[hugin-ptx] enblend having trouble with iPhone profile?

2020-09-11 Thread John Muccigrosso
Working on a mosaic of photos taken with my iPhone and I run into an error at the stitching phase. enblend reports the following: enblend: error building color transform from XYZ space to " Apple Wide Color Sharing Profile" If I switch to the builtin stitcher, all is well. Any way to avoid

Re: [hugin-ptx] Mosaic woes

2020-09-11 Thread John Muccigrosso
Should add that the final output image is easily "skewed" so that it looks like it rotated around the y axis. This happens when I "center" or "straighten" the output with the fast panorama preview. (Undo is my friend here.) -- A list of frequently asked questions is available at:

Re: [hugin-ptx] Mosaic woes

2020-09-11 Thread John Muccigrosso
That makes no difference to the display in the bottom left-hand corner. - Load images - create control points - go to fast panorama preview where the image in confined to the bottom left. If I stick to the simpler(?) Panorama Preview, things look better, but I can quickly screw them up by

Re: [hugin-ptx] Mosaic optimizer puzzle

2020-09-11 Thread John Muccigrosso
I gotta say that my experiences with Hugin lately are similar to this, and really disappointing. The interface is confusing as hell. There are numerous things you have to look out for. And I get poor results most of the time now, which leads me to avoid using it. And this is with a simply

Re: [hugin-ptx] Mosaic woes

2020-09-11 Thread John Muccigrosso
Thank again, Bruno. I'll try this. Another thing - that I think I reported elsewhere - the way my fast panorama window looks is wrong, right? What's with the confining of the image to the bottom left portion of the box? https://www.dropbox.com/s/fkexaeu9fd5bl9b/fastwindow.jpeg -- A list of

Re: [hugin-ptx] Mosaic woes

2020-09-10 Thread John Muccigrosso
Thanks, Bruno. Sorry, this isn't enough for me. :-( As a meta-comment, I don't know why this is so hard. It seems like a basic thing and the tutorial I used to use just doesn't work. Anyway... What do I do exactly? Run cpfind for control points, go to the optimizer window and choose x for

Re: [hugin-ptx] Convert photo to scanned image

2020-03-04 Thread John Muccigrosso
> > But I don't use Hugin for this. I would open the photo in an image editor, > such as GIMP, and use the 'perspective tool'. > If you are using GIMP, be sure to set the perspective tool to 'Corrective > (Backward)', this way all you have to do is drag the four corners of the > selection to

Re: [hugin-ptx] Offensive behaviour (was: BigTIFF)

2018-09-22 Thread John Muccigrosso
Bruno, Thanks for the context and history. I have to say that while I find Hugin a great tool, it's often more difficult to use than it seems like it should be. (A lot of the interface is very difficult to understand without a good understanding of what's going on in the background, IMO.)

[hugin-ptx] Re: Are we still here?

2018-05-01 Thread John Muccigrosso
The last post was exactly one week ago, according to the group web page. Enjoy the quiet! -- 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

[hugin-ptx] Re: Improving scan quality

2018-02-21 Thread John Muccigrosso
Of course it depends on what kinds of texts you're looking at, but my experience with text-only academic articles/books and 240-300 dpi scans is that with a little clean-up, OCR is very good already. I'd recommend playing with your scanner settings up front to minimize background noise and

Re: [hugin-ptx] Hugin 2017.0 rc2 released

2017-06-18 Thread John Muccigrosso
On Saturday, June 17, 2017 at 12:14:48 PM UTC-4, T. Modes wrote: > > > And why has this not reported before? > I really do appreciate all the work the devs do on Hugin, but this kind of response is not likely to encourage others to report bugs (unless it's a "lost in translation" sort of

Re: [hugin-ptx] Why is part of the stitched image black?

