Stitching a Panorama

The only way I have ever done it is deep-feathering the joins after doing all I can manually to match them

but only ever two or three, not ten
"MrsBeebleBrock" wrote in message

I should say that I have access to the original pics so could do a re-stitch myself if that were likely to achieve a better result.
What technique would I then need to use to get all photos to be the same brightness/colour?

Thanks,
Jo

MrsBeebleBrock wrote:

Hi everyone – I’m sure this is asked frequently, but I did a search on message headers and any article about "stitching" or "panorama" had expired. Couldn’t find anything in Photoshop Help either.
So here’s the question …

Someone has sent me a series of pics (attached) that they have stitched together into a panorama. There are lots of bits where the colour differs from shot to shot and I was hoping someone had some advice on how to deal with this issue.

I have almost every plug-in known to Photoshop, but can’t quite find a filter to fix this colour differentation. If I were to do it manually, exactly which tool would I use?

Thanks in advance,
Jo

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I use Panavue for panoramic stitching – it does pretty good color matching, and it’s got good manual stitching control, too (as well as automatic).

http://www.panavue.com

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 16:33:04 +1300, MrsBeebleBrock
wrote:

Hi everyone – I’m sure this is asked frequently, but I did a search on message headers and any article about "stitching" or "panorama" had expired. Couldn’t find anything in Photoshop Help either.
So here’s the question …

Someone has sent me a series of pics (attached) that they have stitched together into a panorama. There are lots of bits where the colour differs from shot to shot and I was hoping someone had some advice on how to deal with this issue.

I have almost every plug-in known to Photoshop, but can’t quite find a filter to fix this colour differentation. If I were to do it manually, exactly which tool would I use?

Thanks in advance,
Jo

I treat each section of an ‘joint line’ as separate … sky, water and land/objects. I do the primary colour matching on the ‘hard’ objects and use the lasso to ‘follow’ lines or natural breaks and use little feathering.

Water can stand more feather and skies a whole lot more. Both can be adjusted to ‘finish’ the HSBC match.

Sometimes a little cloning along the edge after the image is flattened with finish any ‘rough’ look.

There’s a few pans on lephoto.ttrr.org that would show my method. FWIW, I always start with the center image as it seems there’s less difficulty in adjusting HSCB as you move out, but much more adjustment if you start with an ‘edge’ shot.

Good luck!

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 16:40:58 +1300, MrsBeebleBrock
found these unused words floating about:

I should say that I have access to the original pics so could do a re-stitch myself if that were likely to achieve a better result.
What technique would I then need to use to get all photos to be the same brightness/colour?

Thanks,
Jo

MrsBeebleBrock wrote:

Hi everyone – I’m sure this is asked frequently, but I did a search on message headers and any article about "stitching" or "panorama" had expired. Couldn’t find anything in Photoshop Help either.
So here’s the question …

Someone has sent me a series of pics (attached) that they have stitched together into a panorama. There are lots of bits where the colour differs from shot to shot and I was hoping someone had some advice on how to deal with this issue.

I have almost every plug-in known to Photoshop, but can’t quite find a filter to fix this colour differentation. If I were to do it manually, exactly which tool would I use?

Thanks in advance,
Jo

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I agree with Wayne, Panavue does a good job. Try their trial version.

—
Bruce Johnstone

Email:

Web Site: http://home.comcast.net/~bruce.johnstone

Thanks for that. I wonder if I could ask for a bit more clarification – once you have used the lasoo tool to select a section of "join line" what tool do you then use? I’ve only been able to get the feathering to work when I actually delete sections of an image.

J. A. Mc. wrote:

I treat each section of an ‘joint line’ as separate … sky, water and land/objects. I do the primary colour matching on the ‘hard’ objects and use the lasso to ‘follow’ lines or natural breaks and use little feathering.

Water can stand more feather and skies a whole lot more. Both can be adjusted to ‘finish’ the HSBC match.

