most future-proof site … read the story…