Program-List
1. IrvanView von http://www.irfanview.com. freeware
For rotating and resizing pictures. It provides many other functions.
Make sure that you download all plug-ins; otherwise you might miss the "rotate" function
2. PixMaker lite http://ftp.isu.edu.tw/pub/Windows/softking/p/PixMakerLite.exe
(Freeware after registration, otherwise 30 days)
Easy to hande, automatically creates a 360° picture.
Therefore you don't have to care about begin and end.
3. BMP_Cutter from RC-Sim.de download Tools for AFP (freeware).
to cut the 6144x2048 Panorama photo into 12 small pictures
4. Photopaint from CorelDraw (Payware)
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Go to the foler where you have stores you photos via the Explorer and open the first picture with Irfanview.
Now you should see a big picture only partly.
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Select "jpg lossless rotation" and think about rotating 90 or 270 degrees.
After rotation you can step to the next photo with pressing the space bar.
Rotate all pictures in this way.
If you can not select this function you must tell the progam where the plug-ins can be found!
Do this with "Help -> Installed Plug-ins"
Pictures to Panorama
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Start the program and click on "Snap".
It is asked for a Domain.
Click "ok".
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Search for you photos in the selection window and select all pictures you need. Click "ok"
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Select "Lens 50mm". 360 Degrees should be preset.
Now click on "Stitch"
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After a while you will see a 360° presentation. Click on "Publish" and select "75% or original size, best quality"
You have nearly finished your panorama.
Name it "MSV_6144x2048.jpg."
This will save us some effort
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Bring the Panorama to SIM-size
Here I can only tell you the principle procedure because I don't know which graphics program you use. You might have the following problems:
1. Too less sky
2. Too less ground |
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With "Core Photo Paint" I load the panorama into the working window.
Then I create an empty picture in the format:
AFP: 6144x2048 pixels
XTR: 8160x3060 pixels
Now I copy the panorama photo as an object into the new picture and move it upwards until the "flying horizon" is in the middle.
The lower part I fill with the lower part of the panorma ( you will not recognize this while flying.
The sky is more critical.
There I cut-out a part of the sky in the panorama, "mirror" it and place it on the top again. You can distort the new objects a little to avoid recognizing the added parts.
Do this multiple times until the sky looks nice. If you have some experience with graphics processing, you might have some better solutions.
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continue with part 3 of the workshop
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