WordPress 2.9: New Photo Features Screencast

by Aaron on December 17, 2009

Image management in WordPress changes with version 2.9 (due to be released in the next few days). Basic photo manipulation tools have been added as part of the core WordPress functionality. You can now crop, resize, flip, and rotate images from within WordPress (without any plugins).

Here’s a tour of the new image manipulation features of WordPress 2.9… note that this will best be viewed fullscreen (or at a larger size than the embedded widget):

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While you won’t stop using Photoshop or Lightroom with these features, for those times when a quick/dirty image is needed in a blog post, I expect the new features will make things a lot easier for bloggers.

These other posts might be of interest to you:

  1. Social Photo Podcast #6: Family Photo Sharing, WordPress 2.9, and a Couple Funny Sites
  2. Upgrading WordPress: It’s Easy
  3. WordPress 3.0 is Released: New Menus, Theme Options, Better Help

Tagged as: blogging, screencasts, wordpress, wordpress 2.9

  • Metroknow

    Excellent review of the new tools. Quick question? When you scale the image, is it creating a new image from your changes, or is it just scaling the image using CSS? The biggest reason is sometimes I scale images down to reduce file size to speed up downloads, which is irrelevant if it's just a CSS downsize.

    Thanks Aaron – this is great!

  • ahockley

    My understanding is that it's a true image resizing, not just a CSS display change.

  • donnaperugini

    I'm impressed! Of course I'm such a newbie that I walk around impressed daily.

  • Metroknow

    Excellent review of the new tools. Quick question? When you scale the image, is it creating a new image from your changes, or is it just scaling the image using CSS? The biggest reason is sometimes I scale images down to reduce file size to speed up downloads, which is irrelevant if it's just a CSS downsize.

    Thanks Aaron – this is great!

  • ahockley

    My understanding is that it's a true image resizing, not just a CSS display change.

  • donnaperugini

    I'm impressed! Of course I'm such a newbie that I walk around impressed daily.

  • http://ericasays.com EricaMueller

    Aaron,

    This is a great post and tutorial! I went ahead and added a link to this post in my WordPress 2.9 post so my readers can come here and see your tutorial. :-)

    Thanks a ton for visiting and for directing me to your site!

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