Hi Harry et al. I generally stitch multiple exposure sequences with PTGui, as that gives me what seems an intelligible choice: either share CPs across exposures or align each image with independent CPs; while I can't make head or tail of the options in Hugin. I think the Hugin UI needs some serious work in this area, so everyone can have a nice tool like ImageFuser.
With Hugin I tend to stitch first, then spend too much time fixing ghosts by hand. But that is mainly because I can't understand how to do it the other way, which based on this thread, I guess must be better. Are you fully satisfied with align_image_stack? I have noticed some complaints as well as much praise in the lists. Not being a user of it myself, but interested in image alignment problems as a developer, I wonder if you or others could suggest what are its main limitations? I imagine a fine-aligner using correlation (as opposed to control points) might be a helpful addition to align_image_stack. Or does it already do that? Regards, Tom On May 23, 5:18 am, Harry van der Wolf <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Dave, > > I also fuse first (but maybe I'm a bit biased being the writer of the > ImageFuser tool). > The reason I do this is that Hugin has sometimes difficulties in finding > CP's between the very dark and light images in such bracketed sets. It is > sometimes also hard to do that by hand. In that case prefusing the helps a > lot. > > As an addition to what Gerry said about hand-held images: You can use > align_image_stack to perfectly align your bracketed photos before fusing > them. The better fusing gui's come with align_image_stack and do support > that. > > Harry > > 2009/5/23 Peter Gawthrop <[email protected]> > > > > > Hi Dave, > > > I fuse first. The reason is that, in my case, each set of eight > > images is taken with exactly the same settings (using manual > > mode). The other advantage is that selecting control points for the > > fused images is easy as all of the image is visible. > > > Peter. > > > From: DaveN <[email protected]> > > Subject: [hugin-ptx] Fusing before or after > > Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 17:50:04 -0700 (PDT) > > > > I don't know if this has been asked before (hard question to ask in a > > > search) but why don't people fuse their images before making > > > panoramas? By that I mean the software for making panoramas (the > > > hugin clone ptgui and autopano pro) seem to remap all the images to > > > create differently exposed panoramas and then blend the panoramas. > > > Wouldn't it be more efficient to exposure fuse the images and then > > > make the panorama? > > > > ______________________________________________ > > > This email has been scanned by Netintelligence > > >http://www.netintelligence.com/email --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hugin and other free panoramic software" group. A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
