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mcgillianaire ([personal profile] mcgillianaire) wrote2011-07-06 07:15 am

Wimbledon Photostitch of Henman Hill (Aorangi Terrace)


Click image to enlarge. If you zoom in you can see a blurry London skyline to the left and Canary Wharf to the right side of it. The match on the screen is between Rafael Nadal and Andreas Beck, a first round clash.

I started using Autostitch a couple days ago and it's absolutely amazing!!! It's a small download, free, so easy-to-use and stitches images like these in just a matter of seconds. I can't believe I didn't discover it earlier. But I suppose better late than never. Not surprisingly I've since gone nuts with it and am working my way through all my photos dating back to 2005, searching for potential panoramic material. This one's from June 2008.

[identity profile] loganberrybunny.livejournal.com 2011-07-06 10:44 am (UTC)(link)
It does do horrible things to the layout of my Friends page, though! I'll be kind and not ask for lj-cutting, though if these are going to be a regular event I might make a gentle hint. I think they're fantastic photos, though, so please don't stop posting them either way!

[identity profile] mcgillianaire.livejournal.com 2011-07-06 10:57 am (UTC)(link)
Ah that's probably due to the size. I wasn't sure whether a width of 1280 pixels would be too much. I'll post the next one at 1024. If that's still too big then I'll make it smaller and so forth till the problem stops. I never liked it when such pictures disrupted my Friends page either so I completely understand. Though luckily on my new computer that isn't the case any more so I'm less sure what it's like for others.

(Anonymous) 2011-07-06 11:03 am (UTC)(link)
To be honest, you might as well keep it at 1280. You see, I have a rather odd format for my Friends page -- my eyesight being what it is, I restrict the actual post width to 450 and the posts to (I think) 600. That's why the photos I post are thumbnailed to the size that they are. I wouldn't ask you to reduce things by that much, so what I may do is set up a Custom Friends group with everyone but you in it, and check your posts separately. I already do that with the "doctorwho" LJ community, which is otehrwise so prolific as to drown out everyone else!

[identity profile] mcgillianaire.livejournal.com 2011-07-06 11:21 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, I have wondered all this time why your pics were that size! I'm sorry these posts will impose such a change... hope you won't forget about me! :) On an unrelated note, it occurred to me that we added each other almost exactly four years ago when we "met" in the sixesandfours community either just before or after the last Indian tour began. Time has flown.

[identity profile] taxlady.livejournal.com 2011-07-06 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
That will be appreciated. I am looking at it on my laptop with an extra wide screen and it still messes up my friends page.

Nice photos.

[identity profile] mcgillianaire.livejournal.com 2011-07-07 03:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks and gotcha. Will resize the next one at 1024. Might even post a poll after that to see if it still affects people.

[identity profile] mcgillianaire.livejournal.com 2011-07-06 11:05 am (UTC)(link)
Oh and thanks! I suspect I will be posting quite a few of these over the summer. I still haven't worked out whether I want to post them regularly, in an orderly fashion or fit them into a relevant story (like the one above, with the tournament recently concluded). Perhaps I just need to take it easy and remind myself it's just a bloody journal!