When stitching together adjacent images to make one large panoramic image
does the software compensate for changes in the lighting conditions and
shadow patterns seen in each separate image ?
jh
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From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 8:34 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] (OM) OT image stitching / panoramas
> What version of PhotoShop and what couldn't it handle?
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> On 4/23/2012 4:30 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
>> I recently tried Hugin on some images that Photoshop could not handle,
>> and it worked like a charm.
>>
>> Highly recommended.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Nathan
>>
>> Nathan Wajsman
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>> YNWA
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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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