I spent the last few days trying to use Hugin and Gimp to create a panorama from 4 photos.
Hugin: I installed Hugin (v 2010.0.0.5045) from the Debian testing repositories. I found Hugin very complex and not very intuitive. I am sure it is very powerful given all the options. I could not get the assistant to create merge points automatically, even after installing a different plugin. The tips at the end of this article https://panospace.wordpress.com/2010/09/26/the-quest-is-over/ were the most helpful. I tried using autopano-complete and autopano-c-sift from the command line to create the points (lots of output, no errors), which seemed to work. However, the resulting panorama was worthless. I also tried manually entering the points, but never got a panorama out of it. Gimp: I tried the panorama plugin, which worked. I then pulled out my Gimp book (Beginning Gimp by Akkana Peck, Apres 2006) and followed her manual process for creating the panorama, and it worked very well. The only problem is that I have a vertical shadow where the images are joined together. Sent an email to the Gimp users list to see how to remove it. I am a gimp novice. IMO, Gimps' manual method was the easiest to create a panorama from a couple of images. YMMV. If I had to do this for a living, then i would spend the time to learn Hugin and make it work. However, after several google searches and reading different articles, I gave up as it was taking too much time. Mark On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Denis Heidtmann <[email protected]>wrote: > What photo stitching software do people recommend? Pandora plug-in for > GIMP, > Hugin, enblend, and photoxx are listed in Synaptic. Anybody have > experience > with any of these? I have a few pix I took as panoramas, and I would like > to put them together. I have done this before using sw that came with my > camera (Canon), but that only works in Windows, and I would like to avoid > that if I can. > > Thanks, > -Denis > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
