Digital Photography Hacks 11, 82, 89 - Creating a Panorama With a Camera Phone
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I’ll now walk you through the basic steps of creating a panorama with your camera phone. First, take your series of shots, working left to right and overlapping by 30%. Upload the pictures to your computer. Open the images in your stitching program, as shown in Figure 7-15.
Now, merge the images together, as shown in Figure 7-16. If you give the stitching application enough visual information to work with, it will do an amazing job of creating a seamless panorama.
Once the application works its magic, you have a much broader view. Crop out the rough edges, as shown in Figure 7-17.
A bonus of using this technique is that you’ve also added resolution to your landscape, which enables you to make a bigger print than you’d be able to make of a single 640 ×480 picture. You don’t have to be limited to small prints or narrowly composed scenes with your camera phone. Just remember to gather all the parts while you’re taking the pictures. Then, pull things together later on the computer. It’s that easy.
—Todd Ogasawara
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