There is a definite magic associated with panoramic images that capture the entire scene that the eye can see (and often more). Sadly taking panoramic photos is out of reach for most individuals as it requires expensive panoramic photography equipment. However, anyone who has a fairly recent version of Photoshop Elements or Photoshop CS upwards can also accomplish panoramic photography. Read on to see how!

To achieve panoramas you must take several photographs which have a region overlapping. The other key point to producing good panoramas is to keep the cameras position still and rotate it around its axis. Do not rotate yourself with the camera in your hands, rotate the camera.
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The new website is launched and hopefully fully functional. I’ll detail the entire process including the WordPress plug-ins used, for you bloggers out there. We would really appreciate some feedback on the design so please leave them in the comments. (more…)

3 weeks ago I jumped ship from being a long term Windows user to using Mac.  I’d only ever used Macs very briefly, accounting for less than an hour of overall use.

So what was the reason for my switch I hear you asking?

Short answer:

I was fed up of the unreliability of xp and the constant need to format.

Long answer:

1. My Dell Laptop kept crashing and running generally slowly.  As it happens this probably wasn’t entirely xp’s fault as I believe there was a hard drive fault.  However, even before this I had to format every three months or so which really infuriated me.
2. XP was very unexciting and made things which should be fun feel like a chore
3. Viruses and spyware were really irritating - I know you should be careful, not go on those kind of websites etc. but that is sometimes unavoidable!
4. OS X seemed so fresh and fun

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