Quick and Dirty Panorama.

This is a hill about 5 minutes away from my house.

700kb, 5262x600

Not bad at all man, the stitch on the far right is sloppy. I would love to see more from you man, great work.

Someone teach me how lol. *tear*

[QUOTE=Josh Moody]Someone teach me how lol. *tear*[/QUOTE]

I don't like to reveal my professional secrets... but...

http://www.panoramafactory.com/

Sweet, yeah the stiching really could need some work and the colors keep changing a bit on the clouds.
But you live there, sweet :D

Josh, how to make a panorama?
Well I would never use those programs, they don't make them as good as you can make them by hand, because the program can't see if there is any "errors" as the eye can see it.

What I do when I make panoramas...
Well first it helps ALOT that I have my canon A70 that has the panorama setting inside it.
So I can see half of the photo that I just took and half of the next photo.
But I know that the for example the new SLR cameras doesn't have that option.
But it still works.
Well you HAVE to HAVE a tripod when you take panoramas.
Or you can ofcourse do it by hand but will never be as good!
So what you do is take the photos.
I can't really tell you how to take them, just take the first photo and remember whats on the right side of the image, so that you know where you should take the next one.
Then remember that part and take your camera so it's not starting from that point but a bit before it so your photos will overlap eachother, this will help ALOT when you actually put the photos together.

Then when you have all your photos, you think of the size you want them in?
Let's say that you want the height to be ?*600
So you take your photos, count how many you have, lets say 4 photos.
You make them in to 800*600.
Now what will 800 times 4 be?
3200
okey so now open up a new canvas with the sizes 3400 * 600, I want a bit of breeding room when I work....
Then you take the photos and put them all on different layers.
So that the first layer is the one most from the right.
So that layer will come over the next one and so on...
Try to find so that it comes as good as possible to the next one.
Ofcourse there will be a straight line now where the photos cross.
now what I do is just take the rectangular marguee tool and make a small "square" where the images change now press Ctrl + Alt + D, to feather it, now depending on how much you want it to blend in together change the feather amount, I would say probably something like 20 maybe?
It still wont look perfect so after that I take the Pen tool and draw small shapes where I still think it should soften down a bit... then Ctrl + Alt + D that area again and change the amount so that it looks good.
When you then have all the images so that you can't see the stiches anymore...
CTRL + E, merge all the photos together as one and start fixing the colors and the shapness and whatever you usually fix.
One tip could be that you shouldn't always fade stuff away from the overlapping photo, sometime leave some of it, and take away from the image under it...

Sorry didn't have photoshop open when I wrote this so there might still be some errors or stuff I have forgotten?
But I think it should work like this...

The biggest problem that I have when making panoramas is lack of a tripod. Yeah. As bjorn said, you NEED a tripod. I stood in one spot and spun around to take six photos. :eek:

Thanks so much guys! *Runs out and takes pictures*

Here's the retardedly big version... and it's still not as big as I can make it...

2.7MB but with more details

pretty good job mate , might want to adjust the contrast/brightness a bit though, I tried
brightness -19; contrast + 19 .. makes a nice difference