Program for gluing panoramas in Russian. How to take a panoramic photo

Don't think that only Photoshop can create panoramas. By the way, I described how to make a panorama using Photoshop in my review ().

There are a number of free programs that do an excellent job of this task. And the best part is, you absolutely don't have to pay for them. Some of them do not even require installation on your computer.

Over many years of photography (more than 10 years), I have tried many and decided to put together my own small personal rating of free programs for creating panoramas. So, let's begin!

Rating of free programs for creating Panoramas

4th place - Canon Ptoho Stitch program

An old, good and free program that comes with Canon cameras. The program's interface is old, but it performs its functions.

How to make a panorama using Canon Photo Stitch?

Step 1- launch the program

Step 2— select photos from which the panorama will be created.

Step 3— we start combining the photos into one large panorama frame.

At the same time, you can enable the option to display the seams along which the photos are combined.

Step 4— Select panorama generation settings (the program offers a choice of possible options)

Step 5— crop the edges of the panorama and save it to a file.

Result of work Canon Photo Stitch - assembled separate panorama with cropped edges. Very good, but it took a lot of manual work!

3rd place - Hugin program

Free program large team authors with great but confusing functionality. In my opinion too difficult for a beginner. One of the advantages is that there is support for the Russian language in the interface.

How to make a panorama with using Hugin?

Step 1- launch the program. When you open it, there is a set of tips for beginners - a small bonus from the developers.

Step 2— We set the settings for creating a panorama using Hugin - the folder for saving, the name of the files, etc. There are a lot of settings, so hang in there :)

Step 3— Upload photos to create a panorama.

Step 4— Select the lens type and look at the aligned images.

Step 5— Select the settings for creating a panorama before generating the resulting photo.

Saving the panorama.....

As a result, we get this processed panoramic photo using the free Hugin program.

2nd place - MS Image Composite Editor program

Yes, yes, you heard right - the letters MS means that this program was made by Microsoft. Moreover, it’s free! 🙂

Cons - there is no Russian interface, but the program is so simple that you don’t need to read too much.

How to make a panorama using MS Image Composite Editor?

Step 1- open the program and go to the settings section - upper right part of the window - see the gear.

Step 2— select a photo to create a panorama. Button in the top header - “New Panorama from Images”

You have completed step 1 - imported photos for the panorama.

Step 3— combining photos into one picture — “Stitch”

After you receive the panorama, you can enlarge it for viewing using the sliders.

Step 4— If you need to crop a photo, go to the “Crop” button.

For cropping, markers are used, exactly the same as in Photoshop for this command.

If everything suits you, save it.

As a result, you receive a finished processed panorama using the MS Image Composite Editor program

1st place - AutoStitch program

My favorite free program for creating panoramas!

What captivates her?

  • no need to install on PC, just open the archive and work
  • minimum settings for creating a panorama
  • small program size
  • smart frame detection

How to make a panorama using AutoStitch?

Step 1- launch the program and go to settings

Step 2— Open the photos and add them to the program

ALL…. I repeat..... THAT'S ALL! 🙂

the program will do the rest itself.

The result of the program will be a assembled panorama from the files that you added.

If you are still not satisfied with this functionality, you can make panoramas using Photoshop CS ().

Additional Information free program for creating panoramas:

  • AutoStitch Website address - http://matthewalunbrown.com/autostitch/autostitch.html
  • MS Image Composite Editor - Website address - http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/ice/
  • Hugin - Website address -
  • Canon Ptoho Stitch— Website address — http://support-au.canon.com.au/contents/AU/EN/0200246607.html (select the Download checkbox to see the download link)

Video review of free programs for creating panoramas (Rating)

Hugin is a program for creating panoramic images from photographs. In essence, it is a free open analogue of the utility, which is also based on the Panorama Tools engine.

You can create panoramas either automatically or manually. There are three operating modes for this: simple, advanced and expert. The first one is ideal for beginners: there are a minimum of complex settings and everything is as automated as possible. The Panorama Wizard will guide you step by step through all the stages of creating a panoramic image, from adding photos to choosing the final format. Advanced mode is something between automatic and manual settings: here the program can perform the main operations itself, but if you need to turn the controls or manually specify control points, you can take control yourself. In expert mode, the user has access to all settings, as well as the ability to set all values ​​manually without using graphical prompts.

