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Create Panoramic Photos in Photoshop

Merging multiple photographs into a single large panoramic photo can yield excellent results and with the proper software it can turn your small sensor camera into a 30 megapixel digital camera. Adobe Photoshop CS4 has an excellent Photomerge feature that automates the tedious process of lining up and merging multiple photos into a single larger photograph. Below is the procedure for merging multiple photos into a single panoramic photograph in Adobe Photoshop CS4. 1) Open Photoshop and select "File" and then "Automate" followed finally by "Photomerge. 2) Next you will be greeted by a dialog box with several options. The Layout options give you many choices in how the final outputted file will appear. For good results I usually leave it on "Auto" and let Photoshop decide, this usually gives me decent results, but feel free to experiment with all the options here. 3) After you have selected your layout you need to select the source files.

Find Google on Twitter

I found this  post on the Official Google Blog . The post listed all the accounts that Google has created on Twitter , and they even divided it up by category. To see the list of Twitter accounts that Google has created on Twitter you can click here: Google accounts on Twitter

View RAW & DNG thumbnails in Windows 7

To view RAW & Adobe DNG thumbnails in Windows Explorer in the 64-bit addition of Windows 7 just download and install the free*** FastPictureViewer WIC RAW Codec Pack . ***(Recently FastPictureViewer has started charging for this codec pack. It is still reasonable at only $9.99 but if you still want the free version, you can download it from CNET .) For installation instructions, follow the instructions below: 1) Go to  http://www.fastpictureviewer.com/codecs/  and download the  64-bit edition of the WIC RAW Codec Pack. 2) Click on the Fast Picture Viewer WIC RAW Codec installer file that you downloaded to begin the installation. 3) At the first pop up window click "Next". 4) At the next screen, if you agree with the EULA than place a check mark next to "I accept..." and click next. 5) At the next screen you can choose to install codecs for all the available RAWs and DNG formats or just select the RAW types that you need and the Adobes DNG for