How to make a panorama picture using only cellphone camera

It’s been long time since my last post. I’m quite busy lately with my college work. But finally I have sometime off, now I want to share some knowledge. Being poor college student and can’t afford $1000 camera doesn’t mean you can’t make a good panorama picture. I will show you how to make one with just cellphone camera (any camera will do) and two software (Windows Live Photo Gallery and Photoshop CS5). Photoshop CS5 is optional, but if you want to fix the picture with relative ease, there’s new feature in Photoshop CS5 called Content Aware Fill.

Okay, first you need several pictures of same location in different angle. In my example I take pictures inside of my university mosque.

Nice picture right? FYI this picture taken with Nokia 6288 with 2 Megapixel camera. A very outdated phone, but still do it’s job.

We need to stitch the picture together to make a panoramic looks. Open Windows Live Photo Gallery, it’s freeware courtesy of Windows Live.

Select the picture you want to stitch together, and from the toolbar choose Make and Create Panoramic Photo. Wait several seconds till your picture ready and save the results.

You’re almost done!.  The black corner is the angle that is not included in source picture. You can fix that by take the picture of that angle or just let Photoshop CS5 fill the blank.

Open your panoramic picture with Photoshop CS5

Select the black section with Magic Wand Tool, go to Edit and choose Fill (Shift+F5).

Make sure you use Content-Aware and click OK. Let’s Photoshop do it’s magic.

Done!.

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