stereographic projections or ‘little planets’, are spectacular images that are created out of panoramic photos.

the basic principle is to take a panoramic photo, make some easy changes to it, and finally apply a photoshop filter (Distort > Polar Coordinates) to complete the effect.

link: 50 Dazzling Examples of Polar Panorama Photography
for detailed instructions, please follow this easy tutorial.

Labels: design, image_processing, photo

As we can read from marshall kirkpatrick on rww, yahoo has improved their image preview page with major changes to make it a lot easier to use.
the new interface displays a larger view of the image, more search results, and popular related searches. nice :)

link: new yahoo image search service

Labels: photo, search, web_2.0

Photo stitching is the process of combining multiple photographs into a single, seamless photo. Here are well known tools to get these things done:

1. CleVR
An online servicem which needs adobe air installation, to provides users with the ability to stitch together panoramic photos, upload them, and share them with others.

2. The Panorama Factory
A panoramic stitching program for Windows 98 / ME / NT / 2000 / XP / 2003 / x64 / Vista. It creates high-quality panoramas from a set of overlapping digital images. The Panorama Factory transforms (warps) the images so that they can be joined seamlessly into panoramas whose fields of view can range up to 360 degrees.

3. hugin
An easy to use cross-platform panoramic imaging toolchain based on Panorama Tools.

4. Photosynth (live labs future :))
Automatically reconstruct a three-dimensional space from a collection of photos of a place or an object.

5. Autostitch
A step forward in panoramic image stitching by automatically recognising matching images. This allows entire panoramas to be constructed with no user input whatsoever. Autostitch is incredibly simple to use!

6. PTAssembler
A Windows helper program for Panorama Tools, powerful panoramic image stitching software. Despite (perhaps because of) its numerous features and capabilities, Panorama Tools can be challenging to use.

7. PTGui
Developed as a Graphical User Interface for Panorama Tools, PTGui now is a full featured photo stitching application.

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related posts:
List of Well Known Online Image Processing Editors
Microsoft Live Labs Photosynth tries to reconstruct the scene

inspired by [makeuseof]

Labels: image_processing, photo, tip

Most of these web services we have discovered in the past.... now instantshift published a list of web based image processing we agree with.

Web-based Photo Editors are online tools available to anyone which can easily modify, resize and edit digital photographs or graphics files, without installing any software on your machine.

via [instantshift]

Labels: fun, image_processing, photo, tip, web_apps

What? Where? When? is a AppJet application and Flickr Mashup created by Paul Mison to show what, where, and when surrounding photos on a google map. nice :)

via [rww]

Labels: flickr, fun, google, javascript, maps, mashup, photo, web_2.0

Garden Car in Kensington Market, Toronto, originally uploaded by DrGaz.

via [flickr]

Labels: flickr, photo

Idée Inc. extracted the colours from 10 million of the most “interesting” Creative Commons images on Flickr & Alamy Set. Using their visual similarity technology you can navigate the collection by colour.

http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr
http://www.ideeinc.com/products/piximilar/

related: Amazing Image Identification with TinEye

via [idsg.it]

Labels: api, flickr, fun, image_processing, mashup, photo, search, web_2.0