RE: scanning loooong negatives

Marcy,

I used panorama stitching software to stitch my long panoramas together.
I still had problems with my image size. Sometimes one side of my image
would be taller the the other side. The Edit>Transform>Distort command
in Photoshop helped with some. This image isn't perfect but I have
blown it up to 8 feet wide,
http://home.earthlink.net/~peregoy/Blender/Gallery/CP/Mia.html
Photoshop now includes stitching software in its CS version under
File>Automate>Photomerge which works fairly well. If you have this
select the option to keep all layers then you can adjust each for
exposure to fine tune your results. When scanning you should scan with
at least 30% overlap so that the software can match the image up. There
are way to do this without CS or a stitcher program. A good description
is in Scott Kelby's book photoshop for the digital photographer. There
are 25 steps in it so I can't explain it here.

Chris

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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [pinhole-discussion] scanning loooong negatives
> From: "Marcy Merrill" <marcy@merrillphoto.com>
> Date: Tue, March 01, 2005 9:49 am
> To: pinhole-discussion@spitbite.org>
> Okay you buncha geniuses, I poked through the archives and couldn't find
> anything about scanning long negatives. I've made a pinhole camera using an
> old Kodak movie can. www.merrillphoto.com/canorama.htm
> It's got 20 holes and uses 35mm film. So, there's one exposure on a piece of
> film that's about 2 feet long. I've got a scanner that'll scan negatives up to
> 5x7. So I can scan this negative in bits and paste it together. My problem is
> that each scan is slightly different and the end result shows where everything
> was pasted....AND it takes too darn long ... AND it doesn't look very good. Is
> there a better way? I suppose I could make a contact print and scan that and I
> might have a little bit better result. Thanks in advance! -Marcy
>
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