Frequently asked questions

• Macintosh OS X version
• Taking pictures with your camera
• Image requirements
• Problems with commands
• Panoramic image "distortion"
• File formats
• Importing images
• Alignment problems
• Exposure problems and blending problems
• Printing
• Stitching scanned images of large documents
• Vertical stitching
• Mosaic stitching
• Performance
• Setup/install problems
• Miscellaneous
• V1.6 (freeware version)

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Taking pictures with your camera

• Getting started
• Picture From Zoom Lens
• Panoramic setting on camera
• Rugged horizon
• Shift lens
• My digital camera is not shown in the list of cameras
• Focal length during zooming
• Tripod
• Support for digital SLR?
• Noblex 150 Stitching

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Image requirements

• Why do images need to be all the same size to stitch?
• How much overlap do I need?
• What scanning resolution should I use?

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Problems with commands

• Why is the Color panel (Tools menu) grayed out?
• Print and Save View As commands greyed out

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Panoramic image "distortion"

• Why does the panoramic image have a curved top and bottom?
• Why do straight lines get turned into curves?
• Cylindrical vs. Spherical Projection
• Rugged horizon
• "Ballooning" effect (see entry dated Thursday, August 8, 2002)

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File formats

• How can save in a format I can use in Photoshop?

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Importing images

• Does it do DDE? This would be great to integrate with ThumbsPlus

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Alignment problems

• Why do some image pairs have incorrect (very small) overlap?
• Rugged horizon

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Exposure problems and blending problems

• Washed-out image?
• Stitching Night Shots
• Why does my stitched file look so dark?
• Vertical stitch lines
• How can I adjust contrast and saturation?
• Blending region vs overlap region
• Darker vertikal portions in the panorama where pictures are stitched
• Quick Time Internet Extras
• Ghosts (I want to keep a moving Person/Thing)

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Printing

• BANNER PANORAMA
• Printing the panoramic pictures
• Resolution and Print Size
• Photo Banner Printing
• Printing on multiple pages with no margins
• Printing to Epson 785EPX on 8.5" wide roll paper
• How to Print Panoramas on a Epson 785EPX
• Printing more than 14inches with 930c
• Panoramas on Roll Paper & Epson 1270
• Epson Panorama Paper

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Stitching scanned images of large documents

• Stitching scanned images of large photos
• Stitching flatbed scans of oversized flat documents
• Joining two scanned images

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Mosaic stitching

• Multi Row stitching

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Vertical stitching

• Vertical stitching

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Performance

• Increasing Performance
• Out of Memory!
• Need for speed: What are the key factors for speeding up...?
• 'Out of Memory' on Win2K Professional

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Setup/install problems

• I downloaded the program but when I try to open it all it does is install
• Software available on disk?
• Cant open program - missing export MFC42.DLL 8877
• QuickTime Still Image Not Installed??
• Quick Time Internet Extras

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Macintosh OS X version

• Mac version of The Panorama Factory released, October 12, 2007

• Windows, Mac or both?

• Transferring between Windows and Mac

• Upgrading from Windows to Mac

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Miscellaneous

• When I save the picture, why does it save so many components?
• Temp files
• Have you considered releasing the source code?
• 360 object panorama (like for komodo)
• Camera moving on a linear axis
• Can't start application because files cannot be created in the system temp folder
• Software available on disk?

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V1.6 (freeware version)

• Registration prompt?
• Installation Error: Panorama Factory 1.6

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Revised: October 24, 2007

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