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Creating panoramic photos in Photoshop

Click here to see a larger version. Or here’s the ultra-cool Zoomify version. (gotta see this!) This image is a composite of fifteen Canon 5D 13mp RAW photos, stitched together using Photoshop CS3. The resulting image is so large, that it’s: Equivalent to 100 megapixels Is 20,000 pixels wide Could be printed nearly 10 feet long at high quality Is around 700mb in file size (only this one image will consume an entire CD) The process is quite easy ifRead more
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Offering desktop wallpaper to promote photography?

What do you think? Is it worthwhile to create desktop wallpaper to download for free in an effort to drum up more awareness for an artist’s photography? Not necessarily the images which are sold as prints, but perhaps images taken with the sole purpose of distributing as wallpaper. Good idea or bad? Worth the effort? Selling my soul to the devil? (or would that be micro-stock photography) By the way, interfacelift.com has some great wallpaper for free in a varietyRead more
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Powerful quake strikes Indonesia – felt in Jakarta and Singapore

Although we’re fine here in Jakarta, this brings back memories from the Asian Tsunami. I live only two miles from the ocean, and barely above sea level. JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNN) — A strong earthquake measuring 7.9 in magnitude has struck near southern Indonesia, sending employees fleeing into the street and triggering a small tsunami. art.quake.ap.jpg Companies have ordered immediate emergency evacuations. Brian Shiro of the National Oceanic and Atmopheric Administration’s Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said the tsunami measured about twoRead more