Having now completed the panoramic I had to decide how I was going to digitise it for placing on the website and for producing Giclée prints. Some artists prefer to photograph their work others prefer to scan. I haven’t had much success photographing my work. I find lighting difficult and get problems with shadows and reflections as well as parallax issues and blurring. Scanning art work is by no means straightforward, however since watching a Youtube video on how to do it properly, scanning is my preferred method of digitising. However, when you have a picture like this one that is over 1 metre in length, scanning does present challenges. In the end, I scanned it on an A4 scanner in six sections and stitched them together using Gimp. So I’m all ready now to get prints prepared.
