Perhaps the best tools for Panorama stitching are the "Pano Tools" by Helmut Dersch (free, GNU license), but it was difficult to learn to use them because no GUI was available in the beginning, these are very powerful tools, you can stitch m x n images (unlimited number of rows by columns) and you can correct lens distortion, correct perspective and a lot of other stuff. Of course you can also stitch 360 x 360 images with PanoTools!! (they're actually 360 x 180) And you can invoke the interactive panorama (just like that quicktime mov one) with a simple two-line Javascript code.
Now there are several GUI's out there. The best one IMO is Hugin
http://hugin.sourceforge.net/
The best part is that it's free, like the PanoTools!! You can find several tutorials on the site that range from the very beginner level to advance. I've only recently found Hugin and I'm already loving it!
the best software to do panoramic stitches is realviz stitcher. VERY VERY EASY TO USE. I posted some panoramic pictures I made with this package. THIS IS A GREAT PICTURE!!!!
Waqas: I know, this was made with PTAssembler, the PanoTools GUI from Max Lions :-) (but I was new to it at the time and didn´t know how to correct verticals/horizontals).
And since much of the sky is fake, I´m not about to repeat it... I might get around to correcting it on the finised pano if I don´t lose too much image.
Isaac:
I know how frustrating it is to fix the artifacts in a new panorama and later finding out a better way to do it, after you've spent hours on fixing it in a rudimentary way (which you now think of as a stupid thing; "to have wasted x hours just on fixing xyz!!"). And you don't want to go back and stitch that panorama again :)
Fixing the sky is especially frustrating, which is apparently a "harmless" uniform thing, but is actually a very difficult thing to "keep it real"). You were lucky you didn't have a difficult sky there (or perhaps you painted it all to a simple, plain blue tone? But if the latter is true, you could have painted the whole sky in the same tone, I guess you wanted to keep the sun real...)
I was in UK (12 days for Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow, North up to Inverness via Stirling, Perth, and down to Lochs and finally London), I took some 10,000 shots in 14 days, 80 panoramas; most of them had 25-80 shots each, and I have hardly managed a rough stitch of all of them :)
Some of them are online at http://www.pbase.com/waqas/panoramas
Fine! It's stithed from 40 images? Great work! For this panorama I use not more then 10 photos. For 180 deg. or narrow panoramas (I more like this kind) usually is enough 5 or 6 images. What camera and lens you use?
Yo tambien hago fotos panoramicas,tengo algunas, creo que buenas,algo mas realistas, me gustan mucho, voy a subir una que tengo de la plaza de valladolid,un saludo.
Comments
nordhäuser, on December 25, 2005, said:
Nice, how did you do this panoramic effect?
Isaac Garcia, on December 26, 2005, said:
With 40 images and a loooot of patience ;)
You can find a lot of info about pano photography here: http://www.tawbaware.com/forum2/index.php
montuno, on May 14, 2006, said:
Te lo has currado, si señor.
Isaac Garcia, on May 15, 2006, said:
Gracias :)
La verdad es que esta, si tuviese que repetirla, no lo haría... al menos, sin el material adecuado ;-)
Waqas Usman, on June 10, 2006, said:
Perhaps the best tools for Panorama stitching are the "Pano Tools" by Helmut Dersch (free, GNU license), but it was difficult to learn to use them because no GUI was available in the beginning, these are very powerful tools, you can stitch m x n images (unlimited number of rows by columns) and you can correct lens distortion, correct perspective and a lot of other stuff. Of course you can also stitch 360 x 360 images with PanoTools!! (they're actually 360 x 180) And you can invoke the interactive panorama (just like that quicktime mov one) with a simple two-line Javascript code.
Now there are several GUI's out there. The best one IMO is Hugin http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ The best part is that it's free, like the PanoTools!! You can find several tutorials on the site that range from the very beginner level to advance. I've only recently found Hugin and I'm already loving it!
Waqas Usman, on June 10, 2006, said:
See this example: http://www.pbase.com/johnarne/test
The code for the applet: [applet code="ptviewer.class" archive="http://no12.dyndns.org/foto/pano/ptviewer.jar" width=600 height=450> [param name=file value="http://no12.dyndns.org/foto/pano/pano_med.jpg"> [PARAM name=fovmin value="40"> [PARAM name=fovmax value="80"> [PARAM name=tiltmin value="-38"> [PARAM name=tiltmax value="41"> [/applet>
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Matias Mazza, on June 12, 2006, said:
the best software to do panoramic stitches is realviz stitcher. VERY VERY EASY TO USE. I posted some panoramic pictures I made with this package. THIS IS A GREAT PICTURE!!!!
Isaac Garcia, on June 14, 2006, said:
Waqas: I know, this was made with PTAssembler, the PanoTools GUI from Max Lions :-) (but I was new to it at the time and didn´t know how to correct verticals/horizontals).
And since much of the sky is fake, I´m not about to repeat it... I might get around to correcting it on the finised pano if I don´t lose too much image.
Dav, on June 17, 2006, said:
the program Photostitch given with a Canon digital cam seems to be good
Isaac Garcia, on June 18, 2006, said:
Dav: Yes, but only for simple panos ;-)
Isaac Garcia, on June 18, 2006, said:
Matias: Realviz Stitcher is overrated... it has some nice features, but it´s just not worth the price :-)
Waqas Usman, on July 10, 2006, said:
Isaac: I know how frustrating it is to fix the artifacts in a new panorama and later finding out a better way to do it, after you've spent hours on fixing it in a rudimentary way (which you now think of as a stupid thing; "to have wasted x hours just on fixing xyz!!"). And you don't want to go back and stitch that panorama again :) Fixing the sky is especially frustrating, which is apparently a "harmless" uniform thing, but is actually a very difficult thing to "keep it real"). You were lucky you didn't have a difficult sky there (or perhaps you painted it all to a simple, plain blue tone? But if the latter is true, you could have painted the whole sky in the same tone, I guess you wanted to keep the sun real...)
I was in UK (12 days for Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow, North up to Inverness via Stirling, Perth, and down to Lochs and finally London), I took some 10,000 shots in 14 days, 80 panoramas; most of them had 25-80 shots each, and I have hardly managed a rough stitch of all of them :) Some of them are online at http://www.pbase.com/waqas/panoramas
Maxi, on October 10, 2006, said:
impresionante! que buen trabajo te tomaste :)
un efecto muy bueno seria que aparezcas dos o tres veces vos mismo en la foto ;) jejeje
saludos desde Argentina
Isaac Garcia, on November 1, 2006, said:
Bueno, con unipode se complican las cosas... sobre todo si no es muy tieso ;-)
amascolo, on February 22, 2007, said:
Bello! :) See my panorama: Link
My favorite: Golfo di Napoli by Night
CIAO!
Roman Sobolenko, on March 7, 2007, said:
Fine! It's stithed from 40 images? Great work! For this panorama I use not more then 10 photos. For 180 deg. or narrow panoramas (I more like this kind) usually is enough 5 or 6 images. What camera and lens you use?
feko, on April 6, 2007, said:
Yo tambien hago fotos panoramicas,tengo algunas, creo que buenas,algo mas realistas, me gustan mucho, voy a subir una que tengo de la plaza de valladolid,un saludo.
Reino Almarsund, on April 19, 2007, said:
Please. How do I view this panorama?
AndreasB, on April 26, 2007, said:
I loved to spend the time on Plaza Major during my stay in Madrid in 1991.
Patricia bcn, on May 5, 2007, said:
Muy bien hecha!! =D ;)