Making a Flickr-powered Slideshow

Today we will be developing a jQuery plugin that will make it easy to create slideshows, product guides or presentations from your Flickr photo sets.

The plugin will be using Flickr’s APIs and YQL to fetch the photos in the sets, after which it will create the markup of the slideshow and listen for events.

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Flickr Photobar Gallery with Jquery using API

The aim was to build a bottom photobar that one can easily integrate into a website. It is hidden initially and slides up when the handle is clicked. First, the photo sets are shown and when one of them is chosen, all its images can be viewed as thumbnails.

When a thumbnail is clicked, a full image view appears as an overlay.

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Supersized 3.1 jQuery Plugin – Fullscreen Background Slideshow with Flickr Support

Features

So, what exactly does Supersized do?

• Resizes images to fill browser while maintaining image dimension ratio
• Cycles Images/backgrounds via slideshow with transitions and preloading
• Navigation controls with keyboard support
• Integration with Flickr - pull photos by user, set, or group

Supersized 3.1.3 Slideshow

This version of Supersized has all the options and features you need to get a fullscreen slideshow up and running.

Demos

A collection of sample transitions for the slideshow.

• Fade Transition
• Slide Transition
• Carousel Transition

Supersized 3.1.3 Core

This version is stripped down to just the cored functionality, intended for the people just interested in a fullscreen background.

Demos

Running just the background resizing functionality and loading a random image.

• Core
• Core - Random

Supersized Flickr 1.1.2

This version is a specially tailored version of 3.1.3 that pulls all it's images from Flickr. You need to get an API key to make this work.

Demo

The follow demo pulls from a group pool on Flickr. *Flickr only allows 3,600 calls per hour - if the demo is down, that's why.

• Flickr Group Pool

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