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The world’s five largest photos

Dirk Metzmacher — Mon, 17 May 2010 18:51:02 +0000

Gigapixel worlds are fascinating with their sheer size and incredible level of detail. You see a panoramic view of a city or of a landscape, and you can zoom right down into people’s faces. Here we collected the world’s five largest photos for you. Hundreds of single shots were combined into one single image, which is more than 1.000 times larger than the images standard cameras can provide.

Gigapixel Dresden

A.F.B. media GmbH – Dresden – Deutschland (26 Gigapixel)

Yosemite/Glacier Point

Gerard B. Maynard – New York – USA (17,3 Gigapixel)

Megeve valley

G. Roumestan – Mont-Blanc – Frankreich und Italien (16,7 Gigapixel)

The Last Supper

HAL9000 Srl – Novara – Italy (16,1 Gigapixel)

Harlem

Gerard B. Maynard – New York – USA (13,1 Gigapixel)

Multi Browser Lunascape

Dirk Metzmacher — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:35:40 +0000

Here’s a tip for you undecided surfers. If you can’t decide on a browser under Windows, you could try the multi browser Lunascape, which combines the best parts of the most used browsers. That’s what it says on the website: “Yeah, that’s right. Lunascape = IE (Trident), Firefox (Gecko), Chrome, Safari (Webkit)”. The browser is now also available in eleven different languages.

The evolution of web design

Dirk Metzmacher — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:59:32 +0000

The article The evolution of web design takes a quick look back on the development of web design. From 1993 to 1996: The web is a boring place for designers to From 1995 to 1998: browsers war to From 1998 to 2000: Designers get serious about creating websites to From 2000 to 2004: the rise of web standards to From 2004 to 2007: the era of Web 2.0 and From 2008 to now: moving to other devices. A great overview.

Discover the hidden picture

Dirk Metzmacher — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:27:31 +0000

This picture seems to be quite boring, but there is a second picture hiding inside. As you do not open all windows of your Photoshop application and as you do not look up the solution at Ironic Sans, it will certainly take you some time to discover the second picture. A very special idea which takes some time to discover.

Although the moment of surprise does no longer exist, Josh Millard picked up this topic and even surpassed the original. The following picture is not really, but nearly, the histogram.

Museum of Hoaxes

Dirk Metzmacher — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:18:32 +0000

The Hoax Photo Gallery proves that pictures were being manipulated far before Photoshop came on the scene. Already in 1900, photos were being manipulated to make them sell better or for propaganda purposes.

The History of Photoshop

Dirk Metzmacher — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:04:46 +0000

Photoshop can trace its history back a while. Since the very first version, Windows 2.0 has progressed to Windows Vista and the entire WWW has been filled with content. Now these guidebooks present you with the complete Photoshop history including icons, splashscreens and workspaces as well as what’s new in every Photoshop update. An amazing and very comprehensive collection.