Comments on: Spontaneous Panoramas http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/05/spontaneous-panoramas.html This blog now shows some bits and pics from my photography Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:31:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Florian http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/05/spontaneous-panoramas.html/comment-page-1#comment-8458 Florian Wed, 06 May 2009 14:30:37 +0000 http://www.florian-knorn.com/?p=652#comment-8458 That's exactly right — Photoshop (CS3 or newer) also has an automatic layer-blending functionality with the added benefit that (prior to executing it) you can mask out parts in overlapping areas that you don't want included twice (like a person walking through the picture as you take the shots might appear in several images and be thus reproduced in multiple places in the stiched picture). However, you can do this also with Gimp: first, export the panorama, but don't blend it (i.e. only remap the images). Then, open the resulting files in Gimp and erase what you don't want. Finally, use enblend in a separate step to do the blending. An easy way to get the require command line parameters is to let Hugin blend the pictures and then check the logs to see how enblend was called). That’s exactly right — Photoshop (CS3 or newer) also has an automatic layer-blending functionality with the added benefit that (prior to executing it) you can mask out parts in overlapping areas that you don’t want included twice (like a person walking through the picture as you take the shots might appear in several images and be thus reproduced in multiple places in the stiched picture).

However, you can do this also with Gimp: first, export the panorama, but don’t blend it (i.e. only remap the images). Then, open the resulting files in Gimp and erase what you don’t want. Finally, use enblend in a separate step to do the blending. An easy way to get the require command line parameters is to let Hugin blend the pictures and then check the logs to see how enblend was called).

]]> By: Ulf http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/05/spontaneous-panoramas.html/comment-page-1#comment-8457 Ulf Wed, 06 May 2009 13:35:39 +0000 http://www.florian-knorn.com/?p=652#comment-8457 I love Hugin! I'm glad you also make use of it :-). Just one question: Why do you use Photoshop to blend the images, and don't let Hugin do the Job on its own? Is it because you want to manually choose where the junctions between different images go? (This is some functionality which I missed in Hugin so far.) I love Hugin! I’m glad you also make use of it :-).

Just one question: Why do you use Photoshop to blend the images, and don’t let Hugin do the Job on its own?
Is it because you want to manually choose where the junctions between different images go?
(This is some functionality which I missed in Hugin so far.)

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