 James C. Messervy |
Panorama stitching I'm facing huge frustration at present. I'm trialing Panorama Factory and have also tried PS CS2's photomerge and I can't for the life of me get a panorama to stitch even remotely well. The overlaps always have blurry ghosting. I shoot them with the tripod, use manual exposure settings (same for each image), I'm careful with overlap and I still can't get them to stitch. Is it parallax error? Is there an ideal focal length to lessen this? Help, I really want to be able to do this well.
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Mike Carpenter |
Find someone with a canon camera. It comes with photostitch and it works great. I took a four shot image of portland (where I live) and blew it up to five feet long by 2 feet tall and you can't even tell where the stitches are. Mike.
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John G. Clifford Jr |
Without actually seeing a sample picture it's hard to diagnose what your problem is. However, having said that, let me offer some hints. If you have objects very close AND very far away in your panorama, you MUST use a pano head to get decent results, otherwise parallax will rear its ugly head. If objects are far enough away, you can get by just using a tripod. PS's 'Photomerge' operation isn't really suitable for most panoramic stitching. It's at its best with a pano head so the seams and overlap will line up exactly. You're far better off using another package. I'm not familar with Panorama Factory. I've used Arcsoft's Panorama Maker 2000 (came with my Nikon Coolpix 885, and got me interested in panos), but moved up to Helmut Dirsch's Pano Tools with the PT Assembler front end. IMO this is the best panorama software available, bar none! If you want to give a decent package a try for free follow this link to AutoStitch: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html Works on JPEGs only, but is very easy to use and produces good results! Note: the latest version of Pano Tools/PT Assembler uses the AutoStitch engine to create the list of control points, so its very easy to use, too yet is very powerful. You can find a link to PT Assembler (includes the Pano Tools software also) here: http://www.tawbaware.com/ Note: I am a very satisfied customer of Tawbaware.
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anonymous A. |
Having been impressed with Autostitch, I bought the Serif PanoramaPlus package which licenses the Autostitch engine. It automates the process and I am really pleased with the ease, simplicity and speed with which it generates one or more panoramas from the same set of images, simultaneously. It is not limited to jpegs: I have used it with jpegs and tiffs, but haven't assessed it with other image types.
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anonymous A. |
Just an added note: I just stitched a 2 way series of 10 images using PanoramaPlus which it did very well: but slowly... after the event I realised I had not converted them: it actually did the whole thing with the RAW files direct from my CF card!
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