Creating a panoramic advice

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I have cs5 and quite often stitch images to make panos
As we all know this involves the software lining up the images to make on large Image
But what I want to do is take a pano shot of the inside of the building but I want to include the ceiling.my lens isn't wide enough to allow me to to this so I need to do 2 panos ( one above the other) so I cover everything from floor to ceiling
Could anyone tell me how this is done
Thanks in advance
 
cant say i've ever tried it, but it sounds like your going to need loads of patience...

my theory (and it is purely theory) would be to overlap the photos, so later on they could be cropped and somehow stitched in pp software... it should work in theory as long as taken from the same angle, otherwise it may end up slightly warped i guess

i'd be interested to hear how you done it if you get some success at this though!!

good luck!
 
tezmed said:
cant say i've ever tried it, but it sounds like your going to need loads of patience...

my theory (and it is purely theory) would be to overlap the photos, so later on they could be cropped and somehow stitched in pp software... it should work in theory as long as taken from the same angle, otherwise it may end up slightly warped i guess

i'd be interested to hear how you done it if you get some success at this though!!

good luck!
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Thanks for the reply, I'll keep the thread updated. I can't help thinking it should be easy as its just a pano but twice the size, if PS is clever enough to stitch images side by side then why not one above the other..... Though easy is only that if you know how
 
I'm not familiar with CS5 for stitching, so can't comment if it can handle "multi row" panoramas.

If you were using one of the more specialist products such as PT GUI, you would shoot the overlapping images in rows, and the software would automatically align them all. You can get a free, fully working, trial version from their website, although the pano' would be watermarked.

You would also need to shoot one straight up (the zenith) to cover the centre of the image.

If you are using a standard tripod head, you will probably get some parallax errors when objects don't line up exactly in the neighbouring shots. To avoid this, you need to rotate the camera/lens around the nodal point of the lens, but that would need a panoramic head.

Having said that, it sounds more complicated than it really is, and you can get some pretty good results using standard kit. Give it a go!
 
stumac said:
Thanks for the reply, I'll keep the thread updated. I can't help thinking it should be easy as its just a pano but twice the size, if PS is clever enough to stitch images side by side then why not one above the other..... Though easy is only that if you know how
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Microsoft Image Composite Editor (ICE) copes with this - and it's free! Of course if you're one of those funny Mac people that's no help :lol:
 
Photoshop will cope with several rows of images, I think I did about four or five rows of four once. As long as theres plenty of overlap (I'd suggest a 1/3 frame minimum) and as long as theres enough detail for it to work it out you should be fine. Oh and make sure you've plenty of ram, it'll use a fair bit of memory if they are large files.
 
Kerioak said:
You say your lens is not wide enough - does it work if you use portrait orientation ?
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I'm afraid not
 
swanseamale47 said:
Photoshop will cope with several rows of images, I think I did about four or five rows of four once. As long as theres plenty of overlap (I'd suggest a 1/3 frame minimum) and as long as theres enough detail for it to work it out you should be fine. Oh and make sure you've plenty of ram, it'll use a fair bit of memory if they are large files.
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Sounds good thanks
What are you using in the menu to do it
 
Yup, when my lens isn't wide enough i just take 2 or 3 rows and the software will combine them no problem...
 
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