Stitching pics together

mikeanywhere

Is there a way of stitching pics together in PS or do I have to keep using the software that came with my Canon??

digitalage

mikeanywhere you can stitch photos together in photoshop done a quick google heres a tutorial http://phong.com/tutorials/photostitch/ I never linked the results I got from photoshop, so I got my hands on realviz stitcher 5.1 fantastic programme much better results. I have also tried this software package, http://www.ptgui.com/ and is excellent, its also alot cheaper than realviz, I currently use both.

melekalikimaka

photoshop does it nicely

mikeanywhere

Excellent news and thanks for the tutorial link also - very helful indeed!!

dazftw

I have the canon software and I find it alot better than the photoshop one.. I find the photoshop one doesnt like.. have straight horizons and is not 100% blended properly I find the canon software perfect!


http://www.good-tutorials.com/

This website is great millions of tutorials!

EDIT: File>Automate>Photomerge in photoshop..

redrob13

Hi

I'm surprised no one has recommended autosticht yet. While they call it a demo version thats available, there are no restrictions on the 'demo'. In my experience it does the job very well, better than photoshop or any of the other free tools I've tried. It doesn't have the pretty GUI that some come with, but once you make sure to set the size to 100% and the JPEG quality to MAX you're fairly alright. There are a few groups on flickr showing peoples' results, the autosticth group and Top 20 Autostitch.

Robert

rymus

Moving to Digital Darkroom....

Also, whats the name for it... Perspective correction? I noticed recently when farting around with stitching for the first time in ages that buildings have an odd curve to them

Any quick way to sort this?

elven

There is a filter in CS2 called lens distortion or something like that, very heavy on the ol' processor but quite good fun to play wth as well. Pretty intuitive stuff.

Carrigman

In the cover disc with the November issue of Digital Camera magazine there is the full version of Panorama Plus 1. It is certainly superior to the pano software with PS. You have to ring a UK number to get the activation code but other than that there is no cost. Definitely worth it for stitching photos.

Regards,

John

rymus

*cough* upload the installer *cough*

JMcL

Autostich as mentioned does a fine job on things I've tried. It does everything automatically, so if something is problematic, you can't chose control points, but it does correct for lens distortion etc

I'd also recommend PTAssembler. It's not free, but I used the trial version over the summer, and it does a great job. It's based on Panorama Tools, as are a bunch of other stiching tools, which is very highly regarded, but impossible to use directly for anybody without a degree in physics (to my poor aching brain anyway). Hugin is an open source frontend, but I've never managed to get it to work properly

digitalage

Realviz stitcher is excellent when dealing with distorted images, you can stitch fish images together with the latest version, but its a pricey package as it offers alot of features. JMcL mentioned the pano tools these are excellent but can be complex to use on there own, so thats why some programes were developed to make things easier with these tools such as PTGui, PTAssmebler and PTMac. PTGui is alot more user friendly than PTAssembler, most of the processes are automated, I would choose this package as post processing can eat up alot off our time.