Hot damn, these are amazing. I want to make some myself. These kinds of shots would be great for the Majora's Mask blog me and my friend run. How did you keep your hand steady while doing this? Any other tips you can give would be great.
The picture taking isn't difficult, just time-consuming due to miiverse being slow. If you homebrew or use a capture card this could be a million times faster but I'm not that technically savvy.
1) Turn gyro off in the title screen. This is crucial... I am studying to become a surgeon and I find the gyro frustrating lol
2) Slow down time to make sure lighting doesn't change
3) Pick your spot and don't move
4) Use the pictograph box to line up the shot (it has a sight that appears briefly): if you're doing a horizontal panoramic start from the left, if you're doing a vertical start from the bottom.
5) Press A to take a shot through the picto-box, which will make the HUD disappear. This is of course a game feature, will not work for other games.
6) Quickly press home and save it, then return to game
7) Now say "NO" when the the game asks if you want to save the picture in the picto-box: if you say YES you will lose your placement
8) Move the camera carefully right/up making sure 25-50% of the shot overlaps with the previous shot.
9) Repeat.
The hard part is using photoshop to meld them together. I majored in digital art so it doesn't take me more than 5 minutes to do a simple vertical or horizontal, but it may be frustrating to some
1) Use the perspective transform and warp tools to line up the shots
2) Use a faded eraser to delete the sharp lines between pictures
The more experience in photoshop you have the less shots you require. Otherwise the more you have the better, as you may not even need to use the perspective tool
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