PurplePaste

This is why you buy the snowshoes with the lifetime warranty...

Via GoBlog

Taken from the Giant Ledge trail in the Catskills Slide Mountain Wilderness. My first real experiments with the Stitch Assist feature on the Powershot S3, with the camera giving me some fairly good results.

The photo stitch software, on the other hand, leaves much to be desired. HP's Photosmart Stitch, a freebie that came with my printer, did little more than slap the photos together, end-to-end, and blur the edges. There was seemingly no attempt to match the contents of the images to make lines and colors meet, and the result was a useless image.

The Canon software that came with the camera, appropriately called PhotoStitch, did a significantly better job of identifying the overlap between adjacent images and gives the user a bit more flexibility. However, the output was a fairly low-quality JPEG and there was some visible artifacting along the seams of the photos.

In the end, I stitched the photos together manually, using Photoshop, and achieved the best result. Although it took significantly longer than the automated applications, it was much more satisfying.

After much procrastination, I've finally gotten around to posting some photos from my Great Utah/Wyoming National Park Tour of 2005. You can view the entire photoset on Flickr. Of the 732 photographs I took on the trip, I narrowed it down to 57 of the best. Maybe I'll post more when I get around to it...

A bit of background -- in July of this year, Rydog, TK, Zimber, Carl and I met up in Utah and rented an RV. We spent the week on a nonstop tour of the best National Parks the region has to offer. Camping out in Zion. Snowball fights in Yellowstone. Hiking in Bryce and Arches. Mountain biking in Moab (at the world famous Slickrock Trail). Without a doubt, the best vacation I've taken in a while, in a beautiful region of the country I hadn't seen before.