Sometimes a little cloning along the edge after the image is flattened with finish any ‘rough’ look.

There’s a few pans on lephoto.ttrr.org that would show my method. FWIW, I always start with the center image as it seems there’s less difficulty in adjusting HSCB as you move out, but much more adjustment if you start with an ‘edge’ shot.

Good luck!

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 16:40:58 +1300, MrsBeebleBrock
found these unused words floating about:

I should say that I have access to the original pics so could do a re-stitch myself if that were likely to achieve a better result.
What technique would I then need to use to get all photos to be the same brightness/colour?

Thanks,
Jo

MrsBeebleBrock wrote:

Hi everyone – I’m sure this is asked frequently, but I did a search on message headers and any article about "stitching" or "panorama" had expired. Couldn’t find anything in Photoshop Help either.
So here’s the question …

Someone has sent me a series of pics (attached) that they have stitched together into a panorama. There are lots of bits where the colour differs from shot to shot and I was hoping someone had some advice on how to deal with this issue.

I have almost every plug-in known to Photoshop, but can’t quite find a filter to fix this colour differentation. If I were to do it manually, exactly which tool would I use?

Thanks in advance,
Jo

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Hi Steve, how do you deep-feather, exactly?
Thanks,
Jo (still a newbie)

Steve wrote:

The only way I have ever done it is deep-feathering the joins after doing all I can manually to match them

but only ever two or three, not ten
"MrsBeebleBrock" wrote in message

I should say that I have access to the original pics so could do a re-stitch myself if that were likely to achieve a better result.
What technique would I then need to use to get all photos to be the same brightness/colour?

Thanks,
Jo

MrsBeebleBrock wrote:

Hi everyone – I’m sure this is asked frequently, but I did a search on message headers and any article about "stitching" or "panorama" had expired. Couldn’t find anything in Photoshop Help either.
So here’s the question …

Someone has sent me a series of pics (attached) that they have stitched together into a panorama. There are lots of bits where the colour differs from shot to shot and I was hoping someone had some advice on how to deal with this issue.

I have almost every plug-in known to Photoshop, but can’t quite find a filter to fix this colour differentation. If I were to do it manually, exactly which tool would I use?

Thanks in advance,
Jo

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Thanks guys – it definitely looks like a good programme and I have downladed the trial. THe cheque-writer is also the photographer, however, and I have to broach this subject carefully – eg he’s the reason we need the app.

Cheers,
Jo

Wayne R. wrote:

I use Panavue for panoramic stitching – it does pretty good color matching, and it’s got good manual stitching control, too (as well as automatic).

http://www.panavue.com

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 16:33:04 +1300, MrsBeebleBrock
wrote:

Hi everyone – I’m sure this is asked frequently, but I did a search on message headers and any article about "stitching" or "panorama" had expired. Couldn’t find anything in Photoshop Help either.
So here’s the question …

Someone has sent me a series of pics (attached) that they have stitched together into a panorama. There are lots of bits where the colour differs from shot to shot and I was hoping someone had some advice on how to deal with this issue.

I have almost every plug-in known to Photoshop, but can’t quite find a filter to fix this colour differentation. If I were to do it manually, exactly which tool would I use?

Thanks in advance,
Jo

Your photographer might like to know about Kaidan products too; tell him that extra control both before and after shooting pays off with much better results and can easily be worth the costs.

http://www.kaidan.com

On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 13:14:08 +1300, MrsBeebleBrock
wrote:

Thanks guys – it definitely looks like a good programme and I have downladed the trial. THe cheque-writer is also the photographer, however, and I have to broach this subject carefully – eg he’s the reason we need the app.

