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RE: Donner Lake Long Exposure (this one was tricky to shoot and process)

Thank you! Yeah, the 16mm didn't quite get both so I had to do the stitched pano thing. PTGui rocks! However it can be time consuming compared to the photoshop photo merge feature. I don't bother using it for real estate 360 degree shots, if they don't line up perfectly, oh well. But when you know you may be producing a big print one day, getting that horizon smooth without any choppyness is important. So taking the time in PTGui is worth it. They offer a fully functioning trial version, it just watermarks the image.

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One of these days...I'll have to get together my collection of unstitchable panos and see if it's worth my time and money. ;)

BTW, I never found PS to be very good at panos - have you tried Microsoft ICE (Image Composite Editor)? It's free and has always done a better job.

I have not tried ICE, I'll have to check it out. I like PS because I can work on the RAW photos and then stitch the RAW photos together, and it's fast. With PTGui, the one thing I don't like about it is that I have to save the edited RAW photos as tiffs then stitch them. Not that big of a deal really.

Well, I don't know if ICE can work with RAWs, but it often works when other software doesn't.

Thanks, I'll check it out.