But it’s really a far more exiting in a Google Maps Viewer form.

Created using Microsoft ICE a free panoramic stitcher, which seems to work well for a basic image stitch using only a single degree of rotation.  In the future I’ll have to experiment trying to stitch an image with multiple degrees of panning or to do one with a full 360 of panning.

To get around the inherent problems of viewing panoramic photos(which aren’t proportioned well for computer screens), the Google Maps Image Cutter seems invaluable in presenting them in a manner that’s familiar to web users.

My current project is to finally sort through all of the photos that I’ve taken over the years.  The side benefit(even if I don’t finish) would be to have a few images with getting a print of to decorate my house.  I also had the foresight(or pure masochistic desire) to take many multiple image sets for future postprocessing via HDR or panoramic stitching.  Using Google’s Picasa for a cross platform management software, the most notable limitation was that I couldn’t easily pass sets of photos to Photomatix.  A bit of research on Google’s API enabled me to create a button that will automagically open Photomatix with the files in my Picasa tray.

You can install my little button using this link(assuming that you have Picasa installed).  Ironically the link doesn’t actually work with Google’s Chrome browser.

But since no one actually cares about my ramblings, here’s a nice HDR photo from my trip to Jiuzhaiguo in 2008:

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