I have always like the Ken Burns effect of viewing header images, which zooms in and out of a static picture.
Is there any way this can easily be added to the existing theme header images as they rotate?

There are some threads about using the NextGen Gallery for the header images which allows for a Ken Burns type effect.

Thank you for the information Larry. I shall investigate the Nextgen gallery a bit further.

John

I have now had a look at the Nextgen plugin, but I see that it uses Flash. Flash is bad news as far as I am concerned at the moment. The reason being that rotating images that use Flash do not work properly on IE 64 bit operating systems. Apparently Adobe still haven't brought out a version that works on the IE 64 bit system, even though they have known of the problem since Vista came out.

See http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/000/6b3af6c9.html for Adobe's explanation.

As 62% of my site visitors use IE I cannot risk using a rotating image plugin that either leaves a blank box or a list of thumbnails in place of rotating photos just because they happen to be using a 64 bit system.

Any other ideas please?

my only other thought would be to try coding a java script to do what you want - if you don't know how to do that, you will have to find a java programmer to help you (I'm not proficient in Java) or search the internet for something existing.

Thanks for the idea juggledad. Just in case you or anybody else is interested I have found a javascript based slideshow called super slideshow. Thats the good news! The bad news is that it hasn't been developed yet for use as a header slideshow. Works for sidebars/posts etc but not headers - all that's missing is a 'theme function feature' whatever that may mean. So its a case of wait a bit longer.