Hagar Park, we take the kids here to exercise, and boy do they have a ball.
The playground is huge! =)

i took 5 photos and chose 3 of the best ones, placed them together on a 1664x412 px canvas, and used only the curves tool and hue and saturation tool to get the image almost seamless.

That is excellent, Rod. I can't even see where you joined them. Nice work!

Here is where i placed it together, i stroked some lines for each photo.


Thanks O, i have another of the same park.
Its an outline of the USA about 400 yards long! =)

i will be working on that one next.That should look real cool.

Here is the one of the USA.
I only used 2 images for this one.It looks pretty neat though.I kept the person in for emphasis on the size of this map.

Are there any scripts to do panoramas in gimp? I tried to do one a couple years ago...FAIL! I guess I got the colors ok, but I don't think I knew about all the tools to get the edges of the bldg better! Let me see if I can find it...there it is...it is from 3 pics, but I can see a huge mess up with opacity and totally not lined up well on the building...I think I will have to redo it soon!

WOW! ... thats a tall building, nice!

I didnt use any scripts, just the curves tool and hue and saturation tool.
there is a script (python i think)
I do have one under filters/combine/make panorama not sure what the name of the script is though.
here is a helpful link.
http://registry.gimp.org/search/node/panorama

i have better results by just using the curves tool though.
just open curves and click the color in the image you want to change to make the edged seamless, and the curves tool will show you where to adjust that particular color, works very nicely. =)

Getting lines and things to mate up is a whole other story. =P

there is also a program called Hugin which is freeware that does only Panoramas.
http://hugin.en.softonic.com/

here it is...
Pandora
January 9, 2008 - 22:50 — akkana

Pandora simplifies the process of stitching together a sequence of panorama images.

Load all the panorama pieces (in order) as layers inside an image (suggestion: make a new image then "Open as Layers" and select all the files). Then run Filters->Combine->Make Panorama.

the link
http://registry.gimp.org/files/pandora- ... -0.9.2.scm

That USA map in the grass is very cool, Rod. Nice! Looks great!

Toni, that tall building is stupendous. It's totally beautiful.

I tried re-doing it using the panorama script...but I couldn't figure out how to use it properly. I tried opening all 3 pics each as their own layer. I even did them sideways as it gave no choice for vertical or horizontal. I actually did better using my own set up...just opened as layers and then used perspective to overlap, did some erasing. I did have to use another copy of the center layer with more erasing to cover up some noticeable lines in the sky. Argh, I still see where it's not right. Oh well, one of these days I'll get it right.
p.s. surely ya'll recognize Rockefeller Center!!!

... well, no I didn't recognize it, Toni. I should have but I've never been there.

The statue area usually is shown whenever they show the lighting of the Christmas tree and the ice skating (and David Letterman show prolly shows it once in a while).

LOL, I thought that statue was the FTD logo guy.

http://jo.lopez0004.eresmas.net/tk/f/FTD_logo.gif

LOL @ O

Ill have to try one of those vertical ones, no tall buildings here in farmland USA though!
In fact we just turned down a vote to add 5 story buildings in our area.
I think though my next project may be a horizontal view of Grand Valley University.

GVU is its own city =P

You could stand at the bottom of this and shoot upward at it.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1310/1430129858_573bc036d0.jpg

it is tall enough probably.Ill give it a go and post the results.Thanks O =)

@O Lol, yeah there is a resemblance! FTD is Mercury, so maybe Rockefeller is some other 'god'. It sort of looks like waves, but he doesn't really look like any Poseidon I've seen.
@Rod How about a silo? lol.

Well maybe it's Apollo (sun god) in Greek mythology. Maybe this looks more like that statue.

http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/1400/1459/apollo_5.htm

Later edit:

Says that statue is Prometheus, the god who stole fire from the gods and gave it to man. Zeus then punished him for his crime by having him bound to a rock while a great eagle ate his liver every day only to have it grow back to be eaten again the next day.

Well, what a lovely myth. Yikes!

That's a very nice job you're doing stitching your panoramas.

I use Hugin because it (mostly) makes it easy

my examples

I downloaded it (Hugin) after watching a Meet The Gimp video on Panoramas.I just never tried it yet. =)