[hugin-ptx] Source: the problem that causes endless filenames

2023-12-03 Thread Abrimaal
fused_layers.executor Line 24: Result=%prefix%_blended_fused.tif blended_stacks.executor Line 24: Result=%prefix%_fused.tif Could you change these lines to single letter _b and _f Result=%prefix%_b.tif Result=%prefix%_f.tif or allow user defined suffixes (as variables). When merging images mul

[hugin-ptx] Shorten filenames generated by Hugin and its components

2022-09-29 Thread Abrimaal
If replacing _blended_fused and _fused to _b and _f is impossible in the software code, I am trying to write a command line cleaner for Hugin files. Go from the base folder, through all subfolders, 1. Delete all *.mk and *.log files 2. Rename all _blended_fused in filenames to _b 3. Rename all _fu

[hugin-ptx] Re: Hugin 2021.0.0 released

2021-12-31 Thread Abrimaal
Thanks a lot for the option to *Ignore the color spaces* (profiles) The ICC profiles were relicts of misunderstanding between human eyes (everyone sees different colors) and imperfections of machine sensors. This useful option will save a lot of time, drive space and abusing inhuman words. Th

[hugin-ptx] Inaccurate cropping. Request for planar mode and keyboard shortcut.

2021-06-24 Thread Abrimaal
Selective blending of variants of the same image. All images are the same size. I do: Load images, set projection to reclilinear, reset positions. No control points, no calculations, no alignment. Selective masking out and in. Saving new versions by blending stacks. Stitcher -> Calculate size ->

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: Errors building latest hugin default source

2021-04-04 Thread Abrimaal
working*. :) [image: hugin_expects_to_convert_almost_a_million_images.png] On Saturday, April 3, 2021 at 5:10:34 PM UTC+2 Luís Henrique Camargo Quiroz wrote: > >Hi Abrimaal, > >Just to tell that I use a color calibrated monitor, and also have > calibrated a few other monitors (none of them CTRs), and I know by >

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: Errors building latest hugin default source

2021-04-02 Thread Abrimaal
Color profiles "I will not pass" - it seems to be a cardinal error. Now not only in .jpg, it also appears in .tif images. All these color profiles were developed in the times of CRT monitors and early digital cameras, that had problems with displaying proper colours, especially blue tones. Today

Re: [hugin-ptx] Exposure anchor - how to work with it?

2021-02-27 Thread Abrimaal
2021 at 4:24:22 PM UTC+1 Abrimaal wrote: > I think I understand it, although not everything. > Sometimes panoramas (especially taken in HDR - stacks of 3 photos with > various exposures) look like this - there are lighter and darker areas in > the sky at the stitching edges. > I th

[hugin-ptx] Remove color ICC profile info from .jpg files (batch edit)

2021-02-27 Thread Abrimaal
Recently I was editing EXIF data of a .jpg file for the first time, because I had to change the date. If Hugin still takes so much care for color space and it will not pass, even if I beg (there is no "open anyway"). I think about batch removing the color space from a few hundred thousands of .j

Re: [hugin-ptx] [Request]: Resolve confusion between "Distance" and "Correlation"

2021-02-10 Thread Abrimaal
"Fine tune all points" is usable. I often make two versions of the same panorama, with and without Fine tune. It is often visible on the preview, that the panorama layout changes after fine tuning. When adding control points manually, a human selects the most sharp edges and the highest contrast

Re: [hugin-ptx] [Feature request]: Circle brush eraser for control points

2021-02-01 Thread Abrimaal
Yes, we the photographers and graphic artist work and think in graphic mode, while the programmers work with numbers. This causes a lot of misunderstanding between the developers "it is working" and the users "it is missing". Initially Hugin was intended to be a graphic editor, dedicated for pho

Re: [hugin-ptx] Does anyone have any image sets, particularly ones that don't blend well, that they could share for testing purposes?

2021-01-27 Thread Abrimaal
Yes, sure. These are only 3 images. You are great if you find control points on the *white background* *of Hugin*. Normally, when viewing in full screen I see where I should add the points. https://www.mediafire.com/file/j6q7l01z8gb3d7g/20210127+fullmoon.7z/file On Tuesday, January 26, 2021 at

Re: [hugin-ptx] Hugin 2020.0 beta 1 release

2021-01-03 Thread Abrimaal
No changes since 2017. I am so sorry. I see it will be easier for me to buy 5 new hard drives, convert about a million photos to .png and continue the work. What does the sequence -ca-pah-2s_fd-cp-ph2c_bf-h-mk-b mean? This is the order of edits of a single photo. The photo has been processed in

Re: [hugin-ptx] Unsupported file format | Could not decode image

2020-11-29 Thread Abrimaal
It was strange that Windows (or any other system) allowed to use "*" in a folder name. Even if the folder was imported from a 1980s computer ;) Well, work with a computer is not writing poetry. The best to use only the standarized 26 letters and digits. We really do not need any other character

[hugin-ptx] Re: Greetings and hello!

