HELP ON JOINING 2 PICTURES IN A PANORAMIC VIEW

[jjgil]

I'd like to join two pictures of a landscape in order to make a panoramic
view, but don't know exactly how to do it. Any help will be appreciated :-)

[lhorwinkle]

Open a new window. Set its pixel or dimension size large
enough to hold the composite.

Open one of the two original pictures. If it's not already in
RGB mode, change it to RGB. Using the move tool, drag
the picture onto the other (blank) windows. It will be in its
own layer.

Do likewise for the second original picture. It, too, will be in
its own layer.

Be sure you have the layers palette open (Window > Show
Layers menu). Select a layer and use the move tool to move
it into an appropriate position. You can superimpose the layer
to get it into just the right position above the other layer so
that they match.

You can make tonal adjustments to one or the other layer so
that the match is improved.

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[Sgáth Faol]

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Get Panavue, it will save a lot of time and effort if you intend to do a
lot of work on Panoramic images :o)

http://www.panavue.com/
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[Allan]

Here is a webpage that might help:

http://www.planetphotoshop.com/jim18.html

Allan

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[Bob G]

Add a few more items to the good info below. If your images don't
align properly on the edge where you are joining them, use the
transformation tools perspective on one of the layers to bring them
closer to a perfect match. Before flattening and cropping the finished
product, get the lightness and color match close as possible. You can
alter part of an images brightness and contrast best using the gradient
tool to produce an overlay mask.

I can recommend doing a google web search for "PTAssembler", a cool
program that makes the stitching process much easier for an occasional
picture, one where you want to stitch only two or three files. For a great
tutorial google to find "panotools", you'll find a lot of info about stitching
files there. While your out and about searching, search for "Max Lyons "
really nice set of panoramas, Max is also the guy who provides the
PTAssembler program. Panotools functions from within Photoshop
as plug-ins, is a hard to learn, but extremely powerful free package.

Stitching should be in the arsenal of every landscape photographer,
as it opens up a whole new perspective on digital imagery. Shooting
many slices of a scene instead of one super wide angle shot allows you
to control the front to rear perspective. You don't get the background
shoved away, but you still capture the wide view. You also gain the
very high resolving power from creating a picture out of many files.

The viewer can get as close to the picture as they want, a very wide
actually looks better from up close if a normal lens perspective was
used to make the original images. That way the viewer has to turn their
heads to see the entire view and it is more like they were looking at the
real thing. I have a 13 x 30 inch picture made this way from 18 individual
pieces, each shot with a 3.4 megapixel camera. The resulting image is big
and the viewer is allowed to whip out their loupe if they want to check
sharpness. Big disadvantage to this method of shooting, don't try it on
a soccer game. :-)

Bob G

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[Allan]

You can also use these plug-ins, (they are free) but be ready for some
complexity in doing it this way.

http://www.fh-furtwangen.de/~dersch/

Allan

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[Peter J. Persing]

OR, you could just skip all this and use Photoshop Elements which has the
panoramic feature built in. It will automatically find and join the edges in
perfect alignment, and if it can't find them it will give you "ghost"
displays and allow you to get them close, and then the program will take it
from there!

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[jjgil]

Ok, I've started to do the way Ihorwinkle has explained and it's been
effective. These steps come well explained in the page suggested by Allan,
but then, as Bob G supposed, I've had problems with the angle of the
pictures, and tried first with the rotation tool, but I didn't manage to fit
them, and the solution is, as Bob said, the perspective tool. Thanks a lot!!
There's also a little difference in the lightness, but I think it won't take
much effort.

Thanks to all, including to Sgath Faol for the link .
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