I recently tried Hugin on some images that Photoshop could not handle, and it
worked like a charm.
Highly recommended.
Cheers,
Nathan
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On Apr 23, 2012, at 5:25 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> First thing to check is that many cameras do it themselves these days.
> Maybe your friend doesn't need any other software. Check the manual.
>
> Things I used to use but haven't in a long time
>
> You can try this (the "demo" version, limited control but free and easy)
> <http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/brown/autostitch/autostitch.html>
>
> Full control and free and based on PanoTools (maybe the granddaddy)
> <http://hugin.sourceforge.net/>
>
> There's lots more out there but I don't know of anything else that's
> free. You probably can't get any better than Hugin functionally but I
> haven't used it in years and don't know how the interface operates
> today. Years ago it was a bit kludgy but has probably improved
> significantly since then. PhotoShop used to be so-so for panos but has
> gotten better and better. As of CS5 I don't see any need to use
> anything else but then I don't try to go beyond 180 horizontally or more
> than one frame height vertically. It may work fine for full 360 degree
> spherical stuff but I don't go there. I assume the same technology
> that's in CS5 is in current versions of PS Elements.
>
> ps: I sometimes don't like what PS does when you hand it a bunch of
> images and let it use its "auto" mode for the method of aligning and
> blending images. I almost always use the simple "reposition" method
> which almost always returns a good image with no additional effort
> required and minimal cropping (even from handheld panos if done with
> reasonable care)
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 4/23/2012 1:27 AM, Brian Swale wrote:
>> I hesitate to ask this since maybe I should have written down the group
>> wisdom which has been given out a bit over the last 2 months. But since I
>> didn't envisage using this stuff myself, I didn't keep records.
>>
>> The friend of a friend wants to know what photo stitching software is
>> recommended. I know some is available free, and some (eg PT Gui ) costs.
>>
>> Info welcome. Thanks.
>>
>> Brian Swale.
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