2020-11-15 Thread Abrimaal
Yes, you can, but the problem is in projections. Instead of such presets as "equirectangular, architectural, mercator, cylindrical" I would make two sliders for proportional vertical compression. One slider for tops, the other one for bottoms, with "stop" points at these presets. The cylindri

[hugin-ptx] Re: Fixing seams with control points

2020-11-15 Thread Abrimaal
This is common with multiplane panoramas. You can delete control points at the bottom and optimize (or align) again. The objects closer to the camera are sharper, this is why the detector mainly places control points on the objects near you. No worries, you can delete all points on trees and ro

[hugin-ptx] Re: Shorten filename suffixes without recompiling Hugin

2020-10-12 Thread Abrimaal
: output_bf12345678901.png] On Tuesday, October 13, 2020 at 6:10:31 AM UTC+2 Abrimaal wrote: > First maybe without the source code if I need to install almost a new > system to change one constant. > > I have searched for "_blended_fused" string in the *hugin_version_number\bin

[hugin-ptx] Re: Shorten filename suffixes without recompiling Hugin

2020-10-12 Thread Abrimaal
gt; that will change the hugin GUI so that when clicking the Stitch! button > with fused and blend settings, it'll use your modified version, or if > you'll need to recompile for that. But this here will get you going. > > Have a great day. > > On Tuesday, September 15,

[hugin-ptx] Re: The math is perfect ...

2020-10-05 Thread Abrimaal
the system colour scheme to software that don't follow the system settings. On Monday, October 5, 2020 at 9:08:13 AM UTC+2 Torsten Bronger wrote: > Hallöchen! > > Abrimaal writes: > > > [...] > > > > The dark background is just a modification of the image

Re: [hugin-ptx] Making panoramas in Pano Editor instead of Align button

2020-10-04 Thread Abrimaal
quot; or "skip photometry adjustment". I think it should be included in Optional Steps. So, only *Reset photometric* parameters or* Reset user defined* (exposure and/or color) is usable. On Sunday, October 4, 2020 at 4:41:32 PM UTC+2 Abrimaal wrote: > Yes. *Straighten* adjusts

Re: [hugin-ptx] Making panoramas in Pano Editor instead of Align button

2020-10-04 Thread Abrimaal
random, as loaded and the position must be reset manually? On Wednesday, September 16, 2020 at 6:19:01 AM UTC+2 GnomeNomad wrote: > On 9/15/20 12:11 PM, Abrimaal wrote: > > I always pressed "Align" after loading all images. Align also affects > > photometrics, so I try

[hugin-ptx] Making panoramas in Pano Editor instead of Align button

2020-09-15 Thread Abrimaal
I always pressed "Align" after loading all images. Align also affects photometrics, so I try to make a panorama using the Editor only. What step have I skipped? 1. Mark the middle image "for position" 2. Find control points + Celeste and vertical lines 3. Fine tune all points 4. Calculate and op

[hugin-ptx] Re: Shorten filename suffixes without recompiling Hugin

2020-09-15 Thread Abrimaal
Are the suffixes generated by hugin.exe or one of the co-apps? I could try to recomplile from source, just tell me in which file are the suffixes defined. On Thursday, September 10, 2020 at 12:46:40 AM UTC+2 Abrimaal wrote: > What files should I modify to shorten the _blended_fused and _fu

[hugin-ptx] Shorten filename suffixes without recompiling Hugin

2020-09-09 Thread Abrimaal
What files should I modify to shorten the _blended_fused and _fused suffixes to *_bf *and *_fd* ? Multiple stitching of panoramas and making collages creates extremely long filenames. Then automatic renaming that obviously doesn't rename contents of .pto files, if a file with _blended_fused s

Re: [hugin-ptx] Is there a technical term for a tilt all around the panorama?

