Made a walkthrough for image stacking!

[fuzzybabybunny]

Focus Stacking

http://www.fuzzybabybunny.com/...als/focusstacking.html

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Made myself a website.
Here it is, version alpha--

http://www.fuzzybabybunny.com/index.html

Not much to look at.

But yeah, by the end of this hopefully people who use this tutorial will be the proud owner of a sunset pano.

http://www.fuzzybabybunny.com/tutorials/panorama1.html

Some things along the way that have conspired against me:

1. I'm almost completely new to coding. Obviously this webpage was a template that I downloaded for free with a bit of modification.

2. Screenshots are messed up. I have to resize the screenshots to 650xsomething to fit in the webpage, but I work at 1600x1200 on a dual screen setup, meaning I have to manually crop out my second screen in every screenshot, as well as run on a lower resolution to take the screenshots because 1600x1200 screens resized to 650xsomething are unreadable.

3. Bugs with Dreamweaver make coding infuriating. I sometimes spend hours trying to figure out what's wrong with my code only to find out that it's actually a bug in Dreamweaver and that my code is perfectly fine. Being unsure of my coding skills doesn't help.

 

[ElFenix]

:thumbsup:


are hugin and autopano-sift able to detect when there are two panoramas?

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
:thumbsup:


are hugin and autopano-sift able to detect when there are two panoramas?

What do you mean by two panoramas? You mean two pictures that overlap? Yes.

 

[Jawo]

Thanks for the guide...I've been playing with it for a few weeks now and I didn' realize that I was leaving a few things out.

For all the non believers out there, compare these two photographs: One and Two. Both of these panoramics straight from the camera and are from the exact same source images, but in one I used Canon's PhotoStich and the other I used Hugin and Autopano-SIFT. Anyone should be able to tell the differences between the two images.

Thanks FBB for your assistance!

 

[Aharami]

Good job fuzzy. I started using hugin/autopano/enblend about 2 years ago. Havent looked back since. In fact, I went back and redid all my previous Photostitch panos with hugin. Good thing I saved the original pano shots

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny

Originally posted by: ElFenix
:thumbsup:


are hugin and autopano-sift able to detect when there are two panoramas?

What do you mean by two panoramas? You mean two pictures that overlap? Yes.

no, i mean two separate but similar scenes with all the pictures loaded into the program. think north and south ends of times square.

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny

Originally posted by: ElFenix
:thumbsup:


are hugin and autopano-sift able to detect when there are two panoramas?

What do you mean by two panoramas? You mean two pictures that overlap? Yes.

no, i mean two separate but similar scenes with all the pictures loaded into the program. think north and south ends of times square.

No. The two scenes must have matching points / areas of overlap. If you load two different panoramas into Autopano, it'll give you a warning stating that it could not create control points between the two because they have no similarities.

Why would you want a program to "detect when there are two panoramas?"

 

[Jawo]

Originally posted by: Aharami
Good job fuzzy. I started using hugin/autopano/enblend about 2 years ago. Havent looked back since. In fact, I went back and redid all my previous Photostitch panos with hugin. Good thing I saved the original pano shots

Thats what I am going to do now. I can't believe how much better they turned out! I wish I heard of it sooner since it rocks!

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny

Originally posted by: ElFenix
:thumbsup:


are hugin and autopano-sift able to detect when there are two panoramas?

What do you mean by two panoramas? You mean two pictures that overlap? Yes.

no, i mean two separate but similar scenes with all the pictures loaded into the program. think north and south ends of times square.

No. The two scenes must have matching points / areas of overlap. If you load two different panoramas into Autopano, it'll give you a warning stating that it could not create control points between the two because they have no similarities.

Why would you want a program to "detect when there are two panoramas?"

cuz i don't know where the pictures for one end and the other starts

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny

Originally posted by: ElFenix
:thumbsup:


are hugin and autopano-sift able to detect when there are two panoramas?

What do you mean by two panoramas? You mean two pictures that overlap? Yes.

no, i mean two separate but similar scenes with all the pictures loaded into the program. think north and south ends of times square.

No. The two scenes must have matching points / areas of overlap. If you load two different panoramas into Autopano, it'll give you a warning stating that it could not create control points between the two because they have no similarities.

Why would you want a program to "detect when there are two panoramas?"

cuz i don't know where the pictures for one end and the other starts

I'm having a hard time understanding your situation. 🙁 Take it from the beginning for the bun-bun?

