Panoramic pics

[virtuamike]

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Took me an hour in photoshop to stitch and get rid of the seams, and there were only 8 images. Please tell me there's a faster way.

I can't stand seams though.

 

[thirtythree]

looks pretty good. don't know of a faster way though, except for using a panoramic camera.

 

[mikebb]

Nice job getting rid of the seams! I can't even tell where they are. Did you use a tripod when taking the original picture?

And sorry, I don't know of any less tedious way of stitching a panorama, short of buying a panoramic camera.

 

[DingDingDao]

there are programs out there that can do this for you...I think the one I used for my vacation in Taiwan was a shareware program called Arcsoft Panorama Maker, but I can't remember. PM me and I'll e-mail you a couple of my panoramas for a comparo.

 

[ZOXXO]

Panorama Factory is another good pano stitching program.

 

[Slickone]

Does your camera have a photostitch type mode? Canon's come with this mode, and Photostitch software for your PC to put the pics together later.

 

[virtuamike]

mikebb: Yup, used a tripod.

slickone: Photos taken with Canon S45. It has a panoramic mode that locks exposure/focus/WB but the Canon software isn't the greatest at hiding seams.

I will never take another panoramic with water ever again. Everything else was easy, water I had to make some super crazy zig-zag layer masks to hide everything. Didn't stamp though so it looks clean even at full res (8200x1600). Heh, my first 100MB psd.

Thx, I'll check into the other programs.

 

[new2AMD]

well done, I saw a program on the screensavers one day that was supposed to do this. Cant recall the name of it but you could search their site.

 

[0roo0roo]

my canon came with one. but it still needs help with some color transitions between parts.

 

[SKORPI0]

I use Canon PhotoStitch 3.1 that came with the i560 printer.

Here's a sample - 1.7 mB (jpeg compressed) - Fry's parking lot @ Downer's Grove, IL - early April 2004

Original merged photo is 40.5 mb bmp file (8476x1672). Took 8 pictures (2288x1712) with a Olympus C-4000 Zoom and merged it. Took about a minute to merge them.

 

[Bassyhead]

Originally posted by: Slickone
Does your camera have a photostitch type mode? Canon's come with this mode, and Photostitch software for your PC to put the pics together later.

i use that software that came with my camera. seems to work pretty well.

 

[Slickone]

Originally posted by: virtuamike
mikebb: Yup, used a tripod.

slickone: Photos taken with Canon S45. It has a panoramic mode that locks exposure/focus/WB but the Canon software isn't the greatest at hiding seams.

The S45 does have the Stitch Assist mode. It's not the same as panoramic mode on some film cameras, that simply use 2 (?) frames for one picture, and doesn't get any wider than that, but doesn't require you to stitch anything. And the software should have come with your camera.

 

[Anubis]

ive alwaus just used photoshop, PS:CS has a antomated stitch built in, it works great, just make sure the colors are all correct before you do it,

this took me all of about 10 min
http://www.dickinson.edu/~skillina/bike%20combo%201%20flatt.jpg

7 pics combined as 1

 

[BigSmooth]

Nice image! :beer:

 

[SociallyChallenged]

Originally posted by: SKORPI0
I use Canon PhotoStitch 3.1 that came with the i560 printer.

Here's a sample - 1.7 mB (jpeg compressed) - Fry's parking lot @ Downer's Grove, IL - early April 2004

Original merged photo is 40.5 mb bmp file (8476x1672). Took 8 pictures (2288x1712) with a Olympus C-4000 Zoom and merged it. Took about a minute to merge them.

How did you merge it?

 

[notfred]

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[Anubis]

the big version of mine can be found here, the full version is 12in x 44in
http://www.rootminus1.com/photo/albums/userpics/bike%20combo%201%20flatt.jpg

other similar ones are here
http://www.rootminus1.com/photo/thumbnails.php?album=10

 

[SKORPI0]

Originally posted by: SociallyChallenged

Originally posted by: SKORPI0
I use Canon PhotoStitch 3.1 that came with the i560 printer.

How did you merge it?

Choose the pictures that I wanted to merge. I then lined up the pictures left to right then the program stitched them for me. It will shows you where the seams are after merging. You can then choose to crop the top to bottom part you want to keep, then save it to a file. Of course you'll have to pan the camera carefully so as to avoid getting too many seams.

 

[vshah]

Originally posted by: Anubis
ive alwaus just used photoshop, PS:CS has a antomated stitch built in, it works great, just make sure the colors are all correct before you do it,

this took me all of about 10 min
http://www.dickinson.edu/~skillina/bike%20combo%201%20flatt.jpg

7 pics combined as 1

yup...thats always worked for me too...no examples though..sorry

-Vivan

 

[Slickone]

You can stich any pics with software, but the Stitch Assist camera modes make it a lot easier lining them up when taking the photos. See here.

One thing, if the light source is directly above you, auto exposure should be OK, but otherwise, with some cameras, auto exposure will make each pic have a noticable exposure difference, so you'd have to find the best average exposure for all the shots and lock it (AE lock). My Canon S410 locks the exposure and white balance with the first picture taken, so it's best to take the first shot in an average lighting area.

There's a good example showing what happens with light and dark areas shown somewhere online, but I can't remember where.

 

[Slickone]

What do people use to turn a panoramic picture into a 360 degree movable picture?

 

[manly]

RealViz Stitcher.

 

[vi edit]

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/viedit/moherpan.jpg
http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/viedit/balconypansmall.jpg

Took me 45 seconds using Photostitch. Came with my Canon camera.

 

[Slickone]

Originally posted by: manly
RealViz Stitcher.

Any others?

 

[ZOXXO]

Originally posted by: Slickone

Originally posted by: manly
RealViz Stitcher.

Any others?

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