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[Paul Carmel]

Hi,

This might be pie in the sky, Is there a way you can convert a normal digital photo into a panoramic photo with out losing the perspective?

[Wol]

Paul

PM the Wizard - he may be able to help you.

[Jimbo]

Is there a way you can convert a normal digital photo into a panoramic photo

Crop the picture top and bottom?

Jim

[Paul Carmel]

Thank you both, and if the Wizard is looking in, is it possible to make the following into a panoramic shot? Since you did not ask, it is the local beach.

[Jimbo]

Paul, I'm puzzled as to what you're trying to achieve. If you crop top and bottom, you'll get a panoramic-shaped picture. If you stretch the image with photoshop or other software tools, you'll get a wider but distorted image (the people will look like day-trippers from Weight Watchers). If you re-shoot, using a special panoramic camera or join a series of shots, you'll achieve a truer panoramic image without distorted perspective but, obviously you can't do this ...?

Jim (Puzzled from the Perigord)

[Paul Carmel]

Puzzle ye not, if you look at our site you will see we use panoramic shots under each heading on each page and what I am trying to find is a gizmo that will convert this into a panoramic shot without distortion to use on the home page.

[Kersh]

Paul,

If you look at my site I have done the same thing with the banner at the top of the page. I'm currnelty making a new site where this banner will change from page to page.

I just used Google's Picasa. They have a crop function which has worked fine. It's a free download.

Cheers
Kersh

[e-richard]

Paul, I think in the words of the wise, if thats what you want, you are probably starting form the wrong place.

On the other hand, with some deft cheating, what about this:

[Normandy Cow]

How's this for a first-draft very quick effort:



EDIT:
Oops, looks like Richard and I were both working on the same thing at the same time, from different angles!!!
Richard, I did think about doing what you did, i.e. cloning the foreground up a bit, and I think it does work well.
I approached it from a different angle, i.e. stretched it then cloned out the weightwatchers

I think they both look good - maybe my one is a bit too much of a cheat, but not having been there, I can't comment...

[Paul Carmel]

Spot on Richard! Now, pray tell how...........

[Paul Carmel]

A, you have zapped my sun bathers............. is this your photoshop trickery?

[e-richard]

Ho ho, two very different approaches. I actually like both.

What I did was cut out the bottom half at the tree line then moved it up a fair bit. Cropped top and bottom and then stretched the whole thing just a tad to match the width of the website. My minimal stretching didn't seem to add too much weight to the sun bathers, so I just left them alone.

The power of "PhotoShop" (or in my case PaintShop Pro, but I have both)

[Normandy Cow]

A, you have zapped my sun bathers............. is this your photoshop trickery?

You want sun bathers? You got sun bathers...

[la vache!]

I prefer the ones with sunbathers. There aren't too many, they aren't fat and it makes the beach look as though it hasn't got danger signs all over it that make it impossible to use. The one without sunbathers has a strange mark in the water where the paddlers were, which could be a shark...

[Paul Carmel]

Thank you both! Richard of the two (Paint or Photo) which do you find easier to use? I have photoshop elements, but I really haven't fully explored it.