2009/10/6 grow <george...@gmail.com>: > > Harry mentioned to me in an email that someone else was having a > problem with this Beta on a configuration like mine. So here is a > comment on my experience so far. > > My configuration is: > a Powermac G5 - dual 1.8Ghz with 5.5Gb RAM running Mac OS X > 10.4.11. > I have more RAM (which would give me another 1.5Gb) and Mac OS X 10.5 > waiting to be installed "some day when I am not busy"! (I'll let you > know if that day ever arrives.) > > So far this Beta 1 has worked OK for me. > The "Clean-up-Control Points" feature seems very powerful. ... > However, I have not yet done a project from scratch with it. > > I re-opened the project for the panorama that I stitched for the > latest World Wide Panorama project: > http://worldwidepanorama.org/wwp_rss/go/n5752 > and added more control points and filtered out the bad ones and ran a > stitch at 10,000x 5,000 - it worked fine. > > It was my usual workflow with 16mm fisheye images shot every 60° > horizontally + sky+ground ... but because of all the moving people I > took 7 horizontal shots and two floor shots and a ceiling shot. > > Each "shot" was 3x bracketed-exposure, so that means (despite what it > says on the wwp page) there were 30 separate images. > > I stitched it both ways - both fused-and-blended as well as blended- > and-fused. The final panorama was created in Photoshop as a > multi-layer mash-up with both of the full stitches with many of the > individual performers patched in from other intermediate images. > > It could have been better - for example the halo around the dancer > with the white trousers ... and if I am to print it - I will need a > better > version. > > So last night I added masks to a couple of the shots - that is (2x3=) > 6 images out of the 30 and did a bit more tweaking of control points. > I left the stitch running overnight - it worked fine and has given me > both fused results and the masking will save me some of the Photoshop > editing. > > Is it possible that this version is better at handling masks? > I didn't see any reference to either how Hugin sets up masks nor how > Enfuse/Enblend handle them. > > But ... when I originally stitched this panorama with the previous > version I ended up deleting all the masks as it just kept crashing ... > having said that ... the masks I have re-introduced are fairly > simple. > > Today I will be stitching a simple (unbracketed) panorama next. Just > 9 images however as it was shot next to a river with lots of people > moving around it > will probably require a few masks also! I will come back and let you > know how it goes. > > (Sorry if this has drifted back onto my apparent obsession with Alpha > Channel Masks. > I feel like I am only ever here pointing out problems - but I > wouldn't be here at all if I didn't think that the work that you guys > do on Hugin was wonderful!) > > all the best > > George > >
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