Re: Digital Image Stitching II

PanoramaLlama wrote:
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:10:30 -0700, usenet@xxxxxxxxxx (Paul Mitchum) wrote:

This is something no software can do (at present <g>),

Any panorama editor that supports the "SmartBlend" plugin does exactly this,
automatically, without any mucking about in PhotoShop. Hugin being one of them.
PTGUI being another.

Well, I use Hugin and it will do something about mismatched clouds,
but it won't properly patch them up. And when you use the SIFT
automatcher, yes it will try to put control points on moving
clouds .... which is a big no-no. This will show up as terrible
match statistics when you do an optimize, but you have to manually
remove th offending points.

The correct thing to do is to go into Photoshop with the remapped
TIFFS and use "liquify" a bit to make them match better. Then the
Hugin autoblender will work OK. You don't have to get it perfect.

Doug McDonald
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