D'Arcy Norman dot net » autostitch http://www.darcynorman.net apparently much happier in person Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:52:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Vancouver überpano http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/04/21/vancouver-ã¼berpano/ http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/04/21/vancouver-ã¼berpano/#comments Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 dnorman 1956681980 Vancouver Uberpano]]> While we were on the 35th floor of the Coast Plaza Hotel in Vancouver for a session at BCEdOnline2006, I snapped a dozen or so photos of the panoramic view. I was thinking I’d stitch them into separate panos to capture the view, but I just spent a few minutes in Photoshop manually stitching each of the 3 autostitch panos into one überpano, spanning approximately 300Ëš of a panoramic view of downtown Vancouver. The full image is 27 megapixels, so if you’ve got a few 30″ Cinema Displays tied to your system, check out the high res. version.

The colour on the left is wonky because I took those shots from inside a conference room, through the tinted glass. The rest of the shots were taken out on the balconies in the other conference room.

Vancouver Uberpano

]]> http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/04/21/vancouver-ã¼berpano/feed/ 6 New Panoramas from San Francisco http://www.darcynorman.net/2005/12/06/new-panoramas-from-san-francisco/ http://www.darcynorman.net/2005/12/06/new-panoramas-from-san-francisco/#comments Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 dnorman 933593394 Autostitch crunch through the two pano sets I shot while down in San Francisco last week. The first one was taken from the restaurant on the 36th floor of the Grand Hyatt on Union Square, looking west-ish toward the sunset (and Sutro Tower) The second one was taken from the observation floor of the de Young Museum Education Tower, looking north-ish over Golden Gate Park toward the Golden Gate Bridge. San Francisco Sunset Pano San Francisco Pano from DeYoung Museum Versions of these panos are now in banner rotation on this blog. Up to 35 images now, and I'm really happy with how most of them work on the blog, especially if viewed in a browser like Safari 2 that supports CSS dropshadows on text...]]> I finally got around to letting Autostitch crunch through the two pano sets I shot while down in San Francisco last week. The first one was taken from the restaurant on the 36th floor of the Grand Hyatt on Union Square, looking west-ish toward the sunset (and Sutro Tower) The second one was taken from the observation floor of the de Young Museum Education Tower, looking north-ish over Golden Gate Park toward the Golden Gate Bridge.

San Francisco Sunset Pano
San Francisco Pano from DeYoung Museum

Versions of these panos are now in banner rotation on this blog. Up to 35 images now, and I’m really happy with how most of them work on the blog, especially if viewed in a browser like Safari 2 that supports CSS dropshadows on text…

]]> http://www.darcynorman.net/2005/12/06/new-panoramas-from-san-francisco/feed/ 0 Large Format Printing with iPhoto http://www.darcynorman.net/2005/09/13/large-format-printing-with-iphoto/ http://www.darcynorman.net/2005/09/13/large-format-printing-with-iphoto/#comments Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 dnorman 720952340 Autostitch).
Diamondhead Pano
It looks absofriggin' AWESOME. I mean, wow. Completely blown away at the quality of the print. Looks like a professional poster. I goofed when I sent the image for printing through iPhoto, though - I forgot to manually crop or pad the image, so they just cropped it to fit the aspect ratio of the print, chopping off the mansions at the foot of Diamondhead, and the hotels at Waikiki. Next time, I'll send a 4x6 aspect image, likely with white blocks at the top and bottom to pad the image so the full pano fits onto the 20"x30" print. Ofoto obviously noticed the croppage, as they slipped in an informative document into the package, explaining about cropping and the various aspect ratios. They also mention an option called "Zoom & Trim" which can be set to "off" to turn off autocropping. That option apparently isn't exposed by the iPhoto "order prints" interface... It cost about $30CDN (delivered), and took about 2 weeks to get to me. I might also shop around for places that can do the print locally for instant gratification. Update: Duh. Next time I order a print, I'll just stack 2 or three panos to approximate the 4x6 aspect ratio, and pad the little bit extra as needed. No reason to throw away half of the print! :-)]]> I just got back the 20″x30″ print of the panorama I shot at the top of Diamondhead (a series of photos stitched together automagically with Autostitch).

Diamondhead Pano

It looks absofriggin’ AWESOME. I mean, wow. Completely blown away at the quality of the print. Looks like a professional poster.

I goofed when I sent the image for printing through iPhoto, though – I forgot to manually crop or pad the image, so they just cropped it to fit the aspect ratio of the print, chopping off the mansions at the foot of Diamondhead, and the hotels at Waikiki. Next time, I’ll send a 4×6 aspect image, likely with white blocks at the top and bottom to pad the image so the full pano fits onto the 20″x30″ print.

Ofoto obviously noticed the croppage, as they slipped in an informative document into the package, explaining about cropping and the various aspect ratios. They also mention an option called “Zoom & Trim” which can be set to “off” to turn off autocropping. That option apparently isn’t exposed by the iPhoto “order prints” interface…

It cost about $30CDN (delivered), and took about 2 weeks to get to me. I might also shop around for places that can do the print locally for instant gratification.

Update: Duh. Next time I order a print, I’ll just stack 2 or three panos to approximate the 4×6 aspect ratio, and pad the little bit extra as needed. No reason to throw away half of the print! :-)

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