

I’ve tried to keep a balance of technical and best practice / technique so that this article may be of interest to a larger audience. This article provides an overview of the stitching process including tools and technique, but for the sake of brevity will not go into all the fine details. All of your regular compositional tastes and ‘rules’ should apply. Although the stitching process is an exciting one, remember that a boring image, regardless of size, is still boring. If your resulting stitch won’t create a compelling photo, consider that the stitch may not be worth doing. Creating an image with strong composition is most important. Whether you’re using the stitching process to create a high resolution image or a wide sweeping pano, it’s important to keep in mind that this process is a tool to achieve an end result. Creating photos with any desired aspect ratio as opposed to having to crop (and losing resolution) from a single photo.Photos containing a wider angle of view (pano) than is possible with a single lens.

Creating extremely high resolution photos (think hundreds of megapixels or gigapixels).For years photographers have been scanning photos shot with film and stitching them together using software.Ī few reasons why stitching is beneficial include: The concept of photo stitching is not new to digital.
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Introduction to the Art of Photo Stitchingįor those not familiar with the term photo stitching, it refers to taking a number of slightly overlapped photos and using software to combine them into one large photo. Guest Blog By X-Rite Coloratti Jason DiMichele
