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Terry:
I can't tell you how to save this exact file to your PC, but I went to
the site you listed, saved each of the 7 *.jpg's from which it was
made, opened Ulead Cool 360 and created an *.mov file of 206 KB which
plays as a panorama in QuickTime 5, in about 10 minutes or less.
It is not perfect, as Cool 360 requires a 10-15% overlap between
photos. Thus it tries to overlap photos even when there is no overlap
area. The result is fuzzy areas at the "overlap" point between ech
pair of photos.
This problem could be eliminated easily, but would require a good bit
of extra effort. By opening all 7 photos in Photoshop or the like and
copying about 10% of the left side of the second photo onto the right
side of the first photo and repeating that process until you have
created a 10% overlap between each pair of photos,Cool 360 should give
you an exact replica of the panorama, now playable in Quicktime in a
very similar manner to the website panorama.
Be aware that each "adjusted" photo must be identical in size (width in
pixels) in order for Cool 360 to accept them.
Sony also has a program (which they used to sell to the public) which
had a similar capability, called Picture Gear. In more recent years
they have stopped the commercial sale (I paid $50) and it is now only
available on VAIO computers.
Sony's software played the panoramas with a proprietary Sony player,
but you were prohibited from distributing the player module to the
public, so you could only exhibit the panoramic *.jpg as a large flat
single image on a website. They also made plug-ins for IE and Netscape
browsers so that the program owner could play the Panoramas on his or
her other personal computers.....but once again, Sony prohibited the
use of the plug-ins on websites to allow visitors to actually play the
panoramas in their browsers.
Very smart (NOT!) business practice by Sony :-(
HTH
Mike
Terry Pinnell wrote:
> Occasionally I come across 'panoramic' views such as these:
>
http://www.nuttalls.com/articles/madeira/madeira-panorama.htm
>
http://www.wherenow.net/117~90~61~368.html
> (BTW, that second one won't work in my Firefox browser - had to use
> IE.)
>
> Can one of the experts tell me how I can save these on my HD please?
>
> --
> Terry, West Sussex, UK
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