On Fri, 4 Nov 2011 01:40:04 -0700 (PDT), kfj wrote: > If the scene isn't static, you'll have a very hard time 'stitching' it > together: it's like trying to make a garment from wrongly-cut pieces > of material. I'd say the problem is ill-posed. What you need isn't a > panorama stitcher but an optical system that captures all the moving > bits in one go. > > Yet I'm curious to hear a few good tips on fixing the horizon > 'manually', even though I usually manage to get the horizon right, > sacrificing precision elsewhere in the stitch.
It's mostly fairly basic stuff: cloning, occasionally cut and paste. I generally prefer the clone tool, usually with a soft round brush of an appropriate size for the amount of correction I need to make. I did everything I could think of, including lots of horizontal CPs, to try to clean up the horizon, but nothing completely worked. For the horizon correction in my Provincetown panorama, it was no more than a 5 pixel brush. The error was only about 1 pixel, but that's enough to create a visible discontinuity in a sharp horizon. But sometimes I have a much bigger error; there's also a panorama of balloons in Reno, where the balloons themselves moved between shots. I used brushes of 50 and 200 pixel diameter to fix those. And there's another mountain panorama with our dog in the lower left corner; there was a crack in the rock that required a lot of work to fix (and some synthesized rock and sky in the corners). -- Robert Krawitz <[email protected]> Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2 Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- http://ProgFree.org Project lead for Gutenprint -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton -- 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
