evilestpenguin wrote:Thanks for all the tips. What I am trying to stitch together are map images (which are perfectly aligned to simply placing them together will do the trick). I can't really reduce the quality, as that will make a lot of the smaller roads and roadnames too blurry.
I can try splitting it into 2 images though, and just having 2 seperate maps. The size of the image is seeming to be a problem.
No offense ment to the gents above but Panoramafactory has issues, and for what your asking it to do you have to look in a few other places.
First is AutoStitch, You will likely need JPegs. The kind of image you are talking about can be extremely large, You will need to have it set to .25 gigs of ram so that it will force yoru cpu to create more blocks instead of fewer. This will give you the best chance of not getting out of memory errors. Also you will need a HUGE scratch disk space 15-20 gigs free.
Autostitch
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html
AutoPano Pro, Autostitch's comercial big badass brother. 10x the power far more versitile, will run you about 120 EU. Save/render the image as a PSD, if you save as a Jpeg it will have to load the images into memory and work form there. You will likely have out of memory errors when producing the image larger than a 25% setting. Rendering in PSD should solve that. *note* my 140 image pano took 5 hours to render with three gigs of ram.
autopano pro
http://www.autopano.net/
Finally the Fully manual solution to your needs. PTAssembler
This is a time consuming but fully manual and worth while program to know.
PTAssembler, You'll need various other tidbits, and instruction pdf's.
http://www.tawbaware.com/ptasmblr.htm
link to my 140 image stitch, before and after.