Helvellyn - The English Lake District

This view is over Red Tarn to Helvellyn and Catstycam from the start of the ridge that leads up from Patterdale The photo is a montage of two shots taken with the Sony P120E Handycam. The montage was accomplished using the Arcsoft Panorama Maker V3.0 Software and some hand crafting of the output.

Arcsoft's Panorama Maker V3.0

The software is very easy to use and produces reasonable results. However the main thing that determines the final result is the original material, i.e. the individual shots themselves. The key issue with this panorama was that second shot, the right most half of the picture above, had a significant red cast to the cloud/sky.

This can be clearly seen in the screen-shots below. Despite the best attempts of the software there was a distinct join in the sky. It took a considerable amount of processing with Paintshop Pro to achieve the result above. Arcsoft's Panorama Maker is the second real attempt to assess properly software designed to 'stitch' multiple images together to form a seamless 'Panorama'. In the dim and distant past I have manually stuck together paper prints, photographs to form a single image. Later scanning these as a single entity. As scanners and digital photography has progressed the use of the physical print has diminished.

Today either the raw digital image has been used, straight from the camera or using older photographs and scanning the negative or slide transparency using a film scanner. The software used to produce the montage in the shot of Helvellyn above is Arcsoft's Panorama Maker V3.0. I have also used Ulead's 360smdhgk. In the case of the Arcsoft product the first thing one notices is the almost total lack of control over the process you have. In some ways this is advantageous as Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Donec eleifend augue ut nunc. Proin lacinia. Duis elit. Sed magna augue, ornare quis, dignissim et, feugiat in,

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