I am looking for a photography website that featured pictures that had been 
taken around a city in the PNW (in Oregon?) of scenes that the photographer 
had really old photos of. He/she would take care to get the exact same 
perspective as the old photo. Then they'd put the photo pairs (the old, the 
matching new) in some flash thingie (?) and you could slide a bar back and 
forth, morphing from the old to the new scene. It was a slider knob like a 
volume slider in Winamp, for instance, not a graphic element that actually 
is within the photo frame. The awesome thing with this site was, the 
photos were cut up into layers so that as you slide the handle, some 
elements of the photo would fade into view before others. For instance, one 
old photo was of a stoop, of a city building. A woman was sitting on a 
lower left step, head in hands, surrounded by her belongings; apparently 
she'd just been evicted. This picture was circa 1930s. Slide the bar, and 
it morphs into the same building, same steps, today -- and a couple of 
girls are sitting on an upper right step, laughing, drinking Starbucks. As 
you slide back and forth, the ghost of the 1930s woman lingers as the 
present-day kids fade into view. It was unbelievably cool. My question is, 
can you point me to this site, or failing that, can you tell me what would 
be the best software application to do this in? Would it be flash, dhtml, 
or some other tool? I only have experience with photoshop and dreamweaver.

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 07 Nov 2002 13:21 PST

I have not found a site featuring morphed photos of the Pacific
Northwest. I did find something that may be similar to what you seek:

http://www.users.waitrose.com/~waldenrg/chrishall/pagessub/old%20photos-newmovies.htm

Is this the sort of morphing effect you're interested in?

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Clarification of Question by stupidsexyflanders-ga on 07 Nov 2002 13:35 PST

That's kind of close, but key elements I was really interested in are
missing in the site you linked. They are 1. it's user-controlled by a
slider and 2. the author controlled the sequencing of the fading in
and out of individual elements of the photographs. The site you linked
simply dissolves one photo into another.

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Clarification of Question by stupidsexyflanders-ga on 10 Nov 2002 21:31 PST

Come on folks, $20 bucks for a reasoned software recommendation? Anybody?

<The site that you are looking for is called Archaeological collage.
It shows the photographic techniques of Gregory Cosmo Haun. By going
to the interactive page on his website you get a list of 21
photographs that you can manipulate.

The title of the photograph that you describe  is ‘eviction’. The old
photograph shows a woman being evicted with her possessions in the
foreground.  In the new photograph there are two young girls sitting
on the steps. The images are changed using a slider which can be moved
to show the old photo, the new photo or a combination of the two.

Gregory Cosmo Haun has written a book about his techniques called
Photo Shop Collage Techniques. It is available via Amazon.com>


<Additional links:>

<Archaeological collage.>
<http://www.reed.edu/~cosmo/>

<Archaeological collage interactive.>
http://www.reed.edu/~cosmo/AC.html

<How the images were made.>
<http://www.reed.edu/~cosmo/art/AC/MoreInfo.html>



Amazon – photoshop collage techniques by Gregory Cosmo Haun
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D1568303491/gregorycosmohaunA/102-1660385-8815325


<Search strategy:>

<"old and new photos"  Oregon>
<://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=+%22old+and+new+photos%22+&as_q=oregon>

<gregory cosmo haun>
<://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=gregory+cosmo+haun>


<Hope this helps.>

What can I say? belindalevez found a site I'd been searching for for
over a year. Money well spent!

This isn't  exactly what you're looking for (i.e. it has no fading of
individual elements), but this page has a fading/slider effect that
works in Windows IE and that you may want to check out:
http://www.kokogiak.com/projects/seawft/

I am stupidsexyflanders, I had to re-register because Google Answers
authentication is broken. (I sent two help emails and haven't heard
anything.)

I am aware of the kokogia site, I emailed that person a while back and
they couldn't help me either. If no one can come up with this site,
then how about the other part of my question? What's the best software
tool to produce this kind of effect?