Want to Make Your Polaroid Modules Look Good?
Ever use the Polaroid Module and have the image turn out not quite right? I have. I kept looking for a lens on how to use the Polaroid Module and finally decided to do one.
I had a lot of fun with the Three Bears in explaining what to do to get the Polaroid Module, “Just Right.”
For me one of the main benefits of the Polaroid Module is that you can upload a large image easily and quickly without needing to use or know any HTML.
The lens also includes several other fun examples with ways of making a Polaroid-style image online as well as information for the graphic gurus for making a Polaroid-style image from scratch.
This page was created for the Squidoo Answer Deck.
August 10th, 2008 at 2:10 am
I don’t quite get why we can’t use a bigger image than will fit. Won’t squidoo just resize it?
August 10th, 2008 at 2:30 am
Katinka
I didn’t run the load time for the Squidoo lenses, but I figured that any image larger than it needed to be, would slow down the time it takes to load a lens page. I try to compress the Polaroid images into files sizes that aren’t bigger than 30 kb.
Depending on how much larger the image is than 400 pixels, there may also be some distortion in compressing the image.
Probably a little bigger, e.g. 420, 450 pixels wouldn’t make that much of a difference.
August 11th, 2008 at 5:56 am
Squidoo resizes the image and uploads it when you create the Polaroid module, it doesn’t link to the original and resize it every time.
I wish there was a way to add text below a Polaroid picture, other than the Title. Sometimes it’s nice to use this module, but you still would like to add a description of the photo. Of course you could always use a text module and include html, but that’s a lot more work.
August 11th, 2008 at 8:38 am
Poddys
Thanks for clarifying on the resizing. I knew that, but didn’t think to include it.
I did like your work around for including more information with the Polaroid module. Once you get the code figured out the first time, it’s pretty easy to copy for the next time around.