Backscenes - Google Street View

[berryr99]

I know this is well off topic for an NG forum but, as my old mum used to say, "you can always ask".

In a recent edition of , I think, the RM someone had used Google Street view to make a backscene. They had somehow dropped a Streetview scene into Photoshop, manipulated the image and then photostitched a backscene. It looked quite good.

The connection to 009 is my new Welsh scene layout would look good with a streetview backscene from (say) Blaenau.

However I can't get a Streetview copied into Photoshop. It just does not work - the only other way might be to do a screen copy and drop that in which makes quite a small image to work with.

Just wondered if anyone knew how this might be approached ?

Thanks

Bob

[Hugh Norwood]

I guess he took a series of screen-captures (use the "Print Screen" key then paste into your preferred image manipulation software.)
You may then be able to tidy up the screen-captures to remove all but the image, then stitch them together.

[Sven]

That is the only way. You can't grab the image as a download. The quality will therefor always be pretty lame. Put it in full screen, so you will have more pixels to work with and no overlays to get rid off.

[berryr99]

Thanks - I'll try print screen in full screen and see how that goes

Bob