2016-12-24 Thread John Muccigrosso
On Saturday, December 24, 2016 at 7:05:37 AM UTC-5, Peter Cooper wrote: > > In your images, the brightest part of >> the scene only hits ~55% brightness, so the other 45% of the sensor's >> range is not used. >> >> To remedy this, you can either switch to manual mode and play with the >>

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: optimizer tab

2016-10-17 Thread John Muccigrosso
On Monday, October 17, 2016 at 4:49:22 AM UTC-4, bugbear wrote: > > John Muccigrosso wrote: > > Thanks. It's just that I didn't see that meaning in the OED, so I was > curious. > > It's very common for "normal" dictionaries not to have highly technical > o

[hugin-ptx] Re: optimizer tab

2016-10-16 Thread John Muccigrosso
> trying to add text to your point 3. > > > > On Saturday, 15 October 2016 02:58:39 UTC+13, John Muccigrosso wrote: >> >> On Friday, October 14, 2016 at 2:34:42 AM UTC-4, Steve Edmonds wrote: >>> >>> Yaw is the width of the harbour entrance, side to side

[hugin-ptx] Re: optimizer tab

2016-10-14 Thread John Muccigrosso
On Friday, October 14, 2016 at 2:34:42 AM UTC-4, Steve Edmonds wrote: > > Yaw is the width of the harbour entrance, side to side. > > On Monday, 3 October 2016 04:46:57 UTC+13, John Muccigrosso wrote: >> >> I always like to remember the original usage for airplanes (OK,

[hugin-ptx] Re: optimizer tab

2016-10-02 Thread John Muccigrosso
I always like to remember the original usage for airplanes (OK, it was really ships): 1. Pitch is how far up or down the plane/boat's nose is pointed. 2. Roll is how much the plane is tilted to the left or right (tipping the plane/ship left and right). 3. Yaw is the other one. :-)

[hugin-ptx] Re: hugin shouldn't stitch in root.

2016-09-16 Thread John Muccigrosso
On Wednesday, September 14, 2016 at 2:43:17 PM UTC-4, Michael Havens wrote: > > I am trying to create a 360X180 panorama. As it stitches the images > together though it runs out of room. Root in this system is finite. /home > in this system is enormous. Why does hugin stitch things together in /

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: Strings from translation file

2016-07-03 Thread John Muccigrosso
I'll agree with Roger's overall sentiment and say that I like the use of "CP" in place of "Ctl Pnts". At any rate, "pt" is the usual English abbreviation for "point", not "pnt". -- A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ --- You received this

[hugin-ptx] Re: Hugin 2016.0 RC2 released

2016-03-14 Thread John Muccigrosso
On Saturday, March 12, 2016 at 4:24:09 AM UTC-5, T. Modes wrote: > > In the subject line is a typo: Hugin 2016.0 RC2 is released. > Actually the original was better. :-) -- A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ --- You received this

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: GUI overhaul

2015-09-21 Thread John Muccigrosso
As a non-programmer (know enough to be dangerous, but only in very limited circumstances :-) ), I very much appreciate the comments of Yuv and Bruno. My own sense is similar to Bruno's: simple stuff often works great, but when there's a problem, it can be really hard to figure out why. I've

[hugin-ptx] Re: control point editing/review - feature request

2015-05-27 Thread John Muccigrosso
+1 -- 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

[hugin-ptx] Re: Looking for tutorial on making a 3-D image of an object.

2015-04-24 Thread John Muccigrosso
Agisoft's Panoscan is probably the leading product for this. http://agisoft.com/ -- 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

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: Some curious blending results

2015-04-24 Thread John Muccigrosso
I think what's important here is that enblend used to produce better results and on something like this with pretty crisp lines, that's crucial. Having to worry about putting in masks is troubling. -- A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ

[hugin-ptx] Re: How to actually get a JPG (of TIFF) output?

