Johan Stäck wrote:
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1. Since the panorama program can handle many images, and some can do rather quick, some can do vertical some do horizontal, some do both. And some has more/less auto/manually option.
The weak point that because it isn’t a graphic editor or doesn’t give editing option so sometime it may show some difference at the join. With Photoshop user should be able to Mask to blend the join better.
Yes, in my project I have decided on using Photoshop for the processing of my images. The processing for each picture pair consists of -Rotating one of the images slightly
-Cropping both images
-Aligning
-Blending
All is done in a VB6 program.
I use the Sciptlistener to record the actions and modify the VBS code to make it "legal" VB6.
Works fine now.
Since I have known few tricks of Photoshop, so I too prefer Photoshop over the panorama program. If I do then these are what I have in mind.
– If the photo is not straight then I would use some command (I know what they are but can’t remember the name at the moment) to straighten it out.
– Lower the Opacity of the top layer (in order to see the lower layer) to align the photos.
– Then I would use Quick Mask command to blend the photos together. I believe some Blend Mode’s would also be used, but I am not very good with these blending modes so I just can’t be able to picture what the result may look like. Or I usually be able to picture the result just by looking at the photo (after staring at hundreds of thousands of photos)
I think I can image some photo may not have similar color (off at some point), so probably more than 2 layers may be needed. Then blend them using Quick Mask (I use Quick Mask command on nearly all my retouching)
2. Photoshop, I tried once with older version of Photoshop that doesn’t have the option to auto-joint (panorama) multiple images, but I didn’t have much problem using Photoshop command.
About distortion, then no panorama program can fix the distortion, but you sure can do with Photoshop. May not auto (I am not so sure), but you sure can do manually.
What I meant was that *all* Panorama manufacturing means distorting one or more of the images to make them fit togeteher.
Photoshop offers several means of distortion.
Yup! all panorama programs can’t do what graphic editor can, so they just have few simple straighten and blending options to get thing done to impress some newbie. And if we have some basic Photoshop skill then we should be able to do a better job.
IOW, most photos have some distortion (because of the lens and distance) and the panorama program tries to straighten all objects and it will lose the TOP and BOTTOM.
Last time I have some talk about the distortion but ended up upsetting the OP because he didn’t want me pointing out his famous photo <bg>. Of if we take a photograph of a tall, big building/castle etc. then we will notice the walls won’t be straight. And the Panorama usually try to straighten all the walls and it ends up with an arc shape.