{"id":12198,"date":"2006-10-21T14:30:48","date_gmt":"2006-10-21T14:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2006\/10\/colossal-images-through-photoshop-flash.html"},"modified":"2006-10-21T14:30:48","modified_gmt":"2006-10-21T14:30:48","slug":"colossal_images_through_photoshop_flash-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/21\/colossal_images_through_photoshop_flash-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Colossal images through Photoshop &#038; Flash"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Rauzier has developed techniques for creating &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hyper-photo.com\/content.html\">Hyperphotos<\/a>&quot;&#8211;panoramas that can be printed some 30&#8242; x 10&#8242;. &quot;When looking at a Hyperphoto,&quot; says his press release, &quot;at first you think you\u2019re<br \/>\nlooking at an enlargement of a panoramic photograph.<br \/>\nNot quite. Look more closely and you absorb a strange<br \/>\natmosphere that distances the viewer from the real world<br \/>\nand sucks you into a universe of dizzying amplitude.<br \/>\nEach Hyperphoto is a gigantic hyper-realist puzzle,<br \/>\ncreated by assembling hundreds of close-up shots<br \/>\ntaken with a telephoto lens.&quot;&#160;<\/p>\n<p> Jean-Fran\u00e7ois reports that although he tried other software, Photoshop was the only tool capable of handling his 30-40GB images.&#160; He displays them on his site using Flash, though for sheer scale I&#8217;d love to see one in person. &#160; More info (in French) on his process is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galerie-photo.com\/rauzier-panoramas-photo-hyperphoto.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photographie.com\/?pubid=103628\">here<\/a>. <\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Rob Galbraith has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robgalbraith.com\/bins\/content_page.asp?cid=7-7899-8635\">the story<\/a> of HAL9000, an Italian team that has created a whopping <strong>8.6 gigapixel<\/strong> stitched photograph of an Italian fresco.&#160; They won&#8217;t go into the details of how they stitched 1,145 Nikon D2X frames into a 96,679  x 89,000 behemoth, but it looks like they use the excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoomify.com\/\">Zoomify<\/a> technology to make the results visible (a la Google Maps) via Flash.&#160; Check out the results <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haltadefinizione.com\/\">on their site<\/a>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hmm&#8211;using Photoshop and Flash together to make sharing high-res imagery a snap; seems like something the Grand Unified Adobe might want to consider&#8230; <em>[pulling chin thoughtfully]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Rauzier has developed techniques for creating &quot;Hyperphotos&quot;&#8211;panoramas that can be printed some 30&#8242; x 10&#8242;. &quot;When looking at a Hyperphoto,&quot; says his press release, &quot;at first you think you\u2019re looking at an enlargement of a panoramic photograph. Not quite. Look more closely and you absorb a strange atmosphere that distances the viewer from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,59],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}