Topic: Pano Problem (Read 203 times)

Sarie · « **on:** February 13, 2010, 11:04:31 AM »

My brother wanted to shoot a Pano for one of the projects under construction to show it to the project owner, went there, set up used my tripod, tried to the best of my ability to stabilize the camera. However, while rotating to shoot frames, I might have moved an inch over or lower, although maintained to a certain extent the line. I took almost 36 pictures.

The problem: came back home loaded them to Elements 8 started on the Pano, the software gave partial picture of the last take, and it stated during the process it could not align pictures. I overlapped picture to more than 25% on each. Don't know what is wrong? Any ideas.

Fud · « **Reply #1 on:** February 13, 2010, 11:50:06 AM »

Try downloading Microsoft ICE program from the internet. It is a FREE piece of software that does a very good job with panos and quite a few people here use it.

Stef. · « **Reply #2 on:** February 13, 2010, 04:26:35 PM »

I agree with Fud- ICE is great and free. Also if you run into problems and 36 images is a lot(!)- combine first a couple of images and then the next and finally do the whole pano. I.e. combine images 1 'til 4; than combine 5 'til 9 in a separate image and at the end combine all the combined images. I always do it this way when I shot many images. Why 36 in the first place??? Seems like a lot?
Stef.

Sarie · « **Reply #3 on:** February 13, 2010, 05:28:35 PM »

I tried the site for ICE unfortuantely it is a Windows platform, I am a Mac user. This sounds good, combine smaller number together and then add the combined together into one Pano. The reason of the 36 images was that it is a university campus, colleges, and everything else that is needed to have a university city. The location was a construction site, I read somewhere that it is good for Panos to be shot in portrait, so I did, which took with the overlap 36 snaps to cover the whole ground from one end to the other, moreover I think this was increased due to the fact I overlaped each picture almost 50%. Whereas the other Pano I made from the same site it took around 12 pictures to cover the whole site in landscape, and it worked just fine.

Sarie

Stef. · « **Reply #4 on:** February 13, 2010, 07:40:45 PM »

Sarie- try the smaller number method. I often do this anyhow as I think it does give better results as you don't have to crop as muchaway as you'd have to would you stitch it in one go.
Stef.

Sarie · « **Reply #5 on:** February 13, 2010, 07:45:49 PM »

Will do, the question is creating the smaller groups, will you save them as PSDs or JPEGs, before you go for the final output?

Sarie

Stef. · « **Reply #6 on:** February 13, 2010, 07:55:05 PM »

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