Image stitching?

Hi,
I am working with a rectangular object but, due to various constraints, I need to take two squarish images and stich them together before processing the final image. Searching this forum only shows a couple of threads from a while back so I was wondering if anything new has been developed or released that might help me?
Many thanks,
Kevin R.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

I think I got an automated stitcher using LabVIEW 8.6 and Photoshop CS3.
Message Edited by rpursley8 on 02-25-2009 04:35 PM
Randall Pursley
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Hallo,
weil diese Absätze so viele waren, habe ich nur ganz schnell übersetzt, also
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> What it does
Was der Plug-in tut.
> Ornament takes a photo of a mirrored ball and unwraps the reflection into
> a form called an "equirectangular panorama." You can use this in panorama
> viewers to view and zoom into the entire scene.
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Spiegelbild um eine Form, die "equirechteckig panorama" genannt wird. Man
kann diesen Plug-in mit Panoramabetrachter benutzen, um eine ganze
Landschaft zu überblicken und zoomen.
> Starting with a mirrored-ball photo involves no image-stitching step, and
> you can even use a simple Christmas tree ornament as the mirror. There
> will be a flaw in the resulting panorama at the point directly behind the
> ball.
Als man mit einem Gespiegeltemballbild anfängt, braucht man keinen
Prozeßschritt, mit dem man die Bilder aneinanderreihen muß, und man kann
sogar eine Christbaumkugel wie einen Spiegel benutzen. Am Punkt ganz direkt
hinter dem Ball, gibt es einen Fehler in dem resultierenden Panorama.
> How to install
Wie installieren.
> Illustrated installation instructions are online.
Die gebildete Einbauanleitung sind Online.
> To use this software, you need a paint program which accepts standard
> Photoshop 3.02 plugins.
Um diese Software zu benutzen, braucht man Graphiksoftware, die Photoshop
3.02 plugins akzeptiert.
> Just put the plug-in filter into the folder where your paint program
> expects to find it. If you have Photoshop, the folder is
> Photoshop:Plugins:Filters or Photoshop:Plug-ins. You must restart
> Photoshop before it will notice the new plug-in. It will appear in the
> menus as Filters->Flaming Pear->Ornament.
Stecken Sie den "plug-in filter" im Ordner, in dem Ihr Programm
normalerweise plugins finden würde. Wenn Sie Photoshop hätten, ist dieser
Odner "Photoshop/Plugins/Filters oder Photoshop/Plug-ins. Sie müssen
Photoshop neustarten, bevor Photoshop den neuen Plug-in siehst. Der Plug-in
sieht als Filters>Flaming Pear>Ornament aus.
> Most other paint programs follow a similar scheme.
>
Das Meiste der anderen Graphik Programmen folgen ein ähnliche Schema.
> If you have Paint Shop Pro: you have to create a new folder, put the
> plug-in filter into it, and then tell PSP to look there.
Wenn Sie Paint Shop Pro hätten: sollen Sie einen neuen Ordner schaffen, dann
stecken Sie den Plug-in filter darin, dann instruieren Sie PSP, um darin es
zu suchen.
GUTSCHEIN... wenn du die Unterrichten der PSP brauchen würde, frag mir...
jetzt werde ich vermuten, daß du diese Unterrichten nicht brauchst.
> How to use it
>
Wie benutzen.
> Take your mirrored ball to someplace picturesque. Photograph it with the
> camera at the same altitude as the ball, and try to get the ball as large
> as possible in the frame without cutting any of it off.
Nimm deinen gespiegelten Ball zu einer anschaulischen Stelle.
> Scan the picture into your paint program.. Try to do the scan at fairly
> high resolution -- the resulting scene will be a full 360° view full of
> detail.
Scann das Bild zu deiner Graphik Programm hinein. Probier mal mit hohe
Auflösung. Die resultierende Landschaft wird eine 360° Sehfeld voll mit
Details.
> Crop the picture so that the ball is centered, and edge of the picture
> just
Stell das Bild frei, um das Ball auf die Mitte einzustellen... and the
edge... was kommt noch?

Help with Photomerge Panorama

Hello,
I can't find what i'm looking for in the discuission so I post here.
My problem is I want to have an image stitching software that is not expensive and easy to use.
I try to do it in Photoshop Elements 12 (PSE12) as trial software.
As I can see, the photomerge in PSE12 tend to find the overlap between images...
Unfortunately when it can't, it makes the image to overlap each other... which makes it more difficult to arrange pictures.
I like the old style in photoshop CS2 where you can do the stitching manually and save tile position as PMG (photomerge) file.
Can I do this also with PSE12?
What I mean is... can I teach PSE12 the correct position of image for stitching?
Also can I save the Photomerge project so I could revisit in case there is problem with stitch results which is not noticed earlier?
By the way, our images are taken from microscope with almost fixed overlap (repeatable with just few microns of error).
Edit: (additional)
I saw this help document: http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/using/stitching-together-panoramas.html
I says there is an option of "interactive layout":
"Interactive LayoutChoose this option to open the source images in a dialog box and position them manually.'
I think maybe this is what I need... but it is not available in PSE12, is it?

