In days of yore, hand scanners included software with this
ability due to neccessity.
The program that came with my Logitech hand scanner was really
good. It could also take in existing files. In order to stitch
images, the software had to be able to recognize enough matching
details in both scans to be able to connect them together.
It often didn't work. This was due to the incredible sloppiness
of the scanner's wheels. The wheels, which might have worked
properly if carefully shimmed with plastic disks, caused the
scanner to wander all over the place, producing wiggled images
that confounded the software, preventing stictching from working.
It might take an hour of repeated scanning before I was able to
come up with an acceptable image.
All a great shame, really, because the actual optical peformance
of the scanner was excellent, and the software very well
designed. I guess that the product manager had other things on
his mind than excellence.
You might like to play around with abandoned software from a
device like this. I was actually able to pull in images from
elsewhere to this software, and use its excellent image
manipulation ability. If you can figure out how to integrate two
existing standard-format images, you may be able to pull of what
you want to do. Just a thought.
Richard
message | | > Slartibartfast wrote:
| > > On a recent holiday, I tried to take several pictures of
panoramic
| > > scenes by taking one picture, moving the camera around to
roughly
| where
| > > the first picture would have finished, and then taking
another.
| > >
| > > I believe there is commercial software which will "stitch"
these
| photos
| > > together into one wide picture, but as I have very limited
use for
| this
| > > feature, I'm wondering whether any freeware is available
which will
| do
| > > the job
| >
| > PhotoFiltre can do that. Just learned that.
|
http://www.photofiltre.com/
| > English version (direct download)
| >
http://photofiltre.free.fr/utils/pf-setup-en.exe
| >
| Thanks for the quick reply. I've just tried it, but as far as
I can
| see, all the program does is join one photo to the other; in
other
| words it is unable to determine where one should continue from
the other
| and "merge" the 2 photos to make a seamless picture.
|
| In my first attempt, I must have slightly lowered the camera
between the
| first and second photos, and there was also a bit of an
overlap, so the
| two pictures didn't join up together very well. Am I expecting
too much
| of freeware to compose a seamless picture?
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