I don't know if you're asking about Hugin or PhotoShop but PhotoShop
certainly blends images across frames. The most amazing thing I've seen
it do is pick out a large bird who appears in different positions in
different frames and place it in only one frame in the final image.
That knocked my socks off.
I assume Hugin must do the same. I believe it's based on PanoTools
which at one time used a separate application called "Enblend" for
blending across frames.
Chuck Norcutt
On 4/23/2012 7:41 PM, John Hudson wrote:
> 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>
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>> 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
>>> Alicante, Spain
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>>>
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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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