manualy stich pictures in CS5 to a Panorama

Hey folks,
I took pictures of a garage and the cars in it.

I stood on the left side and went over to the right side. I photographed 4 cars on that way. The Problem now is, that CS5, PTGui and Microsoft ICE, are not matching all pictures the the picture before. the place it over the others or under the other.

I wanna try to stich it my self now, but how do I do it. If I mark the second picture and copy it. I paste it to the first picture, but, than the first picture is gone and I don't know how how to move the second picture with is above the first one now.


I hope, that you understand what I mean.


winam

If I understand you correctly:
You need to enlarge the canvas.
Image > Canvas size.

Then, in the layers palette, click the layer you want, and move it with the move tool.

In CS5 Try Photomerge. file-Automate-photomerge

I just did this using all the auto settings.

if the photo merge in cs5 did not work then you did not leave enough overlap- it needs atleast 25% but 50 works best
you can try and do it in PS - just make a really large canvas and try and overlap the photos - then crop to size


try share the photos here and i can tell you if they will align up right

If I understand the way you captured the scene, it sounds like you did not keep the camera in a single location and pan the camera from left to right, but you started at the left edge of the scene, shot an image, walked a little bit to your right, shot the next image, walked to the right again, shot again etc. This is a problem.

The auto stitch in any application will have problems reconciling the images because you are changing your point of view in a 3d scene. The approach you used works okay for imaging planar surfaces (like a big mural on a flat wall, imaged with multiple shots) because there is no depth to the scene. In your case, let's say that the first car in the garage is facing you, at scene left. In the first shot in your set, let's say that the image shows the front of the car and the passenger side of the car (unless the car is right hand drive, but you get the idea). Then you move 15 feet to your right, or whatever, and shoot your second shot- this time the same car is in the frame only this time you can see front of the car and the driver's side. Uh oh. How does the stitcher deal with this? In reality you can't see both the driver side and passenger side simultaneously, at least to the degree that you can in the individual images you shot. See the problem?

You have to fix the position of the camera, and then pan the camera (rotate it about its no parallax point) to capture the scene properly.

Kirk

kirkt wrote in post #12969878
If I understand the way you captured the scene, it sounds like you did not keep the camera in a single location and pan the camera from left to right, but you started at the left edge of the scene, shot an image, walked a little bit to your right, shot the next image, walked to the right again, shot again etc. This is a problem.

The auto stitch in any application will have problems reconciling the images because you are changing your point of view in a 3d scene. The approach you used works okay for imaging planar surfaces (like a big mural on a flat wall, imaged with multiple shots) because there is no depth to the scene. In your case, let's say that the first car in the garage is facing you, at scene left. In the first shot in your set, let's say that the image shows the front of the car and the passenger side of the car (unless the car is right hand drive, but you get the idea). Then you move 15 feet to your right, or whatever, and shoot your second shot- this time the same car is in the frame only this time you can see front of the car and the driver's side. Uh oh. How does the stitcher deal with this? In reality you can't see both the driver side and passenger side simultaneously, at least to the degree that you can in the individual images you shot. See the problem?

You have to fix the position of the camera, and then pan the camera (rotate it about its no parallax point) to capture the scene properly.

Kirk

Yeah, that thought process occured to me as well!

I wonder how successful he would have been if he had been more at a distance with a wider lens...

Or, I've seen interesting work shooting an empty parking area, then shots taken with the same scene but one car in each slot, then blending them all together.

Anyway imagine it's a challenging project! He wants shots where the cars are "head on" which will need movement of the camera at any closeness...hmm...