The End of Summer Random Discussion for TPBM (29)

The Queen Mother lived here...

Pete wrote in post #8563726
Our hotel is the blue one in the middle here (in Arbroath, Scotland)

I've been playing with panorama shots this holiday, and this one was made up of 16 photos with the 135L

Here's a link for the full sized one (beware - 27Mb and 9600px wide)

http://the-aperture.com/ArbroathP​anorama.jpg

VERY impressive, Pete...

I can smell the Fish'n'Chips all the way here, and you have a Mr Whippy by the main entrance too....top it all off with a 99 & a flake...

Actually, looking at your panoramic in large detail, there is a tripod set up in the upper right hand window of the "hotel"....yours I presume?

Harm wrote in post #8563877
VERY impressive, Pete...

I can smell the Fish'n'Chips all the way here, and you have a Mr Whippy by the main entrance too....top it all off with a 99 & a flake...

We had our fish and chips tonight at Anstruther. Voted Britain's best fish and chips for several years in a row. It lived up to our high expectations as we ate them sat on a bench overlooking the harbour.

Harm wrote in post #8563892
Actually, looking at your panoramic in large detail, there is a tripod set up in the upper right hand window of the "hotel"....yours I presume?

Nope. I didn't bring my tripod this time. Unfortunately, our room faces away from the harbour...

Pete wrote in post #8563893
We had our fish and chips tonight at Anstruther. Voted Britain's best fish and chips for several years in a row. It lived up to our high expectations as we ate them sat on a bench overlooking the harbour.

Ahhh, been years since I had fish'n'chips from there...well worth the money though...but it was drizzling when I was there, so no sitting on a bench to look at the harbour for moi...

Pete wrote in post #8563893
We had our fish and chips tonight at Anstruther. Voted Britain's best fish and chips for several years in a row. It lived up to our high expectations as we ate them sat on a bench overlooking the harbour.

Now that reminds me of my trip to England Pete sitting on the beach eating fish and chips ..wow was that good

Pete wrote in post #8563902
Nope. I didn't bring my tripod this time. Unfortunately, our room faces away from the harbour...

You took the pano without a tripod ..... impressed.

Guineh wrote in post #8563626
Rooey's avatar concerns me.

In what way ?
Nice Guinea pig...

Harm wrote in post #8563907
Ahhh, been years since I had fish'n'chips from there...well worth the money though...but it was drizzling when I was there, so no sitting on a bench to look at the harbour for moi...

Funnily enough, we were chased around by some pretty nasty showers today. We managed to avoid the rain while we were eating though.

My Anstruther photos are on my G9 and I can't place my card reader right now, so those may take some time to upload.

Pete, very nice!!!

neil_r wrote in post #8563916
You took the pano without a tripod ..... impressed.

I just used a healthy overlap. CS3 managed to stitch the photo fairly well, regardless of any horizontal alignment problems.

There are faults in the stitching in this one though, which may be down to the boats moving between exposures. Not much I can do about that.

Permagrin wrote in post #8563942
Pete, very nice!!!

Thanks...

Permagrin wrote in post #8563257
Hey...I just wanted to show you a (I think) revolutionary type of templates that I just developed.

First I developed a set of 25 templates (in 3 sizes, 30x30, 14x11 & 10x8 ). I call them the Classic White set. Nothing revolutionary so far. Though they are a nice set of templates. This is just one example...there are all sorts of layouts in the set.

The cool part is what you can do with them.

First you upload 1 of the templates, make a duplicate of it so you aren't working on your template and close the original.

Looks like this is photoshop:

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Next you add your photos, by copy/pasting them onto the layers that say "your photo here"

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Next you have the choice of the original "classic white" overlay

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OR by turning on the eyeball next to the layer, the optional black:

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now here's the extra cool part!!

If you don't want to use either the white or black, I've included another layer where you can put your own texture (I've used one of my papers I made).

You just put it on the layer that says "your texture here" and the template does the rest. It's a 1 sec. copy/paste and you're done

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OR the additional cool option....

say you don't have a texture but like some of your pattern stamps in photo shop.

You can simply click on the stamp you like...choose a huge brush and brush the whole layer that says "your texture here" and the template makes sure the photos aren't covered!
here's an example with a random pattern of mine but you can use any of yours.

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So what does this mean? A set with 25 different templates can actually be hundreds of different templates at no additional cost.

It took me less that three minutes to put my photos in and do the two optional textures. So there's ease of use too.

What do you think? I'm going to market these on my new website once it's done.

That is cool Lisa. I think you may have just discovered another business for yourself.

Nice photos Pete.

Off to work. Have a good night everyone.

Back from my wonderful week in the alps. We had great weather and did some beautiful hikes. I did my longest hike ever.... 8.5hrs walking time, 25km. It was incredibly beautiful!

I am now going to bed, but not without posting a first shot


View from above Maloja

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