2020-06-05 Thread Abrimaal
ation the camera is still pointing along the same parallel path. > > D Johnston > On May 25, 2020, at 2:25 a.m., Abrimaal > > wrote: >> >> Why not X,Y,Z? Before using Hugin I did not know what yawn meant. >> >> On Monday, May 25, 2020 at 6:54:01 AM UTC+2, Gn

[hugin-ptx] Operations with masks and image stacks - selective video stabilization

2020-06-05 Thread Abrimaal
I am trying to *stabilize* short video sequences to the *moving object*. Trying to stabilize video this way, that the *moving object* is always *in the middle* of the video - it can be a human, a car, anything in distance. This method ignores the background by *exclude masks *and/or finds contr

Re: [hugin-ptx] Is there a technical term for a tilt all around the panorama?

2020-05-25 Thread Abrimaal
Why not X,Y,Z? Before using Hugin I did not know what yawn meant. On Monday, May 25, 2020 at 6:54:01 AM UTC+2, GnomeNomad wrote: > > In the "yaw, pitch, roll" world, wouldn't this be pitch? > > On 5/24/20 4:59 PM, Donald Johnston wrote: > > Vertical shift sounds more like what a camera on an ele

Re: [hugin-ptx] Hugin is driving me crazy

2020-05-23 Thread Abrimaal
PT Batcher is freezing not only your Mac, it makes Windows inoperable too. With every new task the PT Batcher icon pops the taskbar up, and I cannot access the tools at the bottom of the screen. When working with many programs at once it becomes a horror, to click and hide the terrible icon eve

[hugin-ptx] Re: Hugin is driving me crazy

2020-05-23 Thread Abrimaal
About the panorama example: Yes, the control points at the horizon are most important here. The detector finds control points on the ground, because the details are sharp and high contrast. Before running the detector, mask out (exclude) the bottom parts (especially the tree). You can leave onl

[hugin-ptx] Re: Default file locations for Add Images, Open Project File and Save Project dialog boxes

2020-05-19 Thread Abrimaal
The temporary folder is emptied at exit, you can change its location in Preferences -> Filenames -> Temporary dir Saving projects in the same folder as the images is the best option ever. Believe me, if you had one folder for projects, after creating 5000 projects you would never find it. On T

[hugin-ptx] Auto crop inaccuracy

2020-04-20 Thread Abrimaal
Today not about panoramas. About blending various versions of the same photo. I open 3 versions of the same photo - all of them are the same size, for example 3000x2000 px I reset positions and use inclusive masks to select the best parts of each version. There are no control points, because al

[hugin-ptx] Re: Scale panorama FOV

2020-04-01 Thread Abrimaal
Maybe it will be useful to do it in two steps. Load the final panorama to Hugin (as a single image) and change the field of view. This is a 360° panorama with HFOV changed to 20° I think it will work in both ways. On Tuesday, March 10, 2020 at 12:00:10 PM UTC+1, ChameleonScales wrote: > > I ha

Re: [hugin-ptx] Discard JPG color profiles - interpret them as simple RGB

2020-03-20 Thread Abrimaal
gt; I have no idea how hard 1 is, and 2 would need some testing to see how > viable it is. > > -- > Bruno > > > On 19 March 2020 23:20:07 GMT, Abrimaal wrote: > >Once there was only RGB, CMYK and grayscale and nobody took care about > >color spaces and profile

[hugin-ptx] Select all vertical lines and change to horizontal at once - it this possible?

2020-03-19 Thread Abrimaal
This is an example of straightening a single photo (but it also refers to a sequence of images and there are more lines) I open an image. Rotate it 90° Run vertical line detector to detect horizontal lines. All the horizontal lines are detected as vertical lines, what is correct. *Now I would

[hugin-ptx] Discard JPG color profiles - interpret them as simple RGB

2020-03-19 Thread Abrimaal
Once there was only RGB, CMYK and grayscale and nobody took care about color spaces and profiles. What happened that today we have so many color profiles, and they apply only to .jpg format? I process photos in various editors, each of them saves .jpg with a color profile. Some editors, especial

[hugin-ptx] Re: Hugin 2019.2.0 released

2020-01-20 Thread Abrimaal
Thanks a lot for "check if still exist and delete again" temporary .tif files, when the same folder was open in another image viewer. Will it be difficult to add "Open file location" to the batch processor right-click menu? When right clicking on a project from the task list, the folder with the

Re: [hugin-ptx] Can you calculate position and FOV of cameras using Hugin for 3dsmax?

