A little shot of Chicago

**Holliday** · 01-01-2002, 12:07 AM

I thought I posted this shot here before, but a
search of the archives proved me wrong.
So for anyone who might have missed this here
it is.

http://www.carolinabeachfamilycampgr...om/chicago.jpg

**Warbird47** · 01-01-2002, 12:10 AM

Awsome I love your panoramics. One in the Himilayas would look awsome, or one in the middle of the Atlantic.(That would look very beautiful, think of all the sights you could see. ;-))

http://www.flightsim.com/dcforum/Use...b635259a5f.jpg

argueman · 01-01-2002, 04:06 AM

Just outta curiosity, how do you do that?

argueman
WJP94
WestJet VA

**Holliday** · 01-01-2002, 12:08 PM

First of all I crank up all the graphics and set the resolution to 1600x1200x32 with all of the anti-aliasing my video card can provide. I then take a series of screenshots overlapping at least 20 percent. In the case of the Chicago pano I think there were 5 separate screen shots. The NYC pano I posted here some time ago was 11 shots and covered a full 360 degrees. All the screen shots are loaded into a stitching program (there are several on the market) that has already been set up with the correct focal length. The stitching program does most of the work, including warping each picture to maintain perspective. Then the resulting picture is cropped and tweaked here and there. It is then prepared in Photoshop for the web, as the original picture is HUGE, not only in physical size, but in file size as well.
Go [A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/edknapp2002/index.html"]here[/A] and click on the Mountain Photos link on the left to see some panos I did with real photos.