pano processing.

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the other day i went out with panoramas in mind. i took one, about 12 shots and merged them together in ps3. as per usual, the resulting image was distorted, etc and needed some cropping. before cropping i warped the edges to somewhat fill the frame, and flattened the image, and then i cropped the image. after saving, i went to open it and it was toooooooo big. i have no way to open and view the panorama. during processing, do you process for printing or for the web? if someone could explain both processes that would be swell. im to the point where i dont want to create panoramas because they never work out. :help:
 
In what way was it too big ? Do you mean you could not see it all on screen at once, or the file wouldn't open.

The thing is with panos, most people shoot in Landscape but you should shoot in Portrait as it gives more space top and bottom for cropping. Overlap by 15-20% and Photoshop should give you a good result.

Are you using CS3 or Photoshop 3 ?
 
i am using cs3. as well i am shooting in portrait. and the file was too big to open.
 
Then its your computer Iwould imagine.
Have you set the preferences for amount of RAM it uses and have you got enough ram to start with ?
Is your scratch disc on the same drive as CS3 ?
If all that is ok then you could try doing 6 shots at a time then stitch the 2 files together.
 
What program do you open the photo in?
 
ok there are lots of reasons why it wont open
first off......it is a jpg isnt it?.........if so you should be able to look at it in windows picture viewer

you dont say what your pc spec is so maybe if you have photoshop open and try to open the image in photoshop then your system cannot cope.......this could be ram (memory) or free disk space.
if its ram shut everything except photoshop and try again (ctrl+alt+delete to start task manager and shut unwanted processes and runing programs) if its disk space, empty recycle bin and delete temp internet stuff

12 pics at high res will be a big file as a panoramic as my 5 or 6 shot ones ate around 200 meg when open in photoshop.......you need to work at high res to get the best printable image that you can

i do panoramics and allways work that way.........bigger is better......i print mine upto 44 inch long (as its biggest frame and mount i can get made) and they look superb

a lot of standalone pano makers down sample the pics so they can cope with the job and you get poor results when you try to print

what your doing sounds right to me just gotta figure why it wont open

12 shots portrait as gotta be 360 pano?? as i get 180% shots from 5 or 6

Gary
 
well i've created a 33 photo pano before and had no issues opening it. We really need your PC spec to help.

What size is the file on the harddrive?
 
yes it is jpeg. and i did try to open it with windows picture viewer but thats where i was told it was too big.

when processing a pano.....
1- upload and merge photos
2- do you crop at this step? simply click and drag or do you go into image size and adjust there? i want to try printing a pano but would still like to have it online.

how/where do i find out about my pc specs?
 
i just deleted my recycle bin, 2600 files!
 
To get round distortion problems I have found that the bigger the overlap between pictures the better. I typically shoot my panos with more than 50% overlap and haven't had a problem yet with distortion.
 
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