Stitching

Stitching

I added a comment to @topsyrm blog regarding the same subject and wrote the following

I also find stitching a nightmare at times but have found with Photoshop CC it seems to do a great job matching the colour tones - especially in the sky. What I have found frustrating, the panoramas comes out in a very weird shape losing quite a lot of upper and lower area details - of course, because as we move the camera around we slightly change the angle.

So I decided to get smart and took on the challenge to do a better job than PS by creating a loooong canvas and pasting the images onto there and tackled each one individually (on the canvas) with colour toning to match it's neighbour and using the distort tool to pull the image into line with it's neighbour. It took time but it was a lot more fun and it worked. .

Having written this and uploading a series of images to stitch, PSCC has gone and proved me wrong in that it's suddenly doing a fine job - and in fact a far better attempt than my manual effort. ??? Not sure how or why??? But there we are. Here are the two to compare.



This is my manual effort



And this in PS. Hmm - have to admit it did a far better job - although I did have to add sky along the top and ground along the bottom which were lost and which I added back again from the original images.

Tags: Cornwall Panoramic Stitching Vista Sea-scape