Making a non panoramic panoramic? (this is an odd one)

[puddleduck]

Yes, its a strange question!

I want to get a panoramic print done using Photobox, and I need to stitch together a string of about 8 photos...

...but - and this is the odd part - the photos I wish to stitch is a sequence of 8 shots of a bear going through the stages of catching a Salmon in Alaska - so I don't want them "blended" but just sort of added on, left to right, with a bit of a gap in between.

I'd like to make the final image look like its from the reel of a film.. a bit like this.. but horizontally...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/35mm_film

with each image from my sequence looking like its part of a frame of a film, printed as a panoramic.

This all works in my head, but I've no idea how to do it!

If anyone can make sense of this (and it barely makes sense to me!!), I'd appreciate any ideas!! :nuts:

[JamesK]

... Can't you digitally "stitch them together", then just send that digital print to be printed...?

I'm not an expert so there may be unforeseen problems with this. Though the only one I can see is "Do Photobox do prints in the correct (very long...) shape?"

[puddleduck]

Right well I'm getting somewhere:

This is where I'm at now!

http://odysseus-software.co.uk/photos/albums/LensTests/prototype_web.jpg

But I want 8 "windows" and a seperate picture in each window of the sequence of the catch... I'll tackle the film reel look later if it can be done...

Any ideas, I've no ideas what I'm doing!

[Ragnarak]

Sorry Andy, maybe i'm missing the obvious but I really don't understand the problem

Why can't you just create a really wide canvas in photoshop and paste each photo into it, side by side?

[Ragnarak]

Like this but with a frame added and separated a bit more:

http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/6553/monkeyszx6.jpg

(I just used the first 8 photos I found, sorry they're crap ones but you get the idea)

[puddleduck]

Oh right, that might work! I don't use Photoshop at all really, so I've no idea what canvases are or anything!

Thats a start :)

Any ideas how to make it look like each image is part of a reel of film? I suppose I might want a layer as a background and paste in each image within a seperate. The look I am trying to achieve it for each image to look like its an individual frame of a film...

[Ragnarak]

Then a bit of playing in photoshop (add a centred black stroke line 10 pixels or so wide, copy a section of film from an image and paste it in and line it up) to get this:

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/2450/monkeys2rm1.jpg

Is this anything like what you meant or did I get the wrong end of the stick completely?

[puddleduck]

Thats *exactly* what I'm trying to do, scaled as a panoramic! :)

[Ragnarak]

Someone who knows photoshop better than me will probably tell you the best way to do it but what I did was:

Open all 8 images in photoshop.

They were all 1200 x 1600 pixel images.

I then created a new image that was 9600 pixels wide (1200*8) and just dragged each photo into it and lined them up side by side.

That got me the image in post 5 above.

This gives you 8 layers in your image, one for each photo. I then selected blending options, stroke, position centre, set the stroke size and colour (black). Doing it this way means you lose the edge of your photo, a better way would be to do the stroke outside of the image and to space the images apart enough but I'd already lined them up together for the first image I posted so just used that.

I then selected the lot and pasted it into a new canvas that was higher so I had room to add the film edges (I think changing canvas size would have done the same thing).

I then found a picture of some film in google. I used the first one I found but you can maybe find better: http://fotogenetic.dearingfilm.com/images/golden_7.gif

I then cut the bit I wanted, got rid of the writing on it and pasted it into my image 4 or 5 times until I had the right width and then tidied it all up a bit.

[doesnotcompute]

that's how I understood the request. I guess the finished long article could then be chopped back into printable sizes, printer and then mounted to give the seamless impression.

[puddleduck]

Thanks Ragnarak - thats really helpful, and I appreciate it, I'm a complete 'noob when it comes to any sort of photo editing / photoshop wizardry :)

Cheers! :notworthy

[Ragnarak]

No probs, it actually gives a really cool effect :)

Like I said, I'm definitely no photoshop wiz either and it could probably be done a lot better than I did it but at least you have a general idea now to work on.

[Dno]

Ragonaraks way is basically it..

For what it's worth, there are two sizing options in Photoshop:

Image Size.
Canvas Size.

Changing the image size will scale the image to the specified size.

Changing the canvas size will leave the image as is, but increase/decrease the 'canvas' the image is on giving you room to add extra stuff around it.

If you're doing all this with 100% crops, be prepare for an *enormous* image that may push your system.

Dean.

[JamesK]

PS...

Get the shadows on the film holes right not like Ragnarak's shabby effort. :p

[Dno]

:lol: :nono: ..

[puddleduck]

Its struggling, I tried to open 8 RAW's at once in ACR, and my machine fell over!

Thanks for the explanation of Canvas size - its making sense, I've created a 20x8" canvas so its just a case of trying to sort it all out.

I've not really figure out how to scale the film JPEG to that sort of size without it looking a bit manky... I'll get there in the end, I might need to scan some film in myself and get it in the correct DPI!

[Ragnarak]

PS...

Get the shadows on the film holes right not like Ragnarak's shabby effort. :p

I realised that after I did it :p

[Pheonix]

Make sure you get the DPI of the image your creating right - too big and your machine won't cope, too small and it'll look rubbish.

I had this problem doing a 20x30" photo collage when they were doing cheap poster prints. Looks spiffy now though.