Cheers,
Jo

Wayne R. wrote:

I use Panavue for panoramic stitching – it does pretty good color matching, and it’s got good manual stitching control, too (as well as automatic).

http://www.panavue.com

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 16:33:04 +1300, MrsBeebleBrock
wrote:

Hi everyone – I’m sure this is asked frequently, but I did a search on message headers and any article about "stitching" or "panorama" had expired. Couldn’t find anything in Photoshop Help either.
So here’s the question …

Someone has sent me a series of pics (attached) that they have stitched together into a panorama. There are lots of bits where the colour differs from shot to shot and I was hoping someone had some advice on how to deal with this issue.

I have almost every plug-in known to Photoshop, but can’t quite find a filter to fix this colour differentation. If I were to do it manually, exactly which tool would I use?

Thanks in advance,
Jo

hi again – looks like the group has given some great tips – please let me know via email if you have any further troubles

Steve
www.geocities.com/seriph1

"MrsBeebleBrock" wrote in message

Hi Steve, how do you deep-feather, exactly?
Thanks,
Jo (still a newbie)

Steve wrote:

The only way I have ever done it is deep-feathering the joins after

doing

all I can manually to match them

but only ever two or three, not ten
"MrsBeebleBrock" wrote in message

I should say that I have access to the original pics so could do a re-stitch myself if that were likely to achieve a better result.
What technique would I then need to use to get all photos to be the same brightness/colour?

Thanks,
Jo

MrsBeebleBrock wrote:

Hi everyone – I’m sure this is asked frequently, but I did a search on message headers and any article about "stitching" or "panorama" had expired. Couldn’t find anything in Photoshop Help either.
So here’s the question …

Someone has sent me a series of pics (attached) that they have stitched together into a panorama. There are lots of bits where the colour differs from shot to shot and I was hoping someone had some advice on how to deal with this issue.

I have almost every plug-in known to Photoshop, but can’t quite find a filter to fix this colour differentation. If I were to do it manually, exactly which tool would I use?

Thanks in advance,
Jo

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Check out this site for tutorials and a free tool:
http://www.caldwellphotographic.com/Mosaics.html

MrsBeebleBrock wrote:

Thanks guys – it definitely looks like a good programme and I have downladed the trial. THe cheque-writer is also the photographer, however, and I have to broach this subject carefully – eg he’s the reason we need the app.

Cheers,
Jo

Wayne R. wrote:

I use Panavue for panoramic stitching – it does pretty good color matching, and it’s got good manual stitching control, too (as well as automatic).

http://www.panavue.com

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 16:33:04 +1300, MrsBeebleBrock
wrote:

Hi everyone – I’m sure this is asked frequently, but I did a search on message headers and any article about "stitching" or "panorama" had expired. Couldn’t find anything in Photoshop Help either.
So here’s the question …

Someone has sent me a series of pics (attached) that they have stitched together into a panorama. There are lots of bits where the colour differs from shot to shot and I was hoping someone had some advice on how to deal with this issue.

I have almost every plug-in known to Photoshop, but can’t quite find a filter to fix this colour differentation. If I were to do it manually, exactly which tool would I use?

Thanks in advance,
Jo

"MrsBeebleBrock" wrote in message

I should say that I have access to the original pics so could do a re-stitch myself if that were likely to achieve a better result.
What technique would I then need to use to get all photos to be the same brightness/colour?

Thanks,
Jo

MrsBeebleBrock wrote:

Hi everyone – I’m sure this is asked frequently, but I did a search on message headers and any article about "stitching" or "panorama" had expired. Couldn’t find anything in Photoshop Help either.
So here’s the question …

Someone has sent me a series of pics (attached) that they have stitched together into a panorama. There are lots of bits where the colour differs from shot to shot and I was hoping someone had some advice on how to deal with this issue.

I have almost every plug-in known to Photoshop, but can’t quite find a filter to fix this colour differentation. If I were to do it manually, exactly which tool would I use?

Thanks in advance,
Jo

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This worth a try .

Go into layers and make the layer you want to change active .

go into channels and zoom into intersection.

