MX

Panorama Stitching
Web Designer MX Premium includes a tool that can automatically
stitch together up to 8 photographs into a single wide, high-resolution
panorama.
Creating high-quality panoramas can be a very complex and technical process, often requiring special
equipment or lenses and accurately exposed and aligned photographs. The panoramic stitching feature
built into Web Designer MX Premium requires none of these, and can use an every-day digital camera so
that anyone can create outstanding quality panoramic images in a few minutes.
This tool features:
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No high end camera required, and no tripod required
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Automatic estimation of the focal length to warp the images to reduce fisheye effects
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Automatic barrel, pin cushion and vignette adjustments
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Automatic exposure correction
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Automatic detection of shared overlap points and seamless blending of joins
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Automatic cropping of the final result.
To create a panorama you need to take a series of separate photos from a central position. Ideally each
photo would overlap the next by approximately 30%, although it will work with more or less overlap.
The process of creating a panorama is very straightforward:
1.
Import each of the photos and arrange them on the page in the correct left to right order. There is
no need to try and position the overlaps correctly
2.
Select all the photos you want to stitch together
3.
Click the Panorama button on the Photo Tool fly-out bar.
It will start the process of stitching and continue as a background process. A popup status window
shows the progress through the various stages, although you can continue using Web Designer MX
Premium like normal while this happens. When the process is complete the resulting panorama image is
imported onto the page. Note that it does not replace the original images, which you can delete if you no
longer require them.
Three example photos of a landscape. Each overlaps the other (in this case a bit more than necessary).
The resulting single panorama image, with seamless integration.
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