On Sunday, June 19, 2016 at 5:53:51 PM UTC-4, Gloom Demon wrote: > > What is the difference between making panoramas in Hugin and doing them in > Photoshop (GIMP)? > > Does Photoshop make them better? If not - why the hassle? >
I've used both for many years, and found several advantages of Hugin over Photoshop (CC 2014): 1) The ability to edit control points. With Photoshop you click the button and the software does the rest; if it mis-assigns control points you can't do anything about it. With Hugin you can find and delete erroneous control points and manually add new ones. (See, for example, my skyscapes here: http://kwhillig.zenfolio.com/p1032900952 - all of which required manually matching stars in overlapping images to generate control points. The results from Photoshop were highly amusing...) 2) Control over the projection. Photoshop has a very limited set of projections available, Hugin has many more - for example Panini and Thoby, both of which I've used. If you want to see whether a fisheye or cylindrical or equisolid or Mercator projection gives you the look you want, use Hugin. 3) Incremental refinement. Since I shoot most panoramas hand-held there are often parallax errors in the near foreground (generally in unimportant areas). So I start by optimizing only positions, then recenter and level the result, then delete bad control points and manually add new ones as needed, then go on to add the view and barrel distortion followed by one more round of control point editing, and then finish with "Everything Except Position". This almost always succeeds in cases where full optimization in one step fails - and when iterative refinement fails it's usually because I've included a bad image. That said, Photoshop is very good for things that Hugin isn't designed to do; and in many cases it does generate excellent panoramas. But if you need to tweak the parameters to get what you want, then you should use Hugin. My usual workflow is this: Raw -> Photoshop ACR -> 16-bit TIFF -> Hugin -> 16-bit TIFF -> Photoshop -> Print -- A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hugin and other free panoramic software" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/hugin-ptx/26294ff7-20e4-4370-9f10-3f57b7716fe5%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