2020-01-15 Thread Abrimaal
A little offtopic, but I am interested. I downloaded Meshroom. What can I do in this? Can I load a series of photos to create a 3D model? I tried everything, nothing worked. Started from loading a photo. -- A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_F

[hugin-ptx] Re: Meaning of Verticle/Horizontal control point distances

2020-01-09 Thread Abrimaal
The vertical and horizontal lines are used for calculating a good looking panorama. The distance is important to avoid errors in calculations. The V lines should be distant as far as possible, at least two near the edges of a panorama, to calculate and straighten the view. When there are lines

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: Aligning images of different dimensions

2019-12-12 Thread Abrimaal
that. > Thanks, > /Jud > > > > > On Wed, Dec 11, 2019, 10:27 AM Abrimaal > > wrote: > >> 1. Check the control points, any image with any. The detector often fails >> with scanned images. Check the vertical lines, they are often added on the >> edges of

[hugin-ptx] Re: Aligning images of different dimensions

2019-12-11 Thread Abrimaal
1. Check the control points, any image with any. The detector often fails with scanned images. Check the vertical lines, they are often added on the edges of photos. The best to add all control points manually. 2. Set a different lens number to every image - 0,1,2,3... 3. Mask out (exclude) the i

[hugin-ptx] Re: Hugin 2019.2.0 rc1 released

2019-12-04 Thread Abrimaal
I see no differences. Not much has changed in the new versions (Windows) since 2016, when straightening single photos was introduced (thankful I am for this mode, the only introduced feature from my suggestions). Thanks also for enabling image preview in "Open" Thanks for "Cancel" when calculatin

Re: [hugin-ptx] Stitching scanned images

2019-11-08 Thread Abrimaal
It's simpler to use Include masks. Include the whole text of the left page on the left image and the whole text of the right page on the right image. | [ text text text ] | [part of | [ include mask] | [right page | [ on whole text ] | [no need to | [ of left page ] | [exclude No nee

[hugin-ptx] Re: Find control points only for the added image

2019-09-10 Thread Abrimaal
s only for selected images.png] On Wednesday, September 11, 2019 at 12:39:56 AM UTC+2, Erik Krause wrote: > > Am 10.09.2019 um 03:16 schrieb Abrimaal: > > > I selected image 6 to find points between image 6 and ALL the rest > > 6+0, 6+1, 6+2, 6+3, 6+4, 6+5 but NOT between 1+2,

Re: [hugin-ptx] Find control points only for the added image

2019-09-09 Thread Abrimaal
e > could easily spot the zinger control point that should not be or edge > matchings that would skew a stitch. > > On Sep 9, 2019, at 10:32 AM, Abrimaal > wrote: > > I added one more image to an existing panorama. Now I want to find control > points only for this image (no. 6

[hugin-ptx] Find control points only for the added image

2019-09-09 Thread Abrimaal
I added one more image to an existing panorama. Now I want to find control points only for this image (no. 6) , it means 6 and 0 6 and 1 6 and 2 6 and 3 6 and 4 6 and 5 vertical line detection only for image 6 When I select image 6 and right click, there is no "Find control points" for this imag

[hugin-ptx] Batch processor unknown error - empty window that could not be closed.

2019-06-02 Thread Abrimaal
I think it was a Batch Processor error, because I could save a project and close Hugin, but could not close BP. The message window was empty and not responsive to clicks. I closed BP with Task manager. When I opened the saved project in Hugin again, the panorama was stitched normally. [image:

[hugin-ptx] Re: stitching cylindrical pano from rectilinear images results in vertical mismatch at ends

2019-05-01 Thread Abrimaal
> 1. I Load Images (easy), then set Projection to Cylindrical. > 2. I run Align; Hugin will not remember the selected projection when you click [ Align ], because the simple Align automatically selects projection, based on the field of view. You might not notice this, because cylindrical is the

[hugin-ptx] Re: stitching cylindrical pano from rectilinear images results in vertical mismatch at ends

2019-04-29 Thread Abrimaal
The horizon looks very good, the trees are straight and the hills naturally curved. I see that the sky colors don't look natural. This has been caused by the automatic exposure and white balance correction. When you use "Align" button, the exposures and WB are adjusted, but they rather adjust

[hugin-ptx] Re: CPFind images as command line parameter

2019-03-24 Thread Abrimaal
They are selected images from the Explorer, dragged and dropped from Explorer to Hugin, or sent to Hugin from Windows Explorer or other application. (for Windows). Btw: the component applications of Hugin can be run from command line with parameters. I am also interested where to find the list o

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: Could not decode image error in 2019.0 beta 1

2019-03-18 Thread Abrimaal
Excellent. I always forget that I can manually modify X Y Z positions. On Monday, March 18, 2019 at 8:14:41 AM UTC+1, Bruno Postle wrote: > > > > On 17 March 2019 19:35:01 GMT, Abrimaal wrote: > > > >Creating a multiview pano is possible on a 2D screen, but except a l

