big wide panoramic picture

GlasgowTitan · 28 Feb 2006 at 13:30

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?

Cheers

GlasgowTitan · 28 Feb 2006 at 13:59

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:

I want FREE!!!!

GlasgowTitan · 28 Feb 2006 at 23:31

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.

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?

GlasgowTitan · 1 Mar 2006 at 09:21

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 · 1 Mar 2006 at 13:46

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.

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.

GlasgowTitan · 1 Mar 2006 at 14:36

I'm not even going to attempt using photoshop, sooo complicated, sooo many buttons. What do you rthink of my first ever panorama! lol

GlasgowTitan · 2 Mar 2006 at 17:53

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.

GlasgowTitan · 2 Mar 2006 at 18:34

Now that looks gooood.