360icon is home to an collection of stunning, ethereal panoramas that capture empty buildings and desolate landscapes. 360icon uses QuickTime for most of their panoramas (so they can be rotated), but for their “Equirectangular” gallery they’re using SlideShowPro for Flash to present static panoramas that expose the entire dynamic range of 360-degree imagery in flat 2D.
The portfolio site for photographer Lorne Resnick is full of beautiful photography divided up into seven sections. Each section loads its own instance of SlideShowPro for Flash, and each are accompanied by a very clever navigation customization that mixes embedded elements like the thumbnail navigation with their own buttons and a crisp border that keeps it all together.
ahsi, which is short for Abstract Hair Studio’s Inc., is using SlideShowPro on their business site to showcase their portfolio of work as well as product photography. The site begins with a clever interactive element, and you engage the site menu by double clicking anywhere on the page (for near zero Fitts’s law). Click on “Works”, and SlideShowPro is there loading split frame images along with an external navigation, caption, and image counter all custom made by the developer. Great photos, nice presentation.
A double shot of SlideShowPro examples sent in by their creator, Michael Davis. The first is Oliver Peoples, an eyewear company. SlideShowPro is being used on their home page to present an interesting mix of black and white photographs grouped together in pairs and sequenced to tell a mysterious story. The second is the famous (or is it infamous?) Gramercy Park Hotel, which is well known in design circles for its unorthodox, ground breaking interior design and art direction. SlideShowPro is used on multiple pages, with a nice serif typeface used for its numerical navigation, and a “floating” look that removes the component’s outer border and sets the navigation background to the same color as the page for a look that’s clean and stylish.
Pogo Pictures, who are literally a few miles from SlideShowPro HQ in Atlanta, are using SlideShowPro…well…everywhere on their web site. It displays photos on their home page, videos on the “Directors” pages (with an external thumbnail loader), recent images on the News page, and background images (with an external navigation overlay) in their Space and Locations sections. Each instance is managed and updated by the Pogo staff using SlideShowPro Director on the back-end.
A great example of the flexibility SlideShowPro and Director offer by tapping into nearly every facet of what’s possible with both applications.
The portfolio for Matt Marcinkowski Photography is using SlideShowPro and SlideShowPro Director to present his collection of original work. Featuring one of the more interesting customizations of SlideShowPro I’ve seen, the component is scaled wide, and all slideshow content is aligned Center Right (through Content Align). The gallery, play/pause, and full screen buttons were removed (through Navigation Buttons Appearance) to leave nothing but thumbnails and navigation link icons. The background of all component elements were made transparent, and the designer positioned graphical shapes underneath (like the ovals underneath the navigation icons and the horizontal gradient behind the slideshow imagery) for extra style. Finally, an external navigation was added for selecting albums from outside the embedded gallery interface.
In all, a creative and engaging implementation that shows how far you can get by customizing SlideShowPro’s parameters.
Fans of the American rock group Wilco will recognize SlideShowPro at wilcoworld.net, the official web site for the band. With large images of the group performing live around the world, the gallery is fantastic collection of original photos you won’t see anyplace else.
Be still my beating heart. Photographer Don Flood, who appears to specialize in capturing female fashion models and celebrities, is using SlideShowPro to showcase a gorgeous portfolio of work. Nearly every inline interface item in SlideShowPro is turned off, with the exception of the minimal “Line” preloader animation, and replaced with a simple, two button external navigation for flipping through photos. With the exception of the splash page, SlideShowPro is used on every page in the site, with great style. Check it out.
Filled with large, beautiful photos, the portfolio site of photojournalist David Brabyn is crisp, clean, and satisfyingly simple. SlideShowPro’s background, as well as the navigation’s background, are styled white so the images and navigation buttons (which are using our first extra button pack “Quartz”) float above the page. Loads of beautiful portraits and news imagery to see.
Photographer Joel Aron is using SlideShowPro on his portfolio site to showcase his large collection of original work. SlideShowPro’s “Crop to Fit” Album Type is dramatically used with large images and in-line typography serving as the links for his albums. Plenty of great images as well, so be prepared to stay a while.
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