JQuery zoom effects are very useful if you have a large image to display on your site or if you have products for sale and you want to show an image and let your visitor zoom in to see it in more detail. It’s also good for maps and so much more. Isn’t jQuery just great!

Apple-like Retina Effect
“What made me wonder is if it was possible to turn this static image into a fully functional “Retina effect” with only jQuery and CSS. This is exactly what we are doing today. …

I am really happy to announce my first giveaway on Jo’s Web. The prize is a subscription pack to Pixmac worth $199.00! There’s three subscriptions to giveaway so you have a great chance of winning one!
The subscription can be used to purchase any image from Pixmac’s Subscription collection – there’s more than 280,000 images to choose from. Their photos can be used for both commercial and private purposes.
This means that you can have about 50 high resolution images for this pack or about 200 web size images.

I was lucky enough to take a visit to Canterbury recently, where I made a visit to the Rupert Bear Museum. It was a must as I have loved him since I was a small child!
Rupert’s creator Mary Tourtell was born in Canterbury and attended the local art college before going on to create the famous little bear for the Daily Express in 1921.
The front window of a ‘Rupert Bear Museum’ has been created as a room set for passers-by to look in and see Rupert and his parents having …

Not all of us can afford Photoshop which is a professional image editing software, so if you want a free web-based photo editor here are six of the best. If you have ever wanted to edit your images or simply play around with photo effects, then online image editors will provide you with what you need. They are fun to use and you can get some interesting results. Some of them such as Fotoflexr can be found on Facebook so that you can add your pictures to your profile. …

Photographs from three different posts from the ongoing series of high resolution photos depicting saddening and disturbing images of the tragic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, displayed on the Boston.com photoblog ‘The Big Picture.’

June 3rd 2010 – 8 photos
A Brown Pelican sits in heavy oil on the beach at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast Thursday, June 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

May 24th 2010 – 39 photos

“Today’s textures are something I’ve been eyeing taking pictures of for a while. There are these cool old metal sculptures at a local restaurant that we go to pretty often. They are rustic, worn, grungy, and very, very cool looking. They are fairly large, but even the individual scraps of metal that make them up are really cool.
So I went by and took a bunch of pictures. They where happy to let me take pictures. They didn’t quite get why, but I get those sorts of looks a lot while …

Here’s a useful collection of some of my most favourite Photoshop actions to create frames and border effects. They include vintage styles, page curls, bends and frames.

Vintage Photo

Hand-coloured vintage photo

Photo Aging

Motivational Posters

Different Picture Frames