I really liked Jon Raasch’s jquery-powered slideshow, but integrating it into a page requires a bunch of steps:
- Add the jQuery library
- Add the slideshow javascript function
- Add the CSS with opacity and z-layer set properly
- Upload the images for the slideshow someplace
- Enumerate the images’ URLs that you want to cycle through
Adding images is tedious (you have to upload AND update the image list), and there’s no clean support for multiple slideshows per page. I wanted a process that made integration into other pages trivial.
I decided that an IFRAME to host the slideshow would keep jQuery and the slideshow CSS partitioned away from the rest of the embedding page, and would let adding slideshows to new pages have an easy-to-follow recipe, no matter what was already going on in the existing page. The IFRAME needed the template HTML, and if I used PHP, I could generate the image list for the slideshow automatically from the images that live in the same directory as the PHP script.
Here is a thumbnail of a picture of a whiteboarding session taken with my iPhone. It’s basically unreadable. I looked for a good recipe to clean this up in gimp, but the googles failed me. 
Return to Colors > Levels… and move both the blackpoint and the midpoint to the right (to make the lines stand out) and the whitepoint to the left just a bit (to make the whiteboard white). Click OK.



