Photo stitching

[Ijustwant1]

Hi I have three photos of a lake I shot back in 1993 ish on my Minolta 5000i ( film ) I have the images scanned and am trying to make a panoramic view ps cs6 will only put two together and leave out the last one , I have tried cutting out and realigning the odd one but having trouble matching it in , is there an easier way of doing it or is it just a matter of perseverance !:sour:

 

[Dave_W]

Check your aperture settings on the missed image. Sometimes this will throw the program off. It also can be a lack of enough overlay and other times I think it's just something embedded in the image that we humans can't see because it's happened to me in the past, too.

 

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

Lakes are hard. There has to be some unique parts of each photo that overlap or it will never align properly. If you could post the three parts so we could see them it will be easier to tell you what the problem is,.

 

[Ijustwant1]

Lakes are hard. There has to be some unique parts of each photo that overlap or it will never align properly. If you could post the three parts so we could see them it will be easier to tell you what the problem is,.

i will try and get to it tonight as I left my laptop at home today !

 

[Ijustwant1]

ok this is what its doing
i know there is not a lot of overlay but is this workable ?

 

[Marilynne]

Is it just me, but I don't see a stitch point to the bottom shot.

 

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

Not going to work.


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[BackdoorArts]

It's not just you, Marilynne, there's no overlap that I can find. A quick play in Photoshop and I could sort of do it manually. If I had full res and time I could make is so it blended almost perfectly, but there's no way it would do it on its own.

 

[WhiteLight]

You can try Microsoft ICE, it usually recognizes slightly better than CS.

Another program that will work for sure, is called AutoPano.
This gives you an option to force all images into one panorama & other settings that you can fully control.
The final image may not be what you'd call a perfect Pano, but hey, you are not able to get anything out of CS, so this may actually work for you

 

[Ijustwant1]

Thanks for the imput , looks like I am going to spend some time on it ! If you type " Lake Phillipson South Australia " into google Earth you can see what it looks like most of the time ! I went out there on my Yamaha XT 500

 

[Ijustwant1]

when do I say enough and stop fiddling , I want to print this to about 1 metre long

 

[WeeHector]

I have found that AutoStitch is an excellent means of mounting panos. Besides, it is totally free. A few years ago I did six takes of the same boat on a river. Photoshop only rendered 3 while AS gave all 6. Besides, the stitching of the waves behind the boats was perfect. Try it out. I think you will be more than happy with it.