Wednesday, August 1st, 2007
pzImageCombine: One image for CSS clipping
Various people have documented the clipping technique of taking one large image, and showing a piece of it in a particular place, thus combining X numbers of images into one download.
Alexander Graef has created a tool to automate this task for you called pzImageCombine.
It allows you to choose an image directory and combine all png images into one single image. It still has a ways to go, but does the simple tasks now.
3.6 rating from 12 votes
Looks interesting. Getting a couple of good practices around naming images vs. placement within the combined file, would make this a very easy tool to work with.
I kind of prefer having the control over how the sprites image is laid out, but this app definitely has some potential.
well, it only supports PNG and one filesize for all imported images… i can hardly find any use to it without the ability to control both parameters. currently i use photoshop to make my own image-sets… i have a much better control over quality/size.