Camera Accessories User Manual

Editing Images
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Your image seems to have parts out of place.
◗ Check your arrangement on the grid. You may need to
rearrange your images.
The images edges have a “bow-tie” effect.
◗ Try using cylindrical projection.
Images are not stitched together well.
◗ Make sure you have enough overlap between images
(50% is recommended).
◗ Be careful that the camera does not move or tilt to
different angles between shots.
◗ Try holding the camera right next to your eye, instead of
away from you, or there may be too much camera
movement.
◗ Take pictures of scenery that has enough detail. If there
is not enough detail in the image (like a scene with a
nondescript grassy field or plain blue sky) there may not
be enough information to match up corresponding
images.
◗ Make sure you are far enough from your subject. If you
are less than 15 feet away from your subject, or if there
are close objects in any of the images, the images will be
stitched incorrectly.
◗ If there is movement in the scene, especially at a critical
place of overlap, it may not be possible to determine
how the photos should fit together.
◗ Make sure your zoom level is consistent for all the
images. If any of the images in a scene have different
zoom levels, the images can’t be stitched together.
There are overlap errors or ghost images.
◗ Try using sharp blending to remove some of these flaws.
◗ Remove any photos that don’t fit well with the others.
Stitching fails completely.
◗ A stitch may fail completely if the source images do not
fit together correctly, the exposure varies drastically, or a
fisheye lens (or other distorting lens) is used to take
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