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05/07/2007 06:03:30 PM · #26 |
Originally posted by pawdrix:
Originally posted by _eug:
Wow. That didn't come out well at all... Crisp sharp diagnol lines, no blending between images. WTH?
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Tryptich Outtake? Is that a Hugin? |
HA! I wish. Yes, it's a Hugin. The Autostitch version is:
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05/07/2007 06:04:32 PM · #27 |
I use Autopano Pro (www.autopano.com), which is very different from the old command line autopano program. With Autopano pro you get the "auto" of the old one together with lots of manual control and options. It even does HDR stitching! For those of you who haven't tried, the automatic feature of this software is good enough to let it loose on a whole folder. It will figure out which photos belong together and align them for you. All left to do is to fiddle with colour, crop, rotation, projection etc. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
I've also used Photoshop CS2's Automate -> Photomerge. It pretends to auto-align, but is not very good at it. Not recommended, but may work for very simple stitches (2-3 images).
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05/07/2007 06:05:11 PM · #28 |
Originally posted by _eug:
Wow. That didn't come out well at all... Crisp sharp diagnol lines, no blending between images. WTH?
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This done with Hugin? Just be advised you need to have all the parts they talk about installed and operating and THEN you have to navigate the blizzard of not particularly well documented controls they have for it. You'll get there... just keep telling yourself it is all free. :)
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05/07/2007 06:20:52 PM · #29 |
This panorama was taken hand held (thus the uneven horizon) and stitched in Photoshop. I had to do a little blending (not too much though) because the camera was not set to manual. I didn't think it was too bad for my first effort. |
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05/07/2007 06:27:11 PM · #30 |
OK, I've run a two-image test on Hugin, using the Panotools stitcher (not the built-in "nona" stitcher). I already had Panotools installed, so I just pointed Hugin at my PTStitcher.exe file, and away it went. I did not use Enblend, just let Hugin do its work. I did not try automatic control point placement, I did it manually.
First and foremost... holy cats, if I didn't know I was interacting with Hugin, I would have assumed I was using PTGUI. The interfaces are nearly identical. They are in fact so close that there has to be some relationship between the programs.
The main differences that I saw between them were:
- Hugin has a large number of output mappings, many more than the few available in PTGUI.
- The control point placement interface looks very similar but acts differently. I like the PTGUI interface better (magnifies the area under inspection as the mouse is moved, no need to click "add" for every point). Both PTGUI and Hugin find the related point in the other image very reliably. They seem to find the point with little problem and are normally deadly accurate.
- What Hugin calls "preview," PTGUI calls "Panorama Editor." The PTGUI version is much more powerful, allowing you to rotate and shift the pano intuitively. This, for me, is a great plus, allowing for precise control of rotation and vertical position of the as-stitched image; no need to tweak later.
- Both programs have their own built-in stitching engine, but the Panotools engine is better than either; both of these programs can use the Panotools engine. Speed is pretty much identical between the two, using the panotools engine. No big surprise there.
- On my two-shot test, both PTGUI and Hugin produced average mismatches of just under 0.5 pixels. After blending, the stitch line is completely invisible on either version, with absolutely no retouching necessary. |
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05/09/2007 04:51:04 PM · #31 |
| OK, just tried PTGUI.... and DANG. It rocks! |
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05/09/2007 05:06:00 PM · #32 |
Originally posted by tryals15:
OK, just tried PTGUI.... and DANG. It rocks! |
For this, we have one person to thank. Helmut Dersch. He pretty much wrote the Panotools stitching engine from scratch, and took development forward until he was sued by those idiots at ipix. Luckily for us, development based on the public code for Panotools has continued, to the benefit of photographers everywhere. It is still the best stitching engine there is, bar none. |
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05/09/2007 05:26:43 PM · #33 |
Another vote for Autostitch...
Downloaded it a couple of days ago and went out into the garden to test it out. Very Impressed!
Not the greatest of shots, but I can only spot one small blending anomoly. This was shot at 28mm. normally, from that view point in portrait orientation, I can frame the house and not much else! Total of 9 images.
A bit of distortion, but at such close quarters with my subject, I expected it to be worse! |
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05/10/2007 06:21:53 PM · #34 |
Originally posted by tryals15:
OK, just tried PTGUI.... and DANG. It rocks! |
Proof of the 'dang'ness... =]
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