[hugin-ptx] Re: Could not decode image error in 2019.0 beta 1

2019-02-28 Thread Abrimaal
Theory, raw theory. When stitching 40 panoramas daily, every second counts. "Add images" already opens Windows explorer, a second Explorer window will only take space on the screen and it will not follow the current work folder. I started to write a command line script to get filenames from .pt

[hugin-ptx] Re: Could not decode image error in 2019.0 beta 1

2019-02-25 Thread Abrimaal
25, 2019 at 10:51:32 PM UTC+1, Bart van Andel wrote: > > Abrimaal wrote: >> >> It does not work in the 2019 beta 2 version, because the filter "All >> files" has been changed to "All images". >> > > Sorry, apparently I missed this. BTW I think 2

[hugin-ptx] Re: Could not decode image error in 2019.0 beta 1

2019-02-25 Thread Abrimaal
've been served already a while ago ;-) > > On Thursday, 21 February 2019 17:56:51 UTC+1, Abrimaal wrote: >> >> Please at least allow to display All files in the Load images window. >> This way panoramas that must be quickly corrected can be sent to another >> instance

[hugin-ptx] Re: Could not decode image error in 2019.0 beta 1

2019-02-25 Thread Abrimaal
his file field already contains an > option for showing "All files (*)", both in Hugin 2018.0.0 and the current > 2019.0.0. I think we can conclude you've been served already a while ago ;-) > > On Thursday, 21 February 2019 17:56:51 UTC+1, Abrimaal wrote: >> >

[hugin-ptx] Re: Could not decode image error in 2019.0 beta 1

2019-02-21 Thread Abrimaal
Please at least allow to display All files in the Load images window. This way panoramas that must be quickly corrected can be sent to another instance of Hugin Right click .pto file -> Send to -> Hugin. Btw. filtering images by extension is not the best method, it excludes images without exten

[hugin-ptx] Re: Could not decode image error in 2019.0 beta 1

2019-02-15 Thread Abrimaal
y, February 4, 2019 at 3:48:33 PM UTC+1, Abrimaal wrote: > > [image: hugin-could-not-decode-image-from-pto-file.png] > While loading images from a .pto file, this error message is displayed. > The images have not been moved, not renamed, the are still in the same > folder as the .

[hugin-ptx] Re: Installed hugin now what?

2019-02-06 Thread Abrimaal
Although the default installation folder in Windows is "C:\Program Files", it is not recommended to install any third party software on C:, except drivers, codecs, fonts and other shared files. Files on C: are often protected by Windows in various ways, Better to install software on a different

Re: [hugin-ptx] Could not decode image error in 2019.0 beta 1

2019-02-06 Thread Abrimaal
gt; > From what you write I get the feeling that you want to merge projects, or > what do you try to do? > > Carl > > ps. > A .pto is a project file and thus not digested via an "add image(s)" > command. Try opening a .doc (containing image names) in Photoshop..

Re: [hugin-ptx] Could not decode image error in 2019.0 beta 1

2019-02-04 Thread Abrimaal
Please check if the project file is not included as image. The > extension, ".pto", does not correspond to an image file ;) > > > > Em seg, 4 de fev de 2019 às 12:48, Abrimaal > > escreveu: > >> [image: hugin-could-not-decode-image-from-pto-file.png] >&

[hugin-ptx] Could not decode image error in 2019.0 beta 1

2019-02-04 Thread Abrimaal
[image: hugin-could-not-decode-image-from-pto-file.png] While loading images from a .pto file, this error message is displayed. The images have not been moved, not renamed, the are still in the same folder as the .pto file. The filenames and paths to images stored in the .pto file did not change

[hugin-ptx] Re: How to stitch a map divided into 32 scans...

2019-01-30 Thread Abrimaal
The problem is that there is no rectangular (planar) projection available in Hugin. It is different from rectilinear. Rectilinear projection preserves straight lines, but does not preserve straight angles. Rectangular does not preserve areas, but preserves straight lines and angles. The adjustm

[hugin-ptx] Dark UI for Hugin / skins

2018-07-23 Thread Abrimaal
I have just read the topic on aligning stars. I sometimes work with night panoramas, where the I add and adjust control points and masks manually. Changing the whole Windows theme is uncomfortable, when working with other applications at once (image viewer, Windows explorer...) Is it easy to crea

[hugin-ptx] Skins for Hugin / dark background

2018-07-23 Thread Abrimaal
I have just read the topic on aligning stars. I sometimes work with night panoramas, where the I add and adjust control points and masks manually. Changing the whole Windows theme is uncomfortable, when working with other applications at once (image viewer, Windows explorer...) Is it easy to crea

