Photo stitching

**Giovanni** · 06 September 2005, 02:32 PM

I blame sunset light for this problem but at the moment I cannot go back to Sicily and take better pictures!

Any suggestion to make this stitch stuff look decent? I think it would not be difficult to smoothly color the sky, but the sea...

**gwpriester** · 06 September 2005, 02:59 PM

I don't know, I think you have a very good reason to go back to Sicily to take a new photo :-)

You probably need to edit the photos in a photo editing program like Photoshop where you can control the contrast, and hue.

Gary

**The Alien** · 06 September 2005, 04:05 PM

You need some panoramic camera for this

Even if you can stitch those images together, I don't think the water will come out correctly. I think pixel editing is needed here, perhaps with the cloning brush applied to the water borders

**LogoVend** · 06 September 2005, 04:09 PM

MS Acryllic will do this for you and balance all the pictures colour wise and getr rid of the ghosts and the beta is free at the moment - there's loads of discussion about in the New Gear Forum

Hope this helps.

**jclements** · 06 September 2005, 05:07 PM

Hi LogoVend:

I read a thread on Acrllic but didn't get much out of it.

So what's your opinion on how well (easy-0f-use and quality of results) it handles photo-stiching?

**joel** · 06 September 2005, 05:20 PM

Giovanni,

There is a free autostitching program that is nothing short of miraculous...Give it a try on your images...you can get it here:
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html

Joel

**Availor** · 06 September 2005, 06:09 PM

It's a several moments of work in photoshop. If you have Photoshop 7 and up you can use the stich tool or the healing brush. Takes a moment to solve that problem.

**John Rayner** · 06 September 2005, 10:35 PM

I do not know....

Xara X1 seems to work just fine for me...

Top row... of 8 shots.

Bottom picture... Same shots linear transparency between shots and cropped... It is not dead on... but enough to show it can be done. This is hjust a quickie to show yea it works...

Ummm... Moderators...

This was a xara X question posted in the xara x forum. Why was it moved? Just cause there are other tools out there that can do this?

**molucca** · 06 September 2005, 10:46 PM

Acrylic Photostitching

I tried it with several images, and it worked great. It did a good job of blending the images. Probably the best I have gotten with anything so far. Xara works fine, too. Just not automated. Rich

**RTK** · 07 September 2005, 01:43 AM

John,

That's pretty good! It would for sure work for web use!

The Move: Xara X forum is for Xara X discussions... And that's where the thread is at now.