Curvemeister Forum

About 5 years ago I posted about Microsoft PhotoSynth.  This piece of the Photosynth process is free for you to download. 
It is a panorama stitching tool that I am most impressed with. 

It's free....

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/ICE/

Here is a recent sample.  This is 5 vertical frames stitched together.  I was not able to make this image work in PSCS6 Extended. It produced total crap.
Greg

Thanks Greg, I will try it.  I have been struggling with panos recently.  I have one pano I have been trying to take and photoshop.  I have over 300 images so far and counting.  Different lens and techniques.  Several bad mistakes.  Perhaps I will share later.

One tip from Kelby, export the files to a smaller jpg and stitch those.  For sharing websites often the resolution is good enough.  It is much faster.  If you like the output, you can redo that with original files. 

Photosynth is also free app for an iphone.  For the iPhone it is fun, but the result is not picture perfect.  The files are small and you cannot fix it later.  With photoshop you can manually fix the masks to improve jaggies etc etc. 

There is a pano program (I  forget the name) for professional and priced that way. 

There are tons of Professional level programs out there...
This is the first program that I have tried that could put this image together correctly.
It was very fast as well...

Going to try others today..I did the image above in about 5 minutes late last night.

Hiya Gregg, Microsoft ICE is fantastic. I use it a lot (along with CM!) for pano's of The Lake District

Wow...Beautiful image...

Thanks for sharing!
Greg

I downloaded your suggestion.  Good catch.


This is NOT a good image.  It is an example of how to do things wrong.  I was traveling with a 40 mm pancake lens to be inconspicuous.  So this was a hand held multi row pano with noise.  Worse there were many lines.  I figured it was good work to tempt my masking and liquify skills (and frustrate).  I could not use a tripod.  Also (true confessions).  I had two rows of images, one had four and the bottom had five.  For some not so strange reason, the Microsoft program got confused. 

how much overlap did you have?

More than enough.  The problem is the vertical and horizontal lines.  Trying to get them to match and be correct is difficult.  I tried hand masks with free transform and also liquify.  At this resolution it does not look bad, just curves etc.  On close inspection there are many artifacts and noise. 

I will try to merge again and see how much overlap.  Perhaps the newer version of ACT does better geometric correction.  It is not an important image, not worth the hours and hours to do right.