panorama stitching software

[leunix]

i have a series of photos that i have taken as a landscape.

I was hoping to join them together to make a nice panoramamic image.

It can't seem to find any good software.

so i was mainly asking which software you use for this process (if any) ?

Ideally the software would run on Mac or Linux, but can use windows if need be.

Thanks for all your suggestions

[Triglav]

There are loads of porgrams that will help you with this. Take a look here:

http://www.ptgui.com/
and here
http://www.pixtra.com/index.htm

and this one is for free:
http://www.volny.cz/panopohanka/index.htm

and here is a whole list:

http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/pan...hing_Tools.htm

BTW I think Photoshop CS has that option too..not sure about that

I made one pano long time ago. I can't even remember what software I used for it. So I can't tell you how these work, I just found them on the internet. I hope you can use them.

[googlit]

one that I've used that works fantastically well is called Stitcher. The only downside is that it's pretty pricey... I think they have a trial version, but I'd have to check. It not only does panoramas, but you can do Quicktime VRs... in other words, a full 360° pano that's really interactive. It'll automatically put your pics where it thinks they need to go, and it's usually pretty good about that. It also corrects for barrel distortion, so it gives you a great pano.

What I use now, however, is Photoshop. It may be a little more intensive, but you have all the control. If you don't mind spending the time and you have a mind for it, it works great.

I haven't tried any of the programs that Triglav mentioned, so you should check those out, too.

[wulf]

On the panoramas I have done, I have just used The Gimp. The most important thing seems to be to have a good level of overlap between the pictures to make lining up the different levels easy - you can then use layer masks to control how they blend together. Or, like I did with this one from a trip last October, deliberately allow the joins to show:



Wulf

[leunix]

thanks for all of your suggestions.

I tried a few, some are really over complicated. some are easy to use.

In the end i used what was built in with Adobe photoshop CS.

Here is the result, what do you think ?

[wulf]

That triangular join is interesting. You could probably merge the pictures together more smoothly... or it might be interesting to add a bunch more artificial joins to create a sense of pattern, although you would be moving further away from an illusion of what the camera sees.

Wulf

[leunix]

yeah i'm not quite sure how those triangular joins appeared as they were a series of 5 normal images. This is just the automatic settings from Photoshop.

might see if i can clean those up at some point.

[Nicole]

It seems like Photoshop likes to use the triangular joins since I've had this happen in Elements before. Should be able to clean up the joins relatively easily. Nice panorama though

[leunix]

Originally Posted by Nicole

It seems like Photoshop likes to use the triangular joins since I've had this happen in Elements before. Should be able to clean up the joins relatively easily. Nice panorama though

ah ok thanks for the tip, and the complement

[inkista]

Try Kekus's Calico, or get Autostitch (the original codebase for Calico is Autostitch) and run it via Parallels on the Mac. Calico runs rings around Canon's Photostitch.

10x3 (30 photo) stitch:


If you're feeling ambitious (and you want free software), you can also try the PanoramaTools open-source frontend, Hugin, but that kind of powertool is most suited if you're doing 360°x180° pano stitching.