What panorama program

themask70 · 27 Aug 2006 at 00:09

I need to know ASAP what free prgram i can use to stitch photos together to create a panoramic shot and get a nice result. The reason i need to know ASAP is that im leaving holiday tomorrow and need a program to do it for my Intel based Mac. Thanks in advance, David

nomore · 27 Aug 2006 at 01:02

The Canon Photostitch software that came free with your 350D is very good. It should work fine under Rosetta.

nomore · 27 Aug 2006 at 01:16

Here's a few examples made with Canon Photostitch. Camera: Canon G3

6 photos

4 photos

6 photos

growse · 27 Aug 2006 at 04:00

I always used to use autostitch, although I've managed to confuse it by doing vertical panoramas. Was going to find something else but never got round to it...

steveo · 27 Aug 2006 at 08:20

another vote for autostitch here its the only one i use its a simple program easy to use and produces brilliant work with little effort. here are 2 that i have done

sutton bank pano using autostitch

studley deer park pano using autostitch

nomore · 27 Aug 2006 at 09:13

Problem is that Autostitch is a Windows program, and he needs a Mac program.

greengiant · 27 Aug 2006 at 09:54

You might want to try Hugin,

http://hugin.sourceforge.net/

Available on windows, linux and mac.

And opensource too!

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Brian

Belly · 27 Aug 2006 at 14:55

nomore said:
Here's a few examples made with Canon Photostitch. Camera: Canon G3

I like your photos, did you worry about Nodal Point issues? Or did you just pan your camera on a tripod? I've just bought a qvtr panorama bracket and levelling table which should correct any Nodal Point issues. But it would seem that many good (great!) panorama shots displayed here on these forums are taken direct from a tripod or a tree stump? I think I've got photo stitch which came with my Cannon A70. Panzer, on another thread recommended panorama factory software.

Belly · 27 Aug 2006 at 14:59

nomore said:
Here's a few examples made with Canon Photostitch. Camera: Canon G3

Oh, and I forgot to add, unlike Eric Morecame, I can't see the join!!

I'd be interested to know how many photos you stitched together and did you as one subscriber said take them in Portrait or Lanscape Mode?

rich99million · 27 Aug 2006 at 15:06

Belly said:
I'd be interested to know how many photos you stitched together and did you as one subscriber said take them in Portrait or Lanscape Mode?

the number of photos used is above each shot - 6, 4, and 6 respectively

I would guess that the difference in aspect ratio between the 6's and the 4 shows they were all done in portrait though I could be wrong

Belly · 27 Aug 2006 at 15:16

rich99million said:
the number of photos used is above each shot - 6, 4, and 6 respectively

I would guess that the difference in aspect ratio between the 6's and the 4 shows they were all done in portrait though I could be wrong

Thanx, I am a bit dyslexic but I should have noticed!

Irish_Tom · 27 Aug 2006 at 15:29

I use panorama factory (Nikon owner) and have had no problems with it, although the wizard function does treat you like a 3 year old.

Panzer

nomore · 27 Aug 2006 at 16:24

Belly said:
nomore said:

Here's a few examples made with Canon Photostitch. Camera: Canon G3

Oh, and I forgot to add, unlike Eric Morecame, I can't see the join!!

I'd be interested to know how many photos you stitched together and did you as one subscriber said take them in Portrait or Lanscape Mode?

Click to expand...

They were in landscape orientation. The different widths of the panoramics is just due to how much I overlapped each photo.

A few tips:
- Pivot using a tripod, ensure the camera pitch is level
- Set the exporsure manually to ensure consitency
- Overlap the photos by about 1/3
- Also, try to get a landmark (tree, rock, car etc.) in the overlapping area.

growse · 27 Aug 2006 at 17:15

The only really decent one I've done so far (autostitch):

There's still some ghosting I have to remove when I get round to it.

nomore · 27 Aug 2006 at 18:20

growse said:
The only really decent one I've done so far (autostitch):

There's still some ghosting I have to remove when I get round to it.

Where is that? Is that Canary Wharf in the background?

growse · 27 Aug 2006 at 19:01

nomore said:
Where is that? Is that Canary Wharf in the background?

Greenwich park - from the observatory. It is indeed Canary Wharf. Full size version is about 56Mb and 21,000 pixels across

Hamzter · 28 Aug 2006 at 18:20

I used Photostitch a few times before, but found it's not very good at stitching together close range photos (like in a room or building), so I generally just stitch em together myself in Photoshop. That was several years ago though, newer version might be better now. Here's a couple of mine...