Hugin can determine which lens the original images were taken on based on the EXIF ​​data, and make geometric corrections based on that. If the photos turn out to be uneven due to handheld shooting, the program will automatically straighten them. There's also vignetting correction and exposure smoothing to ensure that the brightness in the final result is evenly distributed. Among other things, we can note the choice of 22 available projections (cylindrical, equidistant, three-plane and others), the ability to change the position of the panorama on a plane or sphere (depending on the projection), cropping and a saving wizard in which you can select the format and size. In addition, in advanced mode you can use masks and many other tools.

Key Features and Functions

  • creating panoramic images in various projections;
  • the ability to create multi-row gigapixel panoramas;
  • three operating modes: simple, advanced and expert;
  • step-by-step panorama wizard in simple mode;
  • automatic placement of control points with the possibility of manual adjustment;
  • correction of perspective, color, vignetting and exposure;
  • detection of moving objects, removal of “ghosts”;
  • high speed;
  • the ability to use masks;
  • automatic use of camera data from EXIF;
  • possibility of batch image processing;
  • Russified interface;
  • possibility of free use of the program (GPL v2 license).

Special Requirements

  • minimum 256 MB random access memory(for working with large projects, preferably from 512 and above);
  • A processor with 2 or more cores is recommended.

What's new in this version?

2016.2.0 (01.11.2016)

  • added the ability to read image placement data from Papywizard XML files;
  • improved seamless image merging;
  • the checkpoint editor now only loads edited images to increase speed;
  • work with masks has been optimized;
  • Fixed several issues with the Quick View window that could cause the program to freeze;
  • updated translations:
  • detected errors have been corrected.

At the moment, there are many different utilities for photo processing on the computer program market, and many such utilities are presented on our website. This time I want to present to your attention a program PanoramaStudio Pro, which will appeal to any amateur photographer, even a beginner, even one who has been doing this difficult business for many years. And all because the program is not only easy to use, takes up little space and has a nice interface, but because it is also of high quality.

The main focus of the PanoramaStudio Pro program is the creation of panoramic images. But first, you can also process the images by rotating, cropping or scaling, so to speak - preparing the photo before placing it in the panorama. After adding your chosen photos, PanoramaStudio Pro will combine them into a uniform, high-quality panorama, with smooth transitions that you won’t even notice. Moreover, the program will do all this quickly and efficiently. In addition, the utility works with all known image formats, so you don’t have to convert them further.

Download PanoramaStudio Pro in Russian

You can download the PanoramaStudio Pro program for compiling panoramic photographs on our website completely free of charge by clicking on the link below. For the program to function fully and conveniently, you will need to carry out simple treatment and Russification. How to do all this - you will find information below. After all these simple manipulations, which will take you literally a couple of minutes, you will be able to enjoy the high-quality work of the program and the most beautiful panoramic images!

Copy the Order_ru.html and panoramastudio.qm files to the installed program directory with replacement.

1. Install the program and close.
2. File PanoramaStudio3Pro.exe resp. bitness copy with replacement to the folder with the program.

Who hasn't had to photograph a beautiful landscape or an interesting architectural monument, regret that the camera lens is not able to capture everything in its entirety for it to happen automatic creation of panorama photos. Individual frames do not give the same impression that you get when looking at a landmark with your own eyes. I really want to get a photograph that will have a complete image of the object being photographed, that is, a panoramic photograph. The problem is not new; they tried to solve it back in the days of film cameras. We solved it in three ways.

The first way is to use short-focus lenses with an extended field of view. A logical development led to the advent of super-short throw lenses with extremely wide angles of view, so-called fisheye lenses. Disadvantage this method image acquisition is extremely distorted. Indeed, transferring the image around the camera to a flat surface is akin to trying to smooth out the halves of a rubber ball on a flat table.

The second way is to create cameras with moving optics, in which the lens rotates during shooting, creating alternate parts of the image on the film. Such cameras include, for example, Horizon cameras, which provide an image capture angle of 120 degrees. In this case, the shooting is done on regular 35mm film, only the frame size is not the classic 24x36 mm, but 24x58 mm. Naturally, to print such photographs you need a special attachment for a photo enlarger.

The third path that many amateur photographers have followed (I also went through this) is taking photographs with a regular camera and printing regular photographs. But then the photographs were joined to each other, the overlaid parts of the photographs were cropped, and the resulting mosaic was pasted onto a sheet of paper. It turned out well, although the cropped borders of individual photographs were visible even with very careful adjustment and careful cropping. In addition, the camera lens always produces distortions, so precise matching of photographs is impossible; we can only talk about more or less acceptable image quality.

