Need help with making a panoramic photo

[TangoJuliet]

I didnt see a forum for digital photography so I'll post this here. If it belongs some place else please move it.

I had taken a bunch of pictures the other day to make a panoramic photo of my airport. I want to print it out (at Kinko's or something) and hang it on the wall. I been using Canon's easy stitch program but I cant seem to get it right.

Is there anyone out there that can help me out? I know a lot of you are very handy with things like this....it would greatly be appreciated!

Here you go! Hope we can help

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[dug777]

http://forums.anandtech.com/ca...tid=65&flcache=7903112



We'll help you there

 

[Bootprint]

Try Autostitch.

 

[TangoJuliet]

Originally posted by: dug777
http://forums.anandtech.com/ca...tid=65&flcache=7903112



We'll help you there

Sweet. I thought those threads were for the actual hardware. If a mod can move this it would be greatly appreciated!

 

[T9D]

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html

Autostitch is super easy and works great. Just load them all up and it automatically does it all for you.

 

[TangoJuliet]

Originally posted by: Bootprint
Try Autostitch.

Wow, thats a neat little program. It worked very well however the resolution is a little low. In the options menu I changed it from 1400x400 or something to 2592x1944 (natural res of photo) and it came back with the pano at 2592x434. Is there something I'm doing wrong?

 

[T9D]

No it just wasn't able to match enough of the photo I'm guessing. So it took as much as it could

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: alkohoLiK

Originally posted by: Bootprint
Try Autostitch.

Wow, thats a neat little program. It worked very well however the resolution is a little low. In the options menu I changed it from 1400x400 or something to 2592x1944 (natural res of photo) and it came back with the pano at 2592x434. Is there something I'm doing wrong?

That resolution is to set that of the final panorama. You can change only one option out of the height, width, or scale.

Some things to try to possibly improve the matching, and to increase the resolution:
- Set Scale (%) to 100%, then resize and crop the final image with a photo editor
- Set JPEG Quality to 100, and the System Memory size to a bit less than what you've got available (Task Manager's Performance tab will tell you this)
- Another quality setting: turn on Gain compensation, and set the sigma to 0.3.
- Set SIFT Image Size to Scale (%), and maybe try 50%, or even boost it up to 100%
- Set the RANSAC Alpha to something less than 10, maybe try 5
- Set the RANSAC Beta to 0.1
- I don't know what it does, but increasing the Max Iterations sounds like a good idea. I usually use 2000.
- tinker around with the Manual Orientation Settings. I don't remember what each one does, but just experiment with them, using two images to save time - change one at a time from 0 to 20, and look at the resulting image. I think they have to do with the shape or position of the "sphere" that Autostitch uses to paste the images onto. (At least I think it's a sphere.)

 

[Fardringle]

Jeff's instructions should take care of everything nicely for you. If the photos are all in the same orientation (i.e. you didn't turn the camera sideways for some of them) then you don't need to worry about Manual Orientation. Definitely set the Scale to 100% and JPEG quality to 99 or 100, and Gain Compensation could be good if your images are a bit dark.

If you aren't satisfied with the results you get from Autostitch, please let me know (post here or send me a PM) and I'll run them through Autopano Pro for you. It uses the same core application as Autostitch but has more customization options and sometimes gives better results.

 

[TangoJuliet]

Thanks to Fardringle for helping me out with the panoramic!!

Now, where would the best place to print it out? I was thinking FedEx/Kinkos but what about a place like Costco? Has anyone ever printed out a large pano lately?

 

[TangoJuliet]

Originally posted by: alkohoLiK
Thanks to Fardringle for helping me out with the panoramic!!

Now, where would the best place to print it out? I was thinking FedEx/Kinkos but what about a place like Costco? Has anyone ever printed out a large pano lately?

 

[corkyg]

Printing a pan can be done on any printer. I usually do mine in landscape mode and scale the pan to the paper size. To get bigger than 11 x 8.5 you just need a printer that handles larger paper. And you can always print sections and mosaic them together if large physical size is your bent.

 

[TangoJuliet]

Originally posted by: corkyg
Printing a pan can be done on any printer. I usually do mine in landscape mode and scale the pan to the paper size. To get bigger than 11 x 8.5 you just need a printer that handles larger paper. And you can always print sections and mosaic them together if large physical size is your bent.

I'd like to keepnit the original size but dont want to use all that ink from my own printer. Any good/cheap places I could get it done?

 

[Jawo]

Originally posted by: alkohoLiK

Originally posted by: corkyg
Printing a pan can be done on any printer. I usually do mine in landscape mode and scale the pan to the paper size. To get bigger than 11 x 8.5 you just need a printer that handles larger paper. And you can always print sections and mosaic them together if large physical size is your bent.

I'd like to keepnit the original size but dont want to use all that ink from my own printer. Any good/cheap places I could get it done?

EZprints does panoramics for $3/foot in 6" inch increments.