ISO long horizontal collage LO's or templates

[GaoyouMom]

I'm looking for suggests as to how to scrap these photos:

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd91/GaoyouMom/View360LargeWebview.jpg

It is a sequence of 12 photos that I took from the top of the Space Needle in Seattle, going all the way around. My original intent was to merge them together to create one long horizontal photo of the complete 360-degree view that would extend across a 2-page LO, but I've given up. The details won't show up here, but I'm having a really hard time because the lighting is all varied and the angles are different. I've already spent more time than I care to admit trying to even them all out and merge them so they look like a single photo, and I'm just not getting the result that I want.

So, I've decided to use another technique and keep them as a series of individual, overlapping photos so that I don't have to be so precise, leaving the variations in lighting, angle, etc. as they are but still give the illusion of one continuous photo. I'm looking for a template or even just an example of a LO that I can scraplift.

There are 12 photos in all, but one is just a small sliver in between two photos that didn't quite overlap, and the two at the ends are overlapping images, so I could get by with 10 or 11 photos.

Any inspiration would be most appreciated. Thanks,

~Susan

[LauraBanasiak]

i don't have any ideas right now, but that's cool! :D

[Qcaller]

Susan - Are you doing square or rectangular pages? What is the style of the rest of the book? Shabby, cartoony, bright, muted, etc...? What about putting the skyline at the bottom of the page and blending the sky into a blue/gray paper? Do you want these pages just to be about Seattle or do you want more photos of the group you traveled with? I think you mentioned on another forum that you were doing a whole photo book. What about using this for the cover of the album?

Hope some of this sparks an idea for you.

--Pam

[GaoyouMom]

Thanks Pam, yes, you've given me some great feedback as usual. Yes, the album is of the reunion that I've talked about on another forum. It's mostly of all the people there and our activities, but I'm combining photos of local attractions as well. We visited a lot of tourist places.

To give you an idea of style, I'm using kits by Lliella. So far mostly papers and elements from her CNY and Panda Zen kits, but I'll probably include additional elements from some of her other kits as well. I have quite a few -- love her style! The album will be 8-1/2 x 11, portrait oriented. I'm making all LO's 2-page spreads and will split them into individual pages later. I wish it was square -- that's what I'm used to and prefer, but I sort of inherited the project from someone else as a work-in-process.

I'm still playing around, but i think I may just crop the photos, overlap them so they look good, and apply a simple edge effect, like a narrow white line.

~Susan

[GaoyouMom]

i don't have any ideas right now, but that's cool! :D

Thanks! I've seen pages that have the look I'm going for, but of course now that I'm looking for something specific I can't find it.

~Susan

[Misty Cato]

That's terrific that you have the whole 360 view! What about just embracing the 'choppy' aspect of them? Crop them to vary the dimensions a bit, add a heavier drop shadow and maybe a subtle inner burn to the photos.

This isn't a finished page, but maybe it will spark an idea.

http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m240/mistycato/Beachwalk.jpg

[stefdesign]

Mine is only 3 photos long... I'd love to do a whole diorama. I'd probably do several pages! http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll56/StefanieEskander/theView.jpg

[Jenna]

How fun! My first thought was to leave them AS IS, add some drop shadows and journaling. Done. It's gorgeous like it is, don't try to out-think it. Lovely shots!!

[Neeny]

Studio Hillary has a great set of templates that were just released from her July grab bag. There are two templates in this set that group 10 on a page horizontally if you wanted to do that and choose one or two of the others to do larger for a second page. One of them is 12 photos clustered together going diagonally across the page which might give you a different idea than horizontal if you want to go that route instead.

Here is the link to photo overload five. (http://shop.scrapbookgraphics.com/product.php?productid=25544&cat=0&page=1)

http://shop.scrapbookgraphics.com/thumbs_cache/53006efe5fb84933af2b60de11b26ef1.jpg (http://shop.scrapbookgraphics.com/product.php?productid=25544&cat=0&page=1)

Hope this helps, good luck with your pages!

Janine

[alb52]

i'd leave them as is and add some shadows etc....

[karen1987]

If you're using PS, it'll do all the work for you. You can go to File>Automate>Photomerge in CS3 - not sure about other versions. I've used this over and over with fantastic results. It fixes the odd angles, lighting differences, etc.

[kidpower]

You could use one of these templates that have the row going across the top or going down the side. Then you could do a two pager or something like that. Does that make sense? Hope this helps!
http://scraporchard.com/market/images/cache/59c047c3ab45a5cc160480af9069a9a1.jpg (http://scraporchard.com/market/product.php?productid=17989&cat=0&page=1)

[Sine]

Heh.. Well I might be digging my own grave here, since Jen suggested some of MY templates.. But I was thinking more along this..

http://scraporchard.com/gallery/data/500/Fall6.jpg (http://scraporchard.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=47006)

I don't have a template for it, but this was inspired heavily by it, and can be grabbed as a freebie on my blog (http://www.bysine.com)..

http://gq.hemligt.net/.cache/640x640-bySine_SOWays_01.jpg (http://www.bysine.com/?p=641)