Just for fun (and because it's raining here today), I took a series of shots that could be panoramaized, and determined to follow Akkana Peck's instructions as to stitching them.

My little exercise went stichingly, and, so, I'd like to thank Akkana for her clear explanation.

One thing that has me confused: My series of shots were of the neighbor's flower and rock garden across the street from me. I found that creating a layer mask and gradient was less effective than just lining up the original images and using Gimp's perspective tool to keep street curb lines and other perspective elements within tolerance more effective.

After flattening my image, I went in and cloned away some of the more obvious seam lines (in the street, at the curbs, etc.), and the results seem great to me.

Thoughts/advice appreciated.

. . . and, once again, thank you Akkana, for your most informative book. I am having a great time exploring Gimip.

Caruso

Thank you both for your replies. I actually had downloaded fotoxx earlier in the day, having run across it during my unending exploration for anything having to do with photo editing - haven't played with it yet. Also, as I was searching (so far in vain) for some way to download and install Cinepaint, I discovered that I could 'install' Ubuntu Studio by just selecting it's additional software components from the Synaptics library - did that and the result left me with a copy of hugin. Like most any new piece of software, getting into it the first time is the biggest challenge. Like my first experience with Gimp, I opened hugin and got no where with it. I need to go back and spend some time reading up on how it works.

I've used PS's merging feature. It's all automated, works ok, but used to choke for lack of memory - that shouldn't be a problem on my current system, but, then, I have no interest, really, in working with PS for now.

Thanks again for the replies.

Caruso

On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 08:50:52PM +0200, Marco Ciampa wrote: > Have you tried this?
>
> http://hugin.sourceforge.net/
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> On linux/Ubuntu to install it you just have to do in a terminal: >
I have also found fotoxx to be quite efficient and easy to use. It is much quicker than hugin and program is quite compact. Give it a try.

http://kornelix.squarespace.com/fotoxx/

Regards,