Cheers to PS for Photomerge

[USLatin]

So I am one of those that is far from a PH guru, and I was trying to make a panoramic photo from a few taken by panning on a tripod. When I was mounting it I realized that my stupid (but really great) little Canon A630 has the threaded mount about one inch away from the imager's axis... so I go back and spend like an hour faking the joints between each picture... aghhh! but! I did quite the phenomenal job! :)

hahaha... you guys should have seen my face when I moved on to an HDR I also had shot... I noticed this little thingy... called "Photomerge" .... "hmmm" I saif to myself... "mahhh" I said to myself wanting to believe that PH couldn't do what I had just done... OF COURSE NOT! It wound't FAKE it... it uses MATH, it get's it RIGHT! and in under 30seconds! AAAGHHHH~~~


I am happy that I found it, but still wish I had looked at what the program I am using can already do before spending so much time
and an other nice token, the photo came out very well

[USLatin]

http://www.dvxuser6.com/uploaded/6586/1208123840.jpg

[Matt Grunau]

Great photo.

It does do a good, but you need to watch and sometimes make adjustments to the merged photo. Also, make sure "Enhaced Blending" or whatever it is is on.

There is a very visible line where those photos merge on the right, the grass and bushes. Somtimes you still have to go back to ye old Clone Stamp and Healing brush.

[USLatin]

Thanks Matt! I'll keep that in mind.

Which line? I don't see it?

[USLatin]

what I do see is that I should finish cleaning up the "extension" of the photo on the bottom right corner

[Hans Moleman]

It's easily my favorite feature, next to HDR merge

http://www.dvxuser6.com/uploaded/9586/1208455110.jpg

[USLatin]

It's easily my favorite feature, next to HDR merge

same for me, then again those are the only two I looked for... what do the others do?
BTW, that's a nice and long one... I want to do one light that, just have to find something to do it of and for. Was that taken with a polarizer?

[Drew Ott]

Do you rotate the camera on a tripod as you take pictures or do you take a picture, shuffle to the right, take another, shuffle some more, etc?

[USLatin]

Tripod, but I bet PS will do a great job even if handheld, if that's what you mean by shuffle... but if what you mean by shuffle is to move to the side as if on a dolly then that would have bee a 500ft shuffle :D

[Matt Grunau]

Second pic looks perfect. No obvious seems, very well blended, very evenly lit.

I don't think you went over the top with the color, I think it looks great.

[Ethan Schaefer]

http://www.silentelk.com/images/street360.jpg


Man, I read this thread and went out and did a 360 degree pan. hah my original is over 50k pixels wide. Unbelievable. Took photomerge like 5 minutes create this :)

[USLatin]

beautiful!

we should start messing with the web scripts to make them an animated and curled over deal where you can drag it and zoom all around! :)

hey Ethan, what camera was that?


Second pic looks perfect. No obvious seems, very well blended, very evenly lit.

I don't think you went over the top with the color, I think it looks great.

thanks Matt! I totally missed it

[Ethan Schaefer]

Just a little canon powershot a560. He's a little guy but he can hold his own.

[Larry Rutledge]

Nice ... I like the 360 idea ... I'll have to try that. So far I've just done about 90 degrees on the ones I've tried

http://www.day7studios.com/personal/photos/SunflowerPanorama1024.jpg

[GageFX]

I wish they had that feature years ago. This is the last Pano I did and the only one I have online. It was shot/made manually in PS 6 years ago.
I wish I knew where the original files were so I could try Photomerge. You can easily see where the lines are due to the crazy skies/change in exposure that day.
It literally looked like a typical L.A. summer day in one direction and that it was going to thunder and rain in the other.


http://www.pbase.com/gagefx/image/5308486/original.jpg

[USLatin]

Just a little canon powershot a560. He's a little guy but he can hold his own.

Do I know it... I am shooting on a little A630, it is all about getting the 4x or higher optical lenses... well that's what I am starting to think... my first posted panorama was just about 3 - 4 pictures, definitely no more than 5. They are sharp.

I also hacked mine so I get RAW files and bring them into PS3 like that before I do the alignment of the channels... (I didn't shoot the panoramas RAW... it is sort of a pain since they are not a file that CS3 reads so I have to make PNPs or something like that with a little free application I downloaded... I will likely be shooting some Headshots soon like that though


I wish they had that feature years ago. This is the last Pano I did and the only one I have online. It was shot/made manually in PS 6 years ago.
I wish I knew where the original files were so I could try Photomerge. You can easily see where the lines are due to the crazy skies/change in exposure that day.
It literally looked like a typical L.A. summer day in one direction and that it was going to thunder and rain in the other.

