From:  "Stephen Kundell, MD" Date:  Thu Aug 16, 2001  6:35 am Subject:  stitching photos Here is how i do it: 1. correct all barreling and pincushioning distortion in Andromeda's Lensdoc (OK, I was the creator---but others have figured this use out). This gives you a rectilinearly correct image. http://www.andromeda.com/info/lensdoc.html 2. Assemble in pana vue image assembler. This wraps the images inside a sphere or cylinder. You can accurately match congruent parts and vary the overlap.http://www.panavue.com/ I did this with a friend's manipulated polaroids the other day----terrific results. This will be a 4x6 foot print. Stephen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From:  "Woodrow W. Campbell, Jr." Date:  Thu Aug 16, 2001  11:54 am Subject:  Re: [piezoBW] Stitching photos together I use a dedicated software package called Stitcher. See http://www.realviz.com It's much faster and easier than PS, so the cost of Stitcher is justified if you do a fair number of panoramas. I stitch photos taken with my D1/D1x all the time - having Stitcher on my laptop is the equivalent of having a specialized panorama camera in my bag. Not perfect, but highly recommended. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- From:  john@p... Date:  Thu Aug 16, 2001  3:12 pm Subject:  Re: Stitching photos together ...... I use PTgui, a front end for Helmut Dersch's panotools suite, to create a script for the remapping of the images to a cylindrical projection. The images are output as individual TIFFs which I then use a photoshop action to build into a huge layered file. I then use layer masks in photoshop to blend the images together. I am on a Mac and PTgui is PC only so I have to run it in virtual PC which fortunately works fine. I've tried Stitcher and all the other programs and though they are capable of beautiful results they don't give the level of control which I like. Especially with people, you really need to be able to do the final blending by hand. Here are some examples of what you can achieve using this approach: a variety of landscape, street scenes and candids. The originals are approx 10000x3000 pixels. They look gorgeous on piezo! http://www.pinkheadedbug.com/360/608-jazz-pan-1-crop.jpg http://www.pinkheadedbug.com/360/608-jazzfest-pan-2-crop.jpg http://www.pinkheadedbug.com/360/611-jazzfest-1-crop.jpg http://www.pinkheadedbug.com/360/611-jazz-pan-2.jpg http://www.pinkheadedbug.com/360/615-pan.jpg http://www.pinkheadedbug.com/360/beach-houses-pan.jpg http://www.pinkheadedbug.com/360/falungongcrop1.jpg http://www.pinkheadedbug.com/360/powerplantbw.jpg http://www.pinkheadedbug.com/360/wasteground-crop1.jpg http://www.pinkheadedbug.com/360/605-cherry-st-bridge.jpg -- Johnny Deadman