Picture the scene… You’ve arrived at a fantastic, scenic location. The view is amazing and thankfully, you’ve brought your camera along!
Producing a panoramic photograph is a great way to capture vast scenes like this, and it couldn’t be easier than when you use our PanoramaPlus software. Here are the steps you need to take to create an impressive panorama.
1. Preparation
The location for panoramas is entirely your choice. Traditionally, vast landscapes with a point of interest work best, so get your walking boots on and start trekking! Also, architecture is great to try panoramas out on too, as large buildings are of course difficult to capture with one shot. Make sure you’ve got plenty of memory available on your card and take a tripod along with you to capture nice straight images.
2. The shoot
Once you’ve decided where you’re going to photograph, get comfortable and think about where your boundaries will be. It’s easier if you use an object in your scene to mark your start and end points. Shoot your individual images making sure you overlap each one so the stitch can be performed later. If there’s a section between shots missed then you won’t be able to complete the full panorama.
3. Upload to software
To create your stitch, open up PanoramaPlus and select ‘Start From Scratch’ on the start up wizard.
Then click on the ‘Get Media’ button to select your panorama’s individual photos. Once you’ve located and selected the photos to be stitched together, click ‘Open’.
4. Stitch
To stitch your photos together, just click ‘Stitch’. PanoramaPlus will automatically align and merge them together to create one, seamless photo! You can then crop, straighten, rotate, share or save your panorama.
There are lots of different things you can try, so be experimental with your shoot, and let PanoramaPlus do all the hard work back on your PC!
Here’s the final result after stitching three photos together and cropping in PanoramaPlus X4.
Good luck.
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