2015-03-20 Thread John Muccigrosso
On Tuesday, March 17, 2015 at 5:09:17 AM UTC-4, Dirk Pons wrote: I am trying to use this software for the first time, and this is probably a simple question: How to actually get a JPG (of TIFF) output? Importing photos is fine, stitching them together is fine (though it is intolerant of

[hugin-ptx] Re: Weird-looking Fast Preview window

2015-02-26 Thread John Muccigrosso
Got another one like this. Interestingly if I skip the fast preview window and just go to the Stitcher pane, I can get a rectilinear output just fine. The effect appears only with that project (and a little on triplane). All the others are fine. Contents of the pro are in-line below. # hugin

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: Weird-looking Fast Preview window

2015-02-26 Thread John Muccigrosso
Yeah, I just tried out all the projections to see what they looked like. It surprised me that rectilinear was so different from the others. pto attached now. -- A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ --- You received this message because you

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: Weird-looking Fast Preview window

2015-02-26 Thread John Muccigrosso
On Thursday, February 26, 2015 at 4:44:12 PM UTC-5, Tduell wrote: Hello John, On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 08:19:28 +1100, John Muccigrosso jmuc...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: Got another one like this. Interestingly if I skip the fast preview window and just go to the Stitcher pane

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: Weird-looking Fast Preview window

2015-02-26 Thread John Muccigrosso
On Thursday, February 26, 2015 at 5:06:30 PM UTC-5, Tduell wrote: On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 08:52:40 +1100, John Muccigrosso jmuc...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: On Thursday, February 26, 2015 at 4:44:12 PM UTC-5, Tduell wrote: Loading the .pto into hugin using dummy images, it looks

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: Weird-looking Fast Preview window

2015-02-26 Thread John Muccigrosso
OK. Thanks. I'm on a Mac. I'm going to play with this a bit and see what I can do/learn. Appreciate the help. -- 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

[hugin-ptx] Re: Map one stack of images and get all remapped images with same size -- how?

2015-01-25 Thread John Muccigrosso
On Sunday, January 25, 2015 at 3:52:27 AM UTC-5, T. Modes wrote: Am Samstag, 24. Januar 2015 19:56:35 UTC+1 schrieb Lev Serebryakov: It works, thanks! And how to enfuse without assign one stack for images? Exposure fused from any arragment checkbox? Use Exposure fused from

Re: [hugin-ptx] Map one stack of images and get all remapped images with same size -- how?

2015-01-24 Thread John Muccigrosso
On Friday, January 23, 2015 at 4:24:28 PM UTC-5, Tduell wrote: This tutorial gives some guidance on how to do the fusion in hugin. https://sites.google.com/site/alistargazing/hugin-tutorial-enfuse-only This is a nice little tutorial. Could someone link to it on the tutorial page (or maybe

[hugin-ptx] Re: Hugin-2014.0.0.dmg on sourceforge - what version of OS X?

2014-12-13 Thread John Muccigrosso
Thanks for making this! On Friday, December 12, 2014 9:36:23 AM UTC-5, ___matthieu___ wrote: Hello, Sorry for not making a post in the release thread, I uploaded the binary telling me I would announce it afterwards but I forgot :( Hugin-2014.0.0.dmg is for MacOSX 10.6 and later; it should

Re: [hugin-ptx] How to set stacks from the command line?

2014-12-02 Thread John Muccigrosso
On Monday, December 1, 2014 5:31:07 AM UTC-5, bugbear wrote: T. Modes wrote: And when display group by stack you can simply drag and drop the images to the corresponding stacks. But that's to obviously? Actually, a pet hate of mine in the modern era of GUI design is drag and drop.

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: workflow enfuse with no panorama?! can't figure it out

2014-12-02 Thread John Muccigrosso
calls enfuse directly or via the droplet - it will be straightforward to find out by deleting things until something breaks. Regards, Alister. On Tuesday, November 25, 2014 9:24:14 AM UTC-7, John Muccigrosso wrote: https://sites.google.com/site/alistargazing/hugin-tutorial-enfuse-only

[hugin-ptx] Re: How to fuse my stacks not what huging thinks is a stack.

2014-12-02 Thread John Muccigrosso
On Tuesday, November 25, 2014 1:56:23 PM UTC-5, T. Modes wrote: Am Dienstag, 25. November 2014 07:46:55 UTC+1 schrieb Brandon: Is it possible to have hugin enfuse stacks of my choosing on the photos tab instead of the default any images with more than 70 % overlap combined into each

Re: [hugin-ptx] How to fuse my stacks not what huging thinks is a stack.

