A few updates to the interface have been implemented. You can do a resize without being logged in only to the default sharpen value or no sharpening at all. If logged in, though, the sharpen factor will be reconsidered each time you resize images. This had been implemented only when cropping, now it works also for standard resolution fixed-fit resizing.
Tips to facilitate navigation have been added the main interface buttons.
Un-checking sharper option makes the reshading run faster than with sharpening enabled.
Until now reshade.com has been using browser cookies to store the state of the browsing session. So, when a user pushed the back button the state wouldn’t get back to it’s previous value causing some counter-intuitive situations. Now reshade will be storing all the browsing, except authorisation and related (who is logged in), on each page.
The new reshade will also feature a simpler url structure. Url-encoded strings like this: http://reshade.com/?viewuser=uname&collection=cname etc wil be replaced with: http://reshade.com/user/uname/collection/cname. The change will be backwards compatible, so both kinds of urls will work. Something interesting here is that something like: http://reshade.com/user/uname?collection=cname will work also.
The new system will be deployed tomorrow. Some other interface features will be included too.
After some time even the most beautiful images become boring. Every time when I opened the site the same “best” images over and over. There are quite a few nice new photos but they didn’t stand a chance of getting on the home page very easily. Combining the newest and the best in one filter, the hotest images gallery represent those images that are not quite too old to be boring and not quite too good to be old. They are an interesting mixture of most voted and most recent submissions.
