A Stitch in Time

Remember this photo from my Thanksgiving party in Jersey? This is our project for today. We'll do some photo stitching. This picture is actually composed of 8 pictures.

Now, the first thing you must remember when you wanna do sumpthin like this, is that, you need to have a tripod (or a very steady hand). If you don't have a tripod, stand on one spot and just do a mini-robotic turn for each shot. I tried capturing these photos from right to left and then I took another round from left to right. Make sure that you have overlaps for each picture so it would be easier to put them together. Choose a nice subject too. Mountains. Forests. Rivers.

Now the fun part. Collect your photos. In Photoshop CS3, place each photo on different layers.Select all the layers. Click on Layer 7 (topmost), hold down Shift key and then click on Background layer (bottommost). Then go to Edit menu, choose Auto-Align Layers. From the Projection options, just choose "Auto" then click OK. Now Photoshop will be doing its magic so be patient.You'll get sumpthin like this in the end:Notice that some parts have different lighting and all? Don't worry, we have a solution for that. Go back to Edit menu and choose Auto-Blend Layers. Once more, "magpapasikat si Photoshop!".

Now, do some cropping and presto! You have your own panoramic photo!