Panoramic Pics

[andyT]

Hi,

I've a client who is interested in having a site to advertise a holiday apartment. Can anybody recommend software for producing the panoramic videos from digital video (or digital) pictures that enable you to view around a property.

Regards

Andrew

[NormanRouxel]

This is a 2 part question.

First you need some software that will stitch photographs together to make a large panoramic image. You often find such code provided with the software that comes with various digital cameras, so have a look at that and see if you already have such.

Then you need something that will embed that image and some controls to manipulate it, into a web-page. I've successfully used ptviewer ( http://webuser.fh-furtwangen.de/~dersch/ - a rather hard to navigate site, unfortunately) on some sites.

[andyT]

Thanks Norman,

I appreciate the info, I've a Kodak camera which didn't come with stitching software, however somebody has recommended a Pixmaker software that should be able to do the job.

I'll have a ferret round the "webuser" site you recommended, though as you suggest it doesn't look user friendly at first glance.

Thanks again.

Regards

Andrew

[wjcampbe]

I have used the pixmaker software which came with my Creative webcam - very good!!

[jont]

The new stitching facility in Photoshop CS2 is excellent - but does come at a hefty price

When taking panoramic shots to stich together best to always use a tripod and try and create a 1/3 overlap of the previous shot to allow for any distortions

[BilstonBob]

If you have time take a look a Ulead 360. I had exactly the same requirment, but my camera didn't support 360 stitching of photos and neither did any of my software.

http://www.ulead.com/cool360/runme.htm

I found taking stills on a tripod at 10 degree intervals worked a treat.

Anthony