Bennettskaya
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Help with suggestions for software that runs on Mac OSX?
Posted: 2 Jan 2006 at 11:34 GMT
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This is a terrific site. I see there is list of software producers on the site and I want to avoid trawling though all of them and the forums to see which will work on Mac OS10 operating system and which is also better than what I have been using, which is Photoshop CS. I shoot with a Nikon D70. I have been shooting handheld and am just looking at which panoramic head to invest in. As for stitching, I have made some panoramas using a 50mm lens and the biggest problem is that PS sometimes stitches showing variations in light levels between frames that appear with abrupt changes in shading diagonally. I meter manually and keep to one setting so it is not the camera varying its input. I am not interested in producing 'tour' type panoramas. The panoramas I am interested in are straight panoramas that can be printed. I like the idea of doing two or three rows at different heights and merging those. I hope this gives some kind soul out there who has the information, enough to reply with any suggestions for software that runs on Mac OSX.
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Marcus
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Re: Help with suggestions for software that runs on Mac OSX?
Posted: 2 Jan 2006 at 15:03 GMT
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Hi
Although Adobe's CS is arguably the best photography software I have never got a good pano out of its photomerge stitcher.
Suggest you look at kekus.com for the mac PTools frontend called PTmac, or hugin which is freeware for personal use, though I cant get it to run smoothly on my ibook.
www.kekus.com/
Marc
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VRobject
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Brian
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Re: Help with suggestions for software that runs on Mac OSX?
Posted: 2 Jan 2006 at 22:00 GMT
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The software I've been using for a little while is called Hugin. An open source software package, it's available at hugin.sourceforge.net/ and is very, very good at doing the stiching of images together. It's basically a front end for a few toolsets, the most notable being Panorama Tools.
As for the blending of images, you'll want to get your hands on a software package called Enblend enblend.sourceforge.net/ or www.kekus.com/xblend/. Hugin can call it up after the stitching process works through its part and enblend will take care of blending the different seams together. Just make sure that you select to generate a high quality tiff within Hugin. Also, as enblend works in tiffs, make sure you have a lot of harddrive space available and time on your hands. A six image, 36megapixel image took a little more than an hour on my 867Mhz 12" PB.
Hugin and the Enblend have been wonderful! Hugin generates draft .jpgs fairly rapidly and when I'm ready for the high quality tiffs, the combination of the two is unbeatable.
Enjoy!
-Brian
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