Can't get moasic to stitch

[Ibbo!]

So how can it be done maually

My thoughts are PS and layer them,but how do you blend in the joints so it's not too obvious (I believe its done with dodge /burn)

suggestions welcome and a link would be great

Steve

[Montana]

Are you having problems with Photoshop Photomerge? if so, what version? do you have 'Interactive layout' on the Photomerge screen? If not load it from here

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/thankyou.jsp?ftpID=4688&fileID=4376 (if you have CS5) if you have another version you will have to hunt for the optional plugin package for that version.

Then when you use this function you can click and drag all your images to where they should be, then Photoshop will do all the blending work for you.

Alexandra

[The Sailor]

Steve, have you tried MS ICE, it's free and has a small footprint. You open it and then eith drag and drop or insert by selection, there is very little to do and spits your mosaic out easily. The only problem I have found in doing masaics is if I don't use a tripod the photos may not be accurate enough to stitch and the other is the camera is on auto rather than manual.

Jim

[Ibbo!]

Thanks Alexandra

I use CS4

I will have a look at that

Steve

[Ibbo!]

Hi Jim

Not had any success with ICE with my astro shots in the past, only the daytime shots

Thanks

Steve

[The Sailor]

Hi Jim

Not had any success with ICE with my astro shots in the past, only the daytime shots

Agree Steve it is a bit finiky if any shots are not uniform, tried it myself with a milky way shoot and did not like it, I think it needs a lot of detail as in a dark moon

Jim

[AstroTux]

If your camera incorporates the EXIF information into each shot, then you can try Hugin which is free open-source panoramic photo-stitching software http://hugin.sourceforge.net/. It runs on Windows, Mac and Linux platforms.

Some find it not very instinctive to use, but I use it exclusively for stitching any form of graphics. It's free so you can try it and bin it if you don't like it.

[cfpendock]

I suspect that you won't like to use JPEG format, but I have found Autostitch (freeware) works very well with windows XP.

Chris

[Merlin66]

For solar mosaics, iMerge or ICE are very popular......

[Ibbo!]

Thanks Ken

I've tried ICE and failed

IMerge I've used before and it was OK

Steve

[markt]

Hi Steve,

Check out my full disk tutorial http://brierleyhillsolar.blogspot.co.uk/p/imaging-tutorials.html I show how to do a mosaic using the photomerge function in CS4. Much easier than the alternatives

Mark