Fareham — Aug 25th 2012

The topic for the main discussion this month was creating Dynamic Panoramas. Derek Wright explained that he had been taking panorama pictures for quite a while, The images had been merged together using the special feature in Photoshop. The images tended to be very long and thin so when viewing with Preview the image had to be zoomed in and then scrolled left and right to see the image, and / or printed on continuous paper. Neither solution was very satisfactory or user friendly.

Recently he had discovered an application called Pano2VR by Garden Gnome Software that created images that could be displayed via a web browser and scrolled around in a easy manner.

Derek demoed the process, exporting PSD versions of the images from Aperture, then creating the panorama with Photoshop (and also showing context aware fill to fill in the boundary blank areas of the panorama image). The resulting image was then fed into Pano2VR to create the dynamic image.

Several images were processed some of which were taken several years ago.

After the break, there was considerable discussion on using Aperture and Photoshop as well as other maters relating to Apple and it's products.

Next month Alan Lewer will talk on Jail Breaking the iPhone.
The next two meetings will be run by Andy Banks.

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