#Ptgui stitch nadir software
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I spotted and fixed a few stitching errors (I hope I didn't miss any!):ĭuomo del Atrio dei Quattro Cancelli vertical panorama (AP), Vatican MuseumĪP did a much better job than ICE, which had worse stitching errors.9 o& X M% a( N* Q1. This worked quickly and easily in AP, so I didn't need to use ICE. Three image panorama in the Colosseum, Rome First an easy one, where I couldn't spot any errors:

Here's a couple from a recent trip to Rome. Both are easy to use, and quick, so I try both if one produces too many errors. I like ICE much better, but find that Affinity Photo seems to produce fewer stitching errors. It's very slow, clunky to use, and fails altogether with most of the panoramas I've tried. Masking out cars and tripod shadow in PtGui Using the Nadir Shot. Unfortunately, this point is unique to each lens/camera combination and has to be experimented with. With a nodal head, the camera can be slid forward/backward to a point where no parallax occurs when rotating the camera.

I've struggled to use Hugin a few times, but made no progress. This makes it hard to stitch images consistently. It's super-easy to use, fast, offers lots of different projection options, handles two-dimensional stitches as well, produces great looking output and is completely free. I used to use Hugin, but since I downloaded ICE (Image Composite Editor), I did not look back even once. It's cool the way you can see right away the effect of different stitching options. I only have the stand alone LR 6 version, so those recent changes would not be on my version, and I don’t want to subscribe to LR. John Houghton has a good detailed tutorial on this method. The recent change in LR cannot be an easier. Don't include this 'loose' nadir in the initial stitching in PTGui, but add it after the main alignment/optimization work has been done, and then use the viewpoint correction feature in PTGui to 'patch' it into place. While some engines present some challenges.

#Ptgui stitch nadir free

Lightroom/ACR is one of the best for RAW because the output is a 16-bit image that you can then edit like any other image in Lightroom/ACR.įor JPGs I would recommend the free Microsoft Image Composite Editor if you have a Windows computer.

#Ptgui stitch nadir software

What software is the best depends on whether or not you are using JPGs, TIFFs, or RAW image files. It isn't the most scientific review since I didn't try the various programs with a variety of different subjects but it may be of interest.ĭPReview - Sailorblue - Re: 'best quality' panorama and HDR software?: Retouching Forum: Digital Photography Review I did a review of panorama software awhile back. I will look into and try this open source software. Hugin is very forgiving, all of my shots are handheld, put my thumb under the nodal point of the lens, then rotate and snap. Some older panos on my (abandoned) Flickr, all stitched with Hugin over the years: Hugin also has a batch processor, I can queue up all of my projects and let it stitch them over night. high-quality panoramic images Description: Stitching an image with PTGui is now. Hugin can also stitch HDR (with 16-bit TIFF).Īnother one from the same trip, with 7 shots. Using a tripod or pano head is not essential, as PanoStitcher can stitch. I could have done with JPGs, but I found exporting as 8-bit TIFF retained better gradients for the final JPG and avoid lossy JPG compression. Here's one I've just stitched an hour ago from my last trip, 9 TIF files exported from RAF in darktable (also free/open-source). ), click 'Align', review, and click 'Create Panorama'. Hugin, free/open-source, is specialized in panorama stitching, and it automates most of the process, just drag-drop the images in (JPG, TIFF. I also have the old Lightroom 6 that I could use. So I am wondering if there is any better software to do that (preferably free software). Sometimes PE works great to align everything, but sometimes it superimposes two elements even it was seems to be a simple stitch of two pictures.

#Ptgui stitch nadir series

I have been using Photoshop Elements 13 for stitching photos taken in a series when I don't have a wide angle lens with me, for example if a building is too wide for the lens I am using, I will take two or three pictures to stitch in post processing.