No it’s no type, it’s really a photo of 26 gigapixels which is 297.500 by 87.500 pixels! In photography we are getting used to standards around 20 megapixels or higher and now a photo like this is passing by. A.F.B. Media from Germany has presented this by putting 1655 photo’s of the city of Dresden together.
The complete photo is now on the online and can be viewed with a nice viewer.