2014-12-02 Thread John Muccigrosso
On Tuesday, November 25, 2014 4:11:37 PM UTC-5, Tduell wrote: Hello John, On Wed, 26 Nov 2014 03:20:56 +1100, John Muccigrosso jmuc...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: On Tuesday, November 25, 2014 3:14:12 AM UTC-5, Tduell wrote: [snip] Auto bracketed shots, hand held, can

Re: [hugin-ptx] How to fuse my stacks not what huging thinks is a stack.

2014-11-25 Thread John Muccigrosso
On Tuesday, November 25, 2014 3:14:12 AM UTC-5, Tduell wrote: I'm pretty sure that hugin will honour your choice of stacks, rather than use the above rule. I have always set the images in my stacks, and haven't tried exposure fusion from stacks without any stacks set. The images in

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: Incrementally building a photomosaic?

2014-11-17 Thread John Muccigrosso
On Saturday, November 15, 2014 3:25:38 PM UTC-5, Tduell wrote: Hello John, On Sun, 16 Nov 2014 02:48:57 +1100, John Muccigrosso jmuc...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: These are overhead shots of trenches from different heights, so the surface isn't flat and there are all

[hugin-ptx] Re: Incrementally building a photomosaic?

2014-11-15 Thread John Muccigrosso
Thanks for the help. I'll try these approaches. Sometimes I've found that the stitch will work even when the Fast Preview is goofy like this, but not in this case. Also the control points look good, which is why I'm surprised it doesn't work, even if the coverage is spotty. These are overhead

[hugin-ptx] Incrementally building a photomosaic?

2014-11-14 Thread John Muccigrosso
I have about a dozen photos, overhead shots taken of an area. They don't cover all of it, so the final output is going to be a little weird looking. Hugin finds a lot of control points attaching the photos one to another, but the final output is very poor (in fact the fast preview shows the

Re: [hugin-ptx] Weird-looking Fast Preview window

2014-11-07 Thread John Muccigrosso
On Friday, November 7, 2014 4:57:31 AM UTC-5, Marius Loots wrote: Hallo Everyone On Windows 7. Have seen this, but never thought that it could be a bug. Mostly restart the project from scratch, assuming it to be a problem with a control point or two. Impression I had, but never actively

Re: [hugin-ptx] Weird-looking Fast Preview window

2014-11-06 Thread John Muccigrosso
I've tried to quit and restart the app, even boosting the image cache memory to 2048 when I did it. No luck. Now, I just added some more control points and re-optimized and all is well. Not sure those steps had anything to do with it though. -- A list of frequently asked questions is

Re: [hugin-ptx] Weird-looking Fast Preview window

2014-11-06 Thread John Muccigrosso
Good to know. Did you file a bug report? -- 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

[hugin-ptx] Re: Remove control points that are under a mask?

2014-10-27 Thread John Muccigrosso
On Sunday, October 26, 2014 3:14:50 AM UTC-4, T. Modes wrote: Am Sonntag, 26. Oktober 2014 07:58:45 UTC+1 schrieb Brandon: I am having a hard time convincing hugin to not put control points on my tri-pod. Is there any way to do prevent control points from being put on them? Create a

Re: [hugin-ptx] Manipulating masks on a Mac - bugs?

2014-10-23 Thread John Muccigrosso
On Thursday, October 23, 2014 2:24:15 AM UTC-4, GnomeNomad wrote: My workflow is more based on suppressed-perfectionism combined with a belief that a mask in Hugin specified include/exclude this specific area. Apparently that's not how Hugin uses masks; apparently it's more of suggestion

Re: [hugin-ptx] Manipulating masks on a Mac - bugs?

2014-10-22 Thread John Muccigrosso
On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 1:47:07 AM UTC-4, GnomeNomad wrote: Yes, there is a minimum change Hugin needs. I just tweak mask points by dragging the point somewhere else far enough away, then click on it again and drag it back to where I want it. Any help appreciated. I'm happy to

Re: [hugin-ptx] Manipulating masks on a Mac - bugs?

