Comments on: DoubleTake: Panoramic Photography

By: MrBobDobolina

MrBobDobolina — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 04:49:25 +0000

Just got done doing some comparisons and writing out my results: http://apatheticthursday.net/2008/01/06/on-panoramic-photography/

By: Ted Winder

Ted Winder — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 20:16:11 +0000

Great review! I’m definitely doing to be making some panoramas tomorrow

By: Michael Mistretta

Michael Mistretta — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 14:10:23 +0000

@Chad How do you know they already haven’t

@MrBobDobolina I’m interested to how you would compare DoubleTake’s quality to that of Photoshop. Let me know how you find it.

By: MrBobDobolina

MrBobDobolina — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 05:50:44 +0000

I have mixed feelings about technology that makes things this easy. (I’m downloading DoubleTake so I can test it out tomorrow.) I’ve been doing panoramic photos for awhile now, testing different methods. I have stitched some together by hand (a major pain) done some with Hugin (both using self created control points and auto-created control points) and also working with Photoshop. When you have to put hours of work into a photo the results seem very satisfying. With Photoshop CS3 you can simply have the computer do all the work and the only thing left is a bit of touch up. CS3 does a really good job. Much better than CS1 and CS2.

That being said, the programs I have tried (including Photoshop) often do not handle certain changes well, changes in light and white balance and moving or blurry objects. My battle is constantly to look for a good program to do most of the work for me. Make my life easier (Photoshop is really doing that right now.) But there’s a voice in the back of my head telling me that as this gains popularity and as this grows (it’s already started to do so) that it will become a lot less impressive. (Not that having a 7 foot by 3 foot photo hanging on your wall isn’t impressive.)

By: Chad Ohman

Chad Ohman — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 05:23:20 +0000

Haha, I thought you were going to make a post about ME, you lead me on.

Great post about DoubleTake, they should give you a free copy for such an awesome post.
I just use Photoshop if I have a pano I want to do.

By: Matt Daniels

Matt Daniels — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 03:01:52 +0000

Nice going to put that on my I WANT list…