I am glad this is a common issue and it looks like there are lots of ideas. I like the proposed dynamic area that automatically shows all selected photos, but it should be an option, not a replacement for the context of seeing where in the sequence images lie.
Allowing the user to adjust the height of the tab section and thus control how many lines are displayed would solve the how many to show dilemma. While on this topic, a more direct way to find a specific image would be useful. Many CAD systems let users right click through a stacked layer of parts to select hidden objects. A similar right click option to cycle thru stacked photos, identify the number of a selected photo, and perhaps most importantly, allow editing of some sort would be great. Being able to directly remove a selected image from the project via the preview pane once selected, either thru the tab at top or a new right click option is a good first start to weed out bad images. Allowing masks to be drawn in preview will allow much greater continuity and speed for tweeking multi row images. Being able to crop all the moving heads from the upper row of a pano shot in a crowd quickly would be nice. Same goes for moving clouds between rows. There would obviously need to be some method of selecting which image or images to apply masks to. Adding control points would be another obvious feature to add to the preview tool once images can be directly selected. A zoom function would make placement a lot more accurate. The current scroll wheel field of view change(when they are selected) is mostly useless as is is not used often and the manual slider is much more accurate when needed. I'm sure zooming is a heavy set of computations, but resizing the window works like a charm, I don't see why this should be that different. An even more exotic control point feature would be an auto find feature that takes a user selected point on 1 image and searches nearby areas in all stacked photos for similar points. A dynamic threshold that starts lower than normal (after all, these points were probably not found in the origional search) and increases based on the angular distance (not pixel distance) from the chosen point. I have found selecting the exact same point on stacked photos, especially architectural ones with hard lines helps mediocre alignment projects, but gets time consuming when 5 or more images stack. It is these heavily overlapped corners that such a feature helps with most by getting everything to converge on 1 point. Being able to see control points that only tie to a single image could help root out bad images as the current implementation gets overwhelmed in large projects. A feature to sort by worst average control point distance for an entire image would also point out trouble images better than the worst pairs list in the control points tab. Well that got a bit out of hand, I hope I don't kill a good thread. I know feature requests are a dime a dozen, but the new fast preview is so good in my opinion that it deserves a spot in the creation chain, not just to check results. On Jan 13, 8:21 am, kevin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 13, 3:36 am, kfj <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > I sympathize. In complex multi-sequence situations with large numbers > > of images, trying to identify images by looking at 'which number > > lights up' (or reverse) is a pain, since often the numbers for the > > image one wants to identify are outside the currently displayed range. > > This has often annoyed me. But where does one draw a line? 100 images? > > 200? two rows? three? maybe there's a better way altogether? > > > Kay > > > On 13 Jan., 05:54, Sigma Relief <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Just a minor request for the GUI on the fast preview feature in > > > windows; make the numbered tabs closer together when there are more > > > images. The old version could fit 50+ on a 1600 pixel wide screen > > > while fast preview fits 40 with large spacing between tabs. Reducing > > > spacing would be a good easy start. Wrapping to a 2nd or 3rd line > > > would make identifying images easier as it eliminates having to > > > continually scroll back and forth when using the identify feature. At > > > least in Windows, there is plenty of room for 3 rows of numbers, 1 > > > above the current row and 1 where the horizontal scroll bar is. A > > > small vertical scroll bar could be used for more than 3 rows. > > > > Are there any simple variables a user could tweak to improve this? > > > > I'm not sure if there is an official feature request area so any > > > pointers would be appreciated. > > What about in addition to the row with the scroll bar there's a line > where the numbers change. If there's no mouse on an image the area is > blank, when the mouse moves over images that area is used to show > which image numbers are currently highlighted and they can be colored > just like the scrolled row is. -- 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