Select the red channel ,note the greyscale levels are different. With red channel targetedgo to image > adjustments > levels. click on the mid point slider, move the slider until the greyscale looks the same across the images…click ok.

do the same for the blue and green channels.

zoom out to see the full image and check the RGB composite image at the top of the channels palette.

Back to the layers palette , make sure the original layer is selected , blend the images .
to do this use a layer mask, click on the layer mask icon, you should see this in the layers palette .

with the layers mask targeted sel the brush tool , use a 250 pix soft edge brush set at normal mode and 100% opacity, make sure the foreground color is black.

paint down the image until blended ………….mjh

That’s exactly right … You must shoot with overlap, both for this purpose as well as helping avoid any lens barrelling effects at the joins.

With enough overlap … 5% each ‘side’, you can pick and choose the join points and rarely see any misalignmet or doubling.

If the images are that tight, then you’ll have to use an oversize canvas, select sections and adjust the HSBC for each smaller section – feathering back into the current layer’s ‘body’ to avoid sharp changes. Then make the join line as best you can – using more cloning tool to blend. FWIW, I find that ‘Blur’ is far more obvious than a small clone.

On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 13:12:19 +1300, MrsBeebleBrock
found these unused words floating about:

Thanks for that. I wonder if I could ask for a bit more clarification – once you have used the lasoo tool to select a section of "join line" what tool do you then use? I’ve only been able to get the feathering to work when I actually delete sections of an image.

J. A. Mc. wrote:

I treat each section of an ‘joint line’ as separate … sky, water and land/objects. I do the primary colour matching on the ‘hard’ objects and use the lasso to ‘follow’ lines or natural breaks and use little feathering.

Water can stand more feather and skies a whole lot more. Both can be adjusted to ‘finish’ the HSBC match.

Sometimes a little cloning along the edge after the image is flattened with finish any ‘rough’ look.

There’s a few pans on lephoto.ttrr.org that would show my method. FWIW, I always start with the center image as it seems there’s less difficulty in adjusting HSCB as you move out, but much more adjustment if you start with an ‘edge’ shot.

Good luck!

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 16:40:58 +1300, MrsBeebleBrock
found these unused words floating about:

I should say that I have access to the original pics so could do a re-stitch myself if that were likely to achieve a better result.
What technique would I then need to use to get all photos to be the same brightness/colour?

Thanks,
Jo

MrsBeebleBrock wrote:

Hi everyone – I’m sure this is asked frequently, but I did a search on message headers and any article about "stitching" or "panorama" had expired. Couldn’t find anything in Photoshop Help either.
So here’s the question …

Someone has sent me a series of pics (attached) that they have stitched together into a panorama. There are lots of bits where the colour differs from shot to shot and I was hoping someone had some advice on how to deal with this issue.

I have almost every plug-in known to Photoshop, but can’t quite find a filter to fix this colour differentation. If I were to do it manually, exactly which tool would I use?

Thanks in advance,
Jo

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I really like Canon’s stitching software. Of course, you have to shoot the pic on a Canon camera in stitch mode. But it enables you to take vertical, horizontal and box panoramas, and the results are virtually seamless. (For a laugh, you can pose someone in one shot, then move him/her to an adjacent location and pan to that area. Click, and Voila!, your subject has suddenly become twins, or even quadruplets. You can also follow someone who’s walking, and get them at several locations.)

Tom

"Bruce Johnstone" wrote in message

I agree with Wayne, Panavue does a good job. Try their trial version.

—
Bruce Johnstone

Email:

Web Site: http://home.comcast.net/~bruce.johnstone

Actually, all you need is the software, which comes free with various canon products. I got mine with a Canon printer. I’ve used it with a Nikon 990 and a sony dsc-f717 with superb results.

