Hugin image stacking how to#
Hugin image stacking manual#

Ideally, you’d get a mode where all angles are the same as they are on the sphere, and where all distances are the same, too. Projection modes are important because we are trying to show a sphere on a 2D surface, and there are many different options how you can do that. I’ve gone over this very briefly before, now is the time to detail things a bit more Projection modes and aligning the panorama

You can do this by resetting the center, rotating the image, and by selecting different projection modes. Now, next step it to get the most panorama out of the aligned photos, and un-distort the picture, too. But hey, we’re all perfect photographers who never take bad photos, so we’re never gonna need this 😉 Even more important: you can use bad photos (totally underexposed, even blurry) to align, then remove them in the preview and have their bad quality not influence the final stitched panorama. You will quickly find out that given the currently suggested crop (the rectangle that is not toned down) you can drop photos 8 and 9, but not 10!īy the way, the situation where this selecting photos becomes important is if you have a lot of people running through your view all the time while taking the photos and you’re too lazy to mask them all out. Click on the boxes to see what the panorama preview looks like when you remove photos. That saves calculation time, but it also means that your final image will be computed from fewer images overlaying each other, which can increase the resolution. Obviously, in this case we want to use all images, right? But if you took very many images it is sometimes possible to make do with fewer. Deselecting images here removes them from the final stitching, and also allows you to align the rest of the images via the ‘Optimizer’ tab: it has a check box ‘Only use control points between image selected in preview window’. These are the images, and if a box looks ‘pressed’ the image is active. Selecting and de-selecting photosīelow them, there are a number of boxes with numbers. Their names are pretty self-explanatory, and if you hover the mouse over them you get a short explanation. In this case, the panorama has been shifted high up we’ll get to this in a minute. In the middle, we see the aligned photos – if you open the window before aligning via either the auto aligner or the ‘Optimizer’ tab, you see only the first photo smack in the center, as all others are directly under it.

Let’s take a closer look at this panorama preview window.

Simply toss the photos into hugin, use the auto alignment – always a good first option. The photos are at 1/25 size, to keep the file small, so please don’t expect a beautiful panorama as a result. Here‘s a small “PDF” with photos I hastily took at Arches National Park – rename the file to *.zip. This time, the photos will be in two rows, one higher up than the other. Last time, the photos for our panorama were all at the same elevation, but at differing lateral angles – rotating the camera left and right, not up and down.

Hugin image stacking manual#

Today, we will look at more complex panoramas, and some more manual work in the program.

Hugin image stacking how to#

Last time, I told you how to use the fully-automatic mode of hugin, and how to make a few minor corrections to improve results.