[hugin-ptx] Re: Adaptive adjustment of image sizes

2018-06-30 Thread Abrimaal
Should I exclude the 1st image in the simple mode and optimize? How? I cannot find in the menu how to adjust dimensions (field of view) of the 2nd image. > You need to optimize hfov of the second image only in this case. > So use user defined optimization and optimize v,y,p,r of second image o

[hugin-ptx] Adaptive adjustment of image sizes

2018-06-28 Thread Abrimaal
I was trying to stitch two photos of the same object. One image was large about 5000x3200 px, the other one was smaller 1200x800. The first one conatined lens data, the other did not. The detector did not find any control points, so I placed them manually where they should be. After optimizati

[hugin-ptx] Hugin expects... Discard color ICC profiles

2018-06-02 Thread Abrimaal
Image editors save files with various color profiles, black-scaled or so... Are the images loaded to Hugin converted to bitmaps (or .tif) for processing? If yes, there should be no problem to stitch images even in different formats - jpg + png, jpg + bmp, jpg + tif, any that Hugin can open. Not

[hugin-ptx] Settings: Line detector: Minimal distance between vertical lines

2018-03-08 Thread Abrimaal
The line detector often places multiple vertical lines on traffic signs, antennas, trees, because they are straight, but very rarely vertical. They are easy to detect because of high contrast and they are usually detected as the first lines. To minimize the risk of multiplication of the same erro

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: if ... then ... Opening projects and images from Windows Explorer

2018-01-31 Thread Abrimaal
Frederic Da Vitoria < > davi...@gmail.com > wrote: > >2018-01-30 21:09 GMT+01:00 Abrimaal >: > > > >> Yes, after some work I also think that the rearrangement would make > >too > >> much mess. At least opening projects from the main button could

[hugin-ptx] Re: if ... then ... Opening projects and images from Windows Explorer

2018-01-30 Thread Abrimaal
> > > > Am Samstag, 27. Januar 2018 18:58:51 UTC+1 schrieb Abrimaal: >> >> How to distinguish between Open project and Merge / Add images to project: >> >> On a blank screen, big button clicked: >> - Selecting a single .pto file does NEW, Open Project >> - Se

[hugin-ptx] Re: if ... then ... Opening projects and images from Windows Explorer

2018-01-27 Thread Abrimaal
File/Add (not using the big button) will not do New, but it will allow to add images and projects to the currently open project. On Saturday, January 27, 2018 at 9:11:15 AM UTC+1, T. Modes wrote: > > > > Am Samstag, 27. Januar 2018 07:03:48 UTC+1 schrieb Abrimaal: >> >

[hugin-ptx] Re: Hugin 2018.0 beta1

2017-12-25 Thread Abrimaal
Thanks. I'm testing it right now. What features are new in the 2018 beta to be tested? The Windows installer does not contain enblend and enfuse, fortunately I made a backup of the 2017 version, that was removed during the installation (it should never be removed, I still keep the 2014 beta vers

[hugin-ptx] Re: Hugin halves my DPI from 300 to 150 causing loss of quality. How do I change this?

2017-12-23 Thread Abrimaal
Do it only once and forever. In File / Preferences / Assistant / Downscale final pano [ 100 ] percent of the max width. The panoramas will never downsized again (until you don't want to). On Tuesday, May 13, 2014 at 6:57:53 AM UTC+2, tda...@gmail.com wrote: > > I scanned an A2 sized electrical s

[hugin-ptx] Re: Partial Stitching

2017-12-23 Thread Abrimaal
I am not sure if I understood your question. You want to replace two photos and save a new 62 image panorama. First Save as a new project. Very important. Go to the Editor, remove the 2 photos you don't need. Add the new 2 photos Control points: for two photos you can add them manually (and fin

[hugin-ptx] Hugin - Build for android ndk

2017-08-31 Thread Abrimaal
If ever it happens. Maybe a marginal detail, but very important when working with photos on Android and PC. Please respect the filenames when saving. The most of Android apps save files with random names. There are only a few exceptions that append a suffix to the original filename. -- A list

[hugin-ptx] Re: Problem with deformation when stitching several scanned images

2017-08-05 Thread Abrimaal
The problem is that Hugin does not offer undistorted projection, suitable for scanned documents. Thy this: 00. Before all, note down the dimensions in pixels of each partial image. 01. Load all images to Hugin 02. Set the projection to rectilinear 03. Go to Panorama Editor, Control Points tab 0

