After getting requests from several blog readers I've decided to make a tutorial about making your own panorama. Before you start reading, here is how Wikipedia defines the word "panorama":
In its most general sense, a panorama is any wide view of a physical space. It has also come to refer to a wide-angle representation of such a view — whether in painting, drawing, photography, film/video, or a three-dimensional model. Further, the motion-picture term, pan or panning, is derived from "panorama".
You must download the program called Autostitch (freeware) in order to proceed with the tutorial. Having Adboe Photoshop is an added advantage, although using Paint is also great.
Here we go. Remember to read the notes and captions of the images because seeing the images themselves cannot explain everything (although I must agree a photo = 1000+ words :D
Please note that the changes in the settings depends on your own preferences, but the changes seen above are greatly recommdended. Well, for me I would want the original sized panorama (change the scale), with gain compensation (this will help to blend images smoother if they have varying brightness and contrast) and also a 100% JPEG quality for the final panorama produced.
Select the photos you want to make your panorama. After selecting them click open.
Sorry for the error in fact is click open and wait. Well, just wait as the program will perform the autostichting itself. Sit back and relax.
After being done with all the stuff Autostitch will save the panorama it created as pano.jpg (so remember to rename it especially when you want to do multiple panoramas at the same time since it will overwrite the pano.jpg file!).
For advanced users, you can move on to the next step. If you're happy with the panorama, then you're done :mrgreen:
Cropping the image will remove the black regions around the panorama and tada! You're done! :razz:
And here are some panoramas I've taken when I rode my bicycle to the nearby town park ;) created using exacly the method stated above.
Hope you enjoyed this tutorial!
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u teach us!
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*luna lost control!*
im going to try myself!
but…… FREE DEMO version only? :( i tot u stated freeware?
oh so thats how you do it! cool =)
the town park is so pretty ^_^
lunaticgal: Well it is the demo version and so it s free. It is freeware because it contains almost all the necessary features (eg gain compensation and multiband blending). It is called demo because in fact other panorama making programs that you need to pay to use them bought the rights of this Autostitch…
Rei: Yes :D hehe in fact the town park is one of the best park I’ve ever been to because being a citizen of a country where vandalism is extremely rampant the facilities there are still in very good shape ;)
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nicely done ! one questions, this this Autostitch will work if :
- we took the shoots at a slightly different range (1-2m)
- we took the shoots at a slightly different angle
if it does, then i absolutely gonna try this ^^
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qureyoon: Well in order to make a panorama generally the photographer will have to stand at one point shoot photos by just rotating his upper body (aka waist and upwards). Try to keep your hands at the same level or you’ll need to slightly rotate the final panorama to fit the main subjects in. For range wise, I think it doesn’t really matter unless your perspective changes.
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Try to keep your hands at the same level or you’ll need to slightly rotate the final panorama to fit the main subjects in.
teddy: wat mean slightly rotate the final panorama to fit the main subject?? it i walk here and there to take picture, it will be out of shape?
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Hey Terry
Really impressed by your PANAROMA Tutorial, even uncle Kzzit also asked “how this young kid did it?” :) I really hope to try it, but before that you need to help me how to download a “nan ji sin” in my MacBook (i just got a new Mac but only know how to go to you and Roti Nann’s blog) Hopeless case.