Straightening a multi-shot picture

[daveskye]

This is my first posting. We recently made a cycle tour of Dorset & somerset. We visited Wells Cathedral and I took 3 pictures to create a pan. I used Serif Pan Plus to create the image. It worked well BUT the image is distorted - ie it is slightly banana shaped. I wondered if anyone knows of a way of straightening the distorted image. I have several photgraphic editors, but none appear to deal with this. I have Photoshop Elements, Picture Publisher, the freebie Paintshop Pro and Picassa.
Thank you, Dave Skye

 

[Braineack]

use this instead to create and correct your pan: Image Composite Editor - Microsoft Research

you're welcome.

 

[table1349]

Straighten first then stitch. Better yet have tour horizons straight when you take thr shots.

 

[480sparky]

It's common for some stitching software to not crop the composite image. Just about any editing app can do that for you.

 

[Braineack]

He's not talking about straightening.

ICE can output different projections. To remove the "banana" shape, you'll probably want to select "perspective" projection. This would drastically alter to output and stretch pixels to make the image appear straight.

Banana Shape:


DSC01499-Pano by The Braineack, on Flickr

 

[480sparky]

That's perfectly normal for a pano.