Now film cameras are used only by professionals and old seasoned amateur photographers who would never trade their cameras (with excellent optics, by the way) for digital cameras. But for us mere mortals, digital photographic technology has given us powerful means of obtaining images of everything that is dear and interesting to us. I won't talk about the many possibilities of digital photography; today we have a different topic - obtaining panoramic images.

It is not surprising that almost simultaneously with the appearance digital cameras computer programs appeared to process digital photos. Naturally, creating panoramas was also included in the list of necessary computer processing tasks. However, this turned out to be a very difficult task. The two main problems that arise when combining two or more images into one panoramic image are the following: the geometric distortions of the images, which I already mentioned, and the brightness and color distortions that arise due to the automatic adjustment of digital cameras to the subject being photographed. Since the task turned out to be more complicated than it seemed at first glance, programs for creating panoramas appeared much later than programs for simple correction of digital photographs, and, in addition, these programs were quite expensive.

Despite the fact that free software packages were developed, for example, Panorama tools, they were quite difficult to work with; they were controlled from the program line, which was an almost impossible task for a simple computer user.

Naturally, the free developer community software could not ignore such a task, and as a result of their efforts, the free program for creating digital panoramic photos, which has now reached a level that can be used by almost anyone who knows how to take photographs digital camera and having basic computer skills.

So, I present! The hugin program uses the Panorama Tools package to create panoramas, but provides exceptionally convenient working tools. The program has been translated into various languages, including Russian. At the moment latest version The program number is 0.7.0 and was made publicly available on October 4, 2008. The program is available for Linux, MacOS and, of course, Windows operating systems. You can download this program by clicking on the icon.

Linux users, as well as happy owners of Macintosh computers, will themselves understand which of the three files they need to download, and Windows users will probably also guess that they need a file whose name contains Win32, that is, hugin-0.7.0_win32-setup.exe .

Installing the program is quite simple. It is distributed under the GPL license, that is, free of charge, so during installation you can safely agree to the license by selecting (when it appears) the “I accept the agreement” item, and on all other pages by clicking the “Next” button. The program itself determines which language is used on your computer and immediately switches to it. However, if necessary, the language can be changed in the program settings by choosing one of seventeen, including Catalan and Ukrainian.

The program allows completely automatic panorama creation, but this does not always work out if the original photographs provide insufficient information for their accurate “stitching”. In this case, work is provided in manual, or rather, semi-automatic mode. Let's look at the process of creating a panorama, starting with taking the original photos.

Photographing

In order to obtain a panorama with acceptable quality, when photographing, you must immediately take measures to eliminate possible errors and distortions. To do this, you need to pay attention to the following:
1. It is advisable to take photographs in order, for example, from left to right. Although the program can determine the order of photos, it is better to have all the photos in the desired sequence.
2. For normal photo stitching, the program must select a certain number of identical points in adjacent photographs. To do this, it is necessary that the photographs have overlapping areas in which there are sufficiently clearly defined details. Typically, an overlap of about 25% of the image size is sufficient.

Practical advice: When shooting, pay attention to some noticeable landmark (circled in red in the photo) on the right side of the image (tree, corner of a building), after taking the frame, turn the camera so that this landmark is on the left side of the image, and take the next shot while simultaneously paying attention to the next landmark on the right side of the image.
3. Try not to make tilted panoramas. Their processing is usually more difficult, and the result will most likely disappoint you. Pay very close attention to the horizontal position of the image; when you tilt the camera, the panorama will appear stepped and slanted.
4. Watch the angle of the camera. If the horizon line is higher in one frame and lower in the other, the panorama will also turn out to be stepped. Of course, you can crop the resulting image, but you will lose some of the image at the top and bottom.
5. When turning the camera horizontally, make sure that the lens remains in the same point as much as possible. It will not be possible to combine frames taken from different points with acceptable quality.
6. The camera must be stable. When shooting handheld, you should try to hold the camera as still as possible. It is best to shoot from a tripod, but quite decent results are obtained when shooting with a short shutter speed (in automatic shooting mode - in good lighting). A night panorama can only be done when shooting from a tripod.
7. It is advisable to use manual exposure setting and keep it constant when shooting all frames of the panorama. However, the hugin program has the ability to adjust the brightness of the image, which allows you to get good results even when using simple digital cameras.

