Panorama Parade - show us your views

[sledger]

Here's a thread to show off work you've done with the new Xara Xtreme photo stitching tool, the Photo Panorama (or with the CD version of XtremePro, Panorama Studio.)

Although the Xtreme and Xtreme Trial restricts you to 6 images, you can extend your panorama by further stitching already created panoramas.
Be aware that though this works, each new panorama you create will result in further lossiness of your image.

Here's a couple of tricks I've learned so far:

[1] Overcoming the 6 image limit


(Click here for a Full Sized version of result)

[2] Vertical Stitching

[Josè Campoy.]

really nice indeed.

good work

[spondoolix]

sledger,
Many thanks for these good points of advice.
I look forward to seeing more stitch posts.

[iamtheblues]

Man-made lake at Castril, Granada province, Spain about 6 km. from
where I l live. I was a little disappointed with the results.
The photos were not originally meant to be used as a panorama,
and some were taken on different days fortunately during a period
of settled weather with clear blue skies, but that may account for
several joins being visible.
Saludos,
Bob.

[masque]

My first 180degree, 5 image panorama. A beach in Aberystwyth, Wales yesterday.

[raynerj1]

Badlands National Park in SD, USA. 180 degree panorama.

[MarciaB]

My first 180degree, 5 image panorama. A beach in Aberystwyth, Wales yesterday.

Wonderfull panorama ! I know that beach, visited it many years (about 20) ago and still have very good memories of it. Rydw i'n hoffi Cymru ! (I like Wales, or something like that) Thanks masque !

[Riftvalley]

I have been playing around with Flash to try to animate a 360deg panorama.

This is just a test that I have prepared as part of a web page submission. No artistic value whatsoever!

The photos are just my backgarden and low res: for a banner, but all the stitching was done at full resolution.

The process was a bit involved I am wondering if anyone has a simple way to achieve this effect.

Another thing I found was that I can avoid the slight join mark where the 360 deg picture ends - by in Xara copying the picture before I export it as a .jpg and enlarging the copy by a few pixels and then arranging it underneath the picture to be exported - then when it is exported the .jpg compression seems to pick up the edges of the picture underneath and so the edge effect on the exported image disappears.

Martin

PS see if you can find the join!

[masque]

Not trying to be churlish but with all the attention that panoramas are getting it need to be pointed out that there has been a free download from Microsoft, Windows Live Photogallery, that produces panoramas, though admittedly not as well as the Xara version, though arguably the sky in the MS Live jobby has retained more detail, even though it needs a trim round the edges. This feature and some of the other bitmap editing features in Win. Live Photo were originally meant for, and initially included during beta testing, in Expression Design before it was slimmed down to become an application that doesn’t actually do anything anymore.
Derek

[gnurf]

Here are some old panoramas I remade in Xara Xtreme. Especially the first one was previously difficult, but came out quite good in Xtreme (and the lady in the front was automatically quite well blurred out ). I did some darkening in xaraon the sky to the right. Panorama of a market square in Pesaro, Italy.
The second panorama is made of 14 photos, and I had to stitch them in three groups of 5 + 5 + 4 photos to get the final panorama of San Marino.