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GlasgowTitan

GlasgowTitan

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I have seen a few pictures on here where people have take several pictures of scenery then joined them together to make a large panoramic view, how do you do that? Is is option within your camera, or do you edit them somehow on the pc? I just got a cheap and cheerful little digi cam and wondering if I could do it with that?

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Is this the program?

Seems to be aimed at profesionals, is it easy for a novise to use? Considering I tried using photchop once and spend 30 minutes trying to figure what a layer is and gave up.

And its bloomin 500 quid!! :eek: :eek: I want FREE!!!!
 
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That is the program yea, I have a free older version on CD somewhere.....don't know if its in forum rules to stick it on my webspace? Is that free download not a trial or something?

I picked up it pretty easily, just a case of importing all the necessary photos and dragging them so they all match. The software does the rest!
 
theres quite a few programs that do it, i use panorama factory.

the main thing to do is use a tripod or firm base, you pictures need to be as level as possible.
 
Mattius said:
theres quite a few programs that do it, i use panorama factory.

the main thing to do is use a tripod or firm base, you pictures need to be as level as possible.
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lol, I was thinking that if I was hillwalking or something, and took a picture, aimed the camera a little to the right and took another one, I could get a nice panorama, any chance of that happening? :)
 
I've done that a few times with some fairly decent result. A useful thing to remember, is to set the camera to manual so you use the same settings for each shot, and the picture exposure is consistant :)
 
Evil-Penguin said:
I've done that a few times with some fairly decent result. A useful thing to remember, is to set the camera to manual so you use the same settings for each shot, and the picture exposure is consistant :)
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Yup , put the camera on manual , turn your whole body & overlap the shots about 20% & you can get good results.

Free standing pano from Zakynthos , original 30Mb image is 5 frames from a 300D stitched together using panorama factory.

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That is really cool, thats the sort of thing I was thinking of attempting. Although admittedly I only have a wee Samsung A50 happy snapper thingy, but I reckon its worth a go.
 
GlasgowTitan said:
That is really cool, thats the sort of thing I was thinking of attempting. Although admittedly I only have a wee Samsung A50 happy snapper thingy, but I reckon its worth a go.
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I've got some panoramics just as good with my Casio QV-R40 compact , my 300D just gives me more scope for getting it wrong :D
 
Panorama Factory for the win! By far as far as I'm concerned.

Autostitch hardly ever works for me, always says "no image matches found" or something to that affect.
 
Okay I tried that autostitch program, you'll laugh really hard at this, check it out, a panorama of my kitchen.

Check out the join in the middle of the door. :D




What I managed to do was that I lined up the edge of the door on the right with the vertical edge of the screen, but on the second pic on the left I think I used the far away window to get it level, and as such the camera had tilted slightly. :D
 
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I always found Panorama Factory left a huge watermark across the middle of my images.

I've since used the tool in PS CS2 which I find more powerful, quicker, and produces better results.
 
Panorama Factory IS good, but, look what happens to the centre of my lovely picture!



Big watermark, and I dont like paying for things. It, like, costs money. :(

It did do a much better job than autostitch though.

PS. Don't all laugh at once at my picture taking abilities, I don't have a clue how to set the camera for different lightings etc, but to me that pic seems ok.
 
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