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panorama creativity
Eric Rougier's passion for Paris and France is expressed through the wonderful free and inviting images on his website www.FromParis.com.
Eric also presents a 10 minute video explaining how he creates his panoramas. This is RECOMMENDED viewing.
Laurent Sicard's New York Times Square VR, with sound, takes you there.
Panorama Tools is an open source (FREE) program to create panoramas.
PTGUI is a commercial program which helps by making many decisions for you and presenting a fast and convenient, less technical user interface.
Philippe Hurbain shows us all how to use low cost creative techniques to create panoramas without spending much money. His plumb-bob-spirit-level technique
is inspiring!
If you want a panoramic tripod head D-I-Y for $10, wikiHow has an article posted.
tips & suggestions
If you dont have Quicktime PRO to save and enjoy the panoramas later, then you can usually find the movie in the cache folder of your Firefox browser.
You must rename the fielname extension to "mov", which you can play with the free version of Quicktime.
Save it to a "panoramas" folder you create so you can come back anytime for a relaxing visit.
If you like a particular view, click "Print Screen" on your keyboard, to save the current scree view, then edit it with a graphics program.
Irfanview is a great FREEWARE program you can use to trim the captured image to a view you like. You might use it as wallpaper or
just to have as a still image. You simply position the cursor to form a rectangle around the part of the image you want to keep, then click Edit-->Crop selection-->save as to a filename
and location you choose.