 

[dartworth]

nice tutorial fuzzy...

thanks...🙂

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

bump for new Focus Stacking tutorial!

 

[troytime]

hooray for focus stacking.

here's LordV's focus stacking tutorial
http://www.digitalgrin.com/showthread.php?t=61316 - he's a god (you're fantastic too though fuzzy)

 

[OdiN]

For screenshots, for the active program, hold down Alt then hit print screen. It will only capture the area that the program takes up. No more cropping 😉

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Originally posted by: OdiN
For screenshots, for the active program, hold down Alt then hit print screen. It will only capture the area that the program takes up. No more cropping 😉

Thanks for the tip.

I'm using ScreenHunter right now though, and it's amazing for a free program.

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Originally posted by: troytime
hooray for focus stacking.

here's LordV's focus stacking tutorial
http://www.digitalgrin.com/showthread.php?t=61316 - he's a god (you're fantastic too though fuzzy)

OMG I'm such a noob compared to people like him.

 

[Jawo]

Bump for this awesome tutorial (I had forgotten how to use Autopano!)

 

[IronWing]

Fuzzy, do you still recommend CombineZM? I'm going to try my hand at stacking and I'm looking for freeware.

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Originally posted by: ironwing
Fuzzy, do you still recommend CombineZM? I'm going to try my hand at stacking and I'm looking for freeware.

I'm pretty sure it's the only option for freeware focus stacking.

 

[IronWing]

Thanks. I'll give it a try.

 

[Fardringle]

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny

Originally posted by: ElFenix
:thumbsup:


are hugin and autopano-sift able to detect when there are two panoramas?

What do you mean by two panoramas? You mean two pictures that overlap? Yes.

no, i mean two separate but similar scenes with all the pictures loaded into the program. think north and south ends of times square.

No. The two scenes must have matching points / areas of overlap. If you load two different panoramas into Autopano, it'll give you a warning stating that it could not create control points between the two because they have no similarities.

Why would you want a program to "detect when there are two panoramas?"

cuz i don't know where the pictures for one end and the other starts

I'm having a hard time understanding your situation. 🙁 Take it from the beginning for the bun-bun?

Autopano Pro, which I use for creating panoramas, will let you open an entire folder (or more) of photos and then it will automatically sort them into separate panoramas based on which photos can be linked to each other. It's a nice feature if, as ElFenix said, I can't remember which photos are supposed to be linked together and I don't want to sort through them manually.

 

[Fardringle]

Originally posted by: Jawo
Thanks for the guide...I've been playing with it for a few weeks now and I didn' realize that I was leaving a few things out.

For all the non believers out there, compare these two photographs: One and Two. Both of these panoramics straight from the camera and are from the exact same source images, but in one I used Canon's PhotoStich and the other I used Hugin and Autopano-SIFT. Anyone should be able to tell the differences between the two images.

Thanks FBB for your assistance!

I didn't do a detailed "pixel" study of the two, but apart from a slight difference in magnification and horizon alignment (the second one is slightly larger and the first one has a better horizon) I really don't see a noticeable difference between the two. That's not necessarily bad since they both look good - I'm just not seeing what you are expecting us to see. Mind giving me a hint? 😉


edit: I just realized that the original posts (including yours) are really old, so you don't have to answer if you don't want to... 🙂

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Originally posted by: Fardringle

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny

Originally posted by: ElFenix
:thumbsup:


are hugin and autopano-sift able to detect when there are two panoramas?

What do you mean by two panoramas? You mean two pictures that overlap? Yes.

no, i mean two separate but similar scenes with all the pictures loaded into the program. think north and south ends of times square.

No. The two scenes must have matching points / areas of overlap. If you load two different panoramas into Autopano, it'll give you a warning stating that it could not create control points between the two because they have no similarities.

Why would you want a program to "detect when there are two panoramas?"

cuz i don't know where the pictures for one end and the other starts

I'm having a hard time understanding your situation. 🙁 Take it from the beginning for the bun-bun?

Autopano Pro, which I use for creating panoramas, will let you open an entire folder (or more) of photos and then it will automatically sort them into separate panoramas based on which photos can be linked to each other. It's a nice feature if, as ElFenix said, I can't remember which photos are supposed to be linked together and I don't want to sort through them manually.

No, Hugin and Autopano-sift do not have the ability to auto detect panoramas from a group of images. You gotta remember which images are supposed to line up. I've switched the Autopano Pro myself and it's great.