Somewhere in the Mediterranean — I admit it , when set for the MacMania sail I was in a bit of a boot — enfold up my stateside work and prepping my presentation for the cruise . As such I did n’t tamp down my PowerBook as completely as I might have . Specifically , I neglected to include the photo - sewing prick for my camera . yield the number of bird’s-eye views I ’ve meet on our ocean trip , this was a big error .
But , by Neptune ’s beard , I ’m on aGeek Cruiseand if I ca n’t detect a way to manipulate it with the shaft provided by Apple , I deserve to be set adrift .
After some experiment , I managed to stitch together a serial of images from myCanon PowerShot S3IS . Granted , they ’re not as attractively sew together as they would be with a creature designed for that aim ( or with a written matter of Photoshop ) , but for a warm and dirty stitch , they ’re not spoilt . Here ’s how I did it .
Using the camera ’s Stitch musical mode I snapped five sequent images of the Colosseum . After clean them up in iPhoto , I open up Apple ’s Pages , chose the Blank guide , used Page Setup to create a customs duty page size of 35 - inch by 11 - inches ( so that I ’d have plenty of room for create a wide image ) , haul each part of the stitch from the Media internet browser onto the varlet , and line them up in a scene . ( take note to nitpickers : I characterize this as “ warm and dirty ” for a very good reason . I understand that this technique does n’t warp the images so that they line up perfectly . )
After grouping the look-alike I open up File - > Export and redeem the document as a PDF file .
iPhoto want nothing to do with the resulting PDF file so I opened it in Preview . From there , it was the piece of work of a moment to choose File - > Save As and , in the result flat solid , quality TIFF from the Format menu , and save .
I imported the double into iPhoto , spread out it in the plan ’s icon editor program , and broke out the Crop dick to shave off the rough edge . This made the multiple images look more like one , but there was all - too - obvious banding in the sky . To look at with it I pick out the Retouch tool — a tool most people book for removing blemishes and old age spots .
I prefer it not because the Colosseum was showing its historic period , but because the Retouch tool can handle very approximate blending — just what I needed to get disembarrass of the banding in the sky . There was no room to go the chocolate-brown bit within the Colosseum itself , but those bit work to my advantage . They were rough and jag enough to overlay up the seam between motion picture .
measured diligence of the Retouch cock cleaned up the sky so that the view was satisfactory for utilisation in an iMovie project I was preparing . plot , set , match .
Would Photoshop have done a undecomposed task ?
dead .
Does every Macintosh ship with a copy of Photoshop ?
Absolutely not .
When the departure gets rough , the geek get going with the prick on script .
