Richards Bloghttp://surfsidewebdesign.com/Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:00:19 GMThttp://backend.userland.com/rssRSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/Did you notice the photo at the top of our home page?<br/> <br/> <a href="/Home.htm"><img alt="" src="http://surfsidewebdesign.com/Images/Content/bigshot/TheBayWeb.jpg" border="0"/></a><br/> <br/> It's a shot of Batemans Bay from the center of the iconic bay bridge.  Well actually that's not entirely true because it's actually 6 seperate photos that have been stitched together.  <br/> <br/> <img alt="" src="http://surfsidewebdesign.com/Images/Content/bigshot/SmallBridge6.JPG" border="1"/> <img alt="" src="http://surfsidewebdesign.com/Images/Content/bigshot/SmallBridge5.JPG" border="1"/> <img alt="" src="http://surfsidewebdesign.com/Images/Content/bigshot/SmallBridge4.JPG" border="1"/> <img alt="" src="http://surfsidewebdesign.com/Images/Content/bigshot/SmallBridge3.JPG" border="1"/> <img alt="" src="http://surfsidewebdesign.com/Images/Content/bigshot/SmallBridge2.JPG" border="1"/> <img alt="" src="http://surfsidewebdesign.com/Images/Content/bigshot/SmallBridge1.JPG" border="1"/> <br/> <br/> You can tell that something unusual is happening because if you look closely you'll see bits of the bridge at both sides of the photo and no obvious fish-eye distortion so clearly some magic is involved.<br/> <br/> All the magic stems from a free product from Microsoft called <strong>Windows Live Photo Gallery</strong> which you can <a href="http://get.live.com/photogallery/overview" title="Download Microsoft Windows Live Photo Gallery">download from here</a>.<br/> <br/> Basically all you have to do is to stand in one spot and using a digital camera take several shots and add them to Live Photo Gallery .  Then select all the photos in Live Photo Gallery and right click and chose the menu option Create panoramic photo.<br/> <br/> <img alt="" src="http://surfsidewebdesign.com/Images/Content/bigshot/Screenshot1.png" border="0"/><br/> <br/> The result will be one single wide image that is a little messy around the edges as the application has had to distort the image slightly in order to stitch everything together seamlessly.  <br/> <br/> <img alt="" src="http://surfsidewebdesign.com/Images/Content/bigshot/SmallBridgeStitch.jpg" border="0"/><br/>  <br/> Simply use Photo-Gallery to crop away the messy stuff and anything that isn't usefull to your shot ... and voila a little bit of bay magic. http://surfsidewebdesign.com/RSSRetrieve.aspx?ID=609&A=Link&ObjectID=15557&ObjectType=56&O=http%253a%252f%252fsurfsidewebdesign.com%252fBlogRetrieve.aspx%253fBlogID%253d419%2526PostID%253d15557http://surfsidewebdesign.com/BlogRetrieve.aspx?BlogID=419&PostID=15557Thu, 01 May 2008 03:31:00 GMT<div id="g_body"> <p><span style="font-size: 13px">Getting a professionally designed web site may be a lot cheaper and quicker than you think.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 13px">We can help you find a domain name to build your brand around, create a clean professional looking web site using that domain, create multiple spam protected e-mail accounts for you in that domain ... all for around <span style="color: #000066">$200</span>*. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 13px">We can also do custom development, custom artwork and digital photography as needed, at a reasonable hourly rate. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 13px">* Every job is unique and priced individually, but generally we keep costs as low as possible by configuring and deploying services from Google and other online resources.</span></p> </div> http://surfsidewebdesign.com/RSSRetrieve.aspx?ID=609&A=Link&ObjectID=14664&ObjectType=56&O=http%253a%252f%252fsurfsidewebdesign.com%252fBlogRetrieve.aspx%253fBlogID%253d419%2526PostID%253d14664http://surfsidewebdesign.com/BlogRetrieve.aspx?BlogID=419&PostID=14664Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:58:00 GMT