need advice on panoramas...

For the life of me I cannot figure out how to get decent indoor pano's. Outdoors I seem to do OK, but small rooms are not. Can anyone give me tips on how to get these small rooms like these test shots I took? Btw - I'm shooting with a Canon 10-22 @ 10mm

CS5 has several different Photomerge options. Should I always use Auto? Any different if I shoot a vertical stack of images?

If these are correct, How do you even start to fix them up? Hugin? PTLens? PTGui?

This first one is 4 landscape shots which came out horrible, the second is 5 portrait shots which might be workable.

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The first just didn't have enough images to make a good panorama. The second is easily salvageable. You can either crop the best portion from it or you can use the content aware fill to fill in the blank transparent areas.
Use a selection tool to select the transparent areas, and then expand the selection about 5 pixels, and then use the content aware fill.

You will see how well it works with panoramas near the end of this video.
http://www.youtube.com​/watch?v=pdCwCZib3hU

This is one I did using the content aware fill rather than cropping.

Riverview Panorama

To answer your question Auto should work just fine.

OK, well thanks for your input but those 2 images were what Photoshop gave me in Auto. I think I'm confused on if there are different ways to shoot them such as keeping the camera level and adjusting its heighth (for a vertical pano) or moving it down a line (for a horizontal pano)

I guess the distortion isn't a real issue if its going to be used as an interactive picture where someone is "zoomed in" and can drag to view the room, but I've seen some pano's of long walls and beaches that seem like the person took a shot, walked down the sidewalk a ways and took another shot and so on...

In the meantime, I found that Hugin gives realtime previews and lots of different types of stitching and it gave me these results... a big improvement over Photoshop

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aparis99 wrote in post #12086587
OK, well thanks for your input but those 2 images were what Photoshop gave me in Auto. I think I'm confused on if there are different ways to shoot them such as keeping the camera level and adjusting its heighth (for a vertical pano) or moving it down a line (for a horizontal pano)

I've never tried a vertical pano, however I would think similar to a horizontal keeping he camera in one place on the tripod adjusting the elevation angle of the camera rather than the elevation of the tripod. With a wide angle lens rising the tripod wouldn't do much for you unless you have a really tall tripod. I would think!

Do you have CS5 or CS5 Extended. With Extended you can make a Spherical 3D Panorama, and then turn it into an animation. Then if you have something like Adobe Flash Pro CS5 you can import it and make it into an interactive Flash app.
Is that what you talking about when you said an interactive picture that you can zoom in and drag around?