diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 7c37802ad3..ae9e23ecc0 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 /build/proj4js
 /examples/*.json
 /examples/*.combined.js
+/examples/*.html.png
 /examples/example-list.js
 /examples/example-list.xml
 /test/requireall.js
diff --git a/bin/example-screenshot.js b/bin/example-screenshot.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..29dc24dd3f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/example-screenshot.js
@@ -0,0 +1,171 @@
+/**
+ * This script is supposed to be executed via phantomjs. It will generate
+ * screenshots of the html files in the directory specified by a commandline
+ * option when these files are served through a webserver which can also be
+ * specified. The screenshots will be in the current working directory.
+ *
+ * Example usage:
+ *
+ *     user@host:~/ol3/bin $ phantomjs example-screenshot.js \
+ *                           http://localhost:8000/ol3/examples/ \
+ *                           ../examples
+ *
+ * The above command will generate `*.png` files in `examples/` for all html 
+ * files that are served through `http://localhost:8000/ol3/examples/`.
+ * 
+ * So if there is a file `my-humpty-example.html` inside of the relative folder
+ * `../examples/` which is being served through the webserver so that
+ * `http://localhost:8000/ol3/examples/my-humpty-example.html` is a valid and
+ * reachable URL, this script will generate a screenshot and store it as
+ * `my-humpty-example.html.png`.
+ * 
+ * The query string `?mode=raw` will be appended to the generated URL.
+ * 
+ * Known limitations:
+ * 
+ * As phantomjs doesn't support WebGL (see e.g. 
+ * https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/wiki/Supported-Web-Standards and 
+ * http://code.google.com/p/phantomjs/issues/detail?id=273) This won't render
+ * OpenLayers maps rendered through the webglrenderer.
+ * 
+ * In parts based upon this gist: https://gist.github.com/crazy4groovy/3160121
+ */
+(function(){ // global closure
+
+var // imports
+    page = require('webpage').create(),
+    fs = require('fs'),
+    system = require('system'),
+    // arguments
+    baseExamplesUrl = system.args[1];
+    exampleDir = system.args[2];
+    // various settings
+    ignoreFiles = [ 
+        'example-list.html',
+        'wms-custom-proj.html',
+        'wms-single-image.html',
+        'wms-tiled.html',
+        'wmts.html'
+    ],
+    intervalMillisecs = 25,
+    renderMillisecs = 2000,
+    // basic variables
+    curDir = fs.workingDirectory,
+    exampleDirList = fs.list(exampleDir),
+    pageindex = 0,
+    fileName = '',
+    htmlFiles = [],
+    lenHtmlFiles = 0,
+    loadInProgress = false;
+
+// simple object with helper functions
+var util = {
+    /**
+     * Returns the basename of a file given a path.
+     */
+    baseName: function(path) {
+        var parts = path.split(fs.separator);
+        return parts[parts.length-1];
+    },
+    /**
+     * Super basic test whether a file can be considered a HTML-file.
+     */
+    isHtmlFile: function(filename) {
+        return (/\.html?$/).test(filename);
+    },
+    /**
+     * Appends a slash to given string if it isn't there already.
+     */
+    appendSlash: function(str) {
+        return ((/\/$/).test(str)) ? str : str + "/";
+    },
+    /**
+     * generates an URL out of
+     */
+    buildUrl: function(baseurl, path){
+        var name = util.baseName(path),
+            mode = "raw";
+        return util.appendSlash(baseurl) + name + "?mode=" + mode;
+    },
+    /**
+     * Simple progressbar logger that uses our globals.
+     */
+    logProgress: function() {
+        var doneSymbol = "-",
+            todoSymbol = " ",
+            str = "[",
+            percent = (lenHtmlFiles === 0) ? 0 :(pageindex/lenHtmlFiles*100),
+            i=0;
+        for (;i<pageindex;i++) {
+            str += doneSymbol;
+        }
+        for (i=0;i<lenHtmlFiles-pageindex;i++) {
+            str += (i === 0) ? ">" : todoSymbol;
+        }
+        str += "]";
+        if (percent < 10) {
+            str += "  ";
+        } else if (percent < 100) {
+            str += " ";
+        }
+        str += " " + percent.toFixed(1) + " % done";
+        if (fileName !== "") {
+            str += ", " + util.baseName(fileName) + "";
+        }
+        console.log(str);
+    }
+};
+
+// iterate over all files in examples directory
+// and find the HTML files.
+for(var i = 0; i< exampleDirList.length; i++) {
+    var fullpath = exampleDir + fs.separator + exampleDirList[i];
+    if(fs.isFile(fullpath) && util.isHtmlFile(fullpath) &&
+        ignoreFiles.indexOf(util.baseName(fullpath)) === -1 ) {
+        // TODO: make this more async (i.e. pop on/off stack WHILE rending pages)
+        htmlFiles.push(fullpath);
+    }
+}
+lenHtmlFiles = htmlFiles.length;
+
+console.log("Capturing " + lenHtmlFiles + " example screenshots.");
+
+// The main interval function that is executed regularily and renders a page to
+// a file
+var interval = setInterval(function() {
+    if (!loadInProgress && pageindex < lenHtmlFiles) {
+        util.logProgress();
+        fileName = htmlFiles[pageindex];
+        page.viewportSize = { width: 800, height: 600 };
+        page.clipRect = {
+            top: 0,
+            left: 0,
+            width: page.viewportSize.width,
+            height: page.viewportSize.width
+        };
+        page.open(util.buildUrl(baseExamplesUrl, htmlFiles[pageindex]));
+    }
+    if (pageindex == lenHtmlFiles) {
+        util.logProgress();
+        console.log(lenHtmlFiles + " screenshots captured.");
+        phantom.exit();
+    }
+}, intervalMillisecs);
+
+// set loadInProgress flag so we only process one image at time.
+page.onLoadStarted = function() {
+    loadInProgress = true;
+};
+
+// When the page is loaded, render it to an image
+page.onLoadFinished = function() {
+    var dest = exampleDir + fs.separator +  util.baseName(fileName) + ".png";
+    window.setTimeout(function(){
+       loadInProgress = false;
+       page.render(dest); // actually render the page.
+       pageindex++;
+    }, renderMillisecs);
+};
+
+
+})(); // eof global closure