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Design Color Scheme From A Photograph

February 2, 2010

As a designer I find inspiration for color schemes from all over. From architecture, nature, to paintings and photographs. I’ve driven by houses with a great color scheme and thought to myself “That would make a great color scheme for a website!”.

Using Photoshop’s Filter > Pixelate > Mosaic, we can grab a photograph and find a great scheme from it! Hover the below photos to see the scheme they produce at 65 cell size. Photographs with a wide array of colors will work best.

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Embed Facebook Fan Page Photo Albums In WordPress

January 8, 2010

It is a great idea to have a Facebook fan page for your company, club or organization.

This is a minor hack of the Fotobook plugin for WordPress by Aaron Harp. Fotobook is originally meant to apply your personal photo albums into WordPress, but we’re going to make one small code tweak to instead pull the albums from the fan page that we administer.

After installing the plugin, go ahead and activate it and grant the permissions to your Facebook account.

Next, visit your Facebook fan page, and click into an album so you’re viewing all photos in one particular album. In the address bar you’ll see a &id=123123123. Copy that ID number.

In the plugin directory open the fotobook.php file and head down to line 243 and look for this code.

$uid = $session['uid'];

Swap that code for this

//$uid = $session['uid'];
$uid = 123123123;

With the 123123123 being the ID code for your fan page.

If you have a custom URL set for your fan page you might notice that the album photos are not showing. To correct that move down around line 809 in fotobook.php and look for:

if(!is_numeric($id)) return false;

And code it out of use by adding // in front so that it now looks like

//if(!is_numeric($id)) return false;

Back in the plugin administration page, go ahead and import your albums. And you should be good to go!

With a thanks to B. Thibault in the forums at the Fotobook Application Page.