One of the nicer effects I used on TheSkinDrop.com, a gallery site of a sort, was the mouseover labels on the thumbnails. While this wasn't achieved using Textimage, it should have been, and likely will be when I have the time to perform an upgrade.

Here I will demonstrate how to achieve that effect using Textimage, firstly on a standalone item, then integrated with a Views grid display.

One of the biggest issues plaguing Textimage for way too long is the lack of support for PostgreSQL. This has now, hopefully, changed.

I've just recently made two commits related to this issue, and can confirm that Textimage now works with PgSQL on both Drupal 5 and 6 (in my testing environment at least), and while I haven't yet tested it, I'm confident that it will also work on Drupal 7.

With Textimage 2.1 due out shortly I thought I would take the time to writeup a little guide to show an example of one of the many things Textimage can be used for.

This example is not specific to the latest version, however for best results, especially where transparency is concerned, I would suggest using the latest dev build or the latest stable build if you are reading this after 2.1 has been released.

Retroactive that is.

The latest development builds of FileField Paths have a great new feature: Retroactive changes.
This allows for previously uploaded files to be moved and/or renamed using the latest FileField Paths settings, even if the files where uploaded before you installed FileField Paths.

I've just released another few updates to Textimage and pending some testing, I should hopefully be able to release version 2.1 for Drupal 5, 6 and 7 within the next few days.

The latest updates bring back the Fixed width and Text alignment functionalities, which I had previously removed due to the complete re-write of the rotation algorithm. Also included are a few minor bug fixes that have been sitting in the issue queue for way to long.