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Easy panoramas using iphone & photoshop

Sunday, August 16th, 2009

So last week I was visiting The Art Institute of Chicago, ( Best museum & school in the world! It’s my alma mater, so I’m allowed to be biased.) and I totally spaced- left the camera at home. Needless to say there were tons of great photo op’s but I was only armed with my iphone.  So if life deals you lemons,  try making a panorama.  I decided to snap away on  my little camera phone. The following series of shots were taken  simply by standing in one place, shooting, turning, and repeating. Nothing special, or technical at all.

panoramashotsSo what I’m going to show you next is truly one of the coolest features in Photoshop. I downloaded all the photos from my camera to my computer. Then I opened all the photos in  Photoshop. Be sure to have only the photos you want to use open. Next go to File> Automate>Photomerge. This little window will open.

photomerge

Next simply click the “add open files” button, and then click OK.  Photoshop begins to work it’s magic. In about a minute Photoshop merges, blends, masks, and adjusts the photos into a panorama. A process that could take hours to perform manually.

Your left with an image that looks something like this:

panoramamergeThe next step is to simply crop the image.

panoramacroppedYou can do any color adjustments you like, but what you see here is “as is” & adjustment free. Pretty amazing! What you probably can’t tell from the photo is that this image is actually 20″ x 86″ in size. I did absolutely zero size adjustments. That will make for really nice sized canvas print. All from a iphone! YAY!

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Make a canvas print from the new iPhone…

Saturday, June 20th, 2009

Well Apple revealed its new iPhone this week which is loaded with tons of new features. We’re going to focus on some especially great enhancements made to the camera.

First off they’ve increased the image size up to 3 megapixels, This means we can create some larger canvas prints from your iPhone photos. So if you capture a great picture on your camera we will be able to create a 16″x20″ gallery wrapped canvas print with pretty awesome results. The beauty of a canvas print is that even if you have some minor pixelation as a result of enlargement, the texture of the canvas helps to hide it.

Another really fantastic enhancement to the iPhone camera is it’s tap to focus feature. You can now tap on the display to selectively focus on anything in the picture. This will add depth of field to your shots that really make for a great photo.

New Focus Features

New Focus Features

The iPhone now also shoots in rapid sequence. You can create some stunning effects using this feature in concert with canvas prints. Create a series from action shots at sporting events or other action shots. The possibilities are endless.

Sequence photos from iphone

Sequence photos from iphone

But Hey I’ve the got a older iPhone! Can I still create a canvas print?  Absolutely. Older iPhones still take some pretty darn good pictures. We can a fairly large print with good results from the 2 megapixel camera in previous generation phones.  If you are thinking of using a iPhone picture but are concerned about the print quality that you will get, simply submit the photo to us for review. We’ll give you the skinny on what will work best for the photo.

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