Thanks a lot for commenting. I can't say that PTA works flawlessly all the time. Sometimes it even does very strange things. I guess I'm too much of a beginner right now. But I do know, that I could not stitch the shown image flawlessly in PhotoVista. It keept making small errors in stitching the buildings (some lines didn't intersect properly), which I had to correct later in PS. Parlty due to the fact that i did not use a Nodal Point adapter. The shown PTA panorama is not basically altered (the buildings) later. Only the people at the side walk cafés, who changed position between shots, have subsequently been corrected i PS (by pasting in parts of the original images). And I had to work on the sky, which had diffent shades of blue, leaving vertical stripes a few places. This procedure (pasting in parts of the original image) is BTW very easy in PhotoVista, because the "large file" saving has the same size as the original images.
I'm glad you like PhotVista. So do I, except it can't really do vertical pano'es - only two images on top of each other. I geuss the big difference is that PTA can actually morph together images. If they don't fit right, PTA will make them fit :-) Regards Jens Bladt -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Herb Chong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 22. oktober 2005 13:33 Til: [email protected] Emne: Re: PhotoVista 3.5 vs. PTAssembler i find PTAssembler wildly unpredictable about things that are supposed to be straight, like horizons, and terrible at blending. i can always find the blend line between each frame. PhotoVista is the best of what i have tried, and i have tried at least a dozen, commercial or otherwise. Panorama Maker and Stitcher Express are second best. i can't remember what Panorama Factory does, but i know that i never bought a copy after trying the demo. VR Toolbox does OK, but it never worked reliably for me, crashing occasionally. it did produce QTVR files properly though, which used to matter to me, but not much anymore. Ulead 360 uses much too small a part of the screen area and provided no zoom capability, so it was next to impossible to effectively override the automatic stitching. none of the Panorama Tools derived software blends well enough for me so i gave up on all of them, even if they can detect and correct distortion the best. PhotoVista 3.5 is the best tool i have so far except for two things - no 16-bit support, and limited output file formats. i'm going to try Panorama Maker again because they announced 16-bit support and output of layered Photoshop files in their newest version. Herb.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jens Bladt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2005 5:35 AM Subject: OT: PhotoVista 3.5 vs. PTAssembler > Take a look at the very diffent paniramas I made from the exact same 12 > shots: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/bladt/54801567/ > > To me, the one made in PTA seem to be mopr consitant with the real world > as > I remeber it.
