[ptx] PTmender Version 0.2 "The enlightment"

[Daniel M. German]

 Rich> Daniel M. German wrote:
 >> 
 >> Marek Januszewski twisted the bytes to say:
 >> 
 Marek> Isn't PTmender an equivalent of nona?
 >> 
 >> I would rather say that, at this stage, the goal of PTmender is to be
 >> a rewrite PTStitcher.
 >> 
 >> PTmender is to nona what PTstitcher is to nona. The reason for
 >> PTmender to exist is that, under OS X, I wanted colour correction
 >> while keeping the layers separated for further processing (enblend
 >> does not do it). There was no binary of PTstitcher for OS X,
 >> unfortunately, so I took the job.

 Rich> wouldn't this result in a bunch of tools that can not be effectively 
 Rich> used together and each would provide different features ?

that is what we have now. Some people use PTstitcher, while others
use nona. 

 Rich> nona/enblend/ptmender - and users would have to choose between different 
 Rich> tradeoffs.

Indeed. Non all panoramas have the same requirements.


I will extract the colour correction process from PTmender and make it
available stand alone. Its main restriction, IMHO, is that it only
supports 8 bits. It needs to improved to handle 16 bit images to be
truly useful, but that is not difficult. The core of the work is
there already.

That way you can:

(PTmender|nona) -> ColourCorrection? -> enblend?


 Rich> what are the current plans in regard to nona/ptmender/enblend ?
 Rich> will ptmender improvements be available to usual workflow nona->enblend 
 Rich> ? maybe it will be integrated in nona ?

It is not for me to say.

dmg


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 Marek> Marek
 Rich> -- 
  Rich

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