panoramic photo

I seen on TV about taking a panoramic photo with Vista. I want to take 3
pictures of my back yard and make one panoramic photo. How do I do this?

The fastest way is to use an image stitching program
Or using a free program start a new image (blank canvas), Load eac
image into a different layer and then move each picture till it line
up
Then flatten the image and crop it so it looks right

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"Richard" <> wrote in message
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>I seen on TV about taking a panoramic photo with Vista. I want to take 3
>pictures of my back yard and make one panoramic photo. How do I do this?

There were probably talking about Microsoft PhotoSynth
see
http://photosynth.net/about.aspx

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"Richard" <> wrote in message
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>I seen on TV about taking a panoramic photo with Vista. I want to take 3
>pictures of my back yard and make one panoramic photo. How do I do this?


Excellent free app: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.zip

I used it to stitch together a pano of a scenic town nearby. I took 6
photos holding the camera vertically and stitched them together into a
landscape photo 30 x 12. I had it printed at a large format print shop and
framed.

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"Richard" wrote
>I seen on TV about taking a panoramic photo with Vista. I want to take 3
> pictures of my back yard and make one panoramic photo. How do I do this?
>

Check this
http://www.windowslive.com/Desktop/PhotoGallery
Q

On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:18:25 -0700, Richard wrote:

> I seen on TV about taking a panoramic photo with Vista. I want to take 3
> pictures of my back yard and make one panoramic photo. How do I do this?

1) take picture with about 30$ overlap
2) read photos into computer
3) feed them into 'pandora' plugin for GIMP
4) enjoy

try thi program from microsoft research

'Microsoft Research Image Composite Editor (ICE)
(http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/...roups/ivm/ICE/

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On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:18:25 -0700, Richard wrote:

> I seen on TV about taking a panoramic photo with Vista. I want to take 3
> pictures of my back yard and make one panoramic photo. How do I do this?

And use a tripod with a level panhead to take the pictures. That will help
a lot.

And I'm going to look at some of the links the other posters provided -
thanks, guys.

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On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:35:42 -0800, Gene E. Bloch wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:18:25 -0700, Richard wrote:
>
>> I seen on TV about taking a panoramic photo with Vista. I want to take
>> 3 pictures of my back yard and make one panoramic photo. How do I do
>> this?
>
> And use a tripod with a level panhead to take the pictures. That will
> help a lot.
>
> And I'm going to look at some of the links the other posters provided -
> thanks, guys.

The tripod may help steady the shots, but it's not that big a help for
indexing unless it provides the ability to place the lens nodal point
over the axis of rotation.

On 27 Feb 2009 01:56:08 GMT, ray wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:35:42 -0800, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:18:25 -0700, Richard wrote:
>>
>>> I seen on TV about taking a panoramic photo with Vista. I want to take
>>> 3 pictures of my back yard and make one panoramic photo. How do I do
>>> this?
>>
>> And use a tripod with a level panhead to take the pictures. That will
>> help a lot.
>>
>> And I'm going to look at some of the links the other posters provided -
>> thanks, guys.
>
> The tripod may help steady the shots, but it's not that big a help for
> indexing unless it provides the ability to place the lens nodal point
> over the axis of rotation.

I've tried to take panoramas without a tripod. It's very hard, even with
assistance from the (digital) camera, to get reasonable alignment and
overlap.

The inch or so from the rotational axis to the nodal point is completely
trivial, compared to the ability to keep the various pictures aligned with
each other - unless you're taking a panorama of a diorama that's only a
couple of feet from the camera or using a long telephoto lens (which on the
face of it is a very bad idea in this context).

I also do *not* believe that a photographer using a hand-held camera can
manage to do a better job (than the person with a tripod) of rotating the
camera around a vertical axis exactly on the lens's nodal point. Remember
that the photographer is required to keep the camera nearly level, while at
the same time not moving the camera's nodal point between shots as much as
the tripod user might.

Feel free to educate me :-)

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