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: Hugin 2017.0 released

2017-07-04 Thread Abrimaal
etion of the file. Or if the problem is that dropbox hinders the file >from being deleted while it is uploaded the following can be done: On Tuesday, July 4, 2017 at 7:36:03 AM UTC+2, Gunter Königsmann wrote: > > > > On 03.07.2017 23:45, Abrimaal wrote: > > First of a

[hugin-ptx] Re: Hugin 2017.0 released

2017-07-03 Thread Abrimaal
First of all, thanks a lot for single photo straightening mode. It saves a lot of time and manual work. There is a small problem that can grow into gigabytes. (Windows) The batch processor does not remove temporary .tif files from single photos, but successfully removes them when stitching a mul

Re: [hugin-ptx] Default output name

2017-06-20 Thread Abrimaal
I will add from myself, what cannot be set up in the filename preferences yet. To abbreviate long suffixes such as "blended_fused" and projection names (predefined or defined by a user). It took a long time to guess which one is which. I am still not sure when I see "_fused" - was it composed fr

Re: [hugin-ptx] Hugin 2017.0 rc1 released

2017-06-09 Thread Abrimaal
Windows 64bit: I installed the 2017.0.rc1 version in a different folder than the stable version 2016.x. The installer removed the stable version what should not happen, but it did not remove older (2014 and 2015) versions installed in different folders. The 2014.0.0.5 version is a "special" rele

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: Newbie: Hugin - Fixing horizontal lines and general advice on panoramic stitch

2017-06-09 Thread Abrimaal
It depends from the point of view. In the example above the buildings are in perspective, the object in the middle is the street. Vertical lines are necessary, but horizontal are not desired. The projection is Panini general, but it can be also cylindrical, Mercator or architectural - it depe

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: Newbie: Hugin - Fixing horizontal lines and general advice on panoramic stitch

2017-06-07 Thread Abrimaal
I have not tried with landscapes, but the results with straightening architecture are satisfying. On Tuesday, June 6, 2017 at 10:35:03 PM UTC+2, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: > > 2017-06-06 22:29 GMT+02:00 Abrimaal >: > >> I can only add that detection of horizontal lines r

[hugin-ptx] Re: Newbie: Hugin - Fixing horizontal lines and general advice on panoramic stitch

2017-06-06 Thread Abrimaal
I can only add that detection of horizontal lines require some boring work what could be easily done by the program. Now you have to: rotate all the images 90 deg (or the final panorama) detect vertical lines rotate the images back change alignment of every line from vertical to horizontal It co

[hugin-ptx] Re: Newbie: Hugin - Fixing horizontal lines and general advice on panoramic stitch

2017-06-06 Thread Abrimaal
I can only add that detection of horizontal lines require some boring work what could be easily done by the program. Now you have to: rotate all the images 90 deg (or the final panorama) detect vertical lines rotate the images back change alignment of every line from vertical to horizontal It co

[hugin-ptx] Re: Cylindrical projection - to the interior of a cylinder

2017-05-15 Thread Abrimaal
tions of a rectangle. On Monday, May 15, 2017 at 9:32:22 PM UTC+2, Erik Krause wrote: > > Am 14.05.2017 um 19:38 schrieb Abrimaal: > > In the cylindrical projection, the panorama is projected on the external > > surface of a cylinder. It is usable for objects viewed from distanc

[hugin-ptx] Re: Cylindrical projection - to the interior of a cylinder

2017-05-14 Thread Abrimaal
The internal and external surface of a cylinder. -- 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

[hugin-ptx] Re: Cylindrical projection - to the interior of a cylinder

2017-05-14 Thread Abrimaal
On Sunday, May 14, 2017 at 7:38:53 PM UTC+2, Abrimaal wrote: > > In the cylindrical projection, the panorama is projected on the external > surface of a cylinder. It is usable for objects viewed from distance (like > Earth from a satellite). > I have many panoramas where the

[hugin-ptx] Cylindrical projection - to the interior of a cylinder

2017-05-14 Thread Abrimaal
In the cylindrical projection, the panorama is projected on the external surface of a cylinder. It is usable for objects viewed from distance (like Earth from a satellite). I have many panoramas where the camera is "the centre of the universe". In the example everybody can see that the objects in

[hugin-ptx] Re: need help aligning a set of photos

2017-04-27 Thread Abrimaal
The photos are not taken from the same point. To align them you should work manually. If you used a control point detector before, there are many control points on the trees and leaves, better to start a new project than remove them any photo vs any. First, you should decide what objects are

