Panoramic pictures, whats the best program to use to stitch the pictures together? and is it just a case of putting photo A over photo B until they match up?

I don't have photoshop no more, so don't mind using something else if need be.


Cheers


Also, if you got any panoramic pictures could you post them up please

 

Pritt stick FTW!

 

"The Panorama Factory"

 

Always used photoshop for mine, file>automate>photomergre and leave it on automatic, never let me down yet. If you aint got it or cant get it you can send them over and I'll run it through.


made from 13 images. full size

and this was approx 12 or so, full size was 10000+ pixels on longest side and loads of stars were visible

 

What photoshop you use Stephen?

 

im on cs4 but im sure cs3 was the same

 

Would you do a few for me Stephen

 

bsmotorsport2005@hotmail.co.uk

 

there's a free windows utility called microsoft ICE that does it brilliantly and easily

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/...roups/ivm/ice/

 

Cheers fella,

 

Cheers Nick, I'll have a go

 

That program works quite nicely.

My first effort



This was taken on Saturday from the Aiguille du Midi in France.

 

You've climbed there Graham, i've climbed Tacul in August which is in the red dot



Next year Mont Blanc

 

I've only ever used photoshop and still using CS3.

A Couple of stitched shots:

 

Marco, if you go to my Flickr they are all on there (link in my sig), I couldnt find anywhere else to upload them as theyre that big. If you go to look at them in full size it comes up with a red cross but if you click download the original size it should allow you to download the full size
edit, the last ones are still uploading so check back in say 5 mins
this is #1


edit to say, the next time you want to do one see if you can put your camera in manual and keep the same f-stop and exposure time as when your in automatic the camera will adjust to suit that particular scene and not the whole scene (5+ pics) like we want so some parts of the panorama will be brighter than others by way of the auto exposure, you can see it in this one with the darker blue area in the sky, I brightened it a bit but didnt want to go too far with it.

 

Pacwest - Where is that pic taken, I need to visit there!!!

 

Stephen thanks for the info and making the panorama's

Send you another one which is to big for 1 mail so will be 2

This one i really like

 

Just doing the big one now marco, i notice on that one you did keep the aperture and shutter at the same settings but you must have had auto-iso turned on as the ISO varies from 100-180 so again the camera has fettled the exposures slightly. Like the look of this one

 

SUPERB pictures......i am going to have a go at this, never tried it....

I am using CS3.......what do i need to do...

 

Piece of piss mate, just go to file and automate then photomerge or it might be photostitch in cs3, choose the images, dont have to be in order it does it itself then let her rip in auto

 

Cheers Stephen....i will give it a go when i get some time....

 

mark, when it done it will look like this so you can either crop it, warp it, or clone in the areas that are missing. Its best when shooting for panoramas just to take a few extra outside the are you actually want to allow photoshop to fill in these gaps so you can crop back to what you actually wanted. You can see in this one the effects of not having the camera in manual.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/41963775@N07/3987838669/

 

Brilliant mate, thanks alot.......

Hopefully get some good pics i can use at the weekend......

 

I know what you mean Stephen, well it was my first experience with a DSLR camera so

I'll get CS4 and have a go myself

 

Cheers for the info Stephen!

 

marco, ive done the last one but its too big to upload, been honest it needs a good few hours on it just tweeking the exposure and colour balance etc. to get all them stitched together nice. Im not sure if theres any software out there that can normalise a set of photos like this to bring them all to similar exposures, I'll have a look around tomorrow

 

I'm another fan of Photoshop CS3 for doing panoramic images, works a treat, albeit a little slowly on my laptop!

 

Many thanks Stephen, that would be nice

 

No, best i did was to hike from the car park before the tunnel through Mont Blanc to Glacier des Bossons les Pyramides.

 

Bet it was pretty cold at Aiguille du Midi did you also took the Helbronner cable car ??

Me and my mate hiked on Mer de Glace, Plan d'Aiguille and been to the top of Mont Blanc du Tacul (4248m) with a guide.

 

It was about 0°C, so not too bad. I didn't know about that cable car at the time but i think it is closed this time of year.