Is there a secret to using the Panorama tool?
I don't have many photos to try it with, but a few years ago I was standing on the top of a hill and took some photos with the intention of stitching them together. Of course, I never got around to it - but just now gave them a go in Xtreme Pro 4.
The colours and contrast of two pictures don't match the other three, but clicking 'Enhance' on them pretty much sorts them out. Using the Panorama tool though reverts them back to their unchanged state, and when they are stitched they look awful.
The top version is the automatic one, the bottom version is the automatic panorama output from the first three images, I skipped the second from the right and put the far right image in myself using transparency/feathering:
http://diniel.com/forums/panorama/holmfirth-crap.jpg
http://diniel.com/forums/panorama/holmfirth-manual.jpg
I was at the new St Pancras station on Saturday morning and I took a few pictures - I wish I took some more, because it did a great job of putting them together:
I've uploaded larger versions (2500 pixels wide) of the hillside view and of St Pancras station along with thumbnails of the original individual photos, and have uploaded the .xar of the hillside pictures in case anyone wants to play with the nearly-stitching.
Anyone had any better luck with pictures like my hillside one? Even using 'Enhance' in the photo tool, saving a bitmap copy and deleting the original (absolutely not the point of the Photo tool, I know, but I wanted to 'force' the Panorama tool to use the enhanced/balanced images), then trying the Panorama with the 'enhanced' one doesn't give as good a result as you might expect. I'm sure it's possible, because the station output is pretty good.
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