[hugin-ptx] Re: exposure fused from any arrangement panorama bug

2017-02-23 Thread Abrimaal
There are many repeating details, that could be misaligned by the control point finder. In the Preview you may not see this, because these images are under the visible ones. Try to disable the first images and check which ones are incorrectly aligned. Check the control points, any photo with a

[hugin-ptx] Re: Keeping the PTO files and temporary Tiff

2017-02-01 Thread Abrimaal
In the advanced mode, they are in the Stitcher tab. These marked are the most useful. On Tuesday, January 31, 2017 at 9:18:44 PM UTC+1, FrankBa wrote: > > HI Abrimaal >>>> >>> Found it !! > > I was using the stitcher option in advanced and expert mode

[hugin-ptx] Re: Keeping the PTO files and temporary Tiff

2017-01-31 Thread Abrimaal
If you want to keep the partial .tif images, before saving the final panorama, check the option "Keep intermediate images". The same in the Panorama editor and Advanced / Expert interface. By default all .pto files are saved on the disk in the same folder as the panorama, you can use them again.

Re: [hugin-ptx] Non-square pixels (aspect ratio) from flatbed scanner

2017-01-31 Thread Abrimaal
The most of scanners store info about the scanner model in EXIF data. Hugin can connect to a camera lens database, but I don't know if any scanner database exists. It depends also on the orientation of scanner paper. It is important that all parts of the map should be scanned in the same directi

[hugin-ptx] Re: Other multi-image techniques?

2017-01-14 Thread Abrimaal
It is possible to create an image like this without blending the moving object with the background. Draw a mask around the object on the 1st photo, copy the mask to all other photos, then delete the mask from the 1st. The same for all images. At the end check if the masks don't overlap. On Frid

[hugin-ptx] Re: Stitching photographs of a large map into a whole map

2016-12-22 Thread Abrimaal
I see that you are not the only one long time user who has problems with maps. I have never managed to stitch any map in Hugin, while I stitch and straighten many photos every day. Even when the control points are placed correctly, the projection distorts every map. Even when the projection is

[hugin-ptx] Re: UI Hard work mode

2016-12-16 Thread Abrimaal
Friday, December 16, 2016 at 6:43:36 PM UTC+1, T. Modes wrote: > > > > Am Freitag, 16. Dezember 2016 17:18:49 UTC+1 schrieb Abrimaal: > >> >> *I think it is possible to run the batch in a silent (quiet, invisible, >> non-invasive) mode * >> or move the icon

[hugin-ptx] Re: UI Hard work mode

2016-12-16 Thread Abrimaal
When minimized to tray, there are even more messages. Both pulling up the taskbar and text messages from the tray. I know that Hugin is built of many .exe files, but can the Batch processor be completely invisible? Just like (for example) enblend.exe - no icon, no messages? On Friday, December

[hugin-ptx] Re: UI Hard work mode

2016-12-16 Thread Abrimaal
ase. On Saturday, April 2, 2016 at 8:46:13 AM UTC+2, Abrimaal wrote: > > A suggestion: > A checkbox in settings > [ v ] Do not display any messages, I am working hard in another program. > or > [ v ] Display error messages only > > This applies to the overload of me

[hugin-ptx] Re: Manipulating the control points detector settings

2016-12-15 Thread Abrimaal
or try to use Align image stack instead of Hugin CPfind. It worked for me with about 100 video frames, but they were small size (800x600). If you have enough RAM, larger images should be displayed too. On Wednesday, December 14, 2016 at 2:44:48 PM UTC+1, jan t wrote: > > Hello all, > > I'm tryin

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: Control points editor / Line detection / Projection of a single image

2016-12-08 Thread Abrimaal
I'd like to see an example how to prepare such script. On Thursday, December 8, 2016 at 10:28:17 AM UTC+1, bugbear wrote: > > In that case I recommend a script. > > BugBear > > Abrimaal wrote: > > How many? Hundreds in every folder and hundreds of folders :) &g

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: Control points editor / Line detection / Projection of a single image

2016-12-07 Thread Abrimaal
How many? Hundreds in every folder and hundreds of folders :) On Wednesday, December 7, 2016 at 9:52:18 AM UTC+1, bugbear wrote: > > Abrimaal wrote: > > No, taken with various cameras, in different years, seasons, various > objects (mainly architecture) > > How many ph

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: Control points editor / Line detection / Projection of a single image

2016-12-06 Thread Abrimaal
,v,b run calculate size run autocrop save .pto file as original-s.pto save as original-s.jpg (all images are .jpg) next Some files will require manual adjustment, but at least half will be done correctly :) On Tuesday, December 6, 2016 at 6:28:28 PM UTC+1, bugbear wrote: > > Abrimaal

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