Making and Correcting a Panorama

In this tutorial you will use both Paint Shop Photo Album and Paint Shop Pro 8. In

Photo Album you will make a panorama using the images Parliament 1.jpg and

Parliament 2.jpg. This image will need some correction, so you will jump to Paint

Shop Pro to fix the image. The before and after images are shown below:

You will complete the following tasks:

� Open the album that contains the images

� Select the images that you want to make into a panorama

� Create the panorama

� Crop the panorama

� Save the panorama

� Open the image in Paint Shop Pro

� Run the OneStepPhotoFix script

� Correct the Barrel Distortion and save the image

Before

After

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Create the Panorama

It is recommended that you complete this tutorial with the sample image used in

this tutorial. However, You can use your own image if you choose.

In this tutorial you will use the imagses Parliament 1.jpg and Parliament 2.jpg. If

you haven’t already downloaded these files, you can download them from the

Learning Center at www.Jasc.com.

1 Open Paint Shop Photo Album.

2 Select the images Parliament 1.jpg and Parliament 2.jpg.

3 Click Panorama on the toolbar to open the Panorama window.

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4 Let’s make sure we have the correct settings for this panorama. Click the

Settings button on the left side of the Panorama window.

5 Mark the Cylindrical Projection option. Perspective Projection is best used for

narrow to medium width horizontal panoramas. It is also well suited for vertical

scenes such as buildings, trees, poles, or other tall objects.

6 Mark the Sharp Blend option. This option is good when images align poorly due

to severe camera tilt, movement, or other changes between image pairs. It does

not provide as much exposure correction, so the transition between image pairs

is usually sharper.

7 Click the Create button on the left side of the Panorama window to create a

single panoramic image.

8 When the operation is complete, the finished picture displays in a new window.

The image assembled by the operation may have “ragged” edges on the sides

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indicating the recommended cropping rectangle due to the slight variation in the

camera angle between shots.

9 Click Crop to crop the image and remove the ragged edges.

10 Let’s save the image before we jump to Paint Shop Pro. Choose File > Save to

open the Save Image dialog. Enter the File name for the image Parliament

Panorama.jpg, choose JPEG (*.jpg) from the Save as Type drop-down list, and

then choose Low (Highest Compression) from the Quality Level drop-down

list. This compression setting will reduce the file size.

11 Click Save to save the image.

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Fix the Panorama

1 Now were going to open the image in Paint Shop Pro and correct some of the

problems with this image. Choose File > Jump to Paint Shop Pro.

2 The image automatically opens in Paint Shop Pro.

Note: Your workspace may look different than the one shown below.

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3 Notice that this image looks a little dark. We can quickly fix this image by

running the OneStepPhotoFix script. From the Script drop-down list, choose

OneStepPhotoFix and then click the Run Selected Script button.

4 The script automatically corrects the color balance, contrast, saturation, clarity,

sharpness, and the edges.

Note:

To open the Script toolbar,

choose View > Toolbars >

Script.

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5 Notice that the image looks curved. That is called a Barrel Distortion. We can

correct this problem using one of the lens correction tools. Choose Adjust Lens

Correction > Barrel Distortion to open the Barrel Distortion dialog.

6 Before we correct the distortion, click the Zoom Out button on the dialog to view

the entire image. Then click the Auto Proof button. This will allow you to see

the correction on the original image as you make adjustments.

7 Adjust the Strength of the correction. Too much strength can further distort the

image, and too little doesn’t correct it. A strength of 75 seems to work well.

8 Click OK to apply the correction.

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9 Choose File > Save to save the image with the same file name.

Summary

You have just learned how easy it is to use Paint Shop Photo Album to create a

panorama from two separate images. You then jumped to Paint Shop Pro and

quickly applied advanced corrections to the image.