Creating Panoramas on Mac
October 17th, 2007 2
Whist in Italy I took the opportunity to capture several images of the same thing - the bay at Salo, the Tower at Sirmione and the Arena in Verona.
Now by themselves, they look pretty rubbish, but stick them in a crazy-go-nutts program called Calico and out the other end you get beautiful panoramic shots.
I’m so impressed with this software. I didn’t use a tripod for these shots, I simply ensured there was plenty of overlap and then exported them full-res from iPhoto. Once in Calico I simply loaded the photos in, and clicked Align.
You can of course rotate each photo or change their order, but Calico takes care of the rest. Alignment, colour balance, the lot! Crop off the black edges and you can’t tell the photos were ever separate.
Pretty sweet! Sorry for those of you with a PC - perhaps someone could suggest something similar for other platforms?
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#1 On October 19th, 2007 at 2:39 pm Jorge Quinteros said...
That’s pretty cool. I’v always resorted to Photoshop for all of this. I’ll give this app a try.
#2 On October 19th, 2007 at 9:17 pm derv said...
there’s a free program you can download called autostitch which does the same thing, works pretty well!! nice photo’s by the way Jon!