Richard Chycoski wrote: > For sharing documents or one-off whiteboard shots, I just use the camera > in my phone. It's 2 megapixel, fixed focus, no flash - but does the job > for a quick document capture for storage or remote viewing.
I've done that too, but I've found that the camera is low enough resolution that large white boards cannot be represented well -- the writing ends up being so small that you can't read it. I use the program "Panorama" to take multiple pictures of the white board and stitch them all together. It gives you a good interactive guide to help get alignment pretty good and then it does the rest automatically. Sometimes the top and bottom edges don't line up so well, but the content inside the edges has been seamless on the images I've taken. I have found that if you use the standard "stand in one position and rotate" mechanism of taking a panorama, it doesn't work so well -- at least not without post-processing in a program like Photoshop to remove the "fisheye" effect. However, if you start at the far left side and take a picture straight in front of you, then step to the right far enough to have a proper overlap with the previous picture and take the next picture, etc... that ends up working quite well and doesn't create any visible distortion in the picture. There are other panorama pictures on the iPhone, but this one seems to be the best I've found. -- Brad Knowles <[email protected]> If you like Jazz/R&B guitar, check out LinkedIn Profile: my friend bigsbytracks on YouTube at <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> http://preview.tinyurl.com/bigsbytracks _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
