Panorama of downtown San Diego
I have taken a lot of pictures of downtown San Diego but none of them include all of downtown San Diego. When I use a super wide angle lens, it just looks weird.
Today, my daily 30-minute Corel PaintShop Pro X4 study was how to stitch pictures together to create a panorama. I took the following three pictures and tried to do it.
Downtown San Diego, north end
Downtown San Diego, middle
Downtown San Diego, south end
I made no adjustments to the three pictures because I wanted them to be as close as possible to each other in terms of brightness, contrast, etc.
I followed the steps on pp. 346-352 of Diane Koers’ book, Picture Yourself Learning Corel PaintShop Pro X4, which, by the way, might be the best How-To book I’ve ever read about anything.
In about five minutes, I came up with this:
Panorama of downtown San Diego
I made some brightness and contrast adjustments after stitching. Look very closely and you can see where the three pictures were stitched. However, with the quality that I got here in only five minutes with three not-meant-for-panorama-stitching pictures, oh how my mind is wandering…………………. like a 360° panorama from the same spot where those pictures were taken.
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Posted on May 30, 2012, in Corel, Digital photo editing, How I Did It, Photos and tagged corel, downtown san diego panorama, paintshop pro x4. Bookmark the permalink. 16 Comments.
Well done – you have to look to see the stitch zones. Had I not known, I may have missed the stitching!
Exactly! Imagine what I can do if I plan the pictures and take greater care in getting the picture contrast and brightness the same in all the pictures.
Prrrfect. I do a lot of scrap booking. Use the same to put 3 photos into one. Doesn’t work as well as yours but it is ok to me and other scrap bookers!
I have it in my mind to put a series of photos together of Zoey the Cool Cat, so I think I understand what you’re doing.
Beautiful panaroma shot Russel.
Thanks! I’m excited about the possibilities of what I can do with the panoramic possibilities in a place like San Diego.
Russel, you know what I hated about San Diego the worse? How close the air planes got. This is a cool. different perspective…Thank you!
Yet the airport continually ranks as one of the nation’s safest. I guess the crew wakes up and pays attention with downtown towers so close. lol
LMAO
That looks pretty cool. I’ll have to try it sometime. And San Diego is one of my favorite places. I grew up in Orange County, just two hours away.
Two hours away! I guess they drove a little slower back then. lol
That water is a gorgeous colour.
Interesting San Diego
You’re lucky to make pictures of it. Fantastic
Wow, I forgot how big that place was! Beautiful
my teen daughter is a keen amateur photographer. she will love this post of yours. also are you on flickr. she would like to follow u there and take tips
I am not on flickr. I’m just here, Facebook, and my home inspection blog.
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