 Dan C. |
Stitching ? I currently use the photomerge option in photoshop CS2 to do panoramas. However, I see most people on this site refer to "stitching" when doing panoramas which leads me to the assumption they are using another application. If this is the case, and if it does a better job than photoshop, can somebody let me know the name of the utility? Thanks.
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Mike Carpenter |
I use canon's photostitch. It comes with the canon camera's. It works great. I guess you would need to buy a canon though.
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Brendan Knell |
Photomerge in CS2 is probably really good. What I use right now is PSE3's Photomerge. I've tried other programs that may be better, but they're also alot more complicated.
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- Darren J. Gilcher Contact Darren J. Gilcher Darren J. Gilcher's Gallery |
Has anyone here been to Tawbaware.com? There is a 1 gigapixel photo where he stitched 196 images together. I believe they sell software to do it. There are other great shots with maybe only 10 photos put together. It's pretty neat.
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Brendan Knell |
Darren, that was the other software that I've tried. But yes, it's more complicated than photomerge. But then again, I seriously doubt that you would be able to stich that gigapixel picture with photomerge. So, for most people, photomerge should be just fine, but if you want to stich a ton of pics together, you may want to look into something like that. Also, I would reccomend everyone checks out Tawbaware.com, it's very interesting.
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Robyn Mackenzie |
Hi Dan, I use software called Panorama Maker,which came bundled with a camera I purchased. It is easy to use - it automatically stitches the images, and allows fine-tuning options if you're not happy with the matching points selected by the program. It handles perspective pretty well. The most I've stitched together is 9 or 10 images (from 8 megapixel camera). Cheers!
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Dan C. |
Thank you all for your replies. In searching around I found what looks like an incredibly good tool - stitcher by realviz. It works well, but it is waaayyy to expensive. These people must have lost their minds when the priced a stitching product higher than photoshop.
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Michael H. Cothran |
Dan, "Photomerge" is a term coined by Adobe. It is the same thing as "stitching." There are plenty of pano software applications available (just do a Google), but none but the very most expensive ones will do much better than CS2's version. The high priced applications will offer more tools for blending and perspective correction. However, if you are practicing good panning techniques, ie, placing your lens' nodal point directly over the tripod's pivotal point, overlapping 20-50%, keeping the exposure/focal length, and focus the same for each shot, you should be able to stitch them fairly easily with CS2. Want the ultimate in panning/stitching techniques?? Do a google on Max Lyons, and visit his site. You'll be blown away. Read every word, and learn as much as you can. His site is immense, so it will take a while to peruse it all. Also, check out the pano/stitching heads available by Really Right Stuff, as well as some other manufacturers. They make tripod head configurations specifically for panning and stitching. Not cheap, but worth every penny if you want to stitch serious images. Michael H. Cothran
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Brendan Knell |
Michael, Max Lyons' site is part of the above mentioned Tawbaware.com. It's a link or two in, but that's where it is. The exact link is: http://www.tawbaware.com/maxlyons/ Also, can you tell me how to find the nodal point on my lens? I read an article on stiching, and they said to use it. I contacted Sony, and they were there usuall helpful self, and didn't have a clue what a nodal point was.
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