Despite such an extensive list of requirements, implementing them is quite easy. Try it and you will see for yourself what was done wrong, and take this into account in the future. In any case, even if the panorama does not satisfy you at first, you will still have individual photos, so all your work will not be in vain.

Automatically create a panorama using the hugin program

We will consider working with the program with the Windows operating system installed on the computer.

Let's launch the program by selecting the Hugin section in the Start menu, and in it the hugin item. A program window will open with the title “Hugin - a graphical interface for tools for creating panoramas”, and in it the first tab “Assistant”. If we are lucky and the photos meet all the requirements of the program, we will not need other tabs.

When automatically creating a panorama, you only need to perform three steps:
1. Upload pictures.
2. Merge pictures.
3. Create a panorama.

Uploading pictures is very easy. After clicking the "1. Upload pictures..." button, a regular dialog box will open in which you need to select the photos from which the panorama will be formed. Some disadvantage is that in the selection window there is no preview of the selected file. Therefore, before starting to work with hugin, you need to view the captured footage in another program, which I recommend free program view and edit IrfanView photos, and write down the file names that will be included in the panorama creation process. When uploading files to hugin, you can select all the necessary files at once. Let me remind novice Windows users that this can be done by holding down the Ctrl key and clicking on the names of all the necessary files one by one.

As an example, let's take three photographs that were taken specifically to illustrate the process of creating a panorama:

The photographs were deliberately taken with some violations of the rules given above - the horizontal position of the camera was not maintained, the exposure in the evening was taken too low, which increased the amount of noise in the image. This will allow you to to some extent evaluate the capabilities of the hugin program.

So let's upload these three pictures. After loading the images, the second item on the tab will become available - “2. Merge...”. Pressing this button launches a program that searches for points in images that can be used to stitch frames into a panorama.
The process is complex and time-consuming, its progress is displayed in a pop-up window, but sometimes it may seem that the computer is frozen and does nothing. Be patient, and after some time, depending on the number of pictures and their size, sometimes after a few minutes, the work will be completed, this window will automatically close and a new one will open, which is called “Panorama Preview”. In this window you can see a small image of the generated panorama. For ease of use, it is better to immediately expand this window to full screen. If the images are combined successfully, you will see a normal image, which may be curved with a bulge up or down.

After processing the uploaded images, I ended up with a curve with the convex point down. In order to straighten the panorama, let's try to select another central point by clicking on it with the left mouse button. The center point of the panorama is at the intersection of the horizontal and vertical lines in the image.

I had to choose a point that was inside the red circle. It is advisable to choose a point located on a vertical line. If the "Auto" button at the top of the "Panorama Preview" window is pressed, the image will immediately be rebuilt in accordance with the new center point. After performing this operation, the panorama will be fairly straight, but may be tilted to the left or right.

My panorama has a slight slant to the right. This can be noticed if you pay attention to the fact that the horizontal line on the left runs along the back of the garden bench, and on the right - at the level of the second floor of the building. To level the tilt, select a point on the edge of the panorama that should be flush with the center point and right-click on it. This point in my photo is also marked with a red circle.

Now it is clearly visible that the shape of the useful image field is greatly distorted. Basically, the distortion comes down to a barrel-shaped distortion of the top and bottom edges of the panorama, as well as a rather strong downward tilt of the right side of the panorama. If barrel-shaped distortions are associated with the peculiarities of the camera lens, and we cannot do anything about it, then the mutual tilt of individual parts of the panorama is associated with the tilt of the camera (in this case, intentional) during shooting. This is the main reason why the camera should be held as level as possible while shooting.

There is a black background around the panorama, which is completely unnecessary unless you want to leave it for some aesthetic reasons. It can be cropped by moving the sliders located under the panorama and to the right of it. When you hover your cursor over the sliders, additional tooltips will appear regarding the effect of those sliders on the image. I usually adjust the horizontal slider first.

The slider (marked with a red circle) needs to be moved a short distance and wait for the image update to complete. You need to move the slider so that the uneven edges of the image on the left and right are cut off. Keep in mind that image operations are very labor-intensive, so the response to all your actions may not be as fast as you would like.

Then let's move on to adjusting the vertical slider on the right side of the window (indicated by a red circle).
This task will be somewhat more difficult due to the tilt of the images. There are empty spaces in the panorama in the upper right corner and in the lower part of the panorama (circled with red ovals). Naturally, they can be cropped by moving the vertical slider, but this will lose part of the useful image.

Sometimes you have to put up with small defects, or retouch them later in some graphics editor. In my case, there was an almost imperceptible small black space in the upper right corner of the panorama.