2014-10-22 Thread John Muccigrosso
On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 12:16:13 PM UTC-4, T. Modes wrote: Am Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2014 14:49:54 UTC+2 schrieb John Muccigrosso: It sounds to me like your workflow too is a big work-around for a buggy masking process. It sound for me that the issue is behind the keyboards

Re: [hugin-ptx] Manipulating masks on a Mac - bugs?

2014-10-22 Thread John Muccigrosso
and have good expectations about how software should behave. (Others may disagree. :-) ) On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 1:45:36 PM UTC-4, T. Modes wrote: Am Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2014 18:59:07 UTC+2 schrieb John Muccigrosso: No one is asking for sub-pixel accuracy. We're trying to understand

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: Interface comments: The Fast Preview Window

2014-10-21 Thread John Muccigrosso
On Tuesday, October 21, 2014 1:21:05 AM UTC-4, GnomeNomad wrote: On 10/20/2014 09:53 AM, John Muccigrosso wrote: On Monday, October 20, 2014 2:26:56 PM UTC-4, T. Modes wrote: Am Montag, 20. Oktober 2014 19:26:01 UTC+2 schrieb John Muccigrosso: As I just wrote

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: Interface comments: The Fast Preview Window

2014-10-21 Thread John Muccigrosso
On Tuesday, October 21, 2014 2:16:42 AM UTC-4, Marius Loots wrote: On the topic of the optimizer tab, although somewhat handy having the numbers there, I also preferred the old style tick boxes. I think this has also been mentioned. My usage of the numbers would only come into play when

[hugin-ptx] Questions about masks/cropping

2014-10-21 Thread John Muccigrosso
Was working on a pano today and needed to do some masking, which got me thinking: 1. There was some talk about this in the original announcement of this functionality, but do I have it right that Hugin clips the mask to the image boundaries, even if the mask looks like it goes outside them?

[hugin-ptx] Manipulating masks on a Mac - bugs?

2014-10-21 Thread John Muccigrosso
Some of the mouse commands that are listed in the manual are difficult for Mac users, since we don't generally have 3-button mice and a control-click is the same as a right click (we'll leave the trackpad out of it). That said, I was working on a mask and found some inconsistencies with what

[hugin-ptx] Re: Questions about masks/cropping

2014-10-21 Thread John Muccigrosso
On Tuesday, October 21, 2014 11:27:29 AM UTC-4, T. Modes wrote: Am Dienstag, 21. Oktober 2014 15:12:50 UTC+2 schrieb John Muccigrosso: Was working on a pano today and needed to do some masking, which got me thinking: 1. There was some talk about this in the original announcement

[hugin-ptx] Re: Interface comments: The Fast Preview Window

2014-10-20 Thread John Muccigrosso
On Monday, October 20, 2014 11:20:50 AM UTC-4, T. Modes wrote: Am Montag, 20. Oktober 2014 00:06:22 UTC+2 schrieb John Muccigrosso: I find a few things about the Fast Preview window confusing: 1. It's the same things as Simple mode. I think I see that the functions you want

Re: [hugin-ptx] Mosaics

2014-10-19 Thread John Muccigrosso
On Sunday, October 19, 2014 8:53:54 AM UTC-4, Michael Perry wrote: Incidentally, can someone tell me where is the best place to post a MAC OSX bug would be? Or do all bugs get reported at https://bugs.launchpad.net/hugin/+bugs? Yes, report them all there. I've put in some Mac ones myself.

[hugin-ptx] Interface comments: The Fast Preview Window

2014-10-19 Thread John Muccigrosso
I find a few things about the Fast Preview window confusing: 1. It's the same things as Simple mode. I think I see that the functions you want in it are nearly all the ones you want in Simple mode (you don't need to add photos when you're using it simply as Preview), but still, why is it

[hugin-ptx] Creating a workflow for simple use of Hugin for HDR

2014-08-27 Thread John Muccigrosso
My configuration: Hugin 2014 RC4 on a Mac OS X 10.9.4. A new Hugin user, I'm trying to use Hugin itself to mimic a simple approach to creating HDR: 1. Align images at different exposures via *align_image_stack*. (Taken on a tripod, so well aligned at the start.) 2. *enfuse* the