powderhound Posted July 23, 2007 Posted July 23, 2007 I am looking for a free program that will allow me to lace together four pictures so that i can put together a panorama. I have a sweet series of photos from my last trip and want to piece them together. Any Help? Bryan Quote
Dustin_B Posted July 23, 2007 Posted July 23, 2007 My HP C3180 all in one printer came with some fantastic photo stitch software. Its super easy to use. I have some panoramas in the gallery that I created with the software. Quote
Brewer Posted August 2, 2007 Posted August 2, 2007 The most important things when shooting panoramas (to make stitching easier) is to: >keep all camera settings the same between each photograph >rotate the camera around the "entrance pupil" or "nodal point" of the lens (which is in a different location for each focal length, focus setting, and lens; it gets confusing) >not use a polarizer The first eliminates problems with different colors, brightnesses, and other factors that will make each picture look completely different once they are side by side. The second eliminates parallax, which would make stitching them together a real headache due to the amount of distortion you have to use to "fix" the images so they line up. The third helps to eliminate the issue of "sky banding", where half the sky is dark and the other half is light, so when the images are put next to each other your sky looks like a zebra. There is a lot more to it than this, but these are the basics. If you want more [excellent] information, check out this site: http://www.tawbaware.com/maxlyons/ The software he uses is about $35 or so, but you can try the free version for awhile before deciding to pay. Quote
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