hugin Panorama photo stitcher is brilliant

Just downloaded and used hugin - Panorama photo stitcher.

Their strapline

Goal: an easy to use cross-platform panoramic imaging toolchain based on Panorama Tools. With hugin you can assemble a mosaic of photographs into a complete immersive panorama, stitch any series of overlapping pictures and much more.

I haven't got to the 'much more' bit, and I don't know whether I will ever need to. But it is what it claims to be.

I went up our local (snoozing) volcano yesterday to walk the dogs and took a hand-held sequence of pics of my neck of the woods, thinking that my favourite photo management tool Picasa would, naturally, have a panorama tool, given that it has calendar makers and collage tools etc.

Wrong. Although they are under a bit of pressure on their support forum.

But a discussion board came up with a couple of options, MS Photo gallery and Hugin. The first failed to install but hugin loaded up nicely and with only one abortive try, this was the result.

No need to use the camera-default panorama tool (I couldn't find one anyway on my wife's otherwise really nice Canon) just load them in sequence and let hugin do the rest. It was taken from the blue icon:

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My god we are lucky. I can climb a hill, take some photos, find and download at stitching tool and share the results with you, including a map of where the photo was taken and think that is normal.

We forget sometimes how astonishing that is, not just the technology, but the normality. Oh, and not being satisfied with that, we want REAL broadband to do it with.

Comments

[RobiNZ]

I might be in that photo, way in the distance cycling along the waterfront. Was a really nice day although the last few km in rain I could have done without1

Great photo, I use the panorama tool that comes in the Canon software. About the only time I use the supplied software for image edit. Have Corel PhotoPaint for real image editing but do quite a lot in Snagit!