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Uusi Photosynth on nyt kaikkien saatavilla

jukkaw — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:01:00 GMT

Nyt se on sitten kaikkien käytössä ilmaiseksi.

Mikä ihme se photosynth taas olikaan?

Kuvittele, että otat matkalla paljon valokuvia jostakin hienosta nähtävyydestä ja haluaisit jakaa kokemuksesi muiden kanssa. Valokuvia on voinut jakaa verkossa jo pitkään, mutta mitä jos ladatessasi kaikki kuvat yhteen palveluun, siitä syntyisikin kolmiuloitteinen maailma, jossa näet kaikki kuvat oikeilla paikoillaan ja niiden välillä voi siirtyä käsittämättömän hienosti. Sitä on photosynth.

Täytyy siis kuvata paljon tavallisia kuvia, ladata ne palveluun ja kokea kuvat aivan uudella tavalla.

Nyt on aika tutustua siihen aivan itse.
Tutustu oheiseen videoon ja näe, kuinka helposti photosynth -kollaaseja pääsee tekemään.

Photosynthillä alkuun pääsy on helppoa:

Ihan aluksi, ota muutama tusina digikuvia, noin 20 – 300 vaaditaan riippuen paikan tai kuvattavan kohteen koosta. Ota kuvat hieman limittäin toisiinsa nähden, useasta eri paikasta ja kulmasta.
Seuraavaksi, lataa pieni sovellus tietokoneellesi osoitteesta www.photosynth.com. Tämä ohjelma toimii yhdessä Photosynth-sivuston kanssa ja on niin ikään ilmainen.
Lähetä valitut kuvat Photosynth-sivustolle helpon käyttöliittymän kautta. Kun kaikki kuvat ovat ladattuina ja valmiina, Photosynth-tekniikka hoitaa loput. Lopputulos on yksityiskohtainen, kolmiulotteinen kopio valokuvien paikasta tai kohteesta.
Kollaasiota, ”synthiä”, voidaan tarkastella mistä tahansa tuetusta tietokoneesta, jossa on laajakaistainen internet-yhteys. Tarvitaan vain Windows Live ID-tunnus ja salasana, jotta yksilöllinen Photosynth-tili voidaan luoda ja tarkastella synth-kollaasioita.
Valmis kollaasio voidaan helposti liittää myös osaksi muita sivustoja, blogeja tai sosiaalisia medioita kuten MySpace, Windows Live Spaces tai mille tahansa sivustolle, jossa html:ää voidaan muokata.

New 3D Photo Viewer From Microsoft Research

sarahintampa — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:23:00 GMT

If you thought Photosynth was cool, you haven’t seen anything yet! On his blog, Long Zheng shares with us an amazing video out of Microsoft Research that focuses on a new immersive 3D technology for manipulating digital photos. The technology, which appears to be an advancement of an older technology called Photo Tourism, allows for browsing through photo collections in 3D. In the video, the photos used to demonstrate the technology in action are taken from the flickr website. However, the technology could be used with a collection of images out of your own personal photo collection, too.

Like Photosynth, photos of the same object or location are stitched together, but this new technology goes beyond that to allow for a 3D model of the scene through seamless transitions between the photos as you move through them. In addition, the system also corrects the color balance and stabilizes the transitions as you zoom, rotate, and move through the images. With this system, you can navigate through the photos, zoom in and out, select different orbits, view both daytime or nighttime photos, and so much more. This technology doesn’t seem to have a real name yet – both the video and the website are simply titled “Finding Paths through the World’s Photos.”

This is the sort of thing that’s kind of hard to explain – it has to be seen to be believed. Check it out:

On the website, you can view the video, download the paper, and even download the source code.

Attention Photogs: Cover Photo Contest

sarahintampa — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:31:00 GMT

Microsoft is currently sponsoring a contest over at Professional Photographer magazine where the winner will get their work on the front cover of the mag, which has a subscription base of nearly 50,000. What a great way to get your work out into the photo community! Entries will be judged on technical, compositional, and artistic merit. There's no entry fee, but the entries must be in by May 31st. You can enter from the magazine's web site, www.ppmag.com. (Via Microsoft Professional Photographer blog)

Digital Photography Resources

sarahintampa — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:32:00 GMT

If you're into digital photography, I just discovered a great resource that you'll want to check out via Brian Johnson's BufferOverrun blog. Brian created a list of links using Microsoft Live Labs Listas, which breaks down the resources into the following categories: Digital Camera Resources, Photography Education and Techniques, Photo Software and Sharing, Photography Podcasts, and Photography User Groups and Events. The list features some Microsoft resources, like PhotoSynth and some non-Microsoft resources like Paint.NET's Wikibook. Even if you don't have time to peruse the whole list now, it's one of those gems that you find and just have to bookmark!

Slide.Show Does Web Slideshows

sarahintampa — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 09:12:00 GMT

Slide.Show is an open source Silverlight 1.0 control for publishing highly-customizable photo slideshows on the web. Created by Vertigo, the application lets you build rich, interactive web slideshows with minimal setup and configuration required. You can add your own transitions and customize various options like color, font, size, position, and behavior. You can even configure it to display your photos from flickr. The app is 100% customizable via XML or JavaScript and works on IE 6 and 7, Firefox 2, and Safari 2 and 3.

To see some great examples of the Slide.Show app at work, check out the links below:

http://www.duncanchannon.com/baddecisions

http://blog.offbeatmammal.com/post/2007/12/Silverlight-Slideshow.aspx

http://www.nikhilk.net/Silverlight-Slideshow.aspx

Slide.Show is available as a free download from CodePlex.

Online Scrapbooking

sarahintampa — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 09:29:00 GMT

Now that the holidays are over, you may find that you have taken a ton of new photos to share with your family and friends. Before the world went digital, your pictures were stored in hardbound photo albums, or, if you were a creative type, you dressed up your albums with backgrounds, stickers, text bubbles, cut-outs, shapes, drawings, and other mementos. These albums were no mere repositories of photos - they were true scapbooks. Now that everyone takes digital photos, our photo albums have moved online. Although there are plenty of online storage spaces for collecting and sharing photos, the creativity and fun of scrapbooking had been somewhat lost. For many people, that creativity was channeled into making online slideshows using services like Slide, RockYou, or Photobucket. These services do offer a lot of customization techniques, but they still aren't quite the same as making a real scrapbook-like page. However, a service called Scrapblog, which launched earlier this year, brings back much of the fun of creating scrapbooks by letting you make customized and personal scrapbook-like photo pages. You can begin using the service right away, with no need to register unless you want to save your work, so it's easy to get started with making your own page. The service offers a wide assortment of themes to use, or you can start with a blank page and make it your own. You can add in various backgrounds, frames, shapes, text, and, just like real scrapbooks, you can add "stickers" too. The objects can be resized, rotated, overlayed, and hyperlinked and the photos themselves can be edited to have frames, shadows, and other effects. You can even add videos from YouTube to your Scrapblog pages. The individual pages are combined to make up an online photo album that is just as personal and fun as the scrapbooks you made in the past. To see some examples of the extent to which these pages can be customized, check out some of the pictures of scrapblog pages that are featured on the Scrapblog Blog. To learn more, watch the quick online tutorial & then get scrapbooking!

Windows Live Photo Gallery: Share Your Photos & Videos

Laura — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:11:00 GMT

It's here and it's all yours. The new release of Windows Live Photo Gallery lets you be a photo editor and one touch publisher. It's so easy now to share all your tagged images on sites like FlickR and Spaces. Plus, you've got to check out the new panoramic photo editing feature- go ahead and take it for a spin.