I have recently finished my tutorial on how to make linear panoramas (which you create not by rotating, but by moving the camera), for example of a long wall covered with graffitti, using only open-source software.
If you’re interested, read the tutorial and tell me what you think about it!
I was wondering though, have you already tried to to use enblend (http://enblend.sf.net/) together with nona. I always find the result realy good and it completely eliminates the need of manually editing the masks in GIMP or PS.
Also, would you know what the PTStitcher exposure compensation does? Because I still see an exposure difference from left to right in the final result.
— stefan 13. August 2005, 14:55 #
Concerning enblend
As far as I remember, I tried enblend, and the results weren’t satisfiable. The part where enblend falls short is finding the ideal transition line, which, for enblend, is the line that’s farthest from both images’ borders [details].
For many transitions in my graffitti image, the line needs to follow the graffitti features, though. Enblend’s way of optimizing the line’s feather width can’t fix that.
Concerning exposure
I see what you mean. I guess that PTStitcher tries first and foremost to match exposure between adjacent images, so an exposure gradient may result. One might fix this by overlaying a gradient layer using “Soft light” or the like, but for this picture, it’s not much of a concern to me.
— DoJoe 15. August 2005, 17:33 #
— Torsten Will 20. January 2007, 19:50 #