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
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> Nathan Wajsman
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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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