I have'nt tried Hugin yet but on surface, it seems difficult to operate. Am
I correct?I've played quite a bit with AutoPano Pro and found it very easy
to use with both good and bad features.
On the plus side, you can dump a lot of material in it (both horizontal and
vertical mixed) and it will digest it with no hassle. I shows the
contribution of each component picture and blends rather well differences in
hue and luminosity.
On the minus side, it is sloppy when trying to merge differences in
angle-of-view and it does not provide access to the individual layers. So
one can spend quite a bit of time adjusting the panorama after running
AutoPano. This also was a problem with AutoStitch.
Guy
----- Original Message -----
From: "karl shah-jenner" <shahjen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students"
<photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 7:18 AM
Subject: Re: new photostitch freeware
: i belive none is as easy & good as AutoPano Pro....
: can anyone recify if this one is ???
spotted elsewhere :
It seems a French company has licensed the autostitch algorithms for use
in Autopano Pro. I've just started giving the demo a try. Seems to have
lot's of features, but given what little time I've had driving it, it's a
bit rough around the edges. Definitely a 1.x release
ah, confirmed:
http://www.autopano.net/faq
"Autopano Pro is a commercial version of Autostitch using a licensed
professional version of the SIFT algorithm "
for ease though, autostitches method of pointing to a folder and clicking
'go' is hard to beat! ;)
Autopano is probably better than autostitch even though it uses the same
SIFT algorithm as they probably did more to the interface to make it
easier
for people to use.
the algorithms in Hugin (enblend blender and nona stitcher) are different
to autostitch/autopano pro but you can see the results and read a review
here:
http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/08/22/148209&tid=75
looking again at this reviewers image I can see banding that autostitch
and
probably autopano eliminate better, but throwing messy images with lost of
detail at it, hugin perfoprmed better in my first attempt at playing with
it than autostitch..
Again though, Hugin and Autostitch are both free for anyone who cares to
download them so for students who might want to experiment with an image
of
two, autostitch or Hugin might suit them, and for intricate non-sky shots,
hugin may outperform both autostitch and autopano .
Of course, just like with sharpening algorithms, different algorithms
perform better with different subjects.
k
