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Thank you! It's 4 photos, combined using AutoStitch. Shot with an ancient (circa 2009) mirrorless camera. Modern high-end phones are far superior to my camera in terms of sensor and processing, but I'm too cheap to buy high-end phones :-)

http://matthewalunbrown.com/autostitch/autostitch.html

I find it works about as well as photomerge in Lightroom, and much more quickly/cpu efficient. It also lets you specify output size so you don’t end up with massive, unwieldy final products. I just make sure to have done most of my curves and white balancing before using autostitch, as it only exports compressed file format like jpeg.

1. In-game, press F11. This hides the UI. Turn on dev mode and hide the fog. This gives you a full-view of the map.
2. Zoom all the way out and go around the map, taking screenshots of everything. If you're using Steam, press F12. On Windows, Start+PrtScn saves to "My Images". You need about 6-7 for a medium sized map.

Try not to screenshot too much of the black borders, it messes up the next step. 3. Get Autostitch and select your screenshots. It'll output one large image called pano.jpg. 4. Post for karma!

Panoramic Shot of Desolation Wilderness

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Went for a hike last weekend and tried to take a panorama. Used the free program Autostitch and thought it turned out pretty good. There is a little bit of weirdness in the foreground blending. Also, I shot on aperature priority mode, maybe I should have used manual to keep shutter speed constant.

Shot on olympus em10.2, w/ oly 12-40 lens. 9 images used to make this panorama, all shot at 14mm on tripod, f/8, ISO 200, 1/800 - 1/1000 sec.

Ahh... I remember using - I'm pretty sure it was Autostitch - back in the day, before the lazy option of using panorama mode on the phone arrived. Though that's obviously quite some quality level below your SLR!

Can you dump the screenshots into a program like autostitch (free old version available) http://matthewalunbrown.com/autostitch/autostitch.html

That may get rid of the blue fade at the bottom of each image making it look seamless.

I'd highly recommend using Autostitch. It's an amazing free program that's super easy to use. Just select the pictures and it does the rest. It'll automatically adjust the images so that you don't see the boundaries like that.

Here is software to automate

http://matthewalunbrown.com/autostitch/autostitch.html

I would suggest putting markers to more easily stitch the images. I think called aruco markers

http://jevois.org/moddoc/DemoArUco/modinfo.html

Place these on top of the other board face you are not photographing.

I agree with the others to move the board not the camera, you can get more consistent lighting only one area at a time.

I've never tried this but should be a good place to start

Also you can zoom in the scope and take a bunch of connected pictures and put them together as one big picture with this:

http://matthewalunbrown.com/autostitch/autostitch.html

The free demo version should be all you need. Just select all of the individual pictures and it will spit out the combined one. It defaults to putting the end result on your desktop but you can change that in settings.

I wanted to share this composite photo that I took with a "pluggable usb microscope" and stitched together with http://matthewalunbrown.com/autostitch/autostitch.html Thanks u/LulzTopKekker for the suggestion and instructions!

Bonus: Scroll down in the imgur album for a bonus 1964 Quarter that I found about two weeks ago.

Here's the link:

http://matthewalunbrown.com/autostitch/autostitch.html

The free demo version should be all you need. Just select all of the individual pictures and it will spit out the combined one. It defaults to putting the end result on your desktop but you can change that in settings.

Nice. I'd recommend also trying out AutoStitch. It does a great job of aligning/blending and the demo version worked quite well for me in the past.

I used a free software program called Autostitch (http://matthewalunbrown.com/autostitch/autostitch.html), which does all of the work for you. I have had great success using this software, but it is not foolproof. The most important thing is taking all of your photos from the exact same viewpoint. So, I put the camera up to my eye and snapped 6 photos at a high viewpoint, scanning from left to right. Then I moved the camera's viewpoint down a bit, and snapped 6 more, scanning from left to right. Continue in this way until you have all of your photos. It's tough if there are moving clouds/shadows/people/etc. So you are best to snap photos quickly and efficiently to get the best results.

I would also try Autostitch and Microsoft Image Composite Editor. ICE is quick, easy, but sometimes isn't the smoothest. Autostitch is still the best, but a little more touchy.