| Stitching panoramas
can occur whenever you have 2 or more photographs that have been taken
"alongside" each other.
First of all you need some
software. We will use some freeware called The Panorama Factory
for this purpose. Click here to download
it. The file is approx 2.5 MB and is compressed. It will need to be
extracted into its own folder on your computer.
In order to create panoramas you
need some images. Here are some guidelines to follow:
 | the photographs can be taken
on a digital camera or scanned using a scanner |
| The best images are scenes
rather than photographs of people (who might move slightly while you
are taking the photos) |
| There needs to be a bit of
overlap between the images and you need to try to take all the
photos on about the same "level". A tripod or stand
for the camera would probably be a good idea. |
| The images should be the
lowest resolution you can manage.
Choose the lowest resolution available on your digital camera or 75
dpi on your scanner.
Keeping the resolution low ensures that the final panoramas will be
relatively small too |
| All the images to be stitched
must be jpg, tiff, or bmp |
| Put all the images to be
stitched in a folder and rename them so you know what they are. |
Here are some guidelines to
follow once you have The Panorama factory running on your computer.
| Take some time to familiarise
your self with the icons and menus |
| Maximise your screen |
| When you begin, practice with
stitching 2 or 3 photos to start with. There are some examples
that you can practice on on the next page. |
| Use File Import to import
pictures from your folder |
| Arrange the images so they are
in the right order for stitching into a panorama |
| Use the Ctrl key and your
mouse to select the images for stitching |
| Click on Image Stitch |
| If the result looks OK, then
go to File Save View as - choose JPEG and then give a name that will
tell you what the image is e.g. chalet_pan |
| Picture brightness may need
adjusting in other software such as Microsoft Photo editor or even
Front Page itself. |
Using the images in your web
pages
| If the images are too large
they will take a long time to load. |
| If they size bigger than your
screen , then you make want to control their size, |
| You will notice that this
software uses a 'fish-eye' approach to the panorama and tends to
distort the images slightly. |
Ready for some
practice? Click here for the next page
When you have
created some panoramas of your own you can send them to sapp2002@senet.com.au
and they will be displayed on this website. Send a description with them
too. |