But dude, that's the magic man! If you wanted to CC for continuity I could understand, but I simply LOVE how it is surreal... !! And very subconscious too so I'd say it is perfect

[Matt Grunau]

The only problem I see in some of these is that there was a definate shift in lighting, causing some portions to lose a little contrast.

This is partcularly noticable in Ethan's, when the camera is at about 180 degrees.

[USLatin]

Oh! Across the red flowers by the blue pot on the side of the road. And then parallel to that thin tree trunk just off to the left, much more noticeable than the first. I guess some of that is focus being off a bit on the shot down the street.
I healed the crap out of my first one, and also Cloned it all over to shift windows extend roofs and cables, and to eliminate a car on the opposite side of the street. All edges had to be cheated. At least the shadows are easier. You can still see portions where I didn't finish the job.

Nonetheless I love that panorama! I felt like I was driving down the street.

[Ethan Schaefer]

Hah I'm glad you digged my shit man!

It was my second one!

[ryan brown]

Just ran across this thread. Here's my contribution taken in Cancun last month:

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f321/rcbrown23/Cancun_Panoramaautosmall1.jpg

[ConspiracyPenguin]

I have never tried this feature. I threw together a very sloppy pano of my backyard a while back (not with PS). The inconsistencies are numerous, but I will post it for fun:

http://www.isarapix.org/pix63/1219628053.jpg

I am thinking about trying another with PM (and maybe a tri-pod :grin:)

[mcgeedigital]

http://www.dvxuser6.com/uploaded/6185/1214062743.jpg

Point and shoot at Fenway park stitched together in PS.

[USLatin]

Someone found the saturation control... just messing with you, it totally works. Were those HDRs?
Nice one, I really liked penguin's trees and having water on both sides is a good use of PM though all of you guys should post bigger versions!

[Will Clegg]

That Fenway shot is beautiful, Matt. I think I just found a new use for my indislider...

[mcgeedigital]

Someone found the saturation control... just messing with you, it totally works. Were those HDRs?
Nice one, I really liked penguin's trees and having water on both sides is a good use of PM though all of you guys should post bigger versions!

If you are talking about mine, then no, no HDR or saturation adjustment was done.

The only thing I did was burn in the baseball diamond a bit and replaced he burned-out sky with a nice sunset.

Thanks.

[ConspiracyPenguin]

Someone found the saturation control... just messing with you, it totally works. Were those HDRs?
Nice one, I really liked penguin's trees and having water on both sides is a good use of PM though all of you guys should post bigger versions!

If I posted a bigger version you would see all of the inaccuracies. :D

I like the park one, very nice work.

[cheezweezl]

mcgee, your cloudy post-sunset sky conflicts with the direct sunlight evident on the crowd to the left.

only a geek like me would notice that though... nice pic!!!

[USLatin]

I think that's from the park's lights

[justin ewart]

this is the coolest thing ever. just did a heinously bad test with the webcam on my mac... totally playing around with this with my video camera. thanks!

i really like your panorama ryan. would love to see it larger.

[cheezweezl]

I think that's from the park's lights

maybe so. but he said he replaced the blown sky so i assumed it was sunlight...

[USLatin]

oh... yea... probably then, it does look more like sun light

[alwayslearning]

USLatin, I'm wondering if the moon in your pano is added in? It seems with it lit the way it is that it would be daylight in the scene? Eitherway, it looks very nice imo.

This is made from 4 or 5 shots I took at sunrise in southern Ohio this past summer:
http://www.dvxuser6.com/uploaded/1216/1217790196.jpg

Larry

[USLatin]

Here is one I did not too long ago.

http://www.earthandfireent.com/Images/Sharing/Fire_pano_SMALL.jpg

Here is another, this time a little more photoshop than usual:

http://www.earthandfireent.com/Images/Sharing/Moorpark_pano_SMALL.jpg

http://www.earthandfireent.com/Images/Sharing/Fire_pano_SMALL.jpb

[Andrew Brinkhaus]

I love Photomerge, but have any of you had issues with it running out of virtual memory when blending the pictures together? I have 2GBs of RAM, and can't see that being the cause... It says "the application ran out of virtual memory. Please close some windows to free memory."

[USLatin]

Perhaps you could resize to final output size before you merge them? If they are RAW you could make them 8-bit?

How many pictures and how big were they? It happened to me before but it was something really crazy, at least 6 8MP pictures and each was an HDR. Hope you can get it figured out...

[Andrew Brinkhaus]

Yeah, last time it happened it was 4 full size (4K) photos trying to be merged. Maybe scaling them prior will be the fix.

[mcgeedigital]

mcgee, your cloudy post-sunset sky conflicts with the direct sunlight evident on the crowd to the left.

only a geek like me would notice that though... nice pic!!!

Oh absolutely it does! :)

Thanks!