Creating a panoramic photo from stiched photos

[ZFact]

Hi;

Does anyone know how to properly stich a series of photos together to create a panoramic photo with the first and last photos stiching seamless

ley together...

 

Any advice on how to...

[STRAT]

i've just done a couple of those recently with some of my NewZealand holiday phots -

 

http://www.nikclark.com/strat/cga/pan01.jpg

http://www.nikclark.com/strat/cga/pan02.jpg

 

full size these are about 9000 pixels wide and each stiched together in photoshop from 5 photos each.

 

my hints and tips -

 

make sure you have as many photos as you can to stich, and make sure you shoot the individual shots not too far appart.

 

if you do shoot them some distance appart you'll find the edges dont exactly match up the the edges of the next/previous shot you want to stich it too. this is where you need to play with photoshop's skew/distortion/perspective tools. only subtly though.

 

finally, you'll need to both colour match and seamlesly 'join' the 2 edges together. this is done using the heal or rubber stamp tool, and the colours are match by freehand marquee selecting the offending areas, feathering out the edges, and using the curves/contrasts/levels tools to match things up.

 

it's all down to allot of faffing about and using skill, dudgement and experience too.

[thatch]

You could use realviz stitcher if your feeling lazy, as long as you take the shots right, it will stitch, colour correct and output to loads of different panoramic formats, including quicktime VR.

 

http://stitcher.realviz.com/products/ST/index.php?language=EN

[Ernest Burden III]

i've just done a couple of those recently with some of my NewZealand holiday phots -

 

Did you use PhotoshopCS's stitch function? I tried it out when CS first came out and was surprised at how well it did all by itself.

[STRAT]

nope. i'm on photoshop 6 and 7.

[Poco]

Just found this little application (it has a free Demo version).

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

 

I don't think they sell it but they have licensed it to these companies

http://www.autopano.net/ (99 Euros)

http://www.serif.com/panoramaplus/panoramaplus2/index.asp (£19.99)

 

I've tried the demo and it works perfect (at least with the 3 pictures I've tried it with)

 

Attached pictured is only downsized (please ignore the garbage )

[cing3d]

This may be a off but....I know there is software to do this but if I take the necessary still renders in max can we get the same effect as you would with standard cameras? Just curious.

[BlimpMaster]

Did you get your images to stitch together?

 

I use PTgui to create a multilayered photoshop file and then check and repair any seams before flattening the image. I then use Pano2qtvr to create the 360 movie.

 

It helps to have the camera in one location as the camera rotates, but some movement can be corrected for.

 

Here are two links to some of my recent panoramas in New York.

 

The first is looking at NYC from New Jersey.

http://www.usablimpaerialphotography.com/nycriver.htm

The second is an aerial from 156 above a parking lot, soon to be condos.

http://www.usablimpaerialphotography.com/nyc156.htm

They are large files, so they may take some time to completely download.

The land based panorama did very well with PTgui, and the aerial required a fair amount of additional photoshop work as the wind was moving the camera around the site.

Jay