On Mon, 14 May 2012 22:50:33 -0400 Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote:
> I tried Hugin, but got nowhere. I set 6 points on each > picture, which are 2 overlapping parts of a single > original negative, but all it offered was a black screen; > I did follow the on-line help. > > Then I tried Imagemagick & got a good result after a bit > of fussing. The commands I used were > > convert -size 1000x760 canvas:black brum-canvas.jpg > composite -geometry +0+0 brum-3070.jpg brum-canvas.jpg > brum-1.jpg composite -geometry +220-8 brum-3068.jpg > brum-1.jpg brum-2.jpg > > You can see the images at > http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/test/ : they are of > trams in Colmore Row, Birmingham in May 1953 . > > I still need to light/darken 1 image a bit to hide the > join, but as a proof of concept this shows it's feasible > with Imagemagick. > > Any further advice re Hugin is welcome: can anyone do it > with these photos ? > I just tried with fotoxx: This is a semi-manual process, but I liked the resulting image. The joint is less visible than on brum-2.jpg. It was easy to do an "unbend" after merging, and therefore the clock and the face on the image borders stay in the image. This was my first try to do a panorama in fotoxx, and it took me less than 5 minutes, much faster than with hugin. If you like I send you the image to your private mail. Urs
