Create a panoramic photo with 'Panorama Factory'

If you have a series of photos taken together on a certain topic, use the unique tool called 'Panorama Factory' to put them together into a very unique panorama.

In essence, Panorama Factory is a specialized tool for combining digital images that capture each part of a landscape into a spectacular panoramic image. This tool is handy when the 'wide' of your lens cannot cover the entire landscape to capture.

'Panorama Factory' (PF) can be said to be a professional graphics toolkit with a large-scale interface and a series of function buttons that can confuse people with 'dreamy' graphics. But actually, combining lots of digital photos together to become a panorama is not too difficult. If you are an amateur, you should accept all of the default PF settings and go ahead . 'close your eyes' click Next. With 7 fairly intuitive steps, you will accomplish this seemingly impossible task .

Before making a photo collage with PF, you should select collage images so that they are identical in size as well as image view (vertical or horizontal) . Here is how to do it:

- Step 1 - Import your images : Click on the 'Import' -> button to find the digital photos to be merged to 'Open' them into the list of images to be merged. In the interface of this step 1, you can use the 'Rotate .' buttons to rotate your photos in the right direction, or press the 'Delete' key to remove inappropriate images. Click 'Next' to enter step 2.

Choose Stitching method : You should check the 'Fully Automatic' box so that PF automatically connects your photos in the most 'universal' way. If you select 'Semi-Automatic' or 'Manual' it takes 9 steps to complete the job. Click 'Next' to enter step 3.

- Step 3 - Describe your camera : You only need to select the default type '35mm' is enough. Click 'Next' to enter step 4.

- Step 4 - Control Image Quality : You do not need any further intervention in this step other than checking the 'Lighter' boxes for brighter images or 'Darker' to darken them. Click 'Next' to enter step 5.

- Step 5 - Select panorama type : you can select 'Partial panorama' so that the shapes look like they are assembled on a plane or choose '360 degree panorama' so that the shapes that appear to be merged spread out on a 360 degree plane. In addition, you can incorporate additional visual effects such as: Spherical projection (spherical effect), Cylindrical projection (Perspective effect) or Perspective projection. Click 'Next' to enter step 6.

- Step 6 - Create your panorama : should keep the default settings of PF and click 'Next' so that PF automatically performs the process of automatically merging panoramas. After the transplant is complete, PF will take you to the last step.

- Step 7 - Save and Print your panorama : in this step you will see all your 'works'. PF proved extremely ingenious when it was possible to pair pictures together in a very seamless way. It has perspective and integrated photos together to the extent that you don't recognize the 'border' between photos when they are odd. People and landscapes in the photos have been intertwined at a very subtle and strange level. Your last thing is to click on the 'Save final image…' -> button to name the collage and click 'Next' to export the final collage image as a JPG or BMP image file if you choose 'Save'. Project '.

The above are 7 simple steps that anyone can perform the entire jigsaw process, but if you want to make your work more sophisticated and professional, you must take the time to learn how to use the properties. Other refinements.

Smoky City Design is selling Panorama Factory 4.3 for $ 69.95. Users can go here to download a trial version with a capacity of about 5 MB or find it at software stores.

HOANG KIM ANH