In previous landscapes, I used a proprietary panorama-stitching program that came with my Canon camera, but it’s too outdated to run on my PC these days, so I downloaded a freeware program, the Image Composite Editor from Microsoft Research, which was simplicity itself to use, and automatically stitched together the 12 or so images perfectly without requiring any adjustments from me. The easiest method is to make left-hand edge of the picture the due East position in your landscape, and this is the method I mostly use, although it’s not the most accurate. It requires a 2:1 landscape picture with the horizon line centred vertically. I mostly make what’s known as a ‘spherical panorama’ as this is by far the easiest landscape to create. There are two main parts to making a landscape – the first is to create a panoramic image from a series of photographs taken from the centre of the site. This time round, I used two programs that I hadn’t used before, and I actually found the process much easier than previous attempts. It does become quite time-consuming, but it’s very satisfying when you do get it to work. It’s been quite a while since I created a Stellarium landscape, and I’d forgotten quite how much fiddling around was involved. I’ve just made two new stone circle landscapes for Stellarium, the free planetarium software.
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