I didn't feel the full impact of the wonderful shot you posted yesterday until I saw this shot. What an incredible panorama! And what a novel way to first present it vertically like that. I saved yesterday's, opened it in PS, rotated it and could then view it horizontally in the large format. Curiously, but the rotated image was nearly three times larger (841 vs 305 KB). Marvelous colors and textures, and great detail. Thanks for sharing your terrific picture with us!
8 Apr 2009 9:50pm
@Tony Duque: Thank you for your generous comments, I appreciate it greatly. To be honest I did boost the saturation and color a bit in photoshop, and my tripod was not properly leveled resulting in a wavy horizon, but I really enjoyed doing it and can't wait for another good sunset to try and improve on it.
When you rotate an image in Photoshop it can change each of the pixels and "re-create" the image in a different perspective. I don't know if photoshop has the option, but for this what you want is to change the aspect of the photo, without changing the actual pixels. Think of it this way: You have a tall glass of water and you want it sideways. You could either pour it into a wide glass, or you could seal the top and lay it on it's side. You just want to lay the photo on it's side, not dump it into a new shape.
Anyway, long story short, if you simply use a more basic photo editor like Picasa, or something like Lightroom, you can rotate the image without changing the storage size or damaging the original pixels.
And if you wanted a larger copy just let you know and I'll email you a full size jpeg.