Using RMagick with Flickr
In my previous article, Render Great-looking Collages with Ruby and RMagick, I showed how you can use RMagick to generate a lovely collage from a selection of random images. This tutorial will take it one step further and show you how to use RMagick with RFlickr to generate a collage from your own Flickr account or even a results from a flickr search.
4 random images found with the search term “Mazda MX-3” (my car)
Render Great-looking Collages with Ruby and RMagick
Yesterday I was glancing Douglas Bowman’s Photo gallery and a fun idea came to me. Inspired by using photo slides on a light table, Douglas employs a unified theme and feel across his gallery. Kindly he released the theme free for use and is available for download on his website.
Douglas is an incredible graphic artist and prepares lovely photo collages for each gallery in his album painstakingly by hand.
What if we wanted to to generate such a collage on the fly from random images in our gallery? What follows is some insight into using RMagick to accomplish just such a task.