Pano question

I keep saying that panos don't interest me much, but if I'm going to
do something I want to be able to do it right.

Using Photoshop Photomerge, there's a white vertical line between each
frame. I'm over-lapping sufficiently, and moving the frame doesn't
eliminate the line. I can clone out the line, but it seems this
shouldn't be necessary.

This is just two frames for example:

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f244/cooper213/panotest.jpg

 

Have you tried Windows Live Photo Gallery?
http://explore.live.com/windows-live-photo-gallery?os=other
From what I've experienced, the panorama generation is quite good and fairly
painless.

Richard

 

That is a flattened image. It's a .jpg, so I had to flatten it. I
cropped out an area from two layers and flattened it.

The lines appear in all panos I've tried from several source sets of
photos. They appear when the different frames are photomerged and a
..psd is created. They remain when the .psd is flattened.

I know how to correct the problem with cloning and editing, but that
adds quite a bit of work.

 

Possibly a stupid question, but you are taking overlapped photos and not
cropping them?
FWIW, I have tried doing panoramas with photoshop and other software. So
far, for simplicity, the Windows Live thing has done a good job for me.
However, YMMV.

Richard

 

Yes. I take a series of photos, move them to their own folder, and
run Photomerge. I don't crop or adjust the photos before doing this.
That step has not been in any of the tutorials I've read.

Thanks, but I want to stick with PS CS4 and Photomerge. I know this
program will do a decent job, and feel the problem is something I'm
doing, or not doing, and want to figure it out.

The computer I'm doing this on is a Windows-based with Windows XP.

 

Update: I tried making a pano out of two images. No lines. I then
used three images. No lines. Same with four images and then five
images. Then I brought in all 11 images in the series. The lines
came back, and the lines are between *all* the images.

Evidently, there is something about the number of images brought in
that causes the problem. Five is OK, eleven is too many. On another
series, I got lines with 8 images.


And, to Bowser, yes I am overlapping at least 25%.

 

I don't understand that last paragraph, Alan. Can you rephrase?

I assure you that flattening does not correct the problems I'm having.
PS merges into a .psd, and to make a .jpg from the .psd requires
flattening.

I'll keep working on it.

 

That's easily correctable in the .psd. That's not what I'm concerned
about.

 

The funny thing is that when I do the pano I don't get anything like
that jagged line you do. When photomerge completes the action, what I
see is a nice, smooth melding of frames with only those damned white
vertical lines. They are precisely vertical. They are there in the
..psd and there when the .psd is flattened.

 

It's been a while since I've done a pano in PS, but the vertical lines
are something I've not experienced- but there is a feature in PS that
can put vertical lines in to help line things up or measure. They aren't
in the print, though, and I forget the route to putting them in or
taking them out.

 

More on pano...

This continues to baffle me. I made a pano out of 14 images taken at
Vizcaya (James Deering's fabulous mansion in Miami) a few weeks ago.
I didn't work with these because I think the subject matter is
lacking, but decided to see what happened.

No noticeable verticals this time, but a few jagged lines like the
Duck gets.

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f244/cooper213/ScreenHunter_01Nov081312.gif

The jaggies go away I flatten.

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f244/cooper213/ScreenHunter_02Nov081313.gif


I'm doing this exactly the same way as yesterday's example.

This will not be a keeper, by the way. The gaps in the lower part of
the dock really make it unusable.

 

Thanks to all who have made suggestions or added comments about my
pano problems.

Now all I have to do is find a suitable subject for the coming
mandate.