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How to stitch photos in Acrylic

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You've probably found people talking about the nice panoramic images they can make from Acrylic.  Well I decided to have a go at making my own.

Being very ignorant of image editing in general and image editing software in particular, I found it tricky to figure out how to do it.  So I decided to blog how I did it. 

As it turns out - its actually pretty easy.  Here is how to do it.

  1. Open Acrylic
  2. Create a new document
  3. Click the File menu then select Insert Image
  4. Select all the photos you want to stitch together and click Open
  5. Once the images appear select "Stitch selected images" from the Image menu
  6. Select the defaults and click OK and wait for your image to appear.

Once you are done and you want to export the image, here's how I did it:

  1. Created some crop marks
    • Shift -> M or Edit -> Crop Marks -> Set
    • Drag the box around the part of the image you want to keep
  2. Export to image - File -> Export -> Image format
  3. Give the file a name and select the file format you want to export to
  4. Select the size and width you want the image to be
  5. Make sure the "Save cropmark region only" checkbox is checked
  6. Click OK to create the image (you may have another dialog depending on the image format you select)

Acrylic is pretty good at doing this work - it figures out the aspect ratios, lighting and a bunch of other things automatically.  The technology behind this has actually come out of Microsoft Research, but we've not had a product to put the functionality into. 

Here are some of my results which are stored in an album on my space.  The first and last images are both three images stitched together, the second image is obviously four images.  I also used slightly different settings for the top image to the second and third ones to make sure the carpark looked straight.  Also i decided not to crop the second image - its kinda cool the way it is and I'd lose more of the image than I'd gain anyway.

LA from my hotel room at the Westin Airport hotel

I'm actually writing this from my Seattle Hotel room (which is here on Virtual Earth) so this is downtown Seattle from my hotel balcony (cool - I got a balcony!) - and look - its not raining! (yet)

My Seattle hotel room.

See - its not too hard!  Download the Acrylic Beta and have a go.  If you publish your results link back to this blog post so we can all track the images and see the cool stuff!

Comments

  • Anonymous
    July 31, 2005
    will there be any API provided to write C# application with Acrylic WITHOUT installing it?
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    July 31, 2005
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