[ptx] How to make REALLY good Panorama?

[Terje Mathisen]

ptx-bounces at email-lists.org wrote:

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> Hi!
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> I read some time here and has tried to make some panorama. But nothing
> was really satisfied.
> Has anyone a guideline how to make a real satisfied panorama on my own?
> like: go out, take pictures wirh camera on automatic without a tripod
> and used hugin to stitch, but...

This is actually relatively easy these days, at least compared to how it 
used to be just a a couple of years ago! :-)

The first part, taking the source images, still requires either a tripod 
with a pano head, or a bit of experience to allow you to keep the center 
of the camera in a stable position.

Afterwards you can use Autopano to replace much of the drudge work in 
placing control points.

Hugin (or PTAsm/PTGui) will then allow you to optimize the placement of 
each image on a virtual sphere around the camera point.

Finally, Enblend can often do a _very_ good job in stitching the 
individual images together to generate a final result.

Terje

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