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Jun 22, 2007 08:13 | #1

A while back I spent a day trying to create a panorama of three images I took last year at a rooftop in Toronto. No such luck. I gave up.

A week ago I went to a CS3 seminar. I tried this when I got home.

Clicketi click - watch the software work and presto...

Here are first the images:

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Result:

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These were the only pictures I had to play with for a panorama. I'll be sure to look for things like that in the future.

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Jun 22, 2007 08:16 | #2

Wow, that is very impressive for a "clicketi click" approach. haha.

I've been wanting to try doing some panos. Is it really that much easier on CS3? ie: Is it worth getting a hold of a copy of cs3?

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Jun 22, 2007 08:19 | #3

It is stupidly easy. As one guy at the seminar said "that is disgustingly cool"

Files don't even need to be named in sequence. CS3 compares the pixels in the files not the names.

Download the trial and try it. The way to do it is in File > Automate > Photomerge

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Jun 22, 2007 08:21 | #4

Sweet. I love the sound of "disgustingly cool". That's my style 100%. haha.

I'll try it out this weekend!

Thanks for the inspiration!

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Jun 22, 2007 08:31 | #5

KAS wrote in post #3420341

Sweet. I love the sound of "disgustingly cool". That's my style 100%. haha.

I'll try it out this weekend!

Thanks for the inspiration!

And here am I tinking "I wish I was on that rooftop on Wellington Street right now and I'd do a night time pano of CN Tower"

And then I see your location. You have THE perfect subject to shoot for panos.

I'm on the wrong effing continent.

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Jun 22, 2007 11:01 | #6

shesgotthepic wrote in post #3420399

haha! I think it only SEEMS perfect. I see that thing all the time, so it's not quite as exciting to me. But I know what you mean..I think I'll start with the Falls since it's close and would probably make a good pano at night.

CN tower? Maybe a vertical pano..hmm..

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Jun 22, 2007 14:53 | #7

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i looked and CS2 has it too, but didnt work for me. I shot this using a 17mm lens lol. oops

IMAGE: http://i12.tinypic.com/544gcpx.jpg

i had to do it old fashioned way using layers and masks.

ill give it a try again but this time using my 50mm lens so wont have distortion. Really easy but takes while with big files.

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Jun 22, 2007 15:43 | #8

You are all working too HARD!!!

Download Autostitch for free and let the software do the blending!

http://www.cs.ubc.ca …utostitch/autostitch.html

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Jun 22, 2007 15:44 | #9

Last one. All took about 10 mins for the software to process. Levels, curves, etc was then applied in Photoshop. Autostitch is far more intuitive than Photoshop's Photomerge, IMO. It's the seemless blending that I love about this software.

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Jun 22, 2007 21:29 | #10

Alright, so we got one vote for CS3 and one vote for Autostitch....

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Jun 23, 2007 05:10 | #11

My opinion is that you can have all these various stand alone software that can do one or two things and you need to launch this or that to do this or that or....

You can use one piece of software that does just about everything and add plugins that you launch from within the software and minimise having things skattered around.

CS3 can do much much much more than just stitch images. Autostitch - what can it do besides stitching images?

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Jun 23, 2007 05:12 | #12

chris_m_atl wrote in post #3422452

It's the seemless blending that I love about this software.

It's the seemless blending in CS3 that I love. It has a much better engine then the CS2 and didn't take 10 minutes, levels and curves set automatically.

And no - I don't work for adobe and I think adobe is totally overprised especially n the UK market.

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Jun 23, 2007 14:10 | #13

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i tried out autostitch and it worked great! just open shots and hit okay. But, first try came out too low quality so i changed it to make full sized. well, 3 or 4 hours later, i got my shot done!! came out really good. lined up my wide angle shots perfectly.

i think i need more then 1 gig ram on vista to make pano using that program. the file at the end was 1.4 gigs lol

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Jun 23, 2007 14:14 | #14

canon's photostitch works fine for me

tried it for hte first time last night and it took seconds.

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Jun 24, 2007 00:16 as a reply to @ blam's post | #15

Dedicated panoramic software can offer some advantages and allow purists to correct lens distortions, avoiding leaning buildings or tilted or curved horizons.
I concentrate on seascapes using PTAssembler, you can see lots of examples of images created by its author at http://www.tawbaware.com/maxlyons/

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