> > Thank you for your encouraging responses. > > This prompted me to thoroughly re-read the manual and tutorials, do > further experimentation, and write lots of notes for myself. I have also > carefully retaken my photographs of the map, so there is more overlap. I > wanted to make sure I could get as far as I could without help. > > Following the "Stitching flat scanned images" tutorial to the letter (and > making notes along the way about aspects I could not follow, or questions I > had), and adding in some steps of my own, I have managed to produce a > stitched map that I am quite pleased with. >
> I have put the end product into my DropBox > <https://www.dropbox.com/s/satakb62i7qheow/D01784%20Hunts%20XXIII_NW%20a.tif?dl=0>. > > It is stitched from 20 separate photographs. > > There are issues with some roads and field boundaries not meeting up, for > example in the centre of the map above the name "Fen Drayton". Is there a > way I can persuade the stitcher not to take bits of photographs like this, > or is there an issue with my control points? > > Some comments on my process, compared to the tutorial: > > - the automatic creation of control points for all images was only > partially successful in that the horizontal links were mostly done OK, but > - I had to remove quite a few spurious matches (eg for the same > symbols or letters in different places) > - very few vertical links were made so I had to do these by > selecting a few images and specifically starting the creation process > for > each little group > - Setting each image to have a separate lens will be more of a pain > when I am trying to stitch more images - is there not an option to do this > for all images? > - The average pixel difference was 3.85, and I am not sure how "good" > that is > - After the geometric optimisation I did Photometric optimisation with > low dynamic range (as the light had changed) > > > - In stitching I noticed a message "Unable to run Dijkstra optimiser", > and I presume this is not essential > > > Any other suggestions or advice on the process would be very welcome. > > By the way my camera is Canon IXUS 80 IS (8MP) , I used a "leaning over tripod" so the lens was 22 cm above the paper, and turned on the camera's macro. I am not a photographer. Thanks again. > -- A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hugin and other free panoramic software" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to hugin-ptx+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/hugin-ptx/77862a7c-2be4-4159-b031-0fd82d8475f2%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
