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Brief:Panorama pictures make great posters. Because their width or height is higher than usual, they capture more of a scene and have a greater impact on the viewer.
This articles gathers tips that will help you make a good panorama.
Please leave us comments if you found this useful or if you have information and feedback to add to this article.
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Originally submitted: Feb 20, 2004
Resubmitted: May 22, 2007
Article by ~roy204
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Comments: 74
thanks, that's a great article
i'll try to make a panorama today!
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This would be something fun to try sometime. It would definatly make some good posters!
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Very helpful. It inspired me to try panorama photos
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Nodal points!
Why, that's brilliant!
cheers.
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thank you so much for the tutorial ^^ i'll get on with it (mister T 
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Wow! What an excellent tutorial. Thank you very much for taking the time to make and share!
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Your wonderful Resources have been featured here.[link]
Thank you for providing the gallery with such awesome Resources.
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awesome. i am waiting on my new slr and your tuts sound like fun
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It's funny to me that human vision is more wide than even '
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I originally fav'd this as but since I'm combining that account into this one, I'm moving my favorite favs over... and this one is going with me.
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Thank you very much for this very useful tutorial... I always used wide angle lens to capture element pictures so I have some problems when stitch them together...! Thank for you tip of using focal 50 or greater... It help me so much
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very helpful... i plan to use stitching this winter for snowboarding shots!
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Nice collection of tips!
It is really well-presented and simple, just like the rest of the series...thank you so much guys!
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File not found here as well. I'd realy like to read this one
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please fix the file.... thank u.. people are waiting to see the tutorial..
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I would love to read this one, but i get File not found: [link]
Please help
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I am getting a broken link message when I try to look at the tut. Any help would be appreciated, Thanks
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Not sure why, but I can't see the tut when it is in full view.
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excelent tut, people! great!!!
i made my first try on this hehehe... not so good.. but it is almost a beginning point
[link]
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nice tut!
Very simple, anyone can do it.
maybe do a tut on stitching different seasons together, taking it's an outdoor scene.
tips on blending and or making things look better?
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If I may add a lil' bit on the manual stitching part: Instead of erasing certain zones so the underlying image is revealed you can instead use the masking function to almost seamlessly blend both layers. You just have to understand how masks work in PS or any other program like it which is quite simple once you've played around with it.
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Yep, good addition. We may actually do a separate tutorial on all the stiching tips
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Hi, i have a simple question! I think my tripod's screw doesn't match the nodal point of my camera...is that possible?!
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I would like to add a comment :
Photoshop also offers an automatic stitching process.
Under FILE > AUTOMATE
You can find the Panorama tool.
Enjoy
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hi, i was wondering if photoshop 7 have an automatic stitching system?
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Not that we know of...sorry.
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Excellent tutorial! I read it some time ago, before ever attempting my first panorama and it was thorough enough to help me understand the basics, although, being a total newbie to photography itself, much I still did not understand. Now, coming back to this, as a whole it makes much more sense and interestingly, the methods I have come accustom to are the very methods that you describe here! How reassuring
I just have to say it seems well written, brief and nicely organized. I am especially pleased about the part that you talk about manual stitching (the only way to go, in my opinion) and also taking the pictures without a tripod (because I don't use one!) Fantastic work.
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Very happy to hear that
If you're getting more advanced in panorama photography you may want to give a try to PTAssembler [link] for the stitching. I like manual stitching too but I just love PTAssembler. It's not an al automatic tool and therefore there is a large learning curve but it lets you configure everything and resolve complex panoramas easily. Thanks again for the feedback
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Thank you for that link to PTAssembler! It looks very different from the panoramafactory type program, and it does look like it has some great advantages. Much more specialized for the purpose than PS or in my case, Gimp. When I become more serious with my photos and panoramas no doubt this will be the first program I will look to try!
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PTAssembler is a front end to the great but not-so-user-friendly Panorama Tools which are developped on Sourceforge, and they are also working on a plugin for the gimp that will do the same thing 
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Oh that would be excellent! (about the plug in and the tutorial!)
Sourceforge, heyy, my very first editting program was Imageforge! So maybe I will be familiar with this. Thank you for all the info and of course for building on the great idea of photo-class!
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Another great tutorial, I should do more panorama shots...
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A very useful tutorial.. i had some problems with mine (you can see in my description) with light in the corners of the lenses but i fixed that with my history brush and a whole lot of touching up... i think it came out pretty nice 
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