I discovered a simple method for adding interest to otherwise boring product photos. It didn't require any fancy software either, just a jquery plugin and a little time taking photos and figuring out how to stuff the photos into an array. The jquery reel plugin works by panning through pictures taken at incremental angles. I setup the engraver on a table and mounted a camera to a stool. Then I slowly rotated the engraver and snapped pictures. After the pictures were taken I assembled them into a 6 × 4 grid with each individual frame 500px wide and 422px high. Once the js file was referenced and the image id set I got a rotating engraver. The image can be rotated by either clicking and dragging or by scrolling the mouse wheel on a PC or by using the two finger scroll on a Mac touch pad.
