Thank you for the reply, T. Modes -- that's a great feature to know about. I'm not experienced in it's use, so I apologize if I'm missing something, but "Edit CP" seems to have a few problems for my use-case:
- (this is the biggest issue:) I can select a rectangle, but it applies in the same position to all the images; the value of masks is that if a tree branch blows into a chosen area, I can mask it out on an image. For a complex set of images, with branches blowing around and so forth, I need to mask each image a little differently, and this is where having a real "only consider making points here" mask would be much easier to work with compared to the exclusion masks (or the Edit CP approach) - similarly, when the images move a lot relative to each other the rectangle isn't always overlapping the same region in each image - I can only draw rectangles, which makes it a little difficult to work with strangely shaped areas (which is easy to do with masks) - the fast preview window is pretty low-resolution (compared to the mask editing window) so it's hard to draw an accurate rectangle (it's hard to see references like thin tree branches that disappear in the low-res preview version of the image.) To be more clear, the use-case is this: a picture of waterfall behind many trees. There is a steady, relatively unmoving part of the image: that of the rocks on either side of the waterfall. But there is the moving water, and the many trees that are blowing around. I go through all the images and mask everything out except the steady rocks. This works great, it just takes a really long time to do for 20 images, with lots of tree branches in various positions, etc. I have to make 6-8 masks per image and adjust many of them to fit each individual image. Then I have to individually remove every single mask when done making the CPs. Here's an example image: http://caseyconnor.org/pub/image/scall-take2.jpg You can see how most of that image consists of moving, dynamic stuff that has to be masked out differently in each frame, while there is still a solid, unmoving part of the image which is also in different parts of each frame depending on the branches, etc. I understand if this is not a high priority, and maybe it's difficult to code the "only make CPs here" mask; maybe not many people use Hugin for alignment. But such a mask would be really handy in these situations! It would really help to have a "remove all masks" button, though. :-) Thanks for the consideration, -c -- 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/502903ae-8f6d-401a-9140-dfa02968c969%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
