Philip Webb wrote: > 120510 Dale wrote: >> Philip Webb wrote: >>> I have a lot of images scanned from old negatives of non-standard sizes, >>> which I had to split up into halves or quarters to process; >>> I was careful to use the same settings for each of the sub-parts. >>> Now I want to reassemble them into the original whole pictures. >> I have used hugin but it has been a while. >> As long as you have enough points tied together, it works fine. >> I have taken as many as 30 pictures and stitched them together. >> I had three rows of 10. It was of a park and it looked great when done. >> It took a couple tries to get it just right but it did a good job >> and that was a good size project. Doing 4 or 5 pictures is pretty easy. >> Lots of overlap is the key tho. > > 120510 Alex Shuster wrote : >> I'd use ImageMagick's montage command. >> You have to find out how exactly to do this, but once you know this, >> you can automate this and process them all at once in a loop. >> See http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/ >> and esp http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/montage/ > > Thanks to both ! -- Imagemagick looks as if it's very technical > & I'm not sure how it would handle matching overlapping photos. > That is what Corbet described doing & Dale seems to have done, > so I'll emerge Hugin & see what it can do. > > As I now notice, the negatives I want to use right now are not split, > but there are many others which are, so this wb useful eventually. >
The biggest things about hugin, 1) learning to use the thing 2) patience. The more control points you get, the better it will turn out. Whatever you do, don't leave a control point that is not matched up. Talk about a weird picture. lol It only takes one too. First thing, load your pics. I usually load them in the sequence they need to be matched up with. When you have one image on the left, a different but connectible image on the right, do one control point manually. After the first one, you can pick a point on one image and it will find it on the other automagically. If it gives a error, add the point then delete it. That's where the weird pictures can come in. This varies but I try to get at least 10 or 12 points. That is a minimum. If you have the patience and really want a good picture, get 30 points or more. I would suggest reading a howto with screen shots. If you need help, let me know. It's been a while but I will try. Oh, hugin can be complicated to. It has a lot of settings and options. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"
