Autostitch for Windows
Last Updated on Tuesday, 7 December 2010 06:56 Written by Alan Wednesday, 7 July 2010 08:00
If you are a Windows user and have any interest in photography, then you will want to check out Autostitch.
For the non-initiated, autostitch is a program that stitches together a series of photos into one big panorama. It’s free of charge and pretty darn simple to use. Honestly, the hardest part is taking the photos, not stitching them together.
If you want a primer, then let’s run through it.
1. Take the photos. As I said, this is the hard part. Basically you try to stay stationary as you move the camera from left to right (or right to left) taking overlapping photos in a straight line. When finished you may also want raise (or lower) the camera and go back across the same line at this slightly different height.
2. Load the photos on your PC. That’s easy enough!
3. Open Autostitch => click File => click Open and choose the pictures you want to stitch together.
4. Once you have selected all of the photos by Ctrl-Enter or Shift-Enter you can click Open.
5. The panorama will be somewhat messed up along the edges. That’s fine. Now open that file in a photo editing program such as Paint.
6. Now you can simply crop this copy into a beautiful rectangular panorama.
Below is the result of 9 photos I snapped recently along the Appalachian Trail in Shenandoah National Park.
