IMPOSSIBLE PHOTOGRAPHY

May 4, 2008 | Filed Under art, photo 

I figured out how to use the “photomerge” tool in photoshop today - it’s pretty neat.  I spun around in a circle while taking lots of pictures in my bedroom, ran the program on “auto” and this is what it came up with.  (I did clean it up a bit by cropping the weird amoeba shape into a square).

It’s not perfect - there are a lot of photos that it couldn’t figure out the placement on.  But I was pretty impressed with what it could do on it’s own - the floor especially is made up of probably 10 or 15 separate photos, which the program stitched together pretty flawlessly.  That weird blob in the middle is my feet.

I actually had a different “view” in mind while taking the pictures, and the program will allow you to manually place the photos in the layout you want, which it will attempt to blend as best as it can.  The result is not as smoothed, but it still works, and it’s a completely different effect.  View it large on my flickr to see what I mean.

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