At the bottom of the window there are several more controls that you can leave alone for now; they are intended for more advanced control of the panorama view.

Now, if the operation of combining images was successful, you can return to the main window of the hugin program. Under the button "2. Merge..." will appear short summary about the success of the merge operation. If the program does not scold you, you can safely press the button “3. Create a panorama...”. You will be asked for the name of the panorama file, and after entering it, the “hugB - Stitching” window will appear and the operation of actually merging the frames will be performed. This operation is also very slow.

The result of the work will be a file with the extension .tif, which has a size several times greater than the sum of the sizes of all source files. In my case, it is more than 31 MB in size! And this is with the size of the source files being about 4 MB, the total size is 12.3 MB. A file with the tif extension can be viewed in any graphic viewer or editor, for example, in IrfanView, and then saved in a more familiar format, for example, JPEG. The file size will be significantly reduced (for me - 4.7 MB), especially if the quality is not set to 100%. It must be said that an image saved with 80% quality is practically indistinguishable from an image with 100% quality. Therefore, a slight decrease in quality with a large reduction in file size is justified.

If you are not going to further edit the panorama, you can delete the *.tif file. If some kind of correction is intended, it is better to perform it on the source file and only then convert it to the final format. Before saving the image, I brightened it a little using gamma correction in Irfan View and increased the contrast of the image. All that remains is to carefully look through the file with the .jpg extension and say with a feeling of deep satisfaction: "Panoramic photography ready!"
By clicking on the picture you can download an image size 1283x384, 85 kB.

If the panorama in the preview window appears in a very distorted form, the pictures are superimposed on each other, instead of one line of pictures something completely incomprehensible appears, then you are out of luck, the automatic creation of the panorama did not work and the panorama must be created in semi-automatic mode, manually setting the points docking.

We will look at how to create a panorama with such an image obtained in automatic mode in the next article.

Photo panoramas are one of the the best ways demonstrate to users all the nuances of what is happening, show the object “from the inside,” and so on. Introducing 6 free tools for creating photo panoramas.

Image Composite Editor, created by Microsoft, is the easiest program to use. Image Composite Editor can create panoramas from both photos and videos.

The program contains four buttons at the top that guide you through each stage of the process - Import, Splice, Trim and Export. On the right you will see options that can further enhance the panorama. You can export your file to a variety of file formats with different quality settings. Remember to change the Quality in the drop-down menu to Superb before exporting your panorama.

Ease of use: 5
Capabilities: 6
Result: 5

The photo gallery built into Windows 7 and 8 is primarily an organization program with useful tagging features and basic editing capabilities.

One feature that is not usually associated with Photo Gallery is the creation of panoramic images. Surprisingly, this program is one of the simplest to create them.

To create a panorama, drag and drop individual photos into the Photo Gallery. Then select them, click the Create tab at the top, and then click Panorama and wait for the program to merge the photos. You will be prompted to save the panorama to your computer without any preview.

Ease of use: 5
Possibilities: 2
Result: 4

After launching Autostitch, click on the folder icon and upload your photos. The program will automatically stitch them together to create a panorama.

Ease of use: 4
Possibilities: 3
Result: 3

Hugin is an advanced panorama editing program. It allows you to stitch together photos taken with different cameras, and even several rows of photos (top and bottom) to create a large panorama. There are also options for calibrating lenses and creating 360° panoramas.

No other program has such capabilities.

After importing images, you need to accurately align them, then manually clear them of errors that the program itself will find. Only after this Hugin will start working.

Ease of use: 2
Possibilities: 5
Result: 5

Dermandar is a website that stitches your photos together in a couple of clicks.

Go to the website and choose from two options (360-degree view or wide-angle). Now select and upload your photos, then wait a few seconds for the tool to stitch them together. As a result, you will get an excellent result that you can drag with your mouse from one edge to the other. Click the Fullscreen icon to expand the image. The Options button allows you to download the file to your computer in JPEG format.

Ease of use: 5
Possibilities: 2
Result: 5

Google Photos has quickly become the default photo storage service for millions of users. It works on Android, iOS, as a website and even as a computer program. After uploading photos, a useful assistant function appears. The assistant analyzes your photos and looks for ways to improve them, whether that's creating a story from photos taken from around the same location or adding effects to individual photos.

The assistant automatically detects adjacent photos taken from the same point and stitches them together to create a panorama.

Ease of use: 0
Features: 0