----- Original Message ----- From: "Peeter Vissak" <pv@xxxxxx> To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 4:45 Subject: once again - panorama creating : Hi! : : I couldn't find any reasonable references about PanoTools/Hugin/PTStitcher : , so I ask the forum: : What am I doing wrong, if the output image (hopefully panorama of 3 : separate images) is only one of these 3, although the programs do a lot of : computing and I give a lot of input into different interfaces? : In every step it has logical and self-explaining dialogues and : check-menus, which I fill in. : I am pleased with the match-points it creates. : But the result is simply one of these component files. : : Might the reason be in orientation? I try to stitch 'portrait'-oriented : files. : Although I guess it shouldn't matter. : : Or - alternatively - could anyone suggest any other panorama creating : freeware? : autostitch - www.autostitch.net first go to edit>options and set the image size in pixels you want* and if you're working with portrait images select rotate clockwise (so it'll arange them horizontally then you can rotate the image back when it's finished) then set jpeg quality to 100. then file>open (point it to the folder where the images are.. it's generally smart enough to find the most useful images it can work with) then hit start the pano.jpg will appear in the directory when it's done. *try setting a small size first to see how it performs have a look at the examples on the autostitch site - for freeware it does an amazing job. a review with examples: http://www.dansdata.com/quickshot031.htm a comment "Autostitch. I've tried using panorama software before, but was always disappointed. Despite using a tripod and a careful set up, a lot of photo sets gave poor results. I suppose if I made a career out of it I could have done better - I know a lot of people obtain excellent results with existing programs, probably because they put the time and effort into it. Also, most stitching programs only work with one vertical or horizontal row. Now, alone comes a program whose performance not only blows away all other programs, but is the easiest to use program ever. Simply dump ALL your pictures in a folder, and put Autostitch to work. It will find all connecting images, be they rotated or whatever, and make a great looking panorama out of them with NO manually intervention. It rarely gets confused, can stitch any number of rows and columns, and can handle an enormous number of pictures. I've heard of it handling up to 60 images!" from http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1018&message=12018470 I've recommended this before in PF and noted that http://www.autopano.net/faq "Autopano Pro is a commercial version of Autostitch using a licensed professional version of the SIFT algorithm " - it's around a megabyte or so in size to download so it's not a great stretch to try it out. k
