Oliver Villar On Aug 24, 2010

Hi!! This is time for photoshop!


In this video I show you how to join some images taken with a normal digital camera into a big panoramic photograph:



The video is a timelapse, with voice comments over it, so you can understand what happens without having to wait for the entire process ;)



Hope you like it!

8 comments:

vfx'n'3d (Riko) said...

Thx for this new tutorial!

Oliver Villar said...

Glad you liked it, Riko ;)

Anonymous said...

Hi there,

a very quick but also good looking method to generate panoramas is to use photomerge. Its a little tool thats integratet in photoshop cs3. You can find it in data -> automatics -> photomegre. I use the german version of Photshop so i dont know if its realy called "automatics". But with a little search you will find it.

In photomerge you can import your pictures an all the outher things like overlaying or colorcorection is done automaticly.

I think the manual way hast his advantages, like to highlighting some details you want in your picture put to save a lot of time photomerge is a quick, easy and goodlooking way.

I used it manytimes and was never disapointed.

(sorry for my bad english but im not a nativ speaker)

Oliver Villar said...

Don't worry about your english, is fine ;) After publishing this tutorial, a reader told about that photomerge function, and after using it, I found that it's quite useful!! It works just nice! :D

But on this tutorial I wanted to show how to make it manually, because for several things, it can be interesting to know how to make it :) (Things such as matte painting, for example)

Thanks for the tip!

gonzalo said...

Can you do the same with Gimp? / with the same ease?

In any case, what are Gimp limitations for you, or is Gimp just as good as Photoshop?

Oliver Villar said...

Well, it can be done... but I personally don't think that I can do it with the same ease.

Gimp is very powerful, but some things, like the distortion I used on this video... aren't as powerful as in photoshop, at least for what I've seen so far. Also, the layer styles, masks and a lot of things are more complete on photoshop ;)

It depends on what you want to do, or you are used to ;)

overkill said...

I've used a program called "Hugin" in the past, It's free, opensource, and pretty effective.

Oliver Villar said...

Wow! Thanks for the pluging, overkill! I didn't know about this software, and it seems to be quite cool! Also, I discovered after making this tutorial, that photoshop itself has a cool option for making panoramics: photomerge.

Anyway! I'll give hugin a try!

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