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I have an upcoming shoot where I’m hoping to be able to create an image made by merging several photos into one, similar to what’s done for a panorama. What I’m trying to do is produce a photograph with 50 or 60 effective megapixels (or maybe more).
I’m using words like hoping because there are some technical hurdles to be jumped for this particular shoot. I’ll write more about it once the shoot happens. Wish me luck.
Once this very large photo is created, I then want to be able to present it in a way that people can look at it closely. But I don’t want folks to have to download some enormous image file and then try to figure out how to view it. This is where Zoomify comes in.
Zoomify is designed specifically to do this. It uses Adobe Flash (sorry all you iPhone and iPad users!) as its interface. It generates a huges set of little JPEG files which it then uses to show image detail at the level the user selects.
I took the pano above at Yosemite in January using a vertical camera orientation and seven exposures. At 21MP each, that’s sort of a lot of data. I have a canvas print of this pano hanging in my office, and the detail is amazing. I thought this would make an interesting test for Zoomify. Happily, Zoomify comes with recent versions of Photoshop (it’s found on the File->Export menu). It’s incredibly easy to use and much faster than I thought it would be. It took much longer to upload all the files to my website than to generate them.
I’m pleased with the results. Inserting it into my post was pretty simple, too, just cutting/pasting a bit of HTML. Fingers crossed that I’ll have some good images from the shoot to play with. Watch this space!
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