Ozymandius

"Tom Kelly" wrote in message

I really like Canon’s stitching software. Of course, you have to shoot the pic on a Canon camera in stitch mode. But it enables you to take vertical, horizontal and box panoramas, and the results are virtually seamless. (For

a

laugh, you can pose someone in one shot, then move him/her to an adjacent location and pan to that area. Click, and Voila!, your subject has

suddenly

become twins, or even quadruplets. You can also follow someone who’s walking, and get them at several locations.)

Tom

"Bruce Johnstone" wrote in message

I agree with Wayne, Panavue does a good job. Try their trial version.

—
Bruce Johnstone

Email:

Web Site: http://home.comcast.net/~bruce.johnstone

I haven’t upgraded, but isn’t there a new feature in PS8 that will match the color "range" of one image to another?

Ctk

"MrsBeebleBrock" wrote in message

I should say that I have access to the original pics so could do a re-stitch myself if that were likely to achieve a better result.
What technique would I then need to use to get all photos to be the same brightness/colour?

Thanks,
Jo

MrsBeebleBrock wrote:

Hi everyone – I’m sure this is asked frequently, but I did a search on message headers and any article about "stitching" or "panorama" had expired. Couldn’t find anything in Photoshop Help either.
So here’s the question …

Someone has sent me a series of pics (attached) that they have stitched together into a panorama. There are lots of bits where the colour differs from shot to shot and I was hoping someone had some advice on how to deal with this issue.

I have almost every plug-in known to Photoshop, but can’t quite find a filter to fix this colour differentation. If I were to do it manually, exactly which tool would I use?

Thanks in advance,
Jo

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Thanks for that.

Jo

J. A. Mc. wrote:

That’s exactly right … You must shoot with overlap, both for this purpose as well as helping avoid any lens barrelling effects at the joins.

With enough overlap … 5% each ‘side’, you can pick and choose the join points and rarely see any misalignmet or doubling.

If the images are that tight, then you’ll have to use an oversize canvas, select sections and adjust the HSBC for each smaller section – feathering back into the current layer’s ‘body’ to avoid sharp changes. Then make the join line as best you can – using more cloning tool to blend. FWIW, I find that ‘Blur’ is far more obvious than a small clone.

On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 13:12:19 +1300, MrsBeebleBrock
found these unused words floating about:

Thanks for that. I wonder if I could ask for a bit more clarification – once you have used the lasoo tool to select a section of "join line" what tool do you then use? I’ve only been able to get the feathering to work when I actually delete sections of an image.

J. A. Mc. wrote:

I treat each section of an ‘joint line’ as separate … sky, water and land/objects. I do the primary colour matching on the ‘hard’ objects and use the lasso to ‘follow’ lines or natural breaks and use little feathering.

Water can stand more feather and skies a whole lot more. Both can be adjusted to ‘finish’ the HSBC match.

Sometimes a little cloning along the edge after the image is flattened with finish any ‘rough’ look.

There’s a few pans on lephoto.ttrr.org that would show my method. FWIW, I always start with the center image as it seems there’s less difficulty in adjusting HSCB as you move out, but much more adjustment if you start with an ‘edge’ shot.

Good luck!

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 16:40:58 +1300, MrsBeebleBrock
found these unused words floating about:

I should say that I have access to the original pics so could do a re-stitch myself if that were likely to achieve a better result.
What technique would I then need to use to get all photos to be the same brightness/colour?

Thanks,
Jo

MrsBeebleBrock wrote:

Hi everyone – I’m sure this is asked frequently, but I did a search on message headers and any article about "stitching" or "panorama" had expired. Couldn’t find anything in Photoshop Help either.
So here’s the question …

Someone has sent me a series of pics (attached) that they have stitched together into a panorama. There are lots of bits where the colour differs from shot to shot and I was hoping someone had some advice on how to deal with this issue.

I have almost every plug-in known to Photoshop, but can’t quite find a filter to fix this colour differentation. If I were to do it manually, exactly which tool would I use?

Thanks in advance,
Jo

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