You may not know this, but Internet Explorer 4.x and above hasimage manipulation capabilities similar to those normally found only inimage editing programs like Adobe Photoshop. This article takes a look atIE5's image filters, and demonstrates how they can help you add specialeffects to your images and text on the fly.
Let's now get into the guts of the various filters available to the Web developer. You've already seen the "flipV" filter, used to flip an object vertically - and Internet Explorer also comes with a corresponding "flipH" filter, used to flip objects horizontally. Take a look.
<html><head><style type="text/css">div.flipped {position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; font-family: Arial;font-weight: bolder; filter: flipH}</style></head><body><div class="flipped">I'm flippin' out here!</div></body></html>The very powerful "alpha" filter allows you to control the alpha, or transparency, levels of the image. By specifying the level of opacity on a scale on a 0 to 100 scale, you can alter the appearance of an image substantially.
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