Thursday, November 15, 2012

Square Pixels to Other Formats Conversion

Sometimes you need to work in a software that does not support anything besides square pixels format; for example, you might have to use Adobe Flash, but the final output is a PAL or NTSC format. You will have problems unless you prepare your document right beforehand.

Instead of re-doing the calculations every time, here is a reminder for working in square pixels for a final PAL or NTSC output.

Square Pixels to Other formats conversion

  • PAL (720 x 576)
    4:3 square pixels 768 x 576
    Full width square pixels 788 x 576 
  • PAL (720 x 576) widescreen
    16:9 square pixels 1024 x 576
    Full width square pixels 1050 x 576
  • NTSC D1 (720 x 486)
    4:3 square pixels 712 x 534
    Full width square pixels 720 x 534 
  • NTSC D1 (720 x 486) widescreen
    16:9 square pixels 864 x 486
    Full width square pixels 874 x 486 
  • NTSC DV (720 x 480)
    4:3 square pixels 704 x 528
    Full width square pixels 720 x 528 
  • NTSC DV (720 x 480) widescreen
    16:9 square pixels 854 x 480
    Full width square pixels 874 x 480 

Friday, October 5, 2012

The top 5 jQuery lightbox scripts

Everyone loves lightbox javascript effects, since the original Lightbox script there has been countless clones generated for all the popular Javascript libraries. This collection rounds up the top five Lightbox scripts for jQuery in particular, so remember to keep it bookmarked for your next design project!

jQuery Lightbox Plugin

Supported Media: Images

Fancybox

Supported Media: Images, Inline HTML, iFrame

Shadowbox

Supported Media: Images, Inline HTML, iFrame, AJAX, Flash, Video

ThickBox

Supported Media: Images, Inline HTML, iFrame, AJAX

Slimbox 2

Supported Media: Images