Panoramic Images

[agent007]

hi all,

Is it possible to take vertical & horizontal pics in panoramic mode? What can be taken is

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but what about

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thanks..

[Jon]

You can do it, but PhotoStitch won't cooperate in pasting them together. You'll have to either PhotoShop it or get a third-party panorama tool.

[agent007]

OK..But how do I take the vertical pics? cause it only shows 1 -> 2

thanks..

[Jon]

That's just an assist - you can paste up any way you want to just so there's overlap between the photos and they're taken at the same focal length. Just take pictures 1 & 2, then move down and back to overlap with the bottom of picture 1 and take picture 3; move over and take picture 4. The Panoramic Mode is just a guide - you can put the camera in any mode you want (except movie) to take panoramics.

[agent007]

hi,

Thanks for all the info! Could you pls recommend a 3rd party tool which would stitch such panoramas. Cause I've tried some & they work pretty much the same as the Canon software..

thanks..

[Jon]

Since you don't say what you have tried, there's the (complex, but free) Panorama Tools (http://www.all-in-one.ee/~dersch/) by Helmut Dersch. It may be more than you want, but a Google for panorama software should turn up other alternatives.

[ayS]

i can never get the photostich to work. it seems that the picture becomes all warped.

[Moppie]

Iv used photostich to make 4 images made in the

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You simply make the 1,2 into 1 image. And them make the 3,4 into one image.
Then combine the two long images, one above the other.
It worked very well, but unforunatly it was a pic of a complete rainbow, shot very quickly as the sun was setting. As a result the sky is a differnt tone in each of the four pics.

[agent007]

hi,

Thats a great idea!! Btw, how did you stitch them vertically? Just copy paste?

thanks..

[Moppie]

If you click the arrange button it gives you a set of options, verticle, horizontal, 360deg and grid.
In theory the grip option will let you do

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but Iv never got it to work properly, and I believe its ment for scanned images.

However stiching horizontaly and then verticaly, or vice versa seems to work quite well.

[Heimdall]

I have made som vertical stich photos, but rarely are they successfull - even if I am very carefull and, of course, us a tripod.
I dont know, but maybye there are som better software for this operation out there?

Heimdall

[dtrayers]

Try Panorama Factory: http://www.panoramafactory.com/

It works quite well. It doesn't do mosaic stitching, but what some have done is stitch the rows and save the results, then rotate the row stitches and then stitch them, then rotate the whole thing back.

[Retusnavy]

My Powershot S1 IS can do that.

[bookster]

PhotoStitch will work very well- as long as you tell it what to do. The automatic stitching tries, but isn't too good. Using manual stitching is a much more sucessful process. Here's two examples of matrix stitching using auto alignment and manual alignment:

Auto- http://www.pbase.com/bookster/image/30547689

Manual- http://www.pbase.com/bookster/image/30547700

To use manual alignment- go to the merge tab and click start. After the initial stitch is done, display the seams. Clicking on a seam will bring up the two images- then select "specify 2 or more corresponding areas" Then it's just a matter of selecting matching points on the shots. The results are much better than auto alignment...
All my panos are stitched with photostitch, have alook and see what you think... http://www.pbase.com/bookster/panos