Panoramic Planets?
By flametahu
@flametahu (17)
3 responses
@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
8 Jan 11
I think that it's very attractive and that there is a lot of potential for this kind of photo. If you don't already have an account on Deviantart, you should consider opening one and setting up a page to sell these photos.
I am interested in exactly how you achieve this effect in Gimp. What filters and procedures do you use?
@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
8 Jan 11
Incidentally, publishing a tutorial would be a very good idea!
@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
8 Jan 11
It would be difficult to publish a tutorial in MyLot itself (MyLot is a discussion site, in the first place, and a tutorial doesn't easily lend itself to 'discussion'; secondly, a tutorial really needs screenshots - and plenty of them - to make the steps clear).
The best place to publish a tutorial would be on a blog or a website or in any forum devoted to Gimp or to image manipulation generally where one can post images.
The best kind of tutorial is one which shows, step by step, how you made a particular image. If you know how to take screenshots, then you will need a screenshot to illustrate each stage. Windows' own function Ctrl+PrtScn will do the job but is a bit of a pain because you need to paste from the clipboard and save each shot. There are many free utilities which automatically save each screenshot each time - I use Irfanview, not because it's the best but because I use it quite a lot and it's easy to set up to take a shot every time I press the appropriate key combination.
It's probably a good idea to write down (on paper or in a word processor) the steps that you take and then, a day or so later, to actually follow your own instructions, taking screenshots to illustrate as necessary. It is quite important to write your instructions first and then leave them for a day or so because then you will see where they are not clear or you have left out a step or a good description.
Once you have completed your tutorial, get someone else who uses Gimp to follow it through, if you can, and make final corrections and additions.
When you are ready to publish, put all your tutorial images into an image sharing page (Photobox, Flickr, Picasa or whatever you use - make sure that you have an easy system for naming the images: 'PlanetTut01', &c or something), paste the text of your tutorial into the blog or forum page and put the URL of each image in its appropriate place in the text. In most forum and blog editors there is a button for 'add an image' and all you have to do is put the cursor where the image should go - preferably on a new line, press the button and select or copy/paste the image URL.
@JackRabbit (71)
• New Zealand
9 Jan 11
They look stunning. Great job on making a planet out of London. This is what you would call ART is the digital age. Please throw away those paint brushes and environmentally hazardous paint. Just where did come up what this sort of idea, this is brilliant.
