Thanks for the help. I found what I was looking for, bascially just the function get_thumbnail_code( in the functions.php file. To achieve the onmouseover/onmouseout filter behaviors, I added this js to the header.html file:
function FadeIn(thisOne){
theImage=thisOne
reveal=setInterval("incFilter(theImage)",1)//increment time in milliseconds
}
function FadeOut(thisOne){
clearInterval(reveal)
thisOne.filters.alpha.opacity=80
}
function incFilter(current){
if (current.filters.alpha.opacity<100)
current.filters.alpha.opacity =100//amount to increment until 100%
else clearInterval(reveal)
}
and this to the function get_thumbnail_code( in the functions.php file:
$thumb = "<img src=\"".$file_src."\" border=\"0\"".$width_height." style=\"filter:alpha(opacity=80)\" onMouseover=\"FadeIn(this)\" onMouseout=\"FadeOut(this)\" alt=\"".$image_name."\" />";
}
else {
$file_src = get_file_path($thumb_file_name, "thumb", $cat_id, 0, 1);
$image_info = @getimagesize($file_src);
$width_height = (!empty($image_info[3])) ? " ".$image_info[3] : "";
$thumb = "<img src=\"".$file_src."\" border=\"".$config['image_border']."\"".$width_height." style=\"filter:alpha(opacity=80)\" onMouseover=\"FadeIn(this)\" onMouseout=\"FadeOut(this)\" alt=\"".$image_name."\" />";
to just add in the style and onmouseover/onmouseout elements to the img tag. I'm not sure if I want to use any transitions quite yet, but you can bascially make it work the same way (a call to a js function to perform the transition). It might work pretty well, havent tried it yet.
--Thomas