[ptx] nona vs. PTStitcher

[Hal V Engel]

On Thursday 07 April 2005 11:52 pm, Mike Runge wrote:
> Sounds good :-)
> Yes,
> xcf works fine, even fully multilayered Tiff support in Gimp would
> simplify the workflow (no need to enlarge each layer to image size and
> to export them into individual tiffs). But as a workaround it is OK.
>
> There were also discussions about enabling enblend to work on native PS
> or xcf format - I cannot remember waht the final decision about this
> was?!
>
> Hal,
> have you done any kind of performance testing (enblending multi-layered
> tiff versus multiple tiffs)? I would expect enblend to consume less
> memory for multilayered tiffs?!

No I have not. I am fairly new to using this type of software so I am getting 
a handle on what my workflow is going to be.  So far I have not been happy 
with the results from enblend but all of the stuff I have was shot without a 
panohead.  So it is hard to get really good clean stitches.  I have ordered a 
panohead and I am hoping that this make using tools like enblend possible.

With the ones I have done so far the use of a single layered file seems to be 
best since it allows me to do the final blending by hand in the easyest way.  
So I don't really care which way takes less processing time on the computer.
Besides even the longest tests I have done with enblend only needed perhaps 5 
or 6 minutes to run on my machine (it is very fast).
   
>
> best, mike
>
> On 4/7/2005, "Hal V Engel" <hvengel at astound.net> wrote:
> >On Thursday 07 April 2005 12:01 am, Mike Runge wrote:
> >snip
> >
> >> I would like to use the multi-layer-tiff format, nona provides (one tiff
> >> with several layers, each one is only that big like it is really needed
> >> and inhabits positioning information). There was a patch for enblend 1.3
> >> (I'm still using 1.3) to handle this format and gimp 2.x can read it.
> >> Unfortunately gimp cannot write this format - otherwise this workflow
> >> would be perfect for me.
> >
> >I too would like GIMP to be able to handle layered tiff files fully.  I
> > also looked at the current development branch change list for 2.3 and it
> > looks like this will not be fixed in 2.4.  But GIMP does support saving
> > layered files in its native file format.  So you can save the image as a
> > .xcf file while you are working on it.  Not the best solution but it is a
> > work around for this problem.
> >
> >I am a member of the GIMP Developer email list.  So after 2.4 settles down
> > I will post the request to fully support tiff files to the list to see if
> > this can be fixed in 2.6 or what ever version follows 2.4.
> >
> >> best, mike