Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/08/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Paul, Have you tried PTGui for your stitching? I've been very pleased with it, much more accurate than photoshop (for me anyway). Leo Wesson www.leowesson.com On Aug 17, 2012, at 23:18, Paul Roark <roark.paul at gmail.com> wrote: > <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote: > ... >>>> Sun over Lake Ediza was 15 frames -- two rows of 7 plus one for the >>>> sun.<<<<< >> >> Are you saying this photo is a combination of 15 frames stitched in camera >> or Photoshop of some kind? > > Yes. That image is 10,951 by 8,603 pixels -- very large. But I use a > substantial overlap; so it's not nearly as large as 14 full frames > side by side. > > I used Photoshop CS5 to combine the frames. But, the fully automatic > stitching did not work very well when all the primary 14 frames were > thrown into the program at once. What I found worked best is to first > stitch the bottom row that has the lake in it. With this row I > leveled each frame prior to stitching them. I used the ruler tool > with its "straighten" option, and used the shoreline of the lake as a > guide. Once the bottom row frames were level, the PS automatic > stitching, set to cylindrical, worked very well. I next stitched the > top row by itself using the PS automatic system. The result needed > some work and was then manually stitched to the bottom row. Finally > the sun frame was added manually. Obviously the sun was *much* > brighter than anything else. So, the relatively values of the print > are highly compressed in that region. > > Thank you all for your comments. > > Regards, > > Paul > www.PaulRoark.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information