User manual NEWSOFT PRESTO! PANORAMA

[. . . ] Saved in most common formats (BMP, JPEG, TIFF, PNG, FlashPix, etc. ), stitched panoramas are versatile and can be used in image and web design. Panorama, you can visit a museum, walk through a real estate property, go sightseeing at a famous landmark -- inside your stitched panorama!You can also print panoramas to wrap around mugs and penholders or create CD labels. Acquires photos from TWAIN compliant devices like digital cameras and scanners Automatically warps, aligns, and merges images into 360-degree, portrait, or landscape panoramas Quick ways to select image files by name, date, or prefix Fine tuning functions to adjust the colors of pictures Automatically adjusts the camera lens type Adjusts image alignment using the drag-and-drop method Supports popular file formats such as BMP, JPEG, TIFF, PNG, FlashPix, etc. [. . . ] Use a printed Compass Chart while taking pictures to make photos overlap more precisely. and select the Compass Chart In the Print Compass Chart dialog box, specify the orientation of your camera and the focal length to be used in taking photos. Then click the Print button to print a suitable Compass Chart. The Print Compass Chart dialog box To use the Compass Chart while taking pictures: 1. Put the printed Compass Chart on the top of the tripod. Mount the Compass Chart on the top of the tripod 9 2. Move the camera one scale of the Compass Chart each time you take a picture. The Compass Chart ! Use the same lens and aperture setting for the same panoramic set of photos. By keeping the same photo settings, you will have a more consistent panorama photo. For horizontal panoramas, take pictures clockwise (left to right); for vertical panoramas, take pictures from top to down. Panorama will stitch these photos in correct alignment. ! 10 Creating a Panorama Chapter 3 Cratn a Pan r ma e ig oa Here we will show you how to create a panorama with Presto!All procedures, including acquiring, opening, stitching, saving, and printing, are explained in detail. Follow these steps to quickly create a perfect panorama photo. Getting Photos Before using a TWAIN-compatible device to get photos, you need to install the device driver provided by the hardware vendor. Click the Get Photo icon to open the Get Photos dialog box. In the Get Photos dialog box, set the following: The Get Photos dialog box 11 Source Click the Select button to open the Select Source dialog box. All TWAIN sources installed on your system will be listed in the Sources box. The program will automatically name the imported images numerically with the prefix you specify. For example, if you set the prefix as "photo_", acquired image files will be named "photo_001", "photo_002", etc. Click the Directory button to specify the directory for storing imported images. Prefix Format Directory 3. Click the Start button to activate the device's control dialog box. For details about inputting an image, please refer to the device's user manual. A file name will be added in the lower left corner of the dialog box after an image is imported. When all desired images have been imported, click Finish. Opening images Presto!You may choose to open and sort images by prefix, imported date, or alphabetical order of file names. If your photos are not taken in this order, you have to open images in reverse order. If the images are not correctly opened in the Preview window, you can rearrange the order of images simply by dragging-and-dropping or rotating the images to the correct order or orientation. [. . . ] Partial panorama: creates a wide-view panorama. Focal Length Auto select: automatically selects the proper lens length. Custom: allows you to type a custom focal length. 14 Creating a Panorama 2. If the image alignment is incorrect, simply drag the image to overlap the matching area with the adjacent image. If the color of one of the photos doesn't match the rest, click that image and drag the RGB slider to correct the brightness of the specified image. [. . . ]