I think i saw the link about interactive layout missing:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/6011038
So maybe i should try lower version of PSE... i hope it is available.
To mytaxsite:
Thanks for your reply... maybe the link you gave is referenced to another PSE version...
About the suggested blank canvas... maybe I could try... but this involves many images which is hard to do when switching between windows.... but i'll give it a shot.

LR/ACR Pano Merge Blending Glitch

I've been trying out some pano mergeing and have hit a problem with some shots from my Leica M9 + 50mm Summicron f/2.0. Problem is that LR is failing to do proper tonal blending across merge point (see "line in the sand" in pic 1 below).
See this example:
1 : 4-shot pano out of LR with no further tweaks (join is clearly visible)
2 : same 4 shots out of Photomerge in PSCC (2014), opened as Layers in PS, then Edit> Auto-Align, the Edit> Auto-Blend. Again, no further tweaks. (No visible join)
I tried running the merge in ACR out of Bridge, and got same result as in 1 above.
Hope it's clear from the jpegs what the problem is here. I found switching on lens profile in LR made a slight difference, but still it lags way behind what Photomerge in PSCC creates
Maybe someone in the LR team can comment on this??
Regards
Jim

I got a couple of gaps in the snowfall yesterday and ran a couple of tests.
Set both cameras the same: ISO 160, f/5.6, 1/250sec
First up a 4-image stitch from the M9 + 50mm Summicron:
Not easy to see the issue here in the small jpeg the forum allows, so here's a 100% crop from Library Loupe view of the trees top rightish:
I've tried several times, and it seems that the ACR/LR pano merge is much more consistent that PS ever is: repeated iterations were absolutely identical in every respect! In this instance the f/stop values of the 4 shots as recorded in the exif info were (l to r) f/6.7, f/8, f/5.7, f/9.5 - remember, in all cases the true aperture value was f/5.6!
Next a pano comprising 4 shots taken with my Pana GX7, with a Leica M-mount Voigtlander 25mm (= equivalent to 50mm on 35mm/ FF sensor). Camera's lens detection switched off, which results in camera recording aperture setting of f/0.0 in the exif info
No problems with the blending here, or in any other pano with this camera/ lens combination
Here's another from the M9 - much more successful, and comprising images with recorded f-stop values of (l to r) f/5.7, f/5.7, f/8, f/4.8.
While it is just about acceptable, it is clear that there's a tonal shift going on in the area directly above the top of the tallest tree, which is at the right-hand extreme of shot 2: see this screenshot of the 4 component shots in Grid view:
Best I got was this one, and it comes from blending 4 files with a pretty slight range of recorded f-stop values: (l to r) f/5.7, f/5.7. f/6.7. f/5.7 (ISO 160, 1/350sec)
if the others were as good as this, I'd have no problem. Here's one from the GX7 taken just seconds after the last (ISO160, 1/400sec, all f/0.0)
I rest my case: the Leica M9's eccentric approach to recording f-stops seems able to throw the new ACR/LR Merge to Pano's calculations awry. At least that's how it seems in my humble opinion and total ignorance of what goes on under the hood in digital photo processing apps
Maybe someone from the ACR Team might read this and make some sense of it - for now I've got a backlog of other work to do LR, and for now I can always round-trip to PS and do pan-stitching the old way. As I've said above I'm old enough to remember when Automate>Photomerge produced some bizarre, artefact-strewn results. But it got fixed and I'm sure this will too...
Jim

Creating a video slideshow with audio

Ladies & Gentledudes,
I have some recorded lecture notes (basically the lecture on digital
dictaphone), and also the Powerpoint or .pdf slides that go with the
lecture. I can seperate these slides out into raster images if needed
(eg use Grab to get them as .tiffs).
What software would you consider is the best/most effective to combine
them to create a video slide show of the Powerpoint slides to match
with the audio lecture notes that I have recorded? I would ideally
like to be able to view it through my iPod touch.
At the moment I can only think of using Garageband to clean up the
audio (although not 100% on how to do that), and then use iMovie to
create an audio slideshow.
If you know of a free solution (or one that comes preloaded on a Mac)
that would be preferred, but I would also like to hear optimum and most effective
solutions as well if there is a cost involved.
Many thanks for your time and help, James

Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
iMovie is a very straightforward way to do this.
Import your sound and your images, stitch them together and then export them in an iPod compatible format.
Job done.
Regards
TD

Unir imagenes labview

saludos.
deseo hacer la captura de varias imagenes con labview IMAQ y quiero saber si existe una herramienta para poder unir estas inagenes y formar una sola mas grande

The general term is "Image Stitching". There are tools available, but not for direct integration into LabVIEW.
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