Thomas Posted June 10, 2011 Share Posted June 10, 2011 Downloaded a free Microsoft photo stitching program recently. A few efforts from Wednesday in Glasgow. Others welcome' Tom. Glasgow Central Glasgow Queen Street Glasgow Queen Street low level platfoms Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted June 10, 2011 Share Posted June 10, 2011 How many photos went to make up each of those panoramas? In the film era, I tried doing similar things with a swivelling tripod. Surprisingly tricky. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Y Posted June 10, 2011 Share Posted June 10, 2011 Nice work Thomas; it's done a tidy job of those. I used Photoshop Elements 8 for these Woodhead panoramas. I've got some to do for the new layout's backscene but it creates some Monster files. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMJ Posted June 10, 2011 Share Posted June 10, 2011 My digital camera came with Ulead Cool 360 software and I have used it to 'stitch' together photos. It suggests that there is about 5% overlap between photos. As said above the downside is file size! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Posted June 14, 2011 Author Share Posted June 14, 2011 A few from Manchester. Manchester Victoria Manchester Piccadilly All made up from three to four pictures. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Nevard Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 These are great tools - I've used them when trying to get an over all view of a layout when my wide angle is not wide enough. Some really eye catching images here! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Fatadder Posted June 15, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 15, 2011 What is the software called? Looks very useful Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Posted June 15, 2011 Author Share Posted June 15, 2011 The software's called, Microsoft ICE ( Image Composite Editor ), and it's a free down load from their site. The one below is from June 1975, Springs Branch, Wigan, from top of one of the lighting towers, I did the full 360 degrees, this is just part of it. It was a quite Saturday morning on the shed job ! Tom. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike G Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 Tom Brilliant bit of kit, way easier than Adobe photoshop! Thanks Mike (Stitching the back scene for Little Mill Junction) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Posted June 28, 2011 Author Share Posted June 28, 2011 Liverpool and Preston. Liverpool Lime Street View from station steps of Lime street and Preston station. Tom Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMJ Posted July 10, 2011 Share Posted July 10, 2011 What is the software called? Looks very useful See my comment on post #4 of this thread Free Download page Cool 360 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 5944 Posted July 13, 2011 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 13, 2011 Black 5s on the coast between Helmsdale and Brora on Far North line. I think it was three photos stitched together. The exhaust was hanging in the air, so I took a few photos as the pair approached and stitched them together. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Nevard Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Here is Brentford waste terminal off the top of a nearby building through some smoked glas sadly. You can see the binliner containers all over the place. The elevated road in the distance is the M4 heading into the smoke.... click for a BIGGER view... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Y Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 I was having a play a little earlier with some shots I did a couple of weeks ago looking across to the edge of the Staffordshire Moorlands which may be of use if anyone wants to print their own backscene. Taken here. You can download the 5.0m x 0.5m (10.5Mb) version here - http://www.rmweb.co.uk/forumimages/Staffordshire_Moorlands_Panorama_Summer.jpg Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 I printed me own backscene a few years ago but unfortunatley they soon faded or discoloured after being printed on the inkjet, and they were in the shade at that. Inkjet prints, even on the best glossy paper, are certainly not as achival as real photos. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Y Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Perfectly true Larry, there's some 'orrid photos around this house where the dyes have shifted. I'll be using a printing service to print directly onto foamex for my next backscene so it can be done all in one and be curved around the corners without having to faff about sticking it to anything. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Andy Y. I'll be using a printing service to print directly onto foamex for my next backscene so it can be done all in one and be curved around the corners without having to faff about sticking it to anything. I'd be interested to see pictures of this development when it takes place Andy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
two tone green Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Easy, let the camera do it. Samsung NX 10 using the panorama function. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
B954673 Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 been having a play with gimp, and created this, i have scaled down the output, but can you guess where i was? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForestPines Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 Presumably you were somewhere over near Marazion to get a view of the bay like that! I've made similar ones myself with the GIMP - including some at spots around Mount's Bay. I prefer the rough "mosaic" look I get to the results of proper stitching software - it reminds me of Hockney's polaroid collages. As I've not yet tried making any of railway locations, I won't try posting the results here, but they are over on Flickr. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
B954673 Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 wow. your pictures are great. hope you don't mind, but i might have to copy some of your idears some time. I was actually at long rock last Wednesday waiting for the fuel tankers (which i never came). gimp is good, but the file sizes are huge 3.4 gig to make this one. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForestPines Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 Thanks! You're right about the file sizes, some of mine took ages to do because of the amount of memory they were using up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMJ Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 Not had a play yet but my new digital camera from Fujifilm has a panorama setting. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold RedgateModels Posted November 30, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 30, 2011 I was having a play a little earlier with some shots I did a couple of weeks ago looking across to the edge of the Staffordshire Moorlands which may be of use if anyone wants to print their own backscene. Taken here. Coming soon to 4gig methinks, cheers Andy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold RedgateModels Posted November 30, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 30, 2011 Here's one I've done using ICE - four photos taken on Bennlech beach in late July. horizon's a bit wonky on the left and I had to do some serious cheating to get the right hand image (of four) to be accepted. I'd taken it slightly later than the adjacent one and too many folks had moved for the software. I cut and pasted the small boy in the foreground from one image to another and then it accepted it. there's still a step in the horizon though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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