Then since everything is so crisp you can create some great compositions!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/brodelicious/4058278559/sizes/l/

I really like what I see! Definitely would love to see a tutorial!!!!!!!!  Difference is night and day.  How many smaller shots did it take?

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I've done them with 6 images (2x3 rows), but for this one I went overboard and did 18 shots. I think for most purposes 6 should be fine. The difference is amazing on my computer, but the web previews don't do it justice. if you download the image and zoom in on the Lotus badge (or anywhere) it's crazy! We're talking 90kb vs 1.2MB

I'll get to work typing up a tutorial! 

Boifido Evverue:

I've done them with 6 images (2x3 rows), but for this one I went overboard and did 18 shots. The difference is amazing on my computer, but the web previews don't do it justice. if you download the image and zoom in on the Lotus badge (or anywhere) it's crazy! We're talking 90kb vs 1.2MB

I'll get to work typing up a tutorial! 

Sounds good!  I thought of doing this as well, just to make say a 1920x1200 shot or something. Just hate that we have to do this.  But the quality is much, much better.  Really looking forward to the tutorial!

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^^^^

that is a big difference. did you use photoshop to stich them together?

and how many photos did you use? 

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Wow! I advocate for a sticky! This technique definitely needs to be known to all, unless Che gives us the good news (i.e. photo compression eliminated)

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Agree.  Used to do the stitching back in my GT4 days had not even thought of this in like 4 years.

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DUH

Well Turn10 are doing the compression to save bandwidth, but if people start doing this method, it will be easier for everyone just to upgrade the file size to 400kb or somthing.

 *or, if the issue is of people viewing the photo on storefront, do an option like on the video where you can do 720p or [forgot320?p]

Allow the high quality photo to be downloaded only by the user that created it for external hosting, and have the 90kb photo on storefront.

That way I can use lets say 1mb total of turn10's bandwidth downloading my image to my computer once. And if people still want to download from the storefront it will be 90kb*? = MB.

 So there you have it, it would actually be more bandwidth efficient to let me download a 1mb photo once, and use external hosting to display it on the internet. [Compared to a photo getting 90kb*1000 storefront downloads]

Leathersoup:

I hope Turn 10 is watching this thread to see what people have to resort to in order to get their pictures to look good. 

 

He said good = 1.2 MB

 

Turn10 would be idiotic to allow us to upload 1.2MB photos to the storefront. Obviously T10 understands fidelity, and it's a balancing act between quality and bandwidth.

Arhythmatic:

Leathersoup:

I hope Turn 10 is watching this thread to see what people have to resort to in order to get their pictures to look good. 

 

He said good = 1.2 MB

 

Turn10 would be idiotic to allow us to upload 1.2MB photos to the storefront. Obviously T10 understands fidelity, and it's a balancing act between quality and bandwidth.

Wrong. I check the file size of the photos posted by T10, all around 500-600 kb. That is not a bad file size, and their servers definitely can withstand that.

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Benmastaw00t:

Arhythmatic:

Leathersoup:

I hope Turn 10 is watching this thread to see what people have to resort to in order to get their pictures to look good. 

 

He said good = 1.2 MB

 

Turn10 would be idiotic to allow us to upload 1.2MB photos to the storefront. Obviously T10 understands fidelity, and it's a balancing act between quality and bandwidth.

Wrong. I check the file size of the photos posted by T10, all around 500-600 kb. That is not a bad file size, and their servers definitely can withstand that.

 

Yea, I was saying 1.2MB as an example, 600kb would probably be fine too.

 

Did you read what I was saying though? I wasn't saying to upload them to the storefront, I was saying allow higher quality uploads to "My Forza" for external hosting. 

 

I quote:

"Allow the high quality photo to be downloaded only by the user that created it for external hosting, and have the 90kb photo on storefront.

 

That way I can use lets say 1mb total of turn10's bandwidth downloading my image to my computer once. And if people still want to download from the storefront it will be 90kb*? = MB.

 

 So there you have it, it would actually be more bandwidth efficient to let me download a 1mb photo once, and use external hosting to display it on the internet. [Compared to a photo getting 90kb*1000 storefront downloads]" 

Wow, this looks stunning, would love to see the tutorial!  Good work!

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I'm working on the tutorial, but for the meantime, here's a tip. If the game works like real life, it's best to shoot your smaller bits at maximum zoom. As you can see in the illustration below, the further away from the object you are, the less angle and distortion there will be. If you shoot up close without zoom and try to stich it, it will look sortof like a fisheye lens. [I'm pretty sure the game works like this too]

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Arhythmatic:

Leathersoup:

I hope Turn 10 is watching this thread to see what people have to resort to in order to get their pictures to look good. 

 

He said good = 1.2 MB

 

Turn10 would be idiotic to allow us to upload 1.2MB photos to the storefront. Obviously T10 understands fidelity, and it's a balancing act between quality and bandwidth.

A 30 sec video clip is a 57MB upload, I would love the ability to upload 1.2MB photos and actually use them for wallpaper on my 1920x1200 PC!

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Examples of uncompressed photos @ 2560 x 1440

[url=http://www.filefactory.com/file/a0739hd/n/FM3_E3_Fiorano_3_jpg[/url]

http://www.filefactory.com/file/a07390h/n/FM3_E3_M3_6_jpg

http://www.filefactory.com/file/a073923/n/FM3_E3_Scuderia_2_jpg

http://www.filefactory.com/file/a07391b/n/FM3_E3_R8_3_jpg

It's only embarrasing for T10 when people are still posting 6 x 4 photos as that's the only way to get them to look good!

Examples of uncompressed 500KB 1280 x 720 photos

http://www.filefactory.com/file/a074ac4/n/FM3_worldwide_pre-order_car1_jpg

http://www.filefactory.com/file/a074ach/n/FM3_VIPcars_4_jpg

http://www.filefactory.com/file/a13bhbb/n/FM3_VIPcars3_jpg

http://www.filefactory.com/file/a1a2ha1/n/FM3_VIPcars_1_jpg

 

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I sitll want to see your tute, but is what you are saying to do is to take 6 different photos of the car and join them up?

Not everyone would have the software or the skills to do this.

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TGM OverLord:

I sitll want to see your tute, but is what you are saying to do is to take 6 different photos of the car and join them up?

Not everyone would have the software or the skills to do this.

 Yea, since I do irl photography, I have panoramic stitching software.

Update! since the game perfectly rotates around the axis, as long as you don't move the right thumb stick, the images appear to line up perfectly! That means even somone with microsoft paint could paste all the images into there and line them up. That's awsome!

Of course if you have photoshop you can use Auto-Align Layers 

 

 Since I don't have a high megapixel camera I use the same technique IRL. This image is made up of 30 photos:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/brodelicious/3932837531/ 

I've made a rudimentary tutorial:

****Tutorial****

(will improve on it later)

1.Find an angle you want of your car, and zoom in as far as you can (20X)

2. Move back the camera to a distance that you can fit the parts of the car into 2 rows of 3 images

3. Take the photos and use only the right mouse stick to move the camera. Start on the far left, and pay attention to how much area the FM3 logo takes up. You will cut off the vertical left slice of each picture to get rid of the logo. Make sure when you move the camera to the right to take the next picture, that there is enough overlap to allow you to get rid of the logo later.

4. Download the Photos to your computer, load them into a photo program, and cut off the vertical left slice of the image that contains the logo. Align all the images in a big enough work area